3564 enclosure
White can invade this way and live - as shown, it is the standard tenuki line of the taisha: see taisha tenuki variations. Black, however, will develop much influence.
Another 'common' way to play against this rare formation:
on the second line makes
defend the corner space:
and a are effectively miai.
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3564 enclosure opening
This has occurred in a few pro games, being played by O Meien in 2001. In that game White (Hikosaka Naoto) played a wedge at a.
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3564 enclosure opening (2)
In an earlier game Rin Kaiho-Yoda Norimoto (B) 1998-08-06 White played the distant low approach and
was a pincer (unusual: see enclosure opening distant low approach, pincer). O Meien also played this enclosure-pincer combination against Lee Sedol in the 3rd CSK Asian cup in 2004.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/18/bbba48c6fe4cc8bbb0f93925be3a9163.png)
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