Diagonal attachment - knight's move angle play sabaki technique
This technique employed by White to avoid the standard shape (White at a) goes back at least to the time of Dosaku. Black has a choice of ways to cut. Clearly here Black's cut at a will be met by White b and then there is an important ladder.
After Black
and
White seems to have problems, but her resources are White a to escape, and the hane plays b or c to attack Black's current shortage of liberties caused by the empty triangle. This occurred in a game Dong Yan-Lin Feng 2002-05-13 in China. White
at
is a quieter way to play here.
This is from Hashimoto Utaro-Fujisawa Kuranosuke 1955-03-24. With a bad ladder, White opts to play
and
as a dodging tactic. You could classify this as simple light play, perhaps. Black
at
is equally popular in this tenuki pincer joseki.
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