BSR 2003 B5 Alternative
Keywords: Opening
And White is forced into terrible shape. Instead play 3 at 6 might reduce the damage, but then Black's shape still looks a little better. (Expect a double hane next.)
So probably White has to treat her stones lightly.
Bill: I think you have shown us an obvious wrong answer. ;-)
- dnerra: Yes! :-) I think I mostly wanted to point out that starting with a fight at tengen doesn't mean you can easily avoid terrible "joseki" mistakes, i.e. bad mistakes in the first few moves. I think by the usual standard of "non-joseki", the diagram above is pretty much a disaster.
I don't know if there is an obvious right answer, but
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/38/52594c0856a1eec75b8e292b157d5b23.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/13/e6ac45e0e7e206335d588cef59589f3d.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/45/4c0af382e41ecada2757e8b603eb1ba2.png)
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