Compromised diagonals and joseki 4
Difficulty: Expert Keywords: Joseki
is played too rarely to recognise anything as joseki (except for
itself), but the sequence here seems to be one of the candidates, being the only one I saw more or less replicated (although in a game with a black stone at the marked point, so a was not played, while b was not answered).
This (
+
) is an example of how the staircase sabaki technique is occasionally used to attack.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/44/31bbc269f6c6d6304dbd76e48ed42b86.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/47/ad615786809e4f896afcbdfc7828852b.png)
2024 the Authors,
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