White 4 is an enclosure
Difficulty: Advanced Keywords: Opening
A rare idea for opening the game is for White to play
and
as a corner enclosure, thus allowing Black three corners. It was tried as an experiment by Kubomatsu, and probably on a few other occasions by strong players.
Gu Li made a 3563 enclosure with
and
in a game 2001-09-14.
In this game between Naganuma Makoto and Takahashi Toshimitsu, the latter played
and
as an enclosure. White lost the game, not that there is any statistical relevance to that.
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