Thx, but it is with your help

After playing a few games versus gnuGo, I was wondering wether it is more important to try to make the biggest center moyo, or to make side's moyo 'safer' ?

Another question, is this extension a good one?

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It doesn't look very solid...

Thx

From a corner? Yes, it is perfectly reasonable. Beware, it is not bulletproof or good in all cases, but it covers enough ground that it is perfectly good for a lot of situations. For example, if the side is important enough to risk, for example, some attack on your corner. There's not a huge weakness here, but it's worth noting. This move is definitely faster than something like a knight's move enclosure, but slower than, say, just jumping to the middle star point.

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Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].

It depends. On an empty board, almost any two stones form a good shape.

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A good system naturally covers all corner cases without further effort.

Generally, the proverb goes like this: Corners are golden, sides are silver, the center is straw (or something close to that, anyway)

Another proverb says: There's no territory in the center


this shape is known as a Large Knight's move
http://senseis.xmp.net/?LargeKnightsMove