At around 200K, katago prefers attaching at
below and letting White cut through the knight's move (!) while capturing the pincer stone. This gives White sente to turn away to the top.
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$$ | . . . O . . . . . . . . . 0 . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . O . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O X X . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X O X . |
$$ | . O X . . . . . . . . . . O . X . . . |
$$ | . . O X . . . . . 8 . . X . . . X . . |
$$ | . . O X . . . . 9 1 4 2 O O . , . . . |
$$ | . . O X . . . . 5 O 3 X . . . O . X . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . 7 6 . . . . . . . . . |
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Almost as good, however, is pushing up at
below. Rather than continuing on the bottom, Black answers the cut with
in order to play against the White stones on the right with
. This idea is not on my radar screen at all.
The only idea I would have for playing this
would be to build strength to play on the bottom.
EDIT: As is not too uncommon in my case, I forgot to close katago when I wrote and posted all this. When I noticed later, katago shifted
below to "a" somewhere on the way to 1 million PO's. Black may or may not get back the right side later.
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$$ | . . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . O . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O X X . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X O X . |
$$ | . O X . . . . . . . . . 5 O . X . . . |
$$ | . . O X . . . . . . 4 2 X 3 . . X . . |
$$ | . . O X . . . . . . . 1 O O . , . . . |
$$ | . . O X . . . . . O . X . . . O . X . |
$$ | . . a . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . |
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