Uberdude wrote:
it's not just yose.. it is a base for both players
call me slow-witted, but i have trouble following your argument. One reason is that i can't see the order of moves (i can't even remember now whose turn it is! i remember when writing my previous reply, i thought it was black's turn, but something you said made me think you think it's white's).
Another reason is that the text is far away from the diagram, making it impossible on my 24" computer screen to see the text and the diagram at the same time (it must be a nightmare to read on a smaller display). For a short text like Pippen's question that's not an issue because i can keep the whole question in mind when looking at the picture, but with a lengthy answer, the to-ing and fro-ing of having to scroll back and forth all the time between picture and commentary interferes with my comprehension.
So when i read the line about attach instead of slide, and saw a black stone on the point being talked about, i at first thought you were talking about black attaching instead of sliding - but sliding from what?? It took me a few moments and quite a bit of scrolling up and down to realise you were talking about white sliding, not black.
i suppose i could copy the picture and open it in another window next to the text (or open another browser window on the same url - but when i tried that, i found i could not narrow the second window to only contain the content of the reply; the gnome window manager insisted on showing me the uninteresting wide left margin all the time; i could only close in the right-hand side of the window - although that's not such a big deal as i can put the picture window on the left of the text window, but it does take up screen space which means the text has to be that much smaller).
Also the row letters are way over on the other side of the board, requiring me to look away from the stones to see which points the text is referring to.
[no! wait!! i mean put the picture on the right, and overlay the text window, as i don't have to scroll the picture but do have to scroll the text.. oh, but now the stones i want see are far away on the further side of the window, unless i overlay the text window half across the board window, but then i can't see the row lettering. sigh
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Is there a way to put a picture of just the 1/4 of the board being talked about and its text alongside each other, and to shift the row letters from the left to the right?
Aside from all that, whilst i can see that 'a' gives whichever side plays it a firmer base, don't both black and white already have enough stability to both be able to cope with whatever comes along? To the best of my memory, you said that if white tenukis, black can pincer. But that's true (ie pincer or kakari) for all white stones on the board, eg the one jlt mentioned, and all black ones too.
How can we know which stones are most vulnerable to a pincer? Which of them are most valuable?
i'm happy to listen to whatever pretty Lizzie has to tell me (or, rather, i would be if she were on my machine, which she isn't, yet..i may have to go up to the mountaintop to rob another bank to buy a bigger, faster, cooler machine just to see her moves of wisdom without burning its cpu), but as previously mentioned, she can only tell me what to do, not why to do it, so i'd still be left in the dark.
Reading what people are saying about GoAIs these days, it feels like there is a new God on the scene who moves in mysterious ways whom people are following with blind faith. i'm sure she knows miles better than me, but it would be so nice if she could explain what she's talking about. Mine not to reason why; mine but to follow in the footsteps of fashion leaders, and slide or attach my hemlines as Rumpole's "She Who Must be Obeyed" dictates.
Looking back at Pippen's original picture, the board looks like the stones of both sides are are maybe too heavily concentrated in just one corner of the board - there are already 10 of them in the top right, but just one in each of the other 3 corners. I suppose the bigger the investment, the more you have to protect it, but couldn't the players have hedged their bets with a more sabaki sequence?