Dusk Eagle wrote:Herman, I'm still not convinced about the sequence in the upper-right corner. Yes, you make your top side stronger with such a sequence, but you also make white's S4 group significantly stronger as well. If I were playing in your shoes and wanted sente, I would prefer the double hane sente variation, as it doesn't hurt your R10 stone as much. I'm weaker than you but I just thought I would put this out there and see if you had any comment on in.
P.S. All of the diagrams you posted are one line shorter than they should be, so the R10 stone is actually one line farther away than what you showed.
Just because I'm stronger doesn't mean I'm right
I think the double hane variation is a viable alternative. It may well be better. I just have a sort of personal prejudice against it
The variation I played makes a really strong black group. Extra strong because of the way the corner player out with R18 and S18. Perhaps it is overconcentrated, but it makes invasion completely unrealistic after F15, IMO.
Certainly my opponent completely mishandled the right side later. After
(T5), it is an unmitigated disaster.
Fixed the diagrams, thanks!
