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Post by **Joaz Banbeck** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 1:10 am

A better description of my concerns about move 32:

If the position were this, would you ever dream of playing at 'a'?
Of course not. It is an endgame move.

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Yet by playing moves in a different order - C15 before C16 - you managed to get that exact position.

Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:39 am

Joaz: but if this were the position, would you ever dream of playing a as white?

It's easy to misuse tewari. Locally speaking, both the wedging in move and pole connection are plausible. Which is better here I don't know. It seems to me Calvin wanted to defend the corner weakness in sente so he could separate at f16 and set up attacks against h17 (but h16 instead of a pincer ruined that!), but how good are they? Maybe white could atari at d17 and cover at f16 if he doesn't like that, which would allow black to do better on the left side. But as you said after pole connection c12 still aims at b14 connection. I remember in my game against Haylee at the London Open (4th game move 35 here) I had thought about playing these exchanges against her corner but in the review she pointed out she would probably play the wedge which makes it harder for me to take sente and see them as good kikashi.

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Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 6:26 am

I think this is a better way of analysing this potion with tewari. If we start with the following position, and say black wants to stop white a damaging the corner (tenuki is not the end of the world if there's something really important elsewhere, like a fight this was leaning for).

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If black just connects at 1 then white has sente. What would white do? Tenuki? Maybe a if local? White wouldn't play 2 to close off the left side with it so open, it's an endgame move, and a thin one at that. So exchange of 1 for 2 is significantly good for black (compare to what white can do if black tenukid before 1).

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Then black plays 3 and white connects at 4. This exchange helps white, who got stronger on the outside, though black can capture the edge stone for endgame. Although white is a stronger shape, it's also rather heavy and needs an extension (but it's black's move). I think this exchange is less bad for black that the last one was bad for white, so overall black has gained a bit. As black has sente he can play such as a/b to separate the top stone, pincer the left, or elsewhere.

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So, locally speaking, if black is sure white will play this way (big if) I think the wedge is generally better because black made one bad exchange, white made a worse one, and black got sente instead of gote.

What about that if? White has other choices: one would be to play atari of before and tenuki, or this atari and cover at 4. Can black hane at a to cut and fight? That depends on a ladder as after b he has to defend at c.

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Maybe black would do this. This might make sense for white if the top side is interesting and the left not.

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Conclusion? Meh, go is hard.

Bill Spight · Post by **Bill Spight** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:13 am

Joaz Banbeck wrote:A better description of my concerns about move 32:

If the position were this, would you ever dream of playing at 'a'?
Of course not. It is an endgame move.

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Yet by playing moves in a different order - C15 before C16 - you managed to get that exact position.

So what is the order of play that you are contemplating? Something like this?

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In this sequence White has made two stupid plays and Black has made one stupid play. And now you are saying that Black should not make another stupid play? Well, duh!

By the time you have gotten to

you are already off the rails.

Bill Spight · Post by **Bill Spight** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:27 am

Uberdude wrote:Although white is a stronger shape, it's also rather heavy and needs an extension (but it's black's move). . . .
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I think that AlphaGo has shown us that White is not really heavy here. (Compare with the 3-4, 5-4 joseki.)

Conclusion? Meh, go is hard.

No detritus!

Bill Spight · Post by **Bill Spight** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:44 am

BTW, for

I kind of want to play this hane.

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If White replies with

I have scored a double sente. If not, he leaves the left side with an open skirt.

OTOH, if he uses the threat at "a" to build up the top side, "b" is good for Black.

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