I'm getting a little nervous; white has no weak groups and their influence has dominion over big swaths of the board. Obviously, that can be reduced, but we also still have a big clunky group to deal with.
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I assume Chew is suggesting M12, Red will suggest C16 and K12 isn't any better than last time, so I'll try to come up with something new.
E17 is one option. What else is there....O11 looks nice locally, but it's not very big, neither is anything in the lower right corner. C6 is one option, but it's smallish as well, and invites black to invade top left. What about reducing blacks bottom left and building our center with something like G6 - it just doesn't look right.
I recently read somewhere about some snack food from the 70s called "Screaming Yellow Zonkers", made famous by the humorous copy on the box.
The Disappearing Zonker Trick: After putting on your magician's outfit, look around the house for a handkerchief, two hard boiled eggs, and a small piece of radium. Then take seven Zonkers and place them neatly into the exact center of the handkerchief. Two eggs are arranged near each other and under your hands. Tie a half-hitch knot in the radium. Then make the seven Zonkers disappear. Your friends will be amazed.
Actually, I was thinking about not suggesting the cut. The cut gives us a ton of central thickness. Alternatively, however, we could simply take moves in the corner in sente. At this point, we could try to get the corner points in sente with a slide to S3 (big, as it looks sente for life of the group). After that, black will almost certainly fix the cutting point in gote, allowing us to take a move in the top corner. Basically, if it's a choice between taking points in the corner, or take a move in the middle that could possibly become dame later, I'll take the profit and feel good about the attack. Chasing this group helped us build points on the right (kind of), so we can probably be happy with the results of attacking the black group.
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[go]$$Bcm41 My suggestion $$ --------------------------------------- $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . X . . . . . | $$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . X . . . | $$ | . . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . X . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . O O X . . . . O . . | $$ | . . . , . . . . . O X X . . . . . . . | $$ | . . O . . . . . . O X . 4 O . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . O X 5 . . O . X . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . O X X . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . O . O X . O . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . X . . O . X O . O . . | $$ | . . X , . . . . . , . . . X . , . . . | $$ | . . . . X . . . . X . O X . . X . 6 . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . O . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ ---------------------------------------[/go]
If Topazg disagrees with this thinking, he can definitely take your move in the top left, and then we can return to the cut. Similarly, if you guys see a better move in the corner, please point it out.
Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].
Nevermind, no mistake! I forgot I made a trigger for this move. =)
Whoops, forgot I made a trigger a few moves ago. Anyway, I like both the cut and the scoop, so this should be fine. If worst comes to worse, this works well with anything on top.
Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].
Ah, sorry about that anyway, I still should have waited - for some reason I thought you weren't posting because in effect, you'd already put forward your suggestion, but I should have asked
It only seems polite having posted it to go with it now, so we'll see what happens! At least the top should become even more interesting this way!
Now that it's moot, did you have a preference between cutting first or scooping the corner first? There may be better corner moves, as well, I'm just curious if one stratagem is better than the other.
Someday I want to be strong enough to earn KGS[-].
, but wasn't clear on what impact it had on the aji - are you aiming at:
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in the last dia as your proposal?