I would consider one of these points. A protects the invasion points at and elevates the otherwise very flat upper side. B on the other hand is played in the largest open region and gives purpose to (righ now it seems a bit overconcentrated) The Problem with both of them is that they are gote but I don't see any sente moves that you could make to strengthen your position so you have to live with whit either invading the lower right or the upper left
While I was teaching the game to a friend of mine, my mother from the other room:
"Cutting? Killing? Poking out eyes? What the hell are you playing?"
EDITed: Maybe the moves looked unclear judging on the following post (follow up in top left was the original reason I did it, but it did look kinda silly I guess)
'b' seems too vulnerable to cutting, and both 'b' and 'c' seem a bit dame-ish, so I wouldn't play them.
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Can someone explain why is such a big point? To me it looks like yose (and a not really big one at that) The sequence above was the best I could come up with if white plays first in that area
While I was teaching the game to a friend of mine, my mother from the other room:
"Cutting? Killing? Poking out eyes? What the hell are you playing?"
'b' seems too vulnerable to cutting, and both 'b' and 'c' seem a bit dame-ish, so I wouldn't play them.
Interesting, I put "b" and "c" because I wondered if "b" was a bit much. But the "a" in the top left was designed to play on the border of two frameworks, as was "c". That's normally a pretty huge point no? Certainly White wants it.
The 3-3 in the top left seems aji-keshi to my untrained eye:
@Mnem - The top right move I don't think I'd play just yet, but I'd want it soon. The question is whether Black can ignore White playing there, which I think would be very painful. The direct change of points is quite large, and the value of 1 in my last diagram here increases a lot if Black has blocked, as suddenly the stability of the entire White group is brought into question.
'b' and 'c' would look better to me if black already had a move on one of the bottom 'a's. As it is, I fear white can live there too easily, and that's when 'b' and 'c' would be dame.
I liked the top-left 'a' because it strengthens the stone, protecting somewhat against invasions. It could be too early though.
Now that I've thought about it a bit more, I'm also kind of curious about trying something like this:
So, right now I'd probably play as above. I'd play in one of the bottom-right 'a' regions instead, but then white would play 'c' and make me uncomfortable. Hence, why I'm trying to break up the left region first.
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They look perfectly ok to me. "a" I tend to avoid because it allows White to slide under, but it's a common way to develop outside influence, and seems like a good idea here - had you considered Q9 for the same thing? Outside influence is probably quite desirable for Black with respect to developing a big framework.
They look perfectly ok to me. "a" I tend to avoid because it allows White to slide under, but it's a common way to develop outside influence, and seems like a good idea here - had you considered Q9 for the same thing? Outside influence is probably quite desirable for Black with respect to developing a big framework.
Nope, I hadn't considered it, thanks for the idea. I was going for influence, I thought my moves might be too influence oriented, but from what i see it isn't so. P.S.-Don't know why i'm hiding this.
They say that one should aim at playing moves that do more than one thing (as long as they are not half-hearted attempts at accomplishing those goals). Well, this move:
Makes black's corner 100% resilient for future attack, thereby solidifying black's moyo somewhat
Takes away white's eyespace in the corner, thereby threatening a splitting attack at 'a'
Takes about 10 points of territory
Robs white of the chance to make about 10 points of territory while threatening black's base
Enough?
Bill Spight's move is also interesting (he's quite a bit stronger than me). Still, I (humbly) think my move looks better than his . It puts more pressure on white, and, as a bonus, it simply takes more points in the corner.
and elevates the otherwise very flat upper side. B on the other hand is played in the largest open region and gives purpose to 
(righ now it seems a bit overconcentrated) The Problem with both of them is that they are gote 
but I don't see any sente moves that you could make to strengthen your position so you have to live with whit either invading the lower right or the upper left 
is such a big point? To me it looks like yose (and a not really big one at that) The sequence above was the best I could come up with if white plays first in that area
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