I'm with atarihuana here.Bill Spight wrote:Probably not. In theory, non-random plays close to other stones usually reduce the temperature. We may have the feeling that they raise it, but today's top bots do not make that assumption.atarihuana wrote:what? no. yes it is symetrical, but it also is a "contact" play. do not tenuki, the area is "hot"Joaz Banbeck wrote:The two things that bother me about it are:
1) Black can tenuki easily. ( It is a symmetrical position. If white does not mind black having sente here, then black can't mind white having sente either, so it costs him very little to tenuki )
What about the normal approaches? Eg. Knights move: This kind of approach is very tenuki-able. If black ignores White's approach then it's just as if white played an unpopular opening move (5-3) and black played a very reasonable approach.
White gets a result as if she played the first move in the corner, but that move has to be the unpopular 5-3 move and it seems a little less likely that the 5-3 stone was played with good direction because white may have expected a response.
With the armpit hit whoever plays there next gets a result as if they played the first 3-4 stone in that corner.
When we approach a corner I think we usually accept that if the other player
-played first in the corner
-takes gote
Then we expect that they will have the noticeably better position. We just hope that we will have a reasonably good position considering these factors.