Life In 19x19

drmwc wrote:Having read all the comments now, including re-reading my own, one thing that amazes me is my ability to make 3 or 4 typos per sentence. This was something I'm aware of, but re-reading with fresh eyes bought it home.

Thank God for my access to proff readers at work!

Prodigious wrote:

Uberdude wrote:lovelove said [too many nested quotes for the forum software]
I don't know if this is joseki, but my cut (D4) was a natural move, and the white stone on low side is in a good position.

EdLee wrote:Seems highly unlikely that this could be joseki, with Black making the broken shape in White, in sente...
but let's double check and find out...

I think Ed is too blindly applying his broken shape detector and it is far from clear this result is good for black; in fact probably I prefer white. Although it is true white has blighted his f3 stones, it is not dead yet, whereas black has completely killed his own 2 stones in the corner, making white totally alive with about 10 points of territory. Black's wall is not alive and could even be a weak group, and there is a cut at e5 to deal with. The key question is how weak is black's wall versus white's k3 stone: if black plays a checking extension at m3 then white can g4 or so which helps k3 and weakens the wall, if black h3 then white is happy to n3. I find it difficult to know how to continue as black.

Yeah, agreed. I'm pretty sure this result favors white and that black D5 was a mistake. Either D4 or E3 would probably have been better, I prefer E3.