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Posted: **Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:28 am**

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This is a probe. He has two ways to respond.

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If he ataris at :w1:

above, I can get the hane at :b6:

in sente, Later, if he gets a move around 'a', :b6:

lets me play 'b' to connect.

(Alternate variation:

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Then

and

remove most of his options for targeting this group of stones.)

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Whereas if he connects with :w1:

, then

has more force behind it. I may not play :b2:

right away, but when I do, if he responds elsewhere, I can take over the corner. And if he responds locally, it either makes :b2:

sente or gives my group even better shape. (There's also the bad aji of me playing :b2:

at

.)

In the middle, his last move has left me a couple of good forcing moves against his middle group to make a couple of my groups stronger:

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On the plus side of this sequence, I get the useful :b3:

and

stones. However, I lose a useful liberty on my :bc:

stones, so it's not a sequence I want to play automatically without first considering the benefits and drawbacks carefully. That's one of the reasons I'm playing this probe on the right first - to see how he responds before I decide whether I should play the forcing sequence above now or not, and what I should do afterward.

Posted: **Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:06 am**

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Posted: **Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:46 pm**

will this game go on? i can't wait!
(bump?)

Posted: **Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:27 pm**

lesenv wrote:will this game go on? i can't wait!
(bump?)

I think that MW has gone fishing.

Posted: **Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:53 pm**

Joaz Banbeck wrote:I think that MW has gone fishing.

He might as well, given that it's not his move.

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