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Posted: **Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:10 am**

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This position is from a game between two 3kyu's reviewed by a 3d on GTL, black has just extended to q14 and white then plays at o15 but asks if maybe s18 would be better direction where the reviewer say's "this corner cannot be invaded, so you shouldn't make a slow, small move like o15 now." This was the first time I've heard a strong player say that that shape in the upper right corner is impenetrable. Seems like a lot of space for a corner; is there really nothing black can do here - friends on both sides? Cute little ko maybe?

Posted: **Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:28 am**

The corner may be safe but it can be sealed in so I see nothing wrong with moving out. But O15 can be cut (Q15 then O16) so I think I would prefer to move out with N16.

Having said that, I don't think it is urgent to move out right away, but I do think that W needs to be sure to have sente when the time is right.

Posted: **Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:11 pm**

If white wants to come out, it probably would have been better to play this way (I'm assuming r15 q14 were the last 2 moves).

Click Here To Show Diagram Code: [go]$$Bc $$ +---------------------------------------+ $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . O . . X . . . X . . X . O . . . . | $$ | . . . O . . . X . , . . . . . O 6 . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . | $$ | . . . O . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 1 . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a b . . | $$ | . . O , O . . . . , . . . . . , . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . . | $$ | . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . O . O , X . . | $$ | . . . X . O . . O . . . . O X X . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | $$ +---------------------------------------+[/go]

If would be sensible for black to add a move on the right to prevent a white attack at a/b, but then a white jump around c would nicely expand white's lower side framework and make black upset to defend the not so big and rather overconcentrated territory on the right.

As for the original question, are you sure it was this corner (http://senseis.xmp.net/?ThreeCrows) they were talking about, which does happen every so often but the rather more common shape is the below which does have a much bigger problem at 3-3.

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Posted: **Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:52 pm**

Thank you for confirmation, and interesting insights.

Uberdude wrote:As for the original question, are you sure it was this corner (http://senseis.xmp.net/?ThreeCrows) they were talking about, which does happen every so often but the rather more common shape is the below which does have a much bigger problem at 3-3.

Three Crows? Yeps. Thanks for the link.

Is there an index of english shape/pattern names somewhere? Didn't really see anything comprehensive on Sensei's. Correct assumption at the last two moves btw.

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:17 am**

Do you know about the SL postition search?

http://senseis.xmp.net/?positionsearch=1

In this case searching for those 3 stones would take you directly to the SL Three Crows page. It's a great tool.

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:31 pm**

Didn't know about this feature, thanks a bunch!

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