Valid moves you don't play.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:48 pm
For a game of endless possibilities, it's funny how restricted my play is and how I just can't get myself to play certain moves that I know are valid for my own little reasons.
Examples:
The shimari. There are several reasons I don't like the shimari:
I dislike both playing and having to respond to the low approach, both for pretty much the same reason: I know very little joseki variations off of this approach, especially outside of the two-space pincer and the kosumi response. Hence when my opponent approaches low, I almost always decide only upon 'a' or 'b'.
I don't mind influential moves like the 5-4 or even the 5-5, but there is something about the 3-5/5-3 that strikes me as silly. As a result, I don't have much experience with joseki variations like the taisha.
I don't care if you can extend one space more with this, letting my opponent have the opportunity to peep at 'a' irks me so I do the simple connect instead. I don't mind most peeps, but there is something about this peep.
When I approach my opponent's corner stone, I feel like I am greeting them and giving them a handshake. The ensuing joseki is us talking and interacting. But with this move I feel like I'm trying to greet someone 20 feet away. Weird example, but that's the best way I can express how I feel with this move.
What are some of yours?
Examples:
The shimari. There are several reasons I don't like the shimari:
- Inefficient to play, especially since it's played as early as move 3 or 5. The two stones are just too close in the opening for my liking.
- An unnatural way of making territory. To me, a natural way of making territory is by attacking and gaining profit as you're pressuring your opponent's groups.
- It removes joseki possibilities. I like my hame-I mean, joseki.
I dislike both playing and having to respond to the low approach, both for pretty much the same reason: I know very little joseki variations off of this approach, especially outside of the two-space pincer and the kosumi response. Hence when my opponent approaches low, I almost always decide only upon 'a' or 'b'.
I don't mind influential moves like the 5-4 or even the 5-5, but there is something about the 3-5/5-3 that strikes me as silly. As a result, I don't have much experience with joseki variations like the taisha.
I don't care if you can extend one space more with this, letting my opponent have the opportunity to peep at 'a' irks me so I do the simple connect instead. I don't mind most peeps, but there is something about this peep.
When I approach my opponent's corner stone, I feel like I am greeting them and giving them a handshake. The ensuing joseki is us talking and interacting. But with this move I feel like I'm trying to greet someone 20 feet away. Weird example, but that's the best way I can express how I feel with this move.
What are some of yours?
, then you had no business playing 
to begin with.
or 'a' in some openings but it just seems pretty wussified to me. That 
stone is just asking to be pincered and there are at least 6 to choose from plus tenuki. One of those moves has to work!
immediately. I have yet to try this, though.
is awkward.
. White almost always plays 
at 'a' or 'b', and the slide at 
is very rare after either move. Did you mean for this to be a line higher?