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My initial game plan here(exact placement of 2 and 4 not important for comments purpose.). solid territory is something I value as Black. Aiming for immediate enclosure of one corner and a likely pincer follow up. W approach at a, B at b. I will probably enclose the second corner if W does not approach.
But we will see if W does anything unexpected with his initial moves.

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Since my last post I've learned about the shusaku fuseki.. If he opens in the bottom left I think I'll try it out this game.

Hi all, thanks for watching. Like Twitchy said, this is my first Malkovich. I have been playing Go since last January and am in the vicinity of single-digit kyu although I think I am still double-digit. I don't study much nor am very competitive, I like to play for fun, watch other people and pros. I play very poorly on KGS and am 14k there. I have been playing Sanrensei lately

Ok, he played in the bottom right( ). I can try the shusaku fuseki now! I do hope he doesn't take that last corner. For one thing I wouldn't be able to play there myself. And for another thing... that results in me having an pincer-extension to any approach of the top left

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I think this would leave black with an advantage. I doubt I have the skill to capitalize... but my plan for this game now is to try out shusaku's fuseki. So I'd rather have an approach on the marked stone. I've tried on KGS..but they always take the wrong corners

The other left. Not Go.

Which could be a problem as I only know the first 7 or so moves of this fuseki after flipping through the sample chapters of Invincible in smart go books.
Well I think I can play some quasi-joseki.. or rather joseki I remember just well enough to mess up. I can't wait for the first 10-20 moves to be over. By that point any studying I put into this opening shouldn't be able to affect the game. It's killing me to wait.

The other left. Not Go.

Um yes.. My bad.

What do you mean with your second statement?

Well that was disappointing
Well I suppose Edlee called it in a sense. Lets see if he approaches my 3-4 point then.

I understand the feeling: once in a while a situation comes up with a possible variation that I'm inexperienced with,
and I hope my opponent would play it, so that I can experience it and learn from it.

But, if I make a mistake, or, if there's a big point or good move left on the board,
and I hope my opponent would not see it (and so he would not play it), that's not Go.

So if you considered the last empty corner D4 to be the biggest move on the board,
but at the same time you hoped he would not play it... c'mon.

I actually don't think the last corner is the most urgent for W. Biggest perhaps(?), but from what I understand of this fuseki.
W wants to approach with 4 and 6. Black will play a, if no komi(because its slower. Has great follow ups though). b if komi(faster and still keeps pressure on white.) and it continues from there.

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If instead W takes the 2nd starpoint. B gets an enclosure and now any approach on the upper left 3-4 will be met by a pincer-extension.
I don't think this result is favorable for W. And as a result hoped that he would approach my 1 stone instead. I feel that Whit 4 in diagram 1 to be a more correct response(albeit my knowledge is far from even amateurish on the subject.) But like I said in my comments, can I back up the advantage I believe dia 2 gives me?

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Most urgent = biggest.

Then I guess its not the biggest. If I were playing W, I would have approached with my second move. I feel that that is the best move W has.

Taking the empty corner and approaching a 3-4 are about the same. No problem.
I would play at D4 like Wanderling.

I suppose I might be being a bit too black and white about the move quality. It really could just be chalked up to stylistic preference. I still stand by my previous statement that I think the approach is slightly better for W.

It's certainly your privilege to disagree with pro opinion.

Indeed it is. Lets see if play can prove me wrong here

Thought about Sanrensei but approached here instead to deny him the star point to combine top. He can pincer and achieve similar effect which would make my move an early invasion, I might get a weak group between his two territories on the top. On my second move I wanted to deny him the keima approach of my left 4-4 but didn't know what else there was. Perhaps I should keima approach top left, not sure how it's different from the one-space.

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Urgent before big. 1pt high approach is not played with the intent of living on the side, so that means he probably wants some kind of outside position. Lets see if I can give it to him and end in sente to take the shared extension point. (doubtable)
Acceptable results.
A wall facing his starpoint he takes b I take a(don't know how it would get there from here but if he wants that good for him.)
A wall facing my corner enclosure, while i live in the corner and down the part of the left side. If he takes a that lets me give me sente to approach a 4-4. If he does something else(I doubt it) I'll take c.

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I think this is joseki. If he follows this through 6 I will play at c instead of 7. I can live with being small in the corner, that extension is big.
Therefore he will probably skip 6 playing straight at 8. I will take 7 and save the cutting aji for later. If he goes back to play 6, hey that's sente for me
I have some other ideas for W response, but I think he'll take this route. Stopping me from playing c would be nice for him.

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