Fedya wrote:
OK, It's Cho who says the second one is better, and pretty much leaves it as an exercise for the reader.
It's like Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, which I find as Kageyama generally saying, "Do things this way... except when you shouldn't." Oh, and you have to figure out when you shouldn't. Good luck.
Well, there are a lot of things that are that way, and humans are pretty good at default reasoning.
There are a lot of exceptions to go proverbs and "rules", and there are even more exceptions in bridge, perhaps because of the hidden information in bridge. Now, in bridge, if you are playing a trump contract there is a trump suit, and a small trump played to a trick by a player who cannot follow suit (play a card of the suit led) can beat even the ace (the highest card) of the suit played. So one of the first things that beginners are taught is to draw trumps right away when they are trying to make a trump contract; i.e., to play trumps until the opponents have none left. However, there are many exceptions to that rule. So intermediate players are told to draw trumps, except when you shouldn't, and are taught some of the exceptions. At the pro level, one of the first things that a pro will think about in a trump contract is
not drawing trumps. Alan Truscott, long time bridge editor of the New York Times, once did an informal poll among top bridge players about drawing trumps and found that, indeed, they try to avoid drawing trumps. He asked them how often they drew trumps right away, and the answers were around 50% of the time. However, looking at tournament hand records, Truscott found that the top players actually drew trumps right away 90% of the time.
So the advice to intermediates is good, draw trumps except when you shouldn't.
In go as well, intermediate players (SDKs) should follow the proverbs except when they shouldn't.
(I mean real proverbs, not those made up by kyu players.
) If you believe that the current situation is exceptional, go with your judgement. Otherwise, follow the proverbs. If in doubt, follow the proverbs. If you are wrong, let your opponent prove it.
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invasion is one of the reasons Cho gives for 
being a weak response. Here is the diagram with the move numbers (thanks for the diagrams, ez4u 
and 
are cool moves. Although the possibility of the invasion still remains, there is no clamp anymore, and the corner is much more secure.
Nice pre-holiday present to myself 
I don't think that this is Dan-repertoire: empty triangle, not helping your cause a lot, and kind of thank you. I don't know what's best here. I'd think of leaning with d6 and then jumping into l4. But that's probably not Dan-repertoire neither.
I like your way of thinking. I am sure your opponent didn't see what hit him.
I don't think that you are in position to play these ataris. Table shape at g12 sets up a splitting attack.
Forcing the white group through the gap towards the top right is a bad strategy for you as both your adjacent groups will come under fire. You basically force him into a splitting attack against you. I'd try with k9.
I'd call this a bluff. Why didn't you take? Black connects its groups. Is it too small?
lets W gets a nice dual-purpose 
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How do you feel about F7.
How do you feel about H5.
How do you feel about E5.
Before you tenuki, you may want to milk everything out of the 
stones first.
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Maybe just atari.
How do you feel about D11 atari.
How do you feel about E13 connect.
How do you feel about L9.
How do you feel about atari-push L8.
How do you feel about atari-push L8.
153 B19.