Some local compatriots have formed a single-digit-kyu study group, and we've been looking at the Orthodox opening recently (in which Black follows up with a knight's-move enclosure in the lower right). So I'll give him a chance to do that so I can try to apply or extend my knowledge.
OK, he continued as I invited him to. I'm continuing to play the standard moves even though usually I like to mix things up early in order to get more practice with this opening my friends and I have been studying. Things will probably go off the rails soon enough.
I don't know whether I should push the white stone at a or b, so I am gonna approach an open corner first and decides later depending on what white does.
Playing a bit by the seat of my pants, as I usually do in the opening. My "style", such as it is, tends to be influenced a bit by Crazy Stone, since I analyze all my games with it, and it generally likes this pincer in this sort of situation. I only know a few of the resulting joseki, but if we end up in something I'm unfamiliar with, I'll learn something.
This is a popular continuation these days, and I've been trying it out because Crazy Stone is always suggesting it. I'm only familiar with a couple of followups, though (hane underneath and hane on top). Ideally Black gets a small corner and I get pretty nice side positions.
But I don't like white getting this approach. I can't pincer because white already has an extension. If I just jump white may just invade the 3-3 immediately. The top feels too narrow.
I looked at what would happen if I haned above or below in the corner and we both followed the "usual" joseki without the added exchange, and in neither case did I think that the exchange benefited me. So this is the clear next try.
I don't want to do too much reading because it usually becomes irrelevant very quickly, but here's one idea:
If Black extends to the right, my previous stone should be able to help my two stones escape, especially since Black has to look after his corner. A couple of examples:
Very embarrassingly, I didn't look at that move. Maybe I should have descended last move? I really should have looked at it, as it is a classic example of what I call the "bear hug":
[go]$$Wc $$ ------------------- $$ | . . . . . . . . . $$ | . . 8 X 7 5 . . . $$ | . . X O 3 4 O 9 . $$ | . . X O . 6 X . . $$ | . 0 O X 2 . . . . $$ | . . . 1 . . . . . $$ | . . O . . . . . . $$ | . . . . . . . . .[/go]
which I don't like very much but I can't find anything better, and I've spent long enough looking at it. At least his stones in the middle are potentially weak, though it's not like I have a lot of strength myself.
Probably the best move for white is the hane? But white still needs to crawl a few times to make life plus the four stones on the left are very weak and heavy.
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at a because of b), and