3 space pincer working as the perfect extension off my top left star point stone. Less aggressive than my usual choice of pincer but I read about this idea recently and think it's quite interesting in a 4 stone handicap game.
His tenuki here interests me. I don't feel like my pincer was severe enough that I'd be able to strongly punish this tenuki so I think it might be the correct here given it's a handicap game.
But felt that this play was being induced in me. I also don't like how the two extensions are coming from opposite directions here. They aren't working together at all.
As per my expectations. I now expect him to approach the top left where I will do a 3 space pincer again. Following that I expect him to do a double approach on the top right and we get into the fighting proper!
An extension from both top left and bottom left, is part of the joseki for the bottom left keeping me from being two moves if he begins it. I think this is the only move here even though it isn't sente. This also forces him to approach the top left from within my framework with all the problems that involves for white. I'm also eyeing the invasion at either 'a' below:
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No problem with -- it's nice and big and all that, but another idea is kick: if W replies with (making well placed), then immediately W has a heavy group, and B can profit from it:
Standard joseki here. It weakens my K17 stone but It gives me a nice left side. The problem is that the corner is still open but I'm willing to accept that.
My basic gameplan is to grab a lot of territory and force him to come attack me. This is a handicap game so he has to be aggressive and make things happen, I don't want to give him too many weaknesses to exploit and want to play as solid a game as possible. He's going to be forced to invade my framework on the left, hopefully I can exchange some territory for some thickness when this happens.
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