Awwww, he prevented me setting up my Chinese opening. Whilst it's obvious how this pincer stops the Kobayashi, the reason it stops me playing r9 is a bit more subtle. Let's say I do play r9, white will obviously follow-up on my tenuki of his pincer, probably as below. The key point is after kicking to make black heavy and prevent him making eyespace (by sliding into the corner at d2) white plays at d6 on the 4th line as he knows there is fighting, and not c6 which is worse for fighting. Whereas if black gets the f3 c6 exchange before r9, then if this fighting happens black is happy as c6 on the 3rd line is less good for fighting.
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[go]$$Bcm1 Chinese, fighting better for white
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So now, how to respond to this pincer? The easiest response to any 4-4 pincer is to take the corner which gives black territory, and white thickness and sente to approach the lower right.
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[go]$$Bcm7 Take corner
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What I used to do in positions like this is read to the end of the joseki (or rather just picture the joseki end position, it's hardly reading) and then use judgement to evaluate the position. However, there's no rule that says you must stop reading after one corner, you can carry on reading to help judge the position! With the approaches the focus is white's potential on the lower side. If white approaches low and black pincers white will probably counter pincer which looks interesting for white, so probably black plays as below to secure his corner stone and reduce white's potential on the lower side (later he can aim at f2). This n3 move is not common as a bit soft, but here I think it is appropriate.
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[go]$$Wcm16 Low approach
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White could also approach high. Similar to above, black could play a solid 3rd line move to reduce white's lower side potential (the Tooveli joseki).
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[go]$$Wcm16 High approach
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What about attaching under the high approach? This is the best move for territory and indeed the high approach used to be considered usually bad as not good for territory, and only for special situations, though thinking has changed. If white hanes on the outside black is happy to get a big corner and a strong stone at o3 to reduce white's lower side potential.
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[go]$$Wcm16 High approach, attach, silly white
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However, white is likely to switch to the avalanche to develop the lower side. Something like below will happen and I prefer white. The lower side is not territory yet, f2 is unlikely to die, but white is developing nicely.
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[go]$$Wcm16 High approach, attach, good white
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Because black is being constrained in his answer to white's approach by the white lower side potential, one idea is to make a shimari as an answer to white's pincer. Here I think white would then attack the approach stone. If black saves his stone the fighting looks better for white (he wants to play
a next but the 2 stones are rather weak) and if black doesn't save his stone there's no obvious fuseki point to take instead.
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[go]$$Bcm1 Shimari, fighting better for white
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If black is on the other 3-4 point the position is quite different. One very common opening is as below, the idea of white's pincer is to prevent black making the mini-Chinese. If black takes the corner (in gote) it is good for white as he gets sente to make the excellent approach at p3 which also develops the lower side.
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[go]$$Bcm7 Good for white
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Therefore black makes the shimari in answer to white's pincer. This shimari faces along the right side so q/r10 is an excellent move next. So if white does something to f3 black just plays on the right side. White could also wedge the right side and then black takes the corner. By making the p3 r10 exchange black has prevented, in sente, white from having an excellent move after black takes the corner.
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[go]$$Bcm7 Preventing p3, even game
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So based on the above analysis I think taking the corner is ok, but I'm slightly unhappy to give white sente to approach my bottom right stone as I then feel I need to do slightly slow moves to counter the white lower side potential. So time to look for improvements.
You can always jump out when pincered, which could lead to this joseki or 9 could be a counterpincer at
a or
b (see
viewtopic.php?p=86479#p86479). But that joseki kinda sucks and the counter-pincer seems to be giving up too much on the left side for dubious return on the right side (if I already have a stone around r9 or q9 it would be better) so I reject this jump.
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[go]$$cm5 Bad joseki, no thanks
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Next up to consider is double approach which could be high (d6) or low (c6). In fact 2-space double approach at d7 and c7 are also being played by pros these days. One possible outcome is the sequence below. Black gets the corner in sente which means he gets to make the shimari at
. This lower left sequence used to be considered joseki, but these days the exchange of
for
is considered somewhat bad for black as it gives white
a to aim at (which aims at
b: black can't block at b7 or white pushes through and f5 ends up on the right spot). See An Younggil's recent commentary
http://gogameguru.com/go-commentary-yam ... ind-games/. In fact white could play
at
a right away which forces black to come out and then induces white defending at the bottom side.
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[go]$$cm7 Old joseki, but black sente
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The newer thinking from the Korean pros is to take the corner immediately. If white fixes at
b black gets sente and is happy to have improved on the previous diagram as white can no longer aim at
a. White probably tenukis to approach the lower right, and later black can pull out at
b which is a pretty huge move.
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[go]$$cm7 New joseki, but black probably gote
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White has another choice, which is to block this way (this is the reason for the hane in the old joseki, it makes blocking this way bad). In this variation white gets a wall and black the corner. I slightly prefer white here as white's extension from the wall will work well with d16. This variation is for when black doesn't want to lose the f3 stone, but here I am quite happy with the previous variation.
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[go]$$cm7 New joseki, white makes wall
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Another move is the flying elephant jump (Dumbo?) below. It certainly looks cool, and I think it's playable, but I don't feel like this situation is special enough for it.
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[go]$$cm5 Dumbo
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I did recently use this move at the London Open in the position below. My idea in that game was I wanted to make influence to counter black's centre potential, but this game is less developed so that's not applicable. Another game I used this move is
http://www.online-go.com/games/board.php?boardID=212176.
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[go]$$cm5 When I like it
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So I still don't know where to play. Another idea is to approach the top left as a sort of probe which feels pretty cool. Magicwand's pincer is trying to stop me controlling the flow of the game, and this 2nd approach throws it right back in his face
. The basic plan is if white tenukis to play in the lower left I am happy to double approach the top left. If white plays docile f17 then I am happy to make that exchange and will play c6 as c14 helps c6 a bit. If white pincers then I dunno, it's complicated
. It depends if the pincer is high or low but the plan is to choose a variation in the lower left the devalues the left side for white after his pincer says the left side is important. Then later I hop into the corner at c17.
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[go]$$cm5 Funky probing approach
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Hmmmm, maybe this is why I spend too long on the opening and then lose games in overtime....