Pippen wrote:White to play its best possible move 10.
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$$ | . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b c . . |
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In my opinion a,b or c are as good as any move. Moves d to f are OK, but slighty worse than the previous. Do you agree?
C feels natural to me at first glance. I feel that it leads to a normal result, as white could have played C, followed by
followed by
easily, and black probably doesn't want to tenuki. On the other hand, black may be able to push white into gote and then take the open corner, and it might end up being a bit slack. B feels a bit weird, in terms of how it works with
. If you could force black to give you sente, it would be good, but I don't think you can. The lower left corner is very tempting, but I'm not sure I would play A. Perhaps the 3-4 point to the left of A, or the matching 5-3 point, looking to build potential up the left side. If black then follows up with a shimari, white's shimari in response feels like it's doing more than black's. D, E, and F all feel slack to me, though F seems better than E, and D may be better than both of them. In each case, though, what do you do when black takes the open corner? For E, I have no idea. For F, maybe you could aim to confine black? For D, you could aim at C still, and you also are looking at the 3-5 approach to
to get into a pretty normal 2 space pincer joseki that may put pressure on
if white gets the extension there.
That said, I have this lingering sense that
was a mistake, and he should have taken the open corner at that time rather than approach the upper left and end in gote.
