Joseki Question-- large knight kikari + contact
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Joseki Question-- large knight kikari + contact
I am unsure how to respond to W 1, can anyone show some solid variations?
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Re: Joseki Question-- large knight kikari + contact
As far as I know, this is a peaceful joseki.
The simplest way is to just extend back. White will probably fix his position and black will have sente.
Black can also counter-hane. White cutting at
instead of 
leads to black getting more corner territory.
The simplest way is to just extend back. White will probably fix his position and black will have sente.
Black can also counter-hane. White cutting at
instead of leads to black getting more corner territory.-
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Re: Joseki Question-- large knight kikari + contact
The title says "large knight," but the diagram shows a two-space jump. Did you mean to ask about something other than the diagram?
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Re: Joseki Question-- large knight kikari + contact
judicata wrote:The title says "large knight," but the diagram shows a two-space jump. Did you mean to ask about something other than the diagram?
This is what he means:
elsewhere.
is the large knight's approach. 
is the contact play.
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Re: Joseki Question-- large knight kikari + contact
Bill Spight wrote:This is what he means:
Ahh, ok. Would've realized that had I looked more closely rather than glanced and not seen a knight's move.
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Re: Joseki Question-- large knight kikari + contact
To me both sequences seem--well-- anemic.
3 here seems to be a vital point for both players. If W tenuki, B 3 if not sente is close.
So W 3 is reverse sente ( or close to reverse sente ) and though W is low and ends in gote ( but overall the same amount of moves spent in the corner, my feeling is that B shape is just miserable.
In this diagram W has the slightest bit of bad aji to the right of 1, but I can't help feel that B has loads more bad aji.
I can't help but fell that in both cases B is worse off considering that he spent one more move in that corner.
lemmata wrote:As far as I know, this is a peaceful joseki.
The simplest way is to just extend back. White will probably fix his position and black will have sente.
3 here seems to be a vital point for both players. If W tenuki, B 3 if not sente is close.
So W 3 is reverse sente ( or close to reverse sente ) and though W is low and ends in gote ( but overall the same amount of moves spent in the corner, my feeling is that B shape is just miserable.
lemmata wrote:Black can also counter-hane. White cutting at
In this diagram W has the slightest bit of bad aji to the right of 1, but I can't help feel that B has loads more bad aji.
I can't help but fell that in both cases B is worse off considering that he spent one more move in that corner.
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Re: Joseki Question-- large knight kikari + contact
If you don't like anemic sequences, play tighter approach moves - if you act like W has cooties, you won't have any severe follow-up when he takes sente. Why did you play the ogeima kakari in the first place? Presumably you weren't angling to get corner territory.