Combat Series 6 - Corner Joseki mistakes
I was recently reading the rather excellent advice on Joseki learning in 'The Fundamentals of Go' and after reading that had encountered exactly the sort of situation he discusses in the equally excellent 'Mastering Basic Corner Shapes' by Young Sun Yoon (recommended) It's been a day of discovery even allowing for the fact that I only just noticed the corner book gives 3 stones variations and the last tends to be the board position where the starting point of the other 3 comes from. Ah, clever. Anyway the particular problem was the following (the 3rd in the series, black to play to kill) Now I considered and discarded the 1 space jump leading to a Ko And quickly enough discarded extending on the left As White lives. Settling eventually on the solution as follows As par the Fundamentals of Go I then started to look a the reasons for each - 1 is an attempt to connect to E2 so D2 blocks if White plays anywhere else Black plays D2 and is connected and White is dead. T...
