Combat Series 7 - 34 Knight enclosure corner defence
One of my many weaknesses is fighting and the excellent Dwyrin in his 2nd book 'Centering the Middle Game' gave an interesting example of how you can muck up a corner defence of a knight on a 34 and showed several ways to defend instead. Now I am not a fan of mistake farming but I suppose it's a valid hail mary attempt. What interests me more is what it teaches about stone shape and the lessons are more generally, well I think, applicable. I won't give the text as I'd prefer you to buy his book but will show the game examples. (note there were a lot more white stones further up so there was nowhere for Black to run to) Anyway here is the start point with Black's hail mary White did is what a lot of us do, especially with this much strength at DDK , and atari'd This though means P3, R4 and S3 are all unconnected and Black can threaten ataris to make life as it does here.. Dwyrin then gives two examples of how to kill - the first hurts my head slightly So ba...
