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New lesson - “Fighting techniques - kikashi”

I wrote a new lesson: “Fighting techniques - kikashi”.

It is based on variations on move 33 from the 4th Honinbo game. After introducing some basic sacrifice and kikashi techniques, the main question is how should White respond to Black’s cut with 1 in the following diagram, given that Black’s ideal is to get both A and B in sente:

Black sacrifices a stone to get kikashi on the outside.

You can read the whole article on the main website.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 8:02 pm and is filed under 361points, kikashi, lesson, sacrifice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

One Response to “New lesson - “Fighting techniques - kikashi””

  1. Chris Says:
    June 23rd, 2007 at 9:55 am

    Great page! I was pretty confused when Black 1 was played in the game. :)

    - Chris.

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