At position Q16,R14,O16,S17,S16,R16, @aesalon started the conversation:
AI hates all the moves Black makes as much as the initial mistake.
( FYI @aesalon )
Gennan brought this one up and it is pretty bad. Using joseki books in 2019 - go figure. I think that authors make diagrams with wishful thinking variations to get their point across. The whole trick should probably be deleted(or corrected with AI, I am not sure).
Rather than saying this all again.
That might be true to some extent. Typically when youâre teaching someone, you probably ask them what they expect to happen or show them likely responses that donât work out, and show them why.
I donât think itâs a big issue, provided itâs labelled clearly as a mistake, which I believe was one of @gennanâs points.
authors make diagrams with wishful thinking variations to get their point across
Yeah, to me it seems that (3) especially is pretty clearly a demonstrative move to help show why the initial move by Black is a mistake.
Perhaps trim the line down to just White R16, the âsting in the tailâ, and not copy down resistance variations for Black when heâs already in a mistake variation.
I donât think showing the first move in a good reply will necessarily be any more useful to someone than just telling them the move is a mistake though.
Realistically we canât show every variation, but you could show a disaster variation if it seems likely that it could be mistakenly played by people of different levels. Or you could add in a damage control variation to say, well you messed up but you can try salvage it this way.
Otherwise I wouldnât bother showing just the first move.
Playing a response by black at r17 looks interesting and Iâm wondering if itâs playable if white doesnât have the ladder?
Imagining
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Even when white has a ladder, I think your variation (and connecting underneath with P17 next) is a better option for black than the continuation in the OJE. But I donât think the OJE needs to contain optimal âdamage controlâ variations after a mistake.
Perhaps it would be sufficient to convey somehow that the continuation of (3) and further is a âfailure diagramâ, demonstrating that blackâs refutation attempt doesnât work.
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So I added that variation and another straightforward ladder one. (Crosschecked with AI)
It isnât a particularly interesting or common trick so Iâm not even sure it should still be up or which variations/comments should stay. I think that it is better deleted than having nothing or a particularly misleading variation diagram.
I will need to take a closer look at the other tricks I added from that book though. It seems like something I went through when I first started editing because it is a book that I liked.
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You could also cross check some tricks with
Ryan Li seems to enjoy trick moves. Some trick moves he tries to distinguish as âtrickyâ moves. I think more or less heâs saying that in both types of moves if the opponent makes a mistake you get a big advantage, but if they respond properly with trick moves you take a loss, whereas with âtrickyâ moves you donât actually get that bad of a result even though they answered correctly.
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This is a classic example of a tricky move, a joseki which I call the Kitani descent: Black has, arguably, lost nothing at all if White just connects at A and Black fixes at E.
But it is very tempting to White to push at E himself and then, after Black draws the contacted stone back to the corner, to make an unsound hane, after which the cuts in Whiteâs position can be exploited. Players around 3k â 2d are especially vulnerable to this trick: stronger players are wise to it, and connect at A; weaker players are more wary and, again, connect at A.
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@mark5000 I didnât want to make a separate thread, but I was looking up the âKitani descentâ joseki and developed a doubt that https://online-go.com/joseki/9824 is an ideal or even markable move.
The full sequence to https://online-go.com/joseki/9822 is sourced as Traditional. It only seems to have seen one full play, though, in Yamabe â Kitani 1957 http://ps.waltheri.net/database/game/6306/ (and note that the hane wasnât played immediately).
The hane appears again in Go Seigen â Onoda 1930 http://ps.waltheri.net/database/game/14384/, again not played immediately, and this time not actually part of a Kitani descent sequence.
And as far as Waltheriâs concerned, thatâs pretty much it. The two-space jump, in comparison, has over 50 plays; and the one space jump has about 20. I donât think thereâs cause to add the one-space jump, but there seems to be no point in having the hane listed either.
Well, the Kitani descent is marked âgoodâ and not âideal,â and it has no âjoseki: doneâ tag (only âposition settledâ). I added the text âGood for Whiteâ at the end just to make triply clear that itâs not a joseki.
I deleted the hane move though. It settles well, but the play just isnât there, as you said.
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On a second note, I was taught that itâs quite important for Black to settle at the end with R13. In Waltheri, itâs played in over half the games in which Whiteâs made the P13 jump.
Do you think we should add R13? Otherwise Iâm not sure we can call the position settled.
Itâs been a little less than a year and a half since this discussion, and I ended up trying this sequence in todayâs Josekle game and being told that it wasnât in the dictionary.
Again, I think (9) should be added. Out of 48 professional games in Waltheri that reached (8), exactly half continued to (9).
When I had a strong player teach me about this Kitani joseki, he stressed the importance of responding to (8) with (9), so as to prevent moves like White R14 from being annoying.
There are plenty of continuations given in OJE that have less than a quarter of play, and less than ten games, so it doesnât seem unreasonable to add a move that represents half the play of its line and has over twenty games.
Also, if we add (9) than we can also add a Joseki:Done tag, which the sequence doesnât have at the moment.