Discussion about Q16,R14,O16,S17,S16,R16

[shinuito]

@shinuito

I think it’s because it’s up to interpretation. If I wanted to see the follow up to a mistake by black and I saw the only response was a ‘good’ one for White, I’d be think wait is there a better answer not included?

The other issue is that, more than likely if we can conclude that blacks move was a mistake, there’s a good chance black playing any of the follow up moves in the sequence are also a mistake. Black would either tenuki or play a damage control sequence instead. So you either get a sequence of mistake, good/ideal, mistake, good/ideal etc or it’s all good or all ideal.

I mean you could say white is ideally following the punishment of the mistake, or Black is ideally following the path of the mistake.

But anyway once there’s a consistent policy it’s good.

Rather than saying this all again.

@aesalon

I think that authors make diagrams with wishful thinking variations to get their point across.

That might be true to some extent. Typically when you’re teaching someone, you probably ask them what they expect to happen or show them likely responses that don’t work out, and show them why.

I don’t think it’s a big issue, provided it’s labelled clearly as a mistake, which I believe was one of @gennan’s points.