Towards the end of 2012, we finally realized a measure, from which we had long shied away because of its high workload of editing this book. We gave that moves an absolute priority, which we felt they were the technically better. The move numbers in this section refer to the sequence of our solution.
Kikashi in the Hanezeki for
Spoiling White's Shape
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Black cuts because this makes it possible - in principle - to get a living shape for his large group in the top right, with a succeeding move at .
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If he plays the push, and then the first throw-in, instead, there is no opportunity to get an eye in this area from the very beginning.