In Autumn 2017, Joachim addressed the question whether playing the kikashi of Michael Redmond 9p might be feasible for Black, after he had chosen the Hasami-Tsuke Sequence for reducing White's top right corner, instead of the classical push / sagari, in the "usual" course of the published Professional Solution.

This idea provides White with a difficult choice, as well as Black later.

Some discussions during the course of our analysis made us clear that we hadn't really grasped the interdependencies between hasami-tsuke, kikashi, and the liberty count in the upper right corner yet.

Therefore, we decided to write this chapter, in order to clarify that issue.

According to the results of our amateurish analysis, Black would be able to win the game by at least two points.

Or new findings resulted in a demand for White to think about a way to prevent the above-mentioned combination. These considerations are presented in the following chapter ( 1092o).