On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:59:13AM -0600, Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:43 +0100, "Stefan Kaitschick"
> <stefan.kaitsch...@hamburg.de> wrote:
> >> Characterising the style quickly, it can start the first few moves at
> >> almost any intersections 3rd line and above ...
> >
> >> Ignorants call the early moves "random" but it is only because they lack
>
> >> an understanding of their reasoning ...
> >
> > The first statement is a pretty good definition of random.
> > Can't resist a flame war here :-)
>
> I'm pretty sure Robert's thought pattern when playing openings that way is
> a little more than "This intersection will do" and a little less than "This
> guarantees me a victory".
>
> The human understanding of go is still evolving. The Chinese used to play
> on a 19x19 board with diagonally placed black and white stones on the 4-4
> points (what some would call today a fighting opening). Japan removed that
> limit, as far as I know (I am not a go historian) and started developing
> the game further - and so we have games played by people like Dosaku. In
> the 20th century, Go Seigen popularized the 4-4, speedy opening, but he was
> still playing around the corners.
> Late in his life, before he died, an attendant at the home where he was
> reported that he seemed to still be studying go, but there were very few
> stones on the goban at any given time and they were all closer to the
> center..
Go Seigen is happily still alive and running his own (afaik fairly
renowned) study group. Wrt. his opinion about the opening, see e.g.
http://gobase.org/studying/articles/mioch/goseigen/interview-3.html
(right now gobase.org seems to be down, hopefully it will be back
later). He recommends "san-ren-sei" openings, but not concentrated on
one side, but with the middle stone on tengen instead (and the corner
stones on same or opposite side, depending on what white allows).
Personally, it is one of my most favorite openings and it works well for
me. ;-)
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
A lot of people have my books on their bookshelves.
That's the problem, they need to read them. -- Don Knuth
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