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Shin Fuseki - Yasunaga's Brilliant Theory
Path: CentralLine · Prev: ShinFusekiPeriphery · Next: Omoyo (from Igo Hyakunen 2/252 - posting to r.g.g. by JohnFairbairn) GoSeigen and KitaniMinoru took first place in the Oteai and Go challenged Shusai with New Fuseki. This brought New Fuseki into everyone's consciousness. Pros debated it in terms of go theory and fans were attracted by its freedom. The wave of popularity was strengthened by the book "Shin-Fuseki Hou" jointly under the names of Go, Kitani and Yasunaga (published Jan. 1934 by Heibonsha). Yasunaga was then chief editor of the Nihon Ki-in. He was a pupil of Shusai no less. He went to Tohoku Imperial University but left in mid-course. He published "Basis for the Rationalisation of Go" relative to the Mannen-ko problem (Vol. 3) and in general was a thinker who blew new ideas into go journalism. It was his pen behind the theoretical basis of Go and Kitani. To summarise his main points:
It was a passionate argument. However, there were quite a few ambiguities [shows it was rushed --JF] and it is difficult to understand it unless you take into account the fact that Yasunaga had some elementary Zen training. Eg the reason he regarded the corner star points as the acme of equilibrium was as follows:
Rewritten this would be:
The last conclusion was something of a leap of faith and the way of putting it was idiosyncratic, but go had lacked a forceful exposition of the system and his book provided it. Yasunaga wrapped his system up in "feeling" (Kankaku) rather than logic. The promise of acquiring knowledge of New Fuseki through feeling rather than hard work encouraged sales of 100,000 books, which was a major boost for Heibonsha, then going through a period of restructuring. The adverts were bold: "A Go Revolution: A New Fuseki Method." The two giant geniuses of the new school speak out! KO to old fuseki! Advance without knowing any joseki! Reject form for content, for people who want to grasp the beauties of go quickly! Etc with lots of screamers. This was in marked contrast to previous books which offered (the traditional virtues of) hard work and training. Yasunaga continued to push his manifesto in Kido, allying his theory to the New Japan. Players in the Oteai supported him. Pages 254ff give an example of New Fuseki (Kitani-Maeda) with both players thoughts. Path: CentralLine · Prev: ShinFusekiPeriphery · Next: Omoyo This is a copy of the living page "Shin Fuseki - Yasunaga's Brilliant Theory" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |