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The low Chinese files
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Difficulty: Expert
Keywords: Opening
This is a survey of some statistics for the low version of the Chinese opening. This has become a perennial favourite of pros, as well as being very popular amongst amateurs. As with the sanrensei files, I'm using the Gogod database for searches (summer 2003 version). The notation comes from side patterns. Since the Chinese isn't symmetrical, I need to specify top and lower stones. Like this:
That is, here the komoku stone
Now for raw winning percentages for Black, in order: 68% HS 62% SS 55% SH 53% pK+H, K+pK 50% HH, H+pK 45% pK+S 33% S+PK (small sample, nothing since 1989).
Of course there are other patterns for White. For example H+oK: but then Black rarely plays a Chinese formation (only 3% of the time). The reasons for that are explained elsewhere (see preventing the formation of the Chinese opening). It makes sense to focus on a group of formations like the nine cited above.
HSThis is very odd, in the games found.
There must be a question mark about
SSA similar story to HS:
SH
In this case
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