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Fuseki Exercises for Beginners
PageType: Path   Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Opening, Problem

It seems to me, it could be valuable to the beginners to practice the general opening principles. I recall seeing fuseki problems in the Go literature, so I'd like to make some available here.

Any comments welcome.


These are great! I find that I'm much better at life and death problems, and having some fuseki problems seems like a great thing to improve my game. Still, each problem comes with a hint. Applying the hint seems pretty easy to me--my difficulty is that of the different general opening principles, I don't know which one to apply! So, I'd love to also see some problems without the hints (perhaps those would be harder).


Dieter: I'd wish you reconsider the very basic comment. I understand you want to teach basic opening principles, but the positions shown are definitely not basic. Were you teaching face to face, I would not intrude, but here everyone may take a peek at the exercises, which are bound to raise discussion. Anyway I think Fuseki exercises for beginners is a contradictio in terminis. Cheers.

AvatarDJFlux: True, Fuseki is maybe the most difficult part of the game, so there is no such a thing as an easy Fuseki exercise. That would be contradictory.
But these exercises do not ask to find the best move (that would be difficult even for a Pro). They ask the reader to pick up the best move among some proposals, applying very basic Fuseki principles, such us the direction of play from a Shimari, the strength of a DoubleWingFormation, etc. That's why I personally have nothing against the idea of a Fuseki exercise for a beginner. Everyone has to start somewhere...

What if I call them not so very basic position, try to apply a very basic principle??!? :-)

unkx80: I do not find anything related to the opening very basic, and when I do teach beginners go, I usually defer teaching opening principles until very late. Perhaps you should just delete the "very basic" comment.

DJ: Uh, OK then! I hope like this is OK... ;-)
But now someone with the proper authority should change the name of the page in something like: "Fuseki exercises. Beginners: approach carefully!!!"


Bill: Let me be the voice of dissent. I do not think that there is anything particularly difficult about fuseki, by comparison with other parts of the game. I do think that the skills involved are largely different from those for the middle game and the end game. However, hard and fast distinctions are misleading. There is a good bit of overlap.

Anyway, different players may find it easier to acquire different skills. I think that material for beginners should be balanced. No part of the game should be neglected, particularly the opening, where the plays are large.

Having looked at a couple of the problems, I would say that they appear to be at beginner level. However, there is more elementary fuseki knowledge that would be appropriate for raw novices.



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