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Preventing the formation of the Chinese opening
    Keywords: Opening

This SL page is based on Charles Matthews' article at GoBase. - Floris Barthel

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Preventing the formation of the Chinese opening

W4 is designed to limit Black's future expansion on the bottom side.



If Black completes the Chinese fuseki now with a or b, White will play at one of the marked points.

Therefore, it is customary for Black not to complete the Chinese formation, but instead to continue as in the following diagram:

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Black approaches the lower left

W6 prevents Black from ever getting the chance to finish the Chinese formation.



Charles I didn't have a computer database when I first wrote about this, two years ago (see [ext] http://gobase.org/studying/articles/matthews/fuseki/14/). In a sense that's better, from the point of view of discovering things: more sense of achievement.

What I now see is that the most recent case of Black completing the Chinese-style formation in a pro game was 1992. The approach (low or high) in the lower left is completely dominant.

I have edited something out from the first diagram, that I didn't understand.

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Preventing the formation of the Chinese opening

I think this was being said: assuming BC, WC is a good point because White at the square-marked point is ideal.



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