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Chinese Fuseki
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Difficulty: Advanced
Keywords: Opening
The Chinese Fuseki is the Fuseki pattern that is characterized by the black moves 1-3-5 (or 1-3-a) in this diagram. Black is not enclosing the bottom right corner but playing on a somewhat larger scale. The idea behind the opening is that White at some time will be forced to invade somewhere in the moyo that Black builds on the right, after which Black will use the attack on the white group to turn another part of it into territory. There are two main variants, namely the low Chinese fuseki which is presented here, and the high Chinese fuseki where Black 5 is played at a. The high variant is more influence-oriented, the low variant more territory-oriented. See also:
The Chinese fuseki is so called because Chinese players were the first to use it regularly.
But according to The Chinese Opening (by Kato Masao), the Chinese fuseki originated in Japan.
(It has - wrongly - been claimed that the first person to play the Chinese fuseki was Kawai Tetsuyuki in 1966. See Chen Zude played the Chinese fuseki a number of times in the 1963 and 1965 Japan-China Go Exchange. There are no less than six games by Chen Zude with that fuseki prior to 1966 on the GoGoD CD. But maybe we should attribute the invention to Guo Tisheng, who already played it in 1951, albeit with the white stones.
According to The Chinese fuseki has been very influential, leading to many further patterns being tried: Path: OverviewOfFusekiPatterns · Prev: DiagonalFuseki · Next: KobayashiFuseki This is a copy of the living page "Chinese Fuseki" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |