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Orion's Belt
    Keywords: Opening

This is an off-beat opening that is reminiscent of the three stars forming the belt in the constellation of Orion.

Spectra (a KGS player) explains that "itarneshi (KGS) opens at tengen often and SURA (KGS) named it that because there weren't yet any terms to describe it."

[Diagram]
19x19 diagram

B3 and B5 might instead be at points a.

Alex Weldon: It's like a mini-Great Wall, so I assume that the strategy would be fairly similar. Looks overconcentrated to me, though.



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