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Joban
    Keywords: Go term

序盤 Joban is the Japanese term for the beginning phase of the game. Typically the opening involves dividing up the board in a fuseki. However, occasionally in games fighting begins immediately in one corner and spills out across the board.

There is one example of a Joban without a fuseki at single-minded large avalanche. Here is another.


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1928-03-21: Kitani Minoru - Hashimoto Utaro


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6 at S14


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The action in the lower right finally ends when Black extends with B4. White preempts the bottom left with W5. But does Black turn away to the empty corner at the top? Of course not! Instead he digs right in with 6 and the two of them go at it again. But this is running to too many diagrams, so...


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I will simply add that the board looks like this 45 moves later when White finally turns to the last open corner. --DaveSigaty



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