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Four star points box formation
Keywords: Opening, MiddleGame, Strategy
This framework made from four stones has a simple geometry, but may not be easy in practice to handle as an even-game strategy. It became popular as one of the experiments in the shin fuseki time, particularly in 1934. It is still used in contemporary go.
One of the difficulties is that the tengen play
White's invasion at
To perform a shallow reduction, White typically chooses a 10-7 point like This is a copy of the living page "Four star points box formation" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |