All Stars Opening

All the star points  

This opening appeared as an experiment in 1934, the heyday of shin fuseki. At that time, in games without komi, it seems to have been accepted that this is good for Black after . So White normally deviated, for example playing at a.

This pattern plays a hidden role, for example when sanrensei is used against manego (mirror Go), and the pros were thinking about it, without a doubt, over 40 years when it wasn't being played.

There was a flurry of activity again in 1988, with White applying at b.

Uwe: Rin Kaiho has in 1977 invented at c against Takemiya Masaki (1977-11-10). This move was later played by Fujisawa Shuko in some (at least four) games against Takemiya Masaki.

Suzuki-Takagawa  

Suzuki Kensho(B)-Takagawa Kaku 1934-01-21. This game started at tengen. Black's box formation in the upper left is characteristic of the early theories of shin fuseki. Also in the Spring Oteai 1934 game Tanaka Fujio (B) -Kosugi Tei, and again in the Autumn Oteai that year by Sometani Kazuo (B) -Nakamura Yutaro.

Izutani-Takagawa  

Izutani Minoru (B) - Takagawa Kaku 1934-02-14.

Maeda-Kitani  

Maeda Nobuaki (B) - Kitani Minoru 1936-04-22.

Anyone know of any other all-star patterns from pro games? Of about 20 possibles, it isn't obvious that any others have occurred.

Charles Matthews