Fuseki Revolution

Fuseki Revolution: How AI Has Changed Go is a 2021 go book by Shibano Toramaru and translated by John Power. It was published by Kiseido and is available on SmartGo Books.

Table of Contents

• Chapter One: The reasons why popular openings declined
  • Theme 1. Sanrensei
  • Theme 2. The Chinese Opening
  • Theme 3. Mini-Chinese Opening
  • Theme 4. The star point and the small knight enclosure
  • Theme 5. The Kobayashi Style
  • Theme 6. The New Kobayashi Style
  • Theme 7. The small-knight enclosure and the 3-4 stone
• Chapter Two: Changes in conventional wisdom and new sets of values
  • Theme 8. The small-knight enclsoure with the star point
  • Theme 9. Taking up position on the side star point after an approach move
  • Theme 10. Sliding after playing an approach to the star point
  • Theme 11. The double approach move, part 1
  • Theme 12. The double approach move, part 2
  • Theme 13. The one-space answer
  • Theme 14. Playing on the 3-3 point in an empty corner
  • Theme 15. Lifting the diagonal-attachment taboo: 1
  • Theme 16. Lifting the diagonal-attachment taboo: 2
  • Theme 17. Distant approach moves
  • Theme 18. The one-space high approach move
• Chapter Three: Revolutionary new josekis invented by AI
  • Theme 19. Why did the hane at the head of two stones disappear?
  • Theme 20. Why has the pincer lost popularity?
  • Theme 21. Major reform in a basic joseki
  • Theme 22. The immediate shoulder hit
  • Theme 23. The dramatic evolution of double-approach-move josekis
  • Theme 24. A joseki that suddenly disappeared
  • Theme 25. Reevaluation of the attach-and-extend joseki
  • Theme 26. A new technique: the direct attachment
  • Theme 27. Is the splitting move slack?
  • Theme 28. The two-space extension: settling oneself with one move
  • Theme 29. The newest visceral approach to go: emphasize speed!
  • Theme 30. The 5-3 and 5-4 points
• Appendix: How to handle the Sanrensei and other moyo contests

See also:

• Discussion thread on L19 with review by John Fairbairn