No Fuseki

Keywords: Go term

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.

Examples include:

Kitani Minoru and Hashimoto Utaro on 21 March 1928. See below.
Takenaka Kotaro 1p (White) and Matsubayashi Yoshihiko 1p in the Spring Oteai April 1934. See single-minded large avalanche.
Cho Chikun and Kobayashi Koichi in the first game of the 47th Honinbo title, 15th and 16th May 1992.

6 at S14

The action in the lower right finally ends when Black extends with . White preempts the bottom left with . 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...

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

No Fuseki last edited by Unkx80 on January 16, 2011 - 18:36

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