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Shusaku Fuseki
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Diag.: The Shusaku Fuseki

Although it had been played two or three times before, the Shusaku Fuseki rightfully bears Shusaku's name, because he played it often and developed it into a basic fuseki strategy. The basic of the Shusaku fuseki is formed by the moves 1-3-5. Black 7 is the famous kosumi of Shusaku, a move he was rightfully proud of. Still, nowadays it is little played. According to professionals, black 7 is too solid for current go, and is likely to guarantee black a win by 3 or 4 points, which is too little to compensate for the komi. Thus, nowadays, rather than black 5, a pincer somewhere around A is more common.

BlueWyvern: Random note, does ANYONE play this fuseki? I've been trying and trying to play it. Even when I am white, people refuse to take the third corner and instead automatically respond to my approach. I've been curious to see how a game with it would develop but have thusfar been denied the opportunity.

--Stefan: Oh yes - I've been on both sides of a black Shusaku fuseki several times recently (with a poor winning percentage, by the way). I would even go as far as to say the fuseki has made a mini-comeback on the Belgian go scene. If nothing else you could invite somebody on a go server for a Shusaku night, BlueWyvern. :-)

--Dieter: Don't bother: within three moves after completion of this fuseki pattern, our gross mistakes will have wiped out its effects completely.

Authors:

  • Andre Engels
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