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All Stars Opening
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[Diagram]
Diag.: All the star points

This opening appeared as an experiment in 1934, the heyday of shinfuseki. At that time, in games without komi, it seems to have been accepted that this is good for Black after Black 9. So White normally deviated, for example playing 8 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 White 10 at b.



On the nomenclature: 'All Stars' occurs in katakana in a Kido Yearbook - presumably a baseball reference or simply that all plays are on all the star points (hoshi).


The position up to 9 in the diagram above occurred in a classic shinfuseki game Shinohara Masami-Kitani Minoru 1934-10-24. There were other experiments then in which all of the first nine plays were on star points.

[Diagram]
Diag.: Suzuki-Takagawa

Suzuki Kensho-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 shinfuseki.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Izutani-Takagawa

Izutani Minoru-Takagawa Kaku 1934-02-14.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Maeda-Kitani

Maeda Nobuaki-Kitani Minoru 1936-04-22.

Charles Matthews



The All Stars opening can evolve from paired San-ren-sei and the Yon-ren-sei.



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