Old Fuseki vs New Fuseki
This volume examines the game in which Go Seigen played Honinbo Shusai by starting with a 3-3 point play, a 4-4 point, and a stone on the center point (tengen). Fairbairn provides the usual very thorough commentary as well as background on the game situation and both players. There is a full discussion of the theory and development of New Fuseki with numerous examples of its use at the time. number of examples of it from actual games at the time. Fairbairn also provides by far the most thorough discussion in English of the controversy over whether Shusai’s decisive move in the middle game was discovered by one of his pupils during an adjournment
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