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.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/33/8258daf001fd6f6d69db04c8d3ce5d92.png)
Kitani Minoru and Hashimoto Utaro on 21 March 1928
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
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/20/1aa48f52fc0d81b4c09edc2c4d8d64db.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/2/adb1bf8f8461b1f214c4a97aebb66c03.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/34/c5c6817136cca5c26aef77dfd1e13bd0.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/11/327f27f9e167a4c78a8e5f48ab152c95.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/35/0849fa229ce6aa10c52e8e998b78f35a.png)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/22/76862d5634749cf0a80fc48f01b55473.png)
2024 the Authors,
published under the ![Sensei's Library [Welcome to Sensei's Library!]](../../images/stone-hello.png)