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Unusual openings

A thread for proposing and discussing unusual openings. See also Unique professional openings and Playing "Sino-Tibetan formations" ("1-3-5s") Last night I was in BenKyo’s “fun fuseki” stream, in which he was taking coordinate suggestions for where to play his first few moves. It happened that in one of these cases they fell into a structure that I said looked like a greyhound. To make a “greyhound opening” I suggest: Two stones on the Q file. These are the greyhound’s feet. Two stones…

Unique professional openings

How about a thread for professional openings which were only tried once, especially cool ones below about ten moves? [image] [image]

A post AI compedium on the opening theory

Mark5000's Guide to the Opening (v2)

Hello OGS. This is an update to the prior thread mark5000's Guide to the Opening. This lesson is intended for novice players who would like to understand high-level opening theory presented in an accessible way. This theory includes innovations of AlphaGo, which rendered the previous guide somewhat outdated. As before, I don’t claim to have any special knowledge about the opening. This is just a distillation of recent Go knowledge through the eyes of a Go lover and enthusiast. I hope it helps yo…