Playing "Sino-Tibetan formations" ("1-3-5s")

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Go Seigen and the unfashionable low Chinese line

I ran into this comment on BQM 194 on Sensei’s Library. In 2004, Bill Spight gave this fuseki diagram [image] and made the observation In this fuseki Go Seigen, in 21st Century Go, says that he likes (6) - (8), but does not claim that other plays are not good. to which Charles Matthews responded This (6) was in fashion with the pros in the early 2000s. It looks a bit as if White is reckoning that komi is large. Here are the full line’s professional / semi-professional appearances in W…