San-ren-sei Opening, is it a good choice for You?

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The sanrensei strategy is an influence-based approach rather than a territory-oriented one. The aim is to build a moyo so large that the opponent will be induced to invade or reduce it.

Once this occurs the sanrensei player will use his influence to launch an attack on the opponent’s invading/reducing group(s). Depending on the outcome of the attack, spill-over may occur affecting the opponent’s other groups around the board. It is through this process that the sanrensei player will realize his gains. As such, the sanrensei (and all other moyo based strategies) is a long-term attacking strategy.

The most famous proponent of the sanrensei is Japanese professional Takemiya Masaki. By 1981, his interest became full-blown and commentators nicknamed his play the cosmic style.

In this site you will have test about this opening strategy: http://sanrensei.info/test.php

The test was compiled by Alexander Dinerchtein, 3-dan professional from S.Korea. It was tested on different level players from 20-kyu to 7-dan, but most accurate for single digit kyus.

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You know a lot about using influence, but you don’t like to play all-or-nothing games or games where you must kill your opponent’s group inside of your moyo.
We might recommend that you use other influence-oriented fusekis, such as the Chinese family of fusekis (Low, High, Mini), takamoku-based openings, or tengen.
All of these openings are more flexible than san-ren-sei and it’s usually possible to switch from influence to territory if the position requires it.

I am making the transition from TPK to DDK and play sanrensei in every game, ironically because it looked more natural for beginners to play on star points and focus on one side of the board.

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