TerminalNachine (white) played a lot of square fuseki’s
my new fuseki
4x4 square is always between center and top right corner
each stone has backup alternative in case someone will try to prevent it
so, I always would have same shape in same asymmetrical place in every game
it may continue to be clearly distinguishable from opening to endgame
I no longer need to think how to rotate or mirror the board to make 2 different games similar
for those who want the math here is one way: count 19 across the first lines then subtract 4 for doubled counted spaces. Do the same for the second lines by counting 18 across each then subtract 4. Add the remaining “inside corner” points which are 3 per each corner. The result would be 19 x 4 - 4 + 18 x 4 - 4 + 3 x 4. Knowing the properties of multiples, 19, 18, and 3 may be added since they all are multiplying by 4. So make that 40 * 4 - 8 for 152. The inner circle is left as an exercise to the reader.
Fun fact: ChatGPT totally sucks at this. Although it can see the picture, and correctly describe the layout of stones, it had an epic fail at doing the calculation
I’ve let high-playout Kata try her hand at this opening:
you used this:
Woops yes, my bad