Recently I have been playing a lot of 9x9 games on Go Quest. I have seen that they have many interesting names for the various openings. Here are all the ones I have found. There are probably many more that I missed. @mark5000 may be interested in this since he wrote the book on the subject.
Interesting, I think the 4.4 opening is very interesting, Ma Xiaochun played it alot in his series vs japanese pros. http://gobase.org/9x9/ (book 4) and he dominates with it.
Thanks for sharing. I like quite a lot of these and added them to my Opening Explorer puzzle. The only one I don’t like so much is Sea Fairy, because to me a named opening should preserve the balance of control, and I had CrazyStone showing White favored by 4 points in that sequence.
Thanks for a delightful post. Coincidentally, a few weeks ago, I independently thought of the one called Lunar Eclipse while driving to my regular, Saturday, IRL go group. I realized that since the 3-3 can live in the corner why not play it like this and steal away my opponent’s corner. I tried it and won against someone who is about one stone stronger than me in 9x9. I like it a lot.
That’s a good one to use. I like it too and had quite a bit of success with it. The only thing to watch out for is when your opponent decides to play Mirror Go against you. I haven’t quite figured that out yet.
Names aren’t very interesting, to be honest, because they were just named by GoQuest devs, right? 19x19 named opening are often interesting because they have a history behind them rich enough to be named.
Once I tried to learn 9x9 really hard. And tried to look through openings also. Turned out problem is it’s hard to decide what should be considered opening. I pulled some OGS 9x9 games and looked at what people play. These 16 openings cover about third of the games:
At the higher dans 2500+ GOQuest andromeda and orthodox(especially if it get to windmill as it is pretty favorable for white) were pretty fun to play a few years ago, nowadays soccer juggling is very popular thanks to minusgo and especially in 9x9 Alan Turing tournament it is also played on the higher games.
I’m playing a few of these in games against kata-bot now, and here are the winrates for black, for each.
4-5 openings:
(I played as white)
New Orthodox: 62%
Slider: 70%
Secret Agent 033: 66%
Andromeda: 74%
Boots: 68%
(I played as Black)
White Slice: 52%
Kodachi: 41%
5-5 openings:
(I played as white)
Pendulum: 61%
Curveball: 69%
Hand Fan: 65%
(I played as Black)
Orthodox: 60%
Windmill: 62%
I’ll post more once I get around to it.
edit: No need to look at this, look at mark5000’s post below Although, it doesn’t consider where both sides make a mistake, so I suppose I will post what kata-bot will play/mistakes in the opening (once it’s not past midnight and I’ve gotten some sleep)
Although, it doesn’t consider where both sides make a mistake, so I suppose I will post what kata-bot will play/mistakes in the opening (once it’s not past midnight and I’ve gotten some sleep)