Weird Openings

[stone.defender]

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…