Weird Openings

@shinuito already posted Sideseki, so the only thing I want to add is that I’ve found out that playing Go against people from a totally different place/style (e.g. Japan) tends to generate a totally different opening, since they seem to have a different approach to the game or to the “new openings” (I’ve marginally checked a couple of them myself, I am not much into AI stuff).

Here are three examples, where I was quite pleasantly surprised and didn’t really know what to do (lost all the first games we played btw, it took me a while to adjust to his style. We are currently at 34W-35L between us):

Opponent is always Black.
Game 1:

Game 2:

Game 3:

Game 4:

Very refreshing and fun, as you can see :slight_smile: … I highly recommend joining a tournament organised by Japanese people, like this: 第5期かおり杯名人戦初中級リーグ(~3k)

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