Life In 19x19

Here's another one, I call it "Pippen-Fuseki":

1. Mark every intersection on the 3rd and 4th line with a number (=104 numbers).
2. Get a random generator.
3. Play the first move in the corner on x-x (my choice: 4-4).
4. Then let the random generator decide the next moves under the following conditions:
a) If a numver comes up that is already occupied by a stone then let a new number be created.
b) If a number comes up that is (vertically or horizonally) as near as y (my choice: 1) intersections on one of your own stones then let a new number be created.
c) Stop this algorithm after your move y (my choice: 7) or if you have to create a 5th number on a move.
5. Continue the game according to what was dealt to you.

I would tend to believe that the success-rate of a Fuseki like that is as good as any Fuseki as long as we do talk about players weaker than 1p. Obviously one can go into detail of the algorithm even more to make the fuski more fitting. The benefit of a fuseki like that could be that you are unpredictable and to shock your opponent while you forcing yourself to let your creative juices flow instead of staying in some patterns/affections.

4-4 is what I know best, because I started out playing handicap games, and 4-4 stones are already there for me.
I am still less comfortable with all other moves, but I sometimes play 3-4.

I prefer 4-4 to 3-4, if I have to choose, because:
1.) I know it better.
2.) 4-4 has no directional bias. It can be interesting to make a strategy with direction in fuseki, though.

Still, it's kind of hard to restrict myself to not playing a particular move, because it depends on the situation.

That being said, I'm not a fan of 3-3 or 5-5.

My preference is 4-3 because of the variety of joseki. 4-4 has grown quite boring for me.

I remember the time I won a game using tengen. It's funny because people act like you aren't allowed to go there a lot and sometimes people actually yell at you for moving there online. but I was determined for a while I was like, no, I want to play an awesome game with tengen. That's probably my first instinct anyway, when I first learned it, because you're allowed to put the pieces anywhere after all, and make any shape you want. But I don't have a preference I just know you're supposed to go corner.

darWIN wrote:I remember the time I won a game using tengen. It's funny because people act like you aren't allowed to go there a lot and sometimes people actually yell at you for moving there online. but I was determined for a while I was like, no, I want to play an awesome game with tengen. That's probably my first instinct anyway, when I first learned it, because you're allowed to put the pieces anywhere after all, and make any shape you want. But I don't have a preference I just know you're supposed to go corner.

Funny you should post this just now. I played tengen five minutes ago for the first time in ages. My logic was that it had been 10 days since the last game with that opponents (on DGS) and so the 10-10 made sense.

I'm currently trying two star points as either color or sometimes try the Chinese opening as white. I'm supposed to be practicing framework building so they seem like a simple way.

However, it's hard to always get into a viable framework game with white so I might try some 5th and 6th line opening stones.

I've been playing the mini-chinese a lot as black lately, or at least trying to. Most of the time, my opponents pincer instead, and I've been trying different strategies to deal with that.