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invictus

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corner open strategy
Posted: Jun 17, 2024, 2:59 PM

upon review of thousands of games, it is apparent that most are centric.meaning that most games revolve/evolve around the keystone.
does anyone have examples of successful corner strategies?
i am familiar w/ r3's open which i guess could be considered a corner open but am unfamiliar w/ any others that one would consider a strong open.
just wondering if we are missing something by dismissing all those unused spaces.

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watsu

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Re: corner open strategy
Posted: Jun 17, 2024, 8:02 PM

In my first DB loss here (not my first loss here, just the first one by me in the DB) Dmitri King used 1. ... F4 against me. No, I don't think we're missing anything. Just thought I'd mention something that was tried 20+ years ago here.

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invictus

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Re: corner open strategy
Posted: Jun 20, 2024, 7:38 AM

perhaps i misrepresented the question.
i was more referring to a less extreme corner strategy like perhaps d3.

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watsu

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Re: corner open strategy
Posted: Jun 20, 2024, 11:40 AM

Like I said, I don't believe there's any magic move out there. F4, D3, E5, C4, whatever. Nothing.

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ed209uardo

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Re: corner open strategy
Posted: Oct 8, 2024, 8:46 PM

Invictus, are you asking if there is a winning strategy for the second player to try to force the game towards a corner on his first move? (withing like 3 or so intersections of the edge)

richardiii

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Re: corner open strategy
Posted: Oct 13, 2024, 9:02 PM

You know I first started exploring what you are calling the r3 opening a long time ago because I wanted to explore outside the box, so to speak. And I found I could find a lot of success with that N8 opening.

I started playing this game long before this great site and others ever existed. I remember buying one of the first tubes in production either back in the late 70s or early 80s, I can't recall exactly but I do remember I fell in love with it immediately.

I love this game.

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