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I. Standard-Opening-Introduction with three styles/stages

II. Opening-Theory on Level-3  

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I. Standard-Opening-Introduction: Three stages/styles

I want to differentiate between three stages/styles for the opening-moves and only for the standard-starting-configuration.
It seems to me, there are three real different "playing-styles" and a beginner will develop from one to the other style, if he develops.

I am going to introduce these "three styles" with a development-stage-model from 'the beginner to a very good player' (1.-3.). Then (4.) I will correct this identification between styles and stages.  


1. First stage:

The Beginner - the player of the first stage - has to try

1. to hold his balls together
2. to conquer the centre

He understands the difference between the different colours:
- Black takes the centre, has to defend it, has to conquer more space and to attack White.
- White tries to conquer the centre, too, and has to defend its position.

The typical structure is here: black takes the entire middle row - the fifth e-row - and white gets the f-row. This is the 'pattern' of two blocks.


     
Position after 12-14 moves - and sometimes for many moves more.

If in this situation both players play passively, then there are hardly possibilities for any attacks. If white does not make a large error - thus for example simply to split itself in the middle of its block  - then there are some attack-possibilities at the edge for black differently. The more black loosens its position with the intention to win some white balls in the edge, the more largely is the probability that white conquers the centre, or even gets possibilities for re-attack.

If White is losing the fourth row and black push White beyond the fourth row to the third row, than there are very strong attack-moves for black on the edge  - sometimes with victims but despite very successful.



But, we have to ask if the playing "on stage one" is "natural". Is it ? A Beginner without any experiences has to recognize these two rules by experience or by knowledge.

I have observed some histories of Beginners and this is the result:



4.12 Black is losing from the beginning, without any success to  play the 2 rules.
15.12 Even after more then 10 days playing pretty every day, the Beginner is not able to conquer the centre, but to build a block.

Thus, we have to conclude, to play on the level 1 is not natural. Even this stage-one-playing is the result of experience and recognition.
   

2. Second stage:



Now white has realized, that White can conquer in the opening-moves space in the middle-line. Black gets the centre, but White gets some space in the middle-line, too - most of the times three white-balls besides the three black-balls in the middle-row. This structure is quite blocked structure, too, but there are total different possibilities for black and white than the first stage.

Independent of the opening, the attribute of stage-2-playing and the difference to the first stage is the conscious and emancipated playing of "horizontal-attacks".
On the first stage the players play mainly cross-left and cross-right frontal, but the consciousness of the horizontal/(plumb) line is weak.  
The defending of the horizontal-line is necessary for the successful first-stage-playing, because the player has to defend the centre. But this horizontal-defending is different to horizontal-attacking.

This "opening-moves" are only a indicator for these horizontal-consciousness. The question is  then: is the player conscious of this horizontal-attacking-moves during the whole game or does he only play these moves with "knowledge"? And is he able to vary this opening-pattern?


3. Third stage:

Now both players have developed experience, a frontal- and a horizontal-attacking-consciousness and have improved their "tactical-thinking", knowledge of positional-patterns and their appraisement and knowledge about positional-strategical-movements and strategical-principles. (Compare the Elements/GeneralTheory)

Thus the players now can   try to avoid the playing-structures of the first two stages !
The first two stages are different by two "block-patterns". Now, the task is, to play with enough pressure into the centre, but to avoid blocks, rather to play with functional "sub-groups".  

The block-patterns were only ladders to climb onto this level, which you can now throw away. (Similar to Wittgensteins Tractatus  ;) )

If both players "open" the game - this means: to build sub-groups - and the game becomes a "non-blocked structure" like a variation - for example a middle-game-postion of Snake-Variant - than there are now much more possibilities to attack, for strategy and to creat positional patterns. There is now a big strategical meaning of the micro-structure-macro-structure-interaction.
The whole structure gets now more complex.

This is a first step to play on the third stage:



White builds a sub-group into the black main-group, with a vertical-function in this situations.

This is a comparison of the first and third stage:

                                                               
There are other possibilities (black to play)



   

4.

It is evident, "the three styles" and "the development from the beginner to a good player" are not identical in real life. There are, for example, good - or: successful - players, who play the style of the second stage and they are looking for re-attack and try to keep control. And there are players of stage 1-2, who try to play the style of the third stage, but they can not control a block, because they are not able to apply basic block-moves.

Remark: it is possible that the opponent is enforcing a stage 2 opening and does not allow a stage three-opening, for example if he is playing too passive and destructive to allow sub-group-building into his group. But stage-three patterns can be focused after this opening, too (Compare the next chapter).  

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II. Standard-Opening-Theory on Level-3

Now, we want to show you in detail (with examples) possibilities for Black and White to play level-3-moves in the opening.  

We begin with the Whites' point of view:  

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SilverSurfer wrote : I. Standard-Opening-Introduction: Three stages/styles 2. Second stage: Independent of the opening, the attribute of stage-2-playing and the difference to the first stage is the conscious and emancipated playing of "vertical-attacks". On the first stage the players play mainly cross-left and cross-right frontal, but the consciousness of the vertical/(plumb) line is weak.   The defending of the vertical-line is necessary for the successful first-stage-playing, because the player has to defend the centre. But this frontal-defending is different to frontal-attacking. This "opening-moves" are only a indicator for these vertical-consciousness. The question is  then: is the players conscious of this vertical-attacking-moves during the whole game or does he only play these moves with "knowledge"? And is he able to vary this opening-pattern?

Can you explane me what's a vertical attack?  

Silver is probably the best to explan, but I read it as "horizontal-attacks", ie. attacking from the side (as seen in figure 12 for stage 2).

Hello,

sorry for my terrible English. I have reworked the text.

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but I read it as "horizontal-attacks",

Yes, indeed: thank you nacre !

 

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