On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:39 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote: > Most of those 55 distinct moves are rarely used in the opening. I once > heard a simple rule which seems to cover just about everything > interesting: "consider only moves which are on the 3rd and 4th lines, > and/or within a manhattan distance of n, for some small n, of some > other stone already on the board." If memory serves, David Fotland > mentioned this at the Portland Congress. Some players favor opening > moves on the fifth line, however.
If you consider the 5th line as valid, this works on 9x9 too. The 5th line in 9x9 is the single point e5. - Don
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