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corner open strategy
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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.
Re: corner open strategy
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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.
Retired from TB Pente, but still playing live games & exploring variants like D, poof and boat
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Re: corner open strategy
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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)
Re: corner open strategy
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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.
