The next novelty is a fuseki one. The innovator is Yoda Norimoto. He is not normally classed as a weird fuseki person, but he plays them just enough to get noticed - about a dozen times over the past ten years in almost 500 games.
That in itself doesn't merit bringing to light the latest case, which was spotted by game warden T Mark Hall on routine patrol in the GoGoD Sgfari Park. What makes it special is that Yoda's opponent, Yokota Shigeaki (in the last Gosei) may have had a lost game as early as move 6!
Quoting the Kido Yearbook commentary, after the good move of Black 5, White was stumped for a reply, and by move 31 (the position as shown below), Black's fuseki strategy had succeeded. By move 39 he was also ahead in the count. He won by the rather large margin of 5.5 points.
Incidentally, we have noticed that Yoda almost always plays his weird fusekis as Black, and he also varies his Black openings a fair amount. A hint there, perhaps, that he feels the 6.5 points komi is large enough to force Black into energetic measures.
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