terry mcintyre wrote:
What is "sum-style"?
Look through my KGS games as "sum" with Black when I play non-standard fuseki. This is called "sum-style" or "Jasiek-style". Many MC programs happen to have a similar style now but they developed theirs a bit later after I had started mine and both developments started apparently independently from each other.
Characterising the style quickly, it can start the first few moves at almost any intersections 3rd line and above and develop the game at least as well from that as one might develop one's game from traditional first corner stones.
Ignorants call the early moves "random" but it is only because they lack an understanding of their reasoning (by me) or the statistics (by MC programs). I or the MC programs can play as well with almost randomly chosen first moves though - I because I can embed them in reasoning and the MC programs because their empirical approach simply starts a few moves later.
In practice, the style lets the middle game start at move 1. Or one might say that opening and middle game occur in parallel.
For humans, the style is very influence-orientated, flexible and an ability to kill huge groups and to start counting the endgame at move 1, too, are helpful.
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