When I first started playing go, I read Cosmic Go about 4 stone handicap go and I also played a bit of San-ren-sei openings. Today, I don't play it, and I try to play a more balanced game. However, I still like Takemiya's style of play. I was just playing around and found this test that Dinerchtein created to see if San-ren-sei is a good choice for you.

I actually took the test not looking for what I thought was the best move, but what I thought was the best Cosmic Go move. I ended up doing pretty well, though not perfect.

Anyway, I thought it was a fun little test of whether one might understand the principles of Cosmic Go and San-ren-sei fuseki.
http://sanrensei.info/test.php

Heh, I'm pretty terrible at using influence. Everything lives, and I have no territory by the end of the game. Fun quiz.

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Well, knowing it was a Takemiya-style test I knew what answers were expect, but it is not my style and I would not have actually played many of those I chose.



So then I redid it with the moves I would have played and got a different score.



And finally, I went back and looked at the positions again and tried to decide how many of them I would ever be likely to play in a game.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).