The Chinese Opening SU eet AA timelerccta METS et) a0 Kiseido Publishing CompanyTHE CHINESE OPENING The Sure-Win Strategy by Kato Masao 9-dan translated by Steve Lloyd Kiseido Publishing Company Tokyo, Santa Monica, AmsterdamPublished by Kiseido Publishing Company CPO Box 1140 Tokyo, Japan © Copyright 1989 by Kato Masao © English translation copyright 1989 by Steve Lloyd All rights reserved according to international law. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic or electronic process, nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or otherwise copied for public or private use without the written permission of the publisher. ISBN 4-906574-33-5 Originally published in Japanese by The Nihon Ki-in as Kore ga Chugoku-Ryu Fuseki Da This book is available in Europe exclusively through: Schaak en Gowinkel het Paard Haarlemmerdijk 147, 1013 KH Amsterdam, Holland Available in North America through Kiseido 2255 — 29th Street, Suite #4 Santa Monica, California, USA 90405 Visit Kiseido’s home page at http://www.labnet.or.jp/~kiseido First Printing May 1989 Second Printing January 1998 Printed in Korea