Qua sotto sono elencate alcune varianti basate su alcune popolari aperture (Fuseki).
| Chinese fuseki: | A popular fighting formation along the edge where Black invites White to invade, in order to develop the sides when attacking the invading group. |
| Small Chinese fuseki: | A smaller-scale formation, played as an approach to White's hoshi stone. |
| Anti-Small-Chinese: | Different countermeasures against Black's attempt to deploy a small chinese formation. |
| Kobayashi fuseki | An opening pattern that was made famous by Koichi Kobayashi. |
| Ikken basami: | One space pincer is a very common response to a keima approach to the 4-4 stone. |
| Bowed pincer: | Bowed pincer to a high approach to 3-4 stone. |
| Magic Sword | Magic Sword of Muramasa: a difficult joseki with some hair-rising variations. |
| Oo-Nadare | Large Avalanche - how to apply this advanced joseki with complicated variations. |
| Nikken Takabasami | Openings that follow from a two-space high pincer to a keima approach to the 4-4 stone. |
