Go Terms

• Atari: being hit
• Jōseki: standard local play
• Komi: compensation
• Kō: repetitive capture
• Miai: two roughly equal alternative plays, such that, if one player takes one, the other player can take the other.
• Seki: mutual life
• Tesuji: skillful move
• Tenuki: playing somewhere else
• Tsumego: life and death problem

Play

• Gote: losing the initiative, playing last
• Sente: playing first

Stages

• Fuseki: opening
• Chūban: middle game
• Yose: endgame

Opening

• Sanrensei: three star points opening

Positions

• Sansan: the 3-3 point
• Hoshi: the 4-4 point
• Takamoku: 5-4 Point
• Tengen: the center point (Origin of heaven)

Shape

• Hane: a move to reach around

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• Hasami: pincer

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• Keima: knight move

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• Tobi: jump

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• Niken Tobi: two spaces jump

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• Ponnuki: flower shape

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• Shichō: ladder
• Shimari: corner enclosure
• Tsuke: Attachment

Bad Shapes (for black)

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$$ Ripped Keima
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