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Sorry, but I do not feel at all that order of play is an alias for Sequencing questions. --Dieter

Charles Perhaps I'm influenced by the Japanese, where the same two kanji are sometimes translated as sequence, sometimes as order of play. I'd see sequencing as more general, really: including omitting plays as well as permuting them. We do need a good name, since this area is not well discussed in existing literature (in English).


Bill: May I add my ha'penny's worth?

The Japanese word that I believe Charles has in mind, and that I had in mind, is tejun, te meaning play and jun meaning order. In common parlance it is used for the steps of a procedure, and in both general usage and go usage is usually used for a well defined sequence of steps. What makes Lin's comment so striking is that he used it for go in general, which does not have a (known) well defined sequence of steps. If it did, we would not play it. ;-)

The idea of the order of play can be made so general that it becomes useless. In a sense, any mistake falls under it. A mistake is a play made too early.

In English, for the general sense where there is not a knowable, well defined sequence of play, I would prefer the word, timing, which I have occasionally seen in Japanese go literature.

Dieter I think that, in a context of a fully solved game every concept becomes meaningless, not only order of play. So as long as we haven't solved it, there are local skirmishes in which the order really matters.


Charles I've made a fresh order of play page.


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