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footnotes [01] I've also seen "Somok". [02] This is not Japlish, John F.: "The Japanese do talk about hoshi no jouseki, referring to the corner only. (Conversely the phrases hoshishita and hoshiwaki refer only to the side hoshi.) Hoshi is star rather than star point, and in go it has another important meaning. It is the sign for a win in a table. Stars are not pointy in Japan - they are small white circles because that's how they used to be drawn in old astronomy maps (ditto in China)." [03] Both the 2-2 point and 1-2 point have a very special role. Why don't they have a name of their own? Or do they? [04]Scartol: Am I the only one who wonders why the 4-3 point is not in this diagram or the simplified one on the main page?
I chose not to, but I'm not too sure it's the right choice, so if you have arguments to include 4-3 (and 5-3) besides 3-4 and 3-5, please share them. This is why I did not include them. 4-3 is equivalent to 3-4, 5-3 is equivalent to 3-5 (except for etiquette). While (I think) these equivalences are completely obvious to everybody, I could not easily explain them precisely. If they are in the diagram they need to be explained. So, to avoid this (IMHO unnecessary) complication I left them out.
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