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Dragon
Keywords: MiddleGame, Go term
Dragon has two meanings within the Go community: A dragon is a long connected shape spanning large areas of the board. Usually dragons share the same liberties in one long connected shape but in general they are just long shapes that span a large part of the board.
This is a dragon without any stones around it. Usually dragons are mostly surrounded, and don't fence in much territory.
Dragon is the (short) name for a turn-based Go server: The Dragon Go Server (DGS). Then again you have dragons which are not technically dragons:
Dieter: I don't know in English but in Dutch when we say een draak van een partij (a dragonlike game) we mean a very ugly game. unkx80: Chinese players will call both of the examples above as dragons. This is a copy of the living page "Dragon" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |