Symbols

   

In Go literature, diagrams are almost always adorned with a few special symbols (markup) such as triangles, alphanumerics etc. This page intends to act as a reference as to when and how to use symbols.

Until now, the use of symbols has been fairly intuitive; re-using symbols for other ends would not give major problems, although some kind of convention already exist.

The material here is a mere condensation of information found on RGG as well as other sources. (Please use the discussion page for comments.)

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Symbols in ASCII diagrams: ASCII markup

'.'

'|', '+', '-'

',' '+'

'O'

'#', 'X'

digit (1..9)

letter

Symbols used by applications: SGF/print markup

Following symbols have existed for a while.

%If anyone can re-order in chronological order, that would be fine.

Number, digit (B1, W2...)

Letter

Triangle

Circle (WC, [circled point])

Open square (BS, [squared point])

Cross

Other symbols

Following symbols are mostly used by applications, but generally not stored in game records.

Filled square

shading, dimmed points

New symbols, concepts

Following symbols could become part of the existing set of widely recognised symbols. See discussion page for status.

See also


This is a copy of the living page "Symbols" at Sensei's Library.
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