Board geography

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Direction

There are two conventions for giving directions:

This convention can cause confusion with the previous one (or when abbreviated - see below). To avoid this, sometimes points of the compass are used instead, with "North" replacing "upper side".

Areas

The board is loosely divided into nine areas.

%Someone had written "[third|third line]/[fourth|fourth line]/[fifth|fifth line] line can be the border between them". This is very vague. Could someone elaborate this? Along which line do we usually make the cut? I've also seen a definition that called anything around the corner hoshi the corner. Should we define lines before areas?

Points on the Board

There are several ways to refer to points on the board:

Lines

The lines are points on the board with a certain distance from the border. We usually use

Height

Distance[2], [3]


footnotes

[1] (Sebastian:) Is this really true? It seems like an impoliteness to the white player to accomodate the black player.

[2] The number of spaces refers to the horizontal distance, not the Manhattan distance. The Manhattan distance is used when talking about pace and the strength of connections.

[3] See also Joseki nomenclature - expert names


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