kifu

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Kifu (棋譜) is the Japanese term for game record. This is a great example of a term for which there is no need to use the Japanese, since game record works so well.

John F. Indeed. And forget not that kifu also means go manual in the classical sense. Also, the Chinese invented game recording. so there is no warrant to use a Japanese term.

kklim In Chinese, the corresponding word is qipu (棋谱).

The paper on which a game record is recorded is called 碁罫紙 in Japanese , pronounced gokeishi, literally "go ruled paper". (Note, though, that an electronic game record is also considered a kifu.) You may encounter the word blank kifu, referring to forms for recording games, but this is a misnomer, since a kifu is not the piece of paper, but rather the game record itself, and as such cannot be "blank". The appropriate English is game record form or blank game record form.

In most professional games and some top amateur games, there will be a person responsible for recording the game, who is known as the game recorder, or in Japanese 記録係 (kiroku-gakari).

How to record a game provides instructions on recording a game on paper.

% Copied from [Basic Japanese for reading go books].

[ext] What a traditional Japanese kifu looks like.

For the sake of reuniting an orphan with its parent: Kifu/ Discussion.

Example Kifu:

http://www.nisiq.net/~joynet/igo/jomei/15/games/kifu-15jo-1.jpg


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