Tejun

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The Japanese word tejun 手順 consists of two Kanji, te 手 meaning "play" and jun 順 meaning "order". In common parlance it is used for the steps of a procedure, and in both general usage and go usage is usually used for a well defined sequence of steps. In Go publications one sometimes sees it translated as order of play, sometimes as sequence.

There is a comment by Rin Kaiho, Go is the order of play,[1] which is striking because the game of Go does not have a (known) well defined sequence of steps. If it did, we would not play it.

In English, for the general sense where there is not a knowable, well defined sequence of play, the word "timing", which is occasionally seen in Japanese go literature.


[1]

Bill: When one of Lin's amateur students excused a mistake by saying that he had only gotten the order of play wrong, Lin replied, "Go is the order of play."


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