very large knight's move

  Difficulty: Intermediate   Keywords: Go term
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Very large knight's move

Chinese: 超大飞 (chao1 da4 fei1)
Japanese: 大大ゲイマ (daidai-geima)
Korean:

A variety of knight's move which goes even one line further than the large knight's move. Such a move obviously trades greater speed and reach for more vulnerability.

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Very large knight's move extension

The very large knight's move is often a good extension along the side (J: dai-dai-geima-biraki).

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Very large knight's move approach

The very large knight's move may also be used to approach a corner store very loosely (J: dai-dai-geima-gakari).


A knight's move with four lines between the two stones is called in Japanese: makadaidai.

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