Essential go terms
Difficulty: Beginner Keywords: Go term
These terms are probably the most fundamental on SL.
For a full(er) list, see GoTerms
- aji
- atari
- capturing race
- connection
- dame
- damezumari i.e. shortage of liberties
- yose or endgame
- eye
- fuseki i.e. opening
- geta i.e. net
- gote
- handicap
- hane
- influence
- joseki
- ko threat
- ko
- liberty
- miai
- moyo i.e. framework
- seki
- semeai i.e. capturing race
- sente
- shape
- shicho i.e. ladder
- tenuki
- territory
- tesuji
- tsumego i.e. life and death problem
- vital point
This list is derived from pages by distance, mostly from the 'click-forward' list. Charles Matthews refresh Mar 2005 Dieter