Dragon

    Keywords: MiddleGame, Go term

Dragon has two meanings within the Go community:


Chinese: 大龙 (da4 long2); 龙 (long2)
Japanese: 大石 (Ooishi)
Korean: 대마 (Daema)

1. A dragon is a long connected shape spanning large areas of the board. Usually dragons share the same liberties in one long connected shape but in general they are just long shapes that span a large part of the board.

[Diagram]
Black's Dragon  

This is a dragon without any stones around it. Usually dragons are mostly surrounded, and don't fence in much territory.


Then again you have dragons which are not technically dragons:

[Diagram]
White 1 Completes a Dragon  

2. Dragon is the (short) name for a turn-based Go server: The Dragon Go Server (DGS).


Dieter: I don't know in English but in Dutch when we say een draak van een partij (a dragonlike game) we mean a very ugly game.

Patrick Traill: Een draak van een (iets) is of course a standard Dutch expression for a not very appealing/satisfactory (something), and so has nothing to do with the idea of a long snaky group. In English we have An old dragon for an intimidating older woman, probably with some form of authority, but we do not have the Dutch construction. I doubt that Germans use Drache the way the Dutch use draak – they just have the alter Drache as in English.

unkx80: Chinese players will call both of the examples above as dragons.

axiomizer: This article says the pronunciation of the Japanese term 大石 is "ooishi", but I have some evidence that the pronunciation may be "taiseki". First, [ext] goo辞書, an online Japanese dictionary, has this definition for taiseki, but no such definition for ooishi: 囲碁で、長く連結している石。まだ完全に目をつくっていない場合をさすことが多い。 "In the game of go, a long chain of stones. Often refers to a group that hasn't completely made eyes yet" (the translation is mine). Furthermore, these two sites for go terminology have the pronunciation as "taiseki": [ext] 日本囲碁連盟 > 囲碁用語 and [ext] 囲碁用語辞典


Dragon last edited by 2607:fb90:2910:d37f on August 5, 2021 - 18:45
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