Move

The word move has different meanings in go:

Noun

1. turn: "it's your move"
2. a play, placing a stone on the board (Japanese: te 手); contrast pass
3. action taken at one's move; either a board play or pass^[1]
4. the value of a move: "I lost one move (by playing a useless stone)"

Verb

1. to play a stone
2. to extend a group of stones in some direction, often into the center

The black group moves  

Here's an example for the latter meaning. The black group is "moving" into the center with , although its individual stones do not of course move from their position.

On SL you can find many pages about moves. Do a search now.

Go players have many terms for different moves.

Some pointers

• Approach Move
• Inducing move
• Forcing Move
• Leaning Move
• Reducing move
• Only Move
• Thank You Move
• Small Move
• Losing move
• Illegal Move
• Stupid Moves

• Elementary moves
• First moves
• Famous moves
• Knight's move
• Large knight's move

• Order of moves
• Dual Purpose Move
• Running fights
• Your opponent's good move is your good move
• Argue The Opponent Into His Move
• Taking back a move

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[1]

The contradiction in usage about whether a pass is a move or not reflects the differing status of a pass in different rule sets. The Ing rules, AGA rules, and New Zealand rules treat a pass as a move. The Chinese rules, Japanese rules, and Korean rules do not.

In rules theory parlance, the meaning is more specific. In this context, play is usually used to refer to a move played on the board, and is distinguished from the term "move" in that a move can also be a pass. This usage is not entirely consistent throughout the literature however, and sometimes the usage is reversed (whereby a play can be a pass, but a move refers only to a play on the board). On Sensei's Library, the first convention is generally followed on pages related to rules.