Shapes and Connections

Keeping your stones connected as solidly as necessary with as few stones as possible is something which any go player will have to learn in order to improve.

Here are a list of common connections used, as well as some shapes which you should be able to recognise.

• Bamboo Joint (Take Fu)
• Big Bulge
• Dango (dumpling)
• Diamond (or Diamond Shape)
• Double Hane (Two step hane)
• First Line Connection or Bridge Under
• First Line Ogeima Connection
• Hane (bend)
• Hanging connection or Tiger's Mouth
• Honeycomb
• Keima Protecting the cutting point
• Keima Side Connection
• Ikken Tobi or One Space jump
• Keima (knight's move)
• Kosumi (diagonal connection)
• Lantern Procession
• Lion Shape
• Ogeima (large knight's move)
• Pole connection
• Ponnuki
• Hazama tobi (diagonal jump)
• Mouth Shape
• Parallelogram
• Second Line Connection
• Square Good Shape
• Solid Connection
• Table shape
• Tippy table
• Tortoise shell
• Trapezium shape
• Trumpet Connection
• PoleConnection/Example1

Problems

• Hitachi number 9 problem from rec.games.go

See also

• Shape collection
• Connecting techniques

• Shape
• Haengma
• Elementary moves
• Protecting the cut

Gabaux: I have read somewhere about harmonic shapes. Does anybody have further information what is this technical term? Or can somebody show some such shapes?