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Anatomical Terms
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We all know eye, but how are you on other bodily parts? These are all standard, but in what context?

  1. belly
  2. ear
  3. head
  4. jaw
  5. leg
  6. mouth
  7. nose
  8. shoulder
  9. waist
  10. wing

Perhaps the greatest anatomical term is shudan, the ancient name for the game, literally "hand talk".

The following terms have less currency but are anatomically related:


Hu: This is an appeal for a consensus (or at least discussion) of a term that might be called "finger", "worm" or "snake". After some discussion, we or I can create a page under the best title and alias it with the other terms. Then this material can be cut out from here and placed there.

A finger is a group of stones that a player pokes into an opponent's territory.

[Diagram]
Diag.: Finger (groups stable to the left)

White 1 starts a finger. Various responses for Black a - e were tried.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Finger variation a

Often contact plays will not stop the finger.

Charles Black 4, 6, 8 are bad. In particular Black 8 is a classic squeezing out the toothpaste mistake.


[Diagram]
Diag.: Finger variation d

One way to defend is to play loosely.


-- Hu



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