English Go Terms
A glossary of English go terms.
See also English Shape Terms Discussion, Go Terms
- Aim Inside
- Amateur
- Apprentice
- Approach ko
- Attachment
- Bamboo joint
- Bend
- Big point
- Board
- Box formation
- Blind spot
- Bridge under
- Bump
- Capture two recapture one
- Capture three recapture one
- Capturing race
- Chain
- Clamp
- Clump
- Commentary?
- Compensation
- Connection
- Contact play
- Corner approach
- Corner enclosure
- Crosscut
- Descent
- Diagonal connection
- Draw
- Elephant's move
- Endgame
- Equivalent
- Erasure
- Exchange
- Extension
- Fighting spirit
- Forcing move
- Framework
- Game?
- Group
- Hanging connection
- Hasty Move
- Honest move
- Influence
- Initiative
- Invasion
- Jump
- Knight's move
- Ladder
- Ladder breaker
- Large knight's move
- Last big point or last play
- Leaning attack
- Light
- Loose ladder
- Middle game
- Mirror go
- Net
- Neutral point
- New move
- Loss of initiative
- One-space jump
- One-way street
- Opening
- Overconcentrated shape
- Overstretched shape
- Overtime
- Peep
- Pincer
- Play elsewhere
- Potential
- Prisoners
- Probe
- Professional
- Reading problem
- Shape
- Shortage of liberties
- Shoulder hit
- Skillful play
- Slide
- Snapback
- Solid connection
- Splitting move
- Squeeze
- Stalemate
- Standard sequence
- Star point
- Stretch
- String
- Teacher
- Temperature
- 10-10 point
- Ten-Thousand year ko
- Territory
- Thank-you move
- Thick
- Three-stage ko
- Throw-in
- Toss (guessing the stones)
- Trick play
- Triple ko
- Turn
- Two-stage ko
- Wedge
Some foreign terms do not have common English equivalents. They are usually used even when writing in English.
While it is generally preferable to use English terms when writing in English, be aware that some foreign terms ("komi" and "seki", to name two) are used more often than their English counterparts. (See /Discussion.)
Notes:
- Know the difference: "lose" versus "loose."
- someone able to reorder this automatically?
Sure, just save this piece as a text file and then run from command line:
sort inputfile > outputfile.
Useful trick to know.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work properly - 'Thick' should be before 'Thickness' (sort fooled due to 'thick|' v. 'thick') and 'approach ko' and 'Approach ko' should be the same etc. Never trust a computer to do what a human can do better :-)