Very large knight's move

  Difficulty: Intermediate   Keywords: Go term

Chinese: 超大飞 (chao1 da4 fei1)
Japanese: 大大ゲイマ (daidai-geima)
Korean: -

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Very large knight's move

A variety of knight's move which goes even one line further than the large knight's move. Such a move obviously trades greater speed and reach for more vulnerability.

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Very large knight's move extension

The very large knight's move is often a good extension along the side (J: dai-dai-geima-biraki).

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Very large knight's move approach

The very large knight's move may also be used to approach a corner stone very loosely (J: dai-dai-geima-gakari).


A knight's move with four lines between the two stones is called in Japanese: makadaidai.

Bob Myers: How is that written?

OneWeirdDude: 摩訶大大 (Source: [ext] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maka_dai_dai_shogi)

Bill: Is that a true statement? I just did an Infoseek Japan search and found nothing about that as a go term. Nor have I ever run across it in the Japanese literature (and I am fairly well read).

John F. rest assured it's not a go term. Its use in shogi is due only to the fact that the people inventing the large variants were Buddhist priests. Maka is Sanskrit maha = big.


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