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
- Botsugi (staff connection)
- 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
- Ogeima (large knight's move)
- 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
- Three in a row shape
Problems
- Hitachi number 9 problem from rec.games.go
See also elementary moves, haengma, shape, Protecting the cut.
Dieter: I have never liked this page, yet it is referenced from many pages. I'd like to split it up into connecting techniques and other shapes.
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?