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