Dragon

    Keywords: MiddleGame, Go term

Dragon has two meanings within the Go community:


Chinese: 大龙 (da4 long2); 龙 (long2)
Japanese: 大石 (Ooishi)
Korean: -

1. A dragon is a long connected shape spanning large areas of the board. Usually dragons share the same liberties in one long connected shape but in general they are just long shapes that span a large part of the board.

[Diagram]

Black's Dragon

This is a dragon without any stones around it. Usually dragons are mostly surrounded, and don't fence in much territory.


Then again you have dragons which are not technically dragons:

[Diagram]

White 1 Completes a Dragon


2. Dragon is the (short) name for a turn-based Go server: The Dragon Go Server (DGS).


Dieter: I don't know in English but in Dutch when we say een draak van een partij (a dragonlike game) we mean a very ugly game.

unkx80: Chinese players will call both of the examples above as dragons.


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