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Stones are said to have good shape if they are efficient and flexible and bad shape if they are inefficient. Examples of good shape are the ponnuki (four stones in a diamond created by capturing an enemy stone) and the bamboo joint (a 2×3 pattern of two stones, two spaces and two more stones).
A magic polygon, also called a perimeter magic polygon, [1] [2] is a polygon with an integers on its sides that all add up to a magic constant. [3] [4] It is where positive integers (from 1 to N) on a k-sided polygon add up to a constant. [1] Magic polygons are a generalization of other magic shapes [5] such as magic triangles. [6]
In the game of Go, shape describes the positional qualities of a group of stones. Descriptions of shapes in go revolve around how well a group creates or removes life and territory. Good shape can refer to the efficient use of stones in outlining territory, the strength of a group in a prospective fight, or making eye shapes so that a group may ...
Lasker's book Go and Go-moku (1934) helped spread the game throughout the U.S., [97] and in 1935, the American Go Association was formed. Two years later, in 1937, the German Go Association was founded. World War II put a stop to most Go activity, since it was a popular game in Japan, but after the war, Go continued to spread. [98]
A true 13×5 triangle cannot be created from the given component parts. The four figures (the yellow, red, blue and green shapes) total 32 units of area. The apparent triangles formed from the figures are 13 units wide and 5 units tall, so it appears that the area should be S = 13×5 / 2 = 32.5 units.
A construction of a magic square of order 4 Starting from top left, go left to right through each row of the square, counting each cell from 1 to 16 and filling the cells along the diagonals with its corresponding number. Once the bottom right cell is reached, continue by going right to left, starting from the bottom right of the table through ...
The concepts of sente and gote are important in higher level Go strategy. A player whose moves compel the opponent to respond in a local position is said to have sente ( 先手 ) , meaning the player has the initiative; the opponent is said to have gote ( 後手 ) .
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