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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 ...
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).
One shape is the "rabbity six" — a square, plus adding the two points touching any one of the corners. (Similar to the plus sign five, but add any of the four taken corner points to get the unsettled six.) The opponent playing in the center point threatens to fill all but one spot with a bulky five shape, and there is no defense.
Go is played on a plane grid of 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines, called a board. Definition: A point on the board where a horizontal line meets a vertical line is called an intersection . Two intersections are said to be adjacent if they are distinct and connected by a horizontal or vertical line with no other intersections between them.
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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 ( ε ζ ) , meaning the player has the initiative; the opponent is said to have gote ( εΎζ ) .
In Cards Go players draw from a pack of cards contain instructions to play one of a fixed set of commonly occurring shapes. [12] If the said shape cannot be placed on the board, then an illegal move is deemed to have been played, which necessitates resignation.
The above-mentioned mathematical definitions of rigid and non-rigid shape have arisen in the field of statistical shape analysis. In particular, Procrustes analysis is a technique used for comparing shapes of similar objects (e.g. bones of different animals), or measuring the deformation of a deformable object.