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  2. List of Go terms - Wikipedia

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    Some authors of English-language Go materials avoid use of Japanese technical terms, and the way they are applied can differ in subtle ways from the original meanings. A few Korean-language terms have come into use (e.g., haengma as a way of describing the development of stones).

  3. Go (game) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Go ranks and ratings - Wikipedia

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    The American Go Association adopted a uniform standard deviation of 104, [10] i.e. slightly more than one rank, while the European Go Federation ratings have a sliding standard of deviation from 200 for beginners down to 70 for top players. [6] The IGS has a fixed standard deviation for all levels of play, but a non-standard distribution. [11]

  5. Go strategy and tactics - Wikipedia

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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…ˆζ‰‹ ) , meaning the player has the initiative; the opponent is said to have gote ( εΎŒζ‰‹ ) .

  6. Rules of Go - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Labelling - Wikipedia

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    Labelling or using a label is describing someone or something in a word or short phrase. [1] For example, the label "criminal" may be used to describe someone who has broken a law. Labelling theory is a theory in sociology which ascribes labelling of people to control and identification of deviant behaviour.

  8. Handicapping in Go - Wikipedia

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    Handicap go is the traditional form of teaching given to go players. Fixed handicap placements are in effect a form of graded tutorials: if you cannot beat your teacher with a nine-stone handicap, some fundamental points are still to be learned. The pedagogic value of fixed handicaps is an old debate for Western players.

  9. Go variants - Wikipedia

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    Paper and pencil go is a Go variant that can be played with just paper and pencil. [14] Unlike standard Go, games played under these rules are guaranteed to end in a finite number of moves, and no ko rule is needed. Nothing is ever rubbed out. It differs from standard Go in the following ways: Surrounded stones are not captured, but just marked.