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Introduction
Go proverbs summarize wisdom in easy-to-remember phrases. The
proverbs apply often and are regularly used in game comments. Still, one
must always evaluate whether or not they apply in a particular
situation. Often there's more than one proverb which applies.
Sometimes they are even contradictory. Therefore, one proverb says Don't follow proverbs blindly. [1] Common sense must still be used.
Not all of the proverbs listed here summarize traditional go wisdom. Some are of recent vintage, devised by amateurs. These are italicized.
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Proverbs categorized
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Proverbs for all situations
- The enemy's key point is yours
- Play on the point of symmetry
- Sente gains nothing
- Beware of going back to patch up
- When in doubt, Tenuki
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Life-and-death proverbs
- There is death in the hane
- Hane, Cut, Placement
- Learn the eyestealing tesuji
- Capture three to get an eye
- Six die but eight live (on the second line)
- Four die but six live
- Four is five and five is eight and six is twelve
- The carpenters square becomes ko
- The L group is dead
- The door group is dead
- Strange things happen at the one two point
- Eyes win semeais
- Check escape routes first
- Only enclosed groups can be killed
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Tactics proverbs
- Respond to attachment with hane
- Hane at the Head of Two Stones
- Crosscut then extend
- Capture the cutting stones
- Beginners play atari
- The empty triangle is bad
- The one-point jump is never bad
- Don't try to cut the one-point jump
- From one, two. From two, three
- Strike at the waist of the keima
- Cutting right through a knight's move is very big
- Do not peep at cutting points
- Even a moron connects against a peep
- If you have one stone on the third line in atari, add a second stone and sacrifice both
- Use contact moves for defence
- Never ignore a shoulder hit
- The bamboo joint may be short of liberties
- Nets are better than ladders
- Answer the capping play with a knight's move
- Approach from the wider side
- Block on the wider side
- Play at the centre of three stones
- Answer keima with kosumi
- Five liberties for tactical stability
- Capture stones caught in a ladder at the earliest opportunity
- Two hanes gain a liberty
- The strong player plays straight, the weak plays diagonal
- There is no connection in the carpenter's triangle
- Play double sente early
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Strategy proverbs
- Urgent points before big points
- Play away from thickness
- Don't use thickness to make territory
- Make territory while attacking
- A ponnuki is worth thirty points
- Make a fist before striking
- Do not defend territories open on two sides (Don't try to enclose when you have an open skirt)
- Attach to the stronger stone in a pincer
- Make a feint to the east while attacking in the west
- A rich man should not pick quarrels
- Play kikashi before living
- Reduction Is Worth As Much As An Invasion
- Invade a moyo one move before it becomes territory
- Don't attach when attacking or Don't touch weak stones
- Make weak walk along with weak, Korean proverb
- Five groups might live but the sixth will die
- Big dragons never die
- Grab the shape points in kikashi
- Give your opponent what he wants
- Avoid ippoji
- Sacrifice plums for peaches and Don't trade a dollar for a penny
- Don't throw an egg at a wall
- There are no ko threats in the opening
- Strengthening your own weak group makes your opponent's weaker
- Don't go fishing while your house is on fire
- Never upset your star-point stones
- Greed for the win takes the win away
- High move (4th line) for influence, low move (3rd line) for territory
- If you have lost four corners, resign
- Don't push from behind.
- Don't push along the second line.
- Riding the tiger it is difficult to get off or be aware of amarigatachi
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Meta Proverbs
- Don't follow proverbs blindly
- Proverbs do not apply to White
- If It Has a Name Know It
- Use Go to meet friends ("Yi Qi Hui You")
- Learning Joseki loses two stones strength
- Black should resign if one player has four corners
- If you don't know ladders, don't play go
- You can play Go but don't let Go play you
- If you don't like Ko don't Play Go
- Lose Your First 50 Games as Quickly as Possible
- The Threat Is Stronger Than Its Execution
- Only after the 10th punch will you see the fist - and only after the 20th will you block it.
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Modern proverbs
the following are proverbs contrived by amateurs or SL deshis
- Kill two birds with one stone
- You need half the points + 1
- Never wrestle with a pig - you'll both get dirty, and the pig will love it.
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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Other proverbs (that may apply to Go)
the following list has proverbs not devised for Go but may apply to it
- Rice eaten in haste chokes.
- If you want to catch a tiger, you have to go into a tiger's cave.
- Though the heavens fall, there will be a hole to escape through.
- Butcher the donkey after it finished his job on the mill.
- Distant water won't help to put out a fire close at hand.
- When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
- You can't win a fight without attacking
- It's all in the mind
- Fear stops the anxious
- If you aim for something, you are turning away from it.
- Spirit strengthens the hand of the just.
- The fearful suffer a thousand deaths, the brave only one.
- European proverbs applied to Go
- How about some Latin Go Proverbs
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Collections and references
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Traditional collections of go proverbs
- The 10 Golden Rules of Go - famous Go proverbs called "Wei Qi Shi Jue" written during the Tang Dynasty (1,300 years ago)
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Go proverbs in their original Asian languages
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Military proverb collections
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Fun
- Humourless go proverbs
- Humour Almost Proverbs
- Song Titles as Go Proverbs
- Song Lyrics as Go Proverbs
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http://www.5z.com/tucsongo/randomproverbs/: computer generated go proverbs
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- "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same": -- Rudyard Kipling's Poem ''If''
- great quotes
- fun go facts
- Aphorisms
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External links to more Go proverbs
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Books
- proverbs - the book
- Go Proverbs by David Mitchell
- Go Proverbs Illustrated
- New Go Proverbs Illustrated by Milton Bradley
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Other links
- Basic instinct - proverbs for basic situations involving only a few stones; which move do you think of first?
- General opening principles
- Great Quotes for a wide variety of thoughts and views
- DieterVerhofstadt/ListOfTrustworthyProverbs
- Old mottos
- Joseki Heuristics
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