General Terms:

• Go - encircling game; game theory-wise Go is a non-chance combinatorial game with perfect information
• ko - can't repeat board position, one of the few rules of the game. ko is a sanskrit term meaning eternity. Life is like a river, everchanging; see super-ko rules and snapbacks.
• komi - 2nd move bonus
• tsumego - death and life

Tactical Terms:

• atari - one liberty remaining!
• Iron bar - straight connection; extend
• one space jump - skip over leave one space
• knights move - 2x1 "L" move
• three or more space jump
• diagonal - diagonal move
• Elephant Step - 2x diagonal move
• joseki - Well known multi-move exchanges. Established sequences of play (mostly corner, some mid-game, all context specific)
• shicho - ladder
• geta - net capturing tactic
• pincer (hasami) - surrounds from both sides
• snapback - one player allows a single stone to be captured, then immediately plays on the point formerly occupied by that stone; by so doing, the player captures a larger group of their opponent's stones
• ko battle - []
• cut - []
• hane - going around / reaching around / bending around move
• tiger mouth - []
• tesuji - a clever play (Shape and tesuji are basically mirrors of one another. When a good move is found for defense it is good shape, when the same move is found on offense it is a tesuji but these are both examples of the general suji.)
• sabaki - quick development
• Elephant Eye - cutting point inside the Elephant Step
• "move is too slow" - move gives up sente, addresses something non or less urgent, there are better moves
• asking move - move where answer from opponent will help you decide what to do elsewhere on board
• push - move parallel to edge with secures territory

Dynamic tension:

• sente - having initiative "before hand"; attacking mode; urgent for opponent to answer
• gote - defending "after hand"; defensive in nature; opponent need not respond directly
• reverse sente - stops opponent from getting sente

Strategic Terms:

• fueski - opening strategy; skills in middle game; positional judgment
• kikashi - move forcing a specific response
• tenuki - not following the opponent's lead but playing other priorities on the board
• yose - endgame-like tightening play / jose - skills in endgame
• aji - latent potential (threat); ranging from strong, or even dead with lingering potential, or weak, or able to be compromised
• tewari analysis - playign the moves in a different order
• sabaki - playing lightly; opposite of playing having heavy stones
• "clean up aji" - player will have to spend stones to deal with aji later

Shape Terms:

• katachi - shape - []
• double eye - []
• seki - mutually alive pairs of white and black groups where neither has two eyes
• karui - move basic to, or causing, a quality shape
• moyo - framework for potential territory
• thickness - (well connected, but not heavy)
• thinness - (streched out, loosely connected at best)
• dumpling / omoi katachi - heavy or clumsy shape
• dame - unfilled neutral points between territories
• damezumari - shortage of liberties
• table shape - []
• tiger's mouth - []
• mouth shape - []
• tortoise shell - []
• banboo joint - shape with two continguious internal open connectors
• empty triangle (bad shape) - []
• flower viewing ko - white cannot lose much while black can suffer greatly

Location Names:

• san-san - 3x3 corner point
• hoshi - 4x4 corner point
• tengen - center point , "Sweet center of heaven"
• miai - interchangeable points

Books:

• "The girl who played Go" - Japan occupying China through the perspective of a Go game, alternating turns of Chinesse girl (with some western influence) who plays a strong game with a Japanese soider
• "Go! More than a game" - Great instruction from beginer quickly into some depth
• gogameguru.com/go-books - Recommended Go books for people who want to get better at Go more quickly

Sequence philosophies:

• Opening game
  • defining space
  • foundation into structure
  • corners then edges
  • forth row, then third and fifth rows
  • potential
• Middle game - center
  • establishing own space
  • structure from foundation
  • center-play
  • shape
• End game - finishing touches
  • denying other's space
  • second then first row as needed
  • clean up

Rule sets / counting methods:

• Japanese - Scoring is territory surrounded plus dead and captured stones; 6.5 komi; points in seki do not count; suicide not allowed; repetitive situation (triple ko) may void game
• Chinese - Scoring is by area (your stones plus surrounded territory)(361 minus dame divided by two is half-count to beat); komi 7.5; points in seki do count; suicide not allowed; superko rule;
• AGA - Chinese but with a handicap minus one added to white
• European - Japanese but with draw instead of game reply for some repetitive situations

Resources:

• Nick Sibicky videos on utube
• Sensi's Library (love the Go proverbs section)
• josekipedia
• life in 19 x 19
• Your local Go clubs!
• "De assistent voor de beginnende Go spelers" an interactive Go curriculum
• SanRenSei fuseki blog
• Wbaduk app

Online servers:

• OGS
• Wbaduk
• Tygem
• Pandanet-IGS

What I learned from AlphaGoZero:

• Play closer to opponent, don't leave neutral space btwn black and white.
• Make opponent's shape long and thin - holds less points.
• There are orders of magnatude higher skill levels.