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Aphorism about the board game gained from experience
Go proverbs are traditional proverbs relating to the game of Go, generally used to help one find good moves in various situations during a game. They are generalizations and thus a particular proverb will have specific situations where it is not applicable. Knowing when a proverb is inapplicable is part of the process of getting stronger as a Go player. Indeed, several proverbs contradict each other—however they agree in as much as they advise the player to pay attention to the stated situation. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Go proverbA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Proverb comprehension in schizophrenia: A comprehensive review and meta-analysisInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Children's Bread for ToddlersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A Proverb Learned is a Proverb Earned: Proverb Instruction in EFL ClassroomsCited 10 times
- Go sideways: List of Go termsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Go strategy and tacticsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A Proverb Learned is a Proverb Earned: Proverb Instruction in EFL Classrooms
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Not to go forward is to go backward.— Proverb.
Proverb: "Let the weakest go to the wall"
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🆕 Influential since 2022
Proverb comprehension in schizophrenia: A comprehensive review and meta-analysis
On English proverb variation from the perspective of linguistic creativity
Pragmatics of proverb translation: The case of English and Persian
Translating Proverb-Like Rhetorical Quranic Structures into English
Increasing sensitivity of clinical proverb tests for diagnosis of dementia
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Children's Bread for ToddlersBrenda Mills · 2020
- 📕What Is in the Bag?Ready Set Ready Set Go Books, Ellemae Goering · 2019
- 📕Where Sunflowers GoConsiglio · 2025
Go proverbs illustratedKensaku Segoe · 1960
New Go Proverbs IllustratedMilton N. Bradley · 2006- 📕Go proverbs illustratedKensaku Segoe · 1960
- 📕Train up a Child in the Way He Should Go Proverbs 22 : 6Alison Gail · 2018
- 📕Train up the Way to Go : Proverbs 22Stephen Paul Campos · 2019
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