Pattern descriptions/comments

Annotating a pattern

One of the unique and powerful features in Moyo Go is the ability to name common Go patterns. In fact, around seventeen million of the most commonly occuring patterns can be given a comment by you! Moyo Go already knows knows these patterns' Statistical Whole-board Move Likelihood (shown as a percentage) and has most Fuseki and smaller common patterns pre-defined, but you can change those "pattern comments/descriptions" and add new ones.

Pattern comments are very useful because they are shown as tooltips when the mouse is over a pattern (displayed with AltGr or Ctrl + Alt and moving the mouse over a board point). Also, the variation result listings on the Pattern Example tab and the Fuseki tab show the pattern names of the popular variations).

Pattern descriptions can be looked up on Sensei's Library with a couple of mouse clicks.

In the example above, the pattern expert tells us that variation (a) continues the Kobayashi Fuseki. The status bar also shows the name of the currently shown pattern (indicated by a green perimeter).

Commenting a pattern

Pattern comments are very different from ordinary game/move comments: Pattern comments reside in a global SQL database and are available for any shown game position. To comment a pattern, right click and select "Database comment shown pattern".

Commenting a smaller pattern than currently shown in green

If you want to comment a smaller pattern around the board point underneath the mouse, keep pressing AltGr or Ctrl + Alt and use the mousewheel.