Re:Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world
by dmurray on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:11PM
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> For lots of the fundamental Go words, they'd need a new English word coined anyway or an imperfect metaphor.
This. Even the chess words that are anglicised have special meanings in chess. Being a native speaker of English doesn't help you understand what a "Bishop" is or what is "Checkmate" (OK, that's an anglicised Persian word) or the difference between a "Pin" and a "Skewer".
Also, most of the Japanese terms don't have a meaning outside Go, so it's not like Japanese people get a leg up there.
Yah, we never say Zugzwang or J'adoube or Desperado or En Passant or Fianchetto or Zwischenzug.
There's not so many foreign words to learn to understand Go compared to chess. For lots of the fundamental Go words, they'd need a new English word coined anyway or an imperfect metaphor.