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Adding and Editing OGS Joseki
Draft - thoughts needing firming up!
One loose goal is for the OGS Joseki Explorer to contain relevant and useful joseki.
A fear I have is that this usefulness might be diluted by sequences that were "played once by a pro or AI", or are "interesting for some reason" rather than being truly established as "joseki" in the sense of "sequences of play that are credibly established to be among the best that you can do" (quote from the Charter).
The "Joseki Explorer" loses some value if it has too much in it!
It should be a filter through which only "the best" are seen, to save the user from having to do the filtering themselves.
So a guideline would be to err on the side of including positions and sequences only where this credibility is established.
However, we should not be too didactic about this. If a sequence or position is useful to document for analysis and awareness, then we should do that. In borderline or outlying cases, suitable descriptive text is important.
Please follow the principle: all variations must go down and to the right
(Details tbd: Something about what level of source we expect, and whether every position has to have one)
Please do have a source.
I can't tell you how many times I've read on Josekipedia "this position requires the ladder" and been stuck on trying to figure out "what ladder??".
It would be nice if we can help the reader a bit with this!
Maybe mark the points where stones are going to be played that make the ladder or something?
TL;DR:
- Enter the new sequence in Explore mode
- Click Save to enter Edit mode
- Enter the relevant details
- Type in a description
- Choose position type, tags and variation label
- Click Save to save the new sequence
The "Position Description" is rendered using "Markdown".
This allows you to do simple formatting such as headers, italics etc.
There are also some "special joseki" markups...
<X:K17>
<Position:222>
At the moment this just renders a labelled link, but ultimately it should show a thumbnail of the referenced position.
The intention of the numeric "variation label" is as an initial guide about what's likely to be the best move.
All other things being equal, '1' would be most likely to be the best move.
This usually means it's the most commonly played at present.
Josekipedia's definition of position types has stood the test of time, and seems workable for us to use:
IDEAL: A correct move. This is a perfect move that cannot be shown as inferior to another choice. Of course, multiple Ideal choices often exist for each position. A series of Ideal moves forms a joseki.
GOOD: A move that is almost perfect, but can be shown to be slightly inferior to the Ideal choice. This move may be played if outside circumstances (like a big wall) dictate an unconventional approach. Or possibly it's a way to avoid complications while only sacrificing a small advantage. A Good move cannot be part of a joseki.
TRICK: A trick play is a move that challenges an opponent to find a non-obvious refutation. Should they fail to do so, they will often incur a large disadvantage. With the correct response, the position typically ends slightly unfavorably for the side that attempted the trick, although this is not always the case.
QUESTION: This position is worthy of discussion, there are questions about it. It may be removed if the discussion concludes it does not fit into one of the other categories.
MISTAKE: A move that is certainly incorrect. Ranges from a little bad to completely horrible.
(tbd. Please put the "Joseki: Position Is Settled" tag on the final position of a joseki sequence)
All "Joseki: Position is Settled" positions should have a "Source", which indicates where we can confirm that this is a credible joseki.
The "Traditional" source is a "get out of jail free". It means "everyone knows that this is a credible joseki, it's demonstrably played all over the place". Positions marked in this way invite questions in comments about whether that's really true.
A "Source" is expected to be the high level "published location" of the information about the position. This can be a book, or an internet source of information.
It is not expected to be a detailed reference to the specific position, because otherwise we'd end up with one "Source" tag per position. It is supposed to be a way that people can filter to chose only positions from a certain "Source" that they like.
The reference to the specific position within the Source should be in the Description. So for example the Source for the play at Tengen is "Dwyrin", because he's the guy who said it's a valid opening, and the Description contains a pointer to where exactly he said that.
Ideally all "Joseki: Position is Settled" will have a Source and a reference within the Description to where in the Source.
Exactly what constitutes a "Credible Source" is under discussion. It has been agreed that just being an amateur Dan does not qualify.
Currently my feeling (Eugene) is that Dwyrin does qualify. So the line is there somewhere at present.