(figuratively) the game of go

the usual, ordinary

a hand / a handle, grip / a paw, foreleg / a way of acting, means / (board games) a move, play

go (board game)

entirely, quite; completely; just like, so to speak, as though, as if

always, invariably, all the time / usually / (with a negative verb) never

dense, abstract, abstruse, recondite

obscurity

story / talk, conversation

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend