(board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

Desired; desirable; of choice. / Reliable; likely to perform in difficult circumstances.

A person or thing that is one’s usual choice.

present participle of go / (in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.

A departure. / The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. / Progress. / (figuratively) Conditions for advancing in any way. / (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.

Likely to continue; viable. / Current, prevailing. / (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.

Forms a present progressive tense with a future aspect. / Entails a past progressive action that preceded an ensuing occurrence or action in the past.

An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea, played with 181 black stones and 180 white ones, typically on a board of 19 × 19 places for stones.

(computer languages) A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

Not functioning properly. / Of a place, not to be entered.