(1) A move in the board game Go that does require a direct response from the opponent and can be safely ignored.
(2) An action or move in a game or in a real-life adversarial situation that fills the same role: it does not require a response, and can be ignored.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since OβConnelβs time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before OβConnel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)