First move etiquette

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EDIT: Screenshot replaced. Still don’t know what polite move is, but better safe than sorry.

Where does etiquette suggest Black’s first move should be played? My understanding is that in real life games black should place his first stone in the far right corner to be polite to white. Can this translate online? I am in the habit of playing upper right as black but I’ve noticed that on the games list black is above the board and white below. Therefore should black play lower left as if black is sitting at the top of the board? (I think that really black should be at the bottom of the boa…

Since black is shown at the top of the board on ogs then lower left is polite? And nearer to white as white sees it online too…

Like I’ve mentioned in this thread, maybe, it probably makes sense for right-handers to place in the upper right with open side facing lower right and left-handers place in lower left facing lower right (assuming w is right handed, if left handed then b will put either in lower right facing lower left or upper left facing lower left) if we want to make a proper translation based on the old principle

But we’ve gotten very used to it just showing up in the upper right facing upper left, so I’m not sure the w will see it as very polite if you switch it up like this.