Go Appreciation Thread

Go Appreciation Thread

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I wanna learn to play Go and Shogi, but offline. Strangely enough, I love in an area where thats possible, but as a 30yr old white male, id totally be an outsider.

the thing i enjoy about go is that there are no openings unlike in chess. with go you start with the basic opening and then boom. no more openings. its literally just your ideas. in chess the first 10 to 20 moves are analysed and fully understood. and there are times when your opponent can insta win because he read some strategy book and learned to copy paste some piece movement. im better at chess than i am at go. but even so i think go is to chess. as chess is to checkers. honestly go is just a better game and thats that.

>30yo weeb
>outsider to a weeb interest
hahah nope

How do you play go? I've always wanted to learn.

I was super high one day playing go with my friend and I realized that every move you make has an echo. Every single piece claims another section moves in advance

the goal of go is to have territory than your opponent. see how in pic white has a lot of empty space that its surrounding? thats called territory. the person with the most territory at the end of the game wins. this is where it differs from chess. in go having the most pieces dosent mean you will win. its a game about making moves that leaves you with empty space while forcing your opponent to seal up his empty space.

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Would you say those two black pieces at the top are alive or not?

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they're dead. no eyes and white in the corner can always connect to the living group on the side

there alive but white could easily stop it. black can still be a bitch about it and make white give up some pieces .

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well. i think you could make an eye there. so i would say there alive.

well okay. i should say its possible if white goes braindead for 5 moves

you need 2 eyes to be alive. and definition of alive is "lives if both players play optimally", so if white needs to go braindead for 5 moves for it to live, it's still not alive

oh i didnt realise that optimally rule was a thing. that makes sense

the word you're looking for is "unconditionally alive", which means "no matter if the other player is braindead, my group still cannot be killed / cannot make a life"

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post your equipment

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