Hey Yas Forums why haven't you learned to play Go yet?
It's objectively the best game of skill and intelligence. Nothing but math fractals and spacial reasoning. There are more permutations of games possible than there are atoms in the universe. Get a qt3.14 Asian gf by doing exactly what all the Asian guys she's not dating are doing. Devote years and years of your life to become mediocre and lose to children. Toil in frustration as it's absolutely impossible to beat AI that are programmed to make sub-optimal moves. Get to be an edgelord because "You probably haven't heard of it." Make one mistake and throw a game that took an hour to play. Hang out with otaku but you're totally not one, right?
Black and white take turns placing stones on intersections. A single stone has four liberties - one on each side. Stones may connect with one another along lines, not diagonally.
Lincoln Butler
When a stone, or a group of connected stones is surrounded by the enemy (and the edges of the board), they are out of liberties and are captured. Thus, for a group to live it must have 2 or more holes ("eyes") inside the structure which cannot be filled simultaneously due to the turn-based nature of the game.
Sebastian Bell
You may also not repeat a board position (to prevent capturing the same area back and forth forever) in what's termed a "ko". A threat must be played elsewhere before returning and one player will eventually decide to to fill.
Thousands of years old. Will fail. You weren't privy to the rooms full of 9 year-olds drilling shit. People don't play for fun until they retire. The people who fail to go pro teach or disappear from the game.
Kevin Reed
Actually I'm a bitch ass 10kyu casual for years who doesn't study at all but turns up to club once a week because it's in a brewery and something to do with my friends.
Caleb Howard
nobody asked, you fucking vegan weeb
Julian Ward
how do you score the game?
Sebastian Ward
Surround more area.
Noah Russell
solved game, humans are obsolete.
Logan Myers
only with connecting structures or diagonals count? stones count as area? isn't counting all the spaces too tedious? if there's an island inside another area how is it scored?
Adrian Allen
>be an edgelord >hang out with otaku >get a qt3.14 asian gf
Nolan James
If the game plays to the finish, the borders become solid. Chinese rules count stones as points and use special containers to help count but Japanese rules only count the spaces you've surrounded (and prisoners you've captured) and at the end you can re-arrange a little bit to make rectangles for easy counting. The effect is basically very similar. Playing on computers makes counting extra easy.
naruhodo. do you have a game or app you recommend? don't feel like playing AI but playing against humans while being a mega-noob feels bad for me and my opponent.
Aiden Myers
Diagonals are often weak enough to be cut across, creating a fight to the inside. The beauty is how fights begin, often at corners, grow to the sides, and interface with moves that serve purpose in multiple conflicts. Groups often touch an edge or two because it's more efficient but you may have an island group so long as it has eyes.
It's really nice initially to sit down with someone who knows how to play; learn the rules (I've given them all, but how they apply of course) and basic life-or death problem solving. Maybe check out some easy "tsumego" on an app - there are so many I won't name one. Once you understand the basics you can head online to a site like OGS and there are plenty of noobs to play with.
John Moore
i dont like it because you dont actually go anywhere
David Ortiz
/tg/ stuff is obviously far superior to some meme game people pretend liking to look sophisticated Go is basically weeb chess
Matthew Martinez
I used to play it online, it’s actually really fun once you learn it
Luke Reyes
This is the simplest example of a life-or-death problem (tsumego) you can find. Black must play at S19. If not, white plays that same point and reduces black to one eye. These minipuzzles are on apps (just search the word tsumego) and on websites like goproblems dot cum and sites for playing. I mentioned OGS online-go because it has more English speakers and less tryhard betting Koreans.
>island inside another area If each group can't capture the other, you are describing a somewhat more advanced and rare scenario - a seki. Neither can approach the other and reduce it to one liberty without also reducing their own liberties and getting captured. There are no points in this corner and both players will pass while it remains at the end of the game.
I am shamelessly stealing some pictures from a good resource from beginner to advanced, called Sensei's Library.
The problems you are trying are too advanced for you. I can't explain the answer to the picture you posted because it takes a number of steps and there's no numbers/letters on the grid. That's actually a pretty difficult problem. Here I made an easy one - black to live.
That looks intuitive and strong, but white can still jump in. bT19 wS19 and black must win two steps of ko to live. You need instead to make eye shape.
