GO (the Chinese board game aka Weiqi)

I have a vague understanding of the rules. And the idea that I picked up somewhere that the strategies are more subtle and complex than those of chess (although maybe it's just that chess computers beat chess humans but go computers don't beat go humans and it's only that not as much effort has gone into programming go computers.)

The GO thread! (wei-qi, baduk, etc)

that hyphen explains why weiqi didn't turn it up

lock plz, thanks julia.

It's basically about outflanking the opponent, no? (If the answer is "no", you don't have to explain.)

The board is basically an island of territory to be shared between two players, who mark out their territory by placing stones whcih remain in a fixed position for the whole game. However, stones can also be captured and removed from the board.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/picture.jpg

Playing through a professional game on my go board (I don't have anyone to play at the moment)

nice board dude

Yeah, that there is some "lifestyle porn" that I can totally get down with.

Oh my god that go table is awesome.

I played chess seriously for a number of years but gave up at a point where I knew I would be no better than I currently was. A few months latter I picked up Go and recently I’ve stopped playing for the same reason. What’s next? Life? Mouse Trap?

Candyland

Where is G-Puzz? I took him to see old men in Chinatown play go, it was fun. He tried to teach me but I'm mentally lazy and therefore a hopeless case.

Like a lot of posters on the other Go threads, I have always wanted to play, but I am horribly lousy at chess, and so I'm thinking that I won't be too hot at Go. I am going to mess around with it some on com-pu-ter, though. The Wikipedia article about it says that it actually involves using different strategies/different ways of thinking than does chess.

Also, those stones in the first photo look like licorice Mentos. Yum, gray candy.

G-Puzz got me interested in Go when he was visiting Seattle a few years ago. There's a Go Institute here where beginners play one night a week. I picked up a few books and a fantastically written software version of the game - it's v. different thinking from chess, though the same in thinking far forward for your own and your opponent's moves. I got to the point with the software where I was fairly competent on a small board, but got the fear when I thought about playing against a person. So, I still want a beautiful board and stones, but probably won't progress with the game.

Hoos you revived the other Go thread too?? weirdo

lol i figured the conversation would go there and this would be locked. but this is cool.

I am here! This game is still amazing, rich in a way nothing else is.

There is yet another thread, here

ayo

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/15/11213518/alphago-deepmind-go-match-5-result

first alphago and now tay

the robots are coming

the robots are coming

Wow, I have sucked at this game for fourteen years

I have sucked at it for about 40. I have no sense of the board or the strategy and lose in humiliating fashion to anyone who does.

I had a friend who was working on his PhD in computer science. His sense of spatial relationships was unparalleled. We played once or twice, then switched to something else--dominoes, I think--at his suggestion.

I just had one of those classic "hey this feels like it's going well for me" [Your Opponent Wins by 64 points] games and I feel like I've just not built a sense of what the hell is going on at any given moment

I still haven't got past "chase your opponent to the edge of the board" as a strategy, and I doubt I ever will.