The ancient game of GO

Justin Dudley	Posted Feb 12, 2011 2:20 PM Link to this discussion
user 8678309 Decatur, IL Post #: 9	Do we have any Go players in our club? This is the one game I would like to learn more about that I have not played too much. Thoughts?
A former member	Posted Feb 12, 2011 8:26 PM Link to this reply
Post #: 1	I own this one and just learned the rules recently. It's wicked difficult. :-)
A former member	Posted Feb 13, 2011 2:30 PM Link to this reply
Post #: 127	Do we have any Go players in our club? This is the one game I would like to learn more about that I have not played too much. Thoughts? I'd like to play it. I had a copy of it (3M bookcase game from the 70's). But never played so I sold it. Do you have a copy? If not, could make a set up with rocks and marker/cardboard to grid it in squares: 9x9, 13x13 or 19x19. From Go rules on the web: The purpose of Go is to conquer a larger part of the board than your opponent. The conquered part exists of the stones placed on the board plus the stones which could be added safely, i.e. inside your own walls. The figure shows a final position. The score for this game would be: black has 11 stones on the board and could add 16 stones inside his own walls, white has 11 stones on the board and could add 11 stones inside his own walls, so the score is 11+16 - 11+11 = 5 points for black. Black won this game.
Chris Baker	Posted Feb 13, 2011 3:49 PM Link to this reply
UberGeek Decatur, IL Post #: 416	Math is hard; Let's go shopping!
Justin Dudley	Posted Feb 13, 2011 6:59 PM Link to this reply
user 8678309 Decatur, IL Post #: 10	This tutorial cracks me up! Very informative. So I say lets give it a"Go" some time :) watch http://www.youtube.co...
Justin Dudley	Posted Feb 13, 2011 7:02 PM Link to this reply
user 8678309 Decatur, IL Post #: 11	Yes, I do have a set, I picked up from the close out at the game shop at the mall. "Yahoo games is a good place to start playing around to get the hang of it. I usually get my butt handed to me on there, but I stick to the beginners rooms.
Justin Dudley	Posted Feb 19, 2011 8:15 PM Link to this reply
user 8678309 Decatur, IL Post #: 12	Math is hard; Let's go shopping! Now that's comedy Chris! Come on Barbie lets go party!
Rick Maurer	Posted Feb 23, 2011 10:49 AM Link to this reply
Ricomaurer Decatur, IL Post #: 235	I'd like to give the game a crack sometime. I've read that Japanese military officers would play this game in order to hone their strategic thinking.
David England	Posted Feb 23, 2011 3:57 PM Link to this reply
ciaflayed1 Decatur, IL Post #: 28	I'd like to give the game a crack sometime. I've read that Japanese military officers would play this game in order to hone their strategic thinking. I'd be interested in learning this game.
A former member	Posted Feb 24, 2011 12:00 AM Link to this reply
Post #: 128	2 pages of rules, one could buy what you need to make a game at Hobby Lobby for $2. Looks like it plays in about 15 minutes so kind of a tournament oriented game. There's a similar but less abstract-looking* game call Cathedral that I bought in New Zealand. My 8-year-old daughter and I started playing it and it wasn't too many years where I was hanging to my hat to keep from getting beat every time. I put together a game where the town was Decatur and had a lake rather than the Cathedral. *Sort of a medieval real estate game without passing go: must capture territory with oddly shaped buildings (being its unique feature along with the neutral, first-placed Cathedral... adjacent to that you couldn't be captured and need to be relocated).

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