Does Anyone Here Play Go?

[GodOfOrder]

The japanese strategy game based on area denial and resource distribution. It is really quite wonderful.

 

[SpaceYeti]

I Play-Doh. It's super fun. You can make pasghetti.

 

[GodOfOrder]

ha ha, yeti that hails from space, ha ha. you is a funny one

 

[Architect]

Yes I picked it up in Japan. Lovely game, I used to enjoy watching the professionals play on TV (along with sumo which runs year round).

Back in the day Go was a terrifically hard game to teach a computer to play, unlike chess. This is because of the enormity of the problem space, and the fact that winning strategy is more pattern based than search based. The software has gotten pretty good because now we're licking the pattern recognition problem, but but then it was a head scratcher.

I never did buy a fancy board with stones, you can import them to the U.S. and while I wanted one I wasn't serious enough about it.

 

[GodOfOrder]

Yes I picked it up in Japan. Lovely game, I used to enjoy watching the professionals play on TV (along with sumo which runs year round).

Back in the day Go was a terrifically hard game to teach a computer to play, unlike chess. This is because of the enormity of the problem space, and the fact that winning strategy is more pattern based than search based. The software has gotten pretty good because now we're licking the pattern recognition problem, but but then it was a head scratcher.

I never did buy a fancy board with stones, you can import them to the U.S. and while I wanted one I wasn't serious enough about it.

Yeah, the chess programs I have played have always given me a better challenge than their Go counterparts. Real people are always fun though, and I find Go to be the better game.

My game board is a $20 travel set, but I wish I had the money to buy a big Go-ban and some good stones, and other players to justify it.

Sadly I have not played it since I graduated high school, as I left all of my chinese and korean foreign exchange friends behind. It has been a two year drought, and I miss playing.

 

[ℜεмїηїs¢εη¢ε]

I've played Go a few years ago, maybe I'll get back into it.

 

[walfin]

A bit, you wanna have a game somewhere online?

I'm not much of a challenge, though.

 

[GodOfOrder]

A bit, you wanna have a game somewhere online?

I'm not much of a challenge, though.

I wouldn't mint that. But I do not know any servers, and the one I keep getting lead back to does not seem to work. If you or somebody else could suggest one, I would be more than willing.

 

[Matt3737]

Go, I believe, is of Chinese origin.

You can play at Yahoo games under the board games category. I think all you need is a free Yahoo account to play.

 

[Turniphead]

I prefer it over chess as well. I probably play it too fast though... something about it makes me want to play it using only intuition.

 

[GodOfOrder]

Go, I believe, is of Chinese origin.

You can play at Yahoo games under the board games category. I think all you need is a free Yahoo account to play.

True, Go originated in ancient China, but it came into its own in Japan. The rules to chinese and japanese go are ever so slightly different. The modern, internationally accepted version, is the japanese variant.

It is also worth noting, that the modern chinese play with the japanese style.

 

[The Gopher]

I Play-Doh. It's super fun. You can make spaghetti.

I saw the thread and only clicked on it to post this.

 

[walfin]

True, Go originated in ancient China, but it came into its own in Japan. The rules to chinese and japanese go are ever so slightly different. The modern, internationally accepted version, is the japanese variant.

It is also worth noting, that the modern chinese play with the japanese style.

Eh to my understanding that is not strictly the case, Chinese still count seeds by area after the game instead of fixing alive/dead status before the end of the game and only counting empty spaces. Which means, perhaps, that either the Chinese make use of even dead people, or that you never know if you're alive or dead if you're Chinese. Or that cramped Japanese living conditions make them value empty space more. Go figure.

PM me if you wanna arrange a game. Yahoo username's walfin_the_siaukao.

 

[GodOfOrder]

@walfin

perhaps I shall make a yahoo account and take you up on that later