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The One About Go Club
Apr. 7th, 2011 11:22 amYes, it has finally arrived.
Go (in Japan, or Baduk in Korea, or Weiqi in China) is an ancient game, supposedly invented for generals to learn strategy. It's a massively simple game to learn: once you place them, the pieces don't move unless they are captured, and like Chess, both players can see the whole board all the time. But unlike Chess, this isn't a game about killing individual enemies and capturing the king. There isn't a king, in fact, and all the pieces are the same. The point of Go is instead to surround territory.
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It took me a while to realize that in Go, you don't just fight the immediate battle, but also have to look to the whole board to win, but I am staring to learn some of the standard strategies. Today I won a game for the first time ever! Although I did have a massive a 9-stone handicap . . . I won :) Although I did not take my camera, so I can't show you.
And that's my Go Club, really: Me and Dave and Tom and Alex, plus Bo when he's in America and sometimes Mike when he feels like it. It is relaxed and the more experienced players don't mind stopping in the middle of a game to let me play out a sequence of moves, or explaining moves if I am confused by them. And the say that considering I just started a couple of months ago, my Go is tremendously better than it was, so . . .
Go!
Go (in Japan, or Baduk in Korea, or Weiqi in China) is an ancient game, supposedly invented for generals to learn strategy. It's a massively simple game to learn: once you place them, the pieces don't move unless they are captured, and like Chess, both players can see the whole board all the time. But unlike Chess, this isn't a game about killing individual enemies and capturing the king. There isn't a king, in fact, and all the pieces are the same. The point of Go is instead to surround territory.
( Examples Under Here )
It took me a while to realize that in Go, you don't just fight the immediate battle, but also have to look to the whole board to win, but I am staring to learn some of the standard strategies. Today I won a game for the first time ever! Although I did have a massive a 9-stone handicap . . . I won :) Although I did not take my camera, so I can't show you.
And that's my Go Club, really: Me and Dave and Tom and Alex, plus Bo when he's in America and sometimes Mike when he feels like it. It is relaxed and the more experienced players don't mind stopping in the middle of a game to let me play out a sequence of moves, or explaining moves if I am confused by them. And the say that considering I just started a couple of months ago, my Go is tremendously better than it was, so . . .
Go!
