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Kale · Post by **Kale** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:01 pm

Does anyone here play Go? I'm thinking about learning to play it and i was wondering if anyone could tell me what they think about it.

SilverOcean · Post by **SilverOcean** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:50 am

Go? I haven't played that in years.....I alway found it about as exciting as Checkers, which wasn't very much....

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:50 am

Hey! I like checkers! ;;

Angelalex242 · Post by **Angelalex242** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:05 pm

Prefer chess, myself.

phyco126 · Post by **phyco126** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:53 pm

I'm better at checkers than I am at chess, mostly because no one taught me how to play chess, so I only learned on my own. Though, I never heard of Go, fill me in peeps.

Post by **Alunissage** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:47 pm

I think I played Go a looong time ago once or twice. My understanding is that at high levels it is fully as strategic as chess, but I don't have the knowledge to make that comparison. I was always more interested in chess myself, but haven't played in years and wasn't that intensely into it anyway. Only one person in my family plays, and we're always busier playing word games when we play anything, so pretty much no practice and thus no opportunity to improve.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:45 am

Ah. Basically go is kinda like chess, but instead of attacking, your building up. if you can, try it on yahoo

Post by **GhaleonOne** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:44 am

Never heard of it. I thought maybe you were talking about Grandia Online or something.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:47 am

nope. lol.

teh_shirt_ninja · Post by **teh_shirt_ninja** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:21 pm

Go is somewhat like checkers though instead of mainly collecting your opponents pieces, youre also trying to gain territory, which is something that the yahoo and other online games doesnt really teach you. To collect an opponents piece you have to surround them from all four directions and you can surround multiple pieces.

heres a link if you want some more info on it.

Anordin · Post by **Anordin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:04 pm

Go is really, really, really, really, really easy to learn. However it is really, really, really, really, really hard unless you know what you're doing. I've been playing the game for maybe a total of about six months, though I've been studying the game for about two years. It's hard to get better at if you've got no one to play against (my biggest problem). But thanks to the net, there's two options open for you:

1.Try playing real-time matches on the various online servers, like IGS, and get your butt kicked because the players are so fast. Too fast.

OR

2. Go to http://www.dragongoserver.net and play Go over, at most, a three month span, making a move once a day at least. I just found this and I'm actually enjoying this format.

There's plenty of sites that can teach you the basics and beyond. http://senseis.xmp.net/ is a good one.

Can anyone tell I really love the game? And I mean really LOVE the game. It's really a great game, even if I stink at it.

PrettyGirlJean · Post by **PrettyGirlJean** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:44 pm

Is this Go as in "Hikaru no Go"? There was an anime about some kind of game if memory serves... I may have the title wrong though.

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