One of the fantastic talks about how to use gamification in real life and get benefits. GO should be taught in every school curriculum across the globe.
When I was 25kyu, I didn't know two eyes will make a group alive and I would try to surround and kill them, wasting 30 moves to realize they cannot be killed. When I was 15kyu, yes, I tried to save every stones and eat every enemy stones that are played inside "my territory", only to find that "my walls" suddenly become dead, and "my territory" become theirs. The less I wanted to compromise, the more dead stones I have. Since I didn't want to compromise/sacrifice anything, I often have half the board worth of dead stones When I was 10kyu in strength, I try to attack enemy groups by blindly destroying their eye space, only to see them escape and survive, and I ended up behind in territory because my attack did nothing, and my moyo (framework) have been destroyed in the process. When I was 5kyu in strength, I cut them at every opportunity, trying to fight when I have no supporting stones nearby. I'd often lose the fights and will have big groups die in a blaze of glory, blaming it all on luck because my opponent just happened to have stones at the key places as the fights develop. Little did I realize, everything was my own making. Now I'm 2kyu in strength, I play ever simpler move, and much more defensive. The aggression is starting to subside inside me, and my ranks started to climb. I see weaker opponents start a fight against my strong group, like a bird hitting a brick wall. The less I try to forcefully kill them, the more likely they end up dead, it is counter-intuitive.... And I barely understood the very very very basics of go, I think of myself as someone that's trying to learn English (from a non-English background) and have only just learnt all the alphabets. It is a very deep game, compared to Chess. May more ppl discover the beautiful game of Go !!!
I'm a board game aficionado and competitive chess player, and imo, Go is humanity's greatest board game. I prefer it to chess and they're not even in the same ballpark. It takes a couple dozen games to feel like you have any idea wtf is going on at all, which can turn off those that aren't comfortable with ambiguity and not knowing for a while, but then it begins to flourish in your mind like nothing else.
My strong recommendation is to start beginners off on the 9x9 board. It's much easier to understand what's happening and you can learn basic tactics before graduating to the 19x19 board.
The upper class Chinese and "their proper" way of doing everthing... :) I played a elderly retired Professional Wei-Qi/ GO board player in the 2000 GO Congress. And I was pleasently taken back by his every regular person kind of way of just picking up the stone with his thumb and forefinger and then very gently moving to the place on the board and very quitly placing his stone. I really enjoyed watching him do this each time. And thought to myself, we are deluding ourselves on "proper" picking up and thunking our stones down to make a noise each time. :) I am glad that I was able to take this lesson with me from that day foward.
Shogi japanese chess is as good as go maybe better . Go is good but very static compared to shogi that is a very dynamic and ballanced battle between strategy and tactics and where captured pieces can be introduced back into the game . The biggest problem of shogi to be popularized into the world is that the game is played with unconfortable oriental characters on the pieces . Anyway all is about tastes both being great games
Everything was about getting along in all sorts of ways . Then its about GO taking over chess...lol I know she didn't mean it that way but it still seemed funny..
Go is a great game with a lot of complexity. But to relate it to the philosophical matters of life is quite a stretch, to put it lightly. It's just a game, where you try to win based on a set of rules.
@@hrushikesh708 You can buy a magnetic set on Amazon for about $20, that's what I use (not sure if it's the exact same one, I got mine awhile ago). I usually play online and play out the game on my board at the same time, since I don't really know many people IRL who play (and, well, there's covid now anyways).
Its kind of weird to see that level of play on such a nice board. That being said, I'm probably not much better and I also want to play on a board like that
I don't know why she says it's just 1500 years when recent movies like "the surrounding game" said 5000. 1500 years is the lowest number I've ever heard
There are legends, and there is history. I think the oldest found Weiqi artifact is 2000-3000 years old, and any references older than that are ambiguous as to what game they referred to, Weiqi vs other ancient abstract games. The myths and legends place it much earlier, as 4000 years or older, but there is no basis to believe they are true.
behind iron curtain I had access to ... books... on eastern philosophies.. I thought they could read only Marx ))) Bulgaria which once boasted that they had the biggest colony in the form of USSR and were ranked 29th on human development index, of all nations.
The blonde guy doesn't know how to hold the piece. The young boy holds it correctly. Also, the Chinese rules since 1400CE has one rule called 還碁頭 which gives the connectivity aspect of 圍棋. The Japanese rules are very ambiguous and missed the original philosophy of 圍棋.
@@corrick4339 I see. The definition of a life territory is to have at least two eyes. So the original Chinese rules require not counting one stone for each and every territory. This is know as 還碁頭. The implication is ideally to have the smallest numbers of territory, and Weiqi is not only a territory game but also connection game. This rule was abolished by the Chinese government in official games in the 1980's to align with Japanese and Korean rules, but still used in non-offcial games, for example in Internet Weiqi websites.
Go will never take over chess, they’re both extremely well-crafted, balanced and valuable games. They are the Yin and Yang of board games. The masculine and feminine. You should absolutely learn both ways. Chess also doesn’t require you to capture every piece, it’s up to you to make that decision. The point is to corner the king.
Partially agree with this. Philosophically speaking, both games are perfect in embodying archetypal approaches to our human nature. Chess, with rows of soldiers marching forward to capture each other, embodies the conflict of "man vs. man," committing regicide and eliminating the opposing faction. Given that the handicap system in Go indicates a player's standing relative to other players, an honest player can expect to lose about half of their games. Therefore, Go can be seen as a quest for self-improvement, "man vs. himself." If you make strategic decisions for your own benefit, victory naturally follows. You need the opponent to populate the board.
In Chess you are Al Capone fighting for power in Chicago. In Go your Winston Churchill fighting to win WW2. In Chess you are fighting a battle, in Go you are fighting a war.
so tell me where is go from? from korea? Does Korea have 4000 years of history? i know koreans like to say we create this, we create that, yes, koreans create suns, create univers, hehe...
