Go has always been one of my favorite boardgames, but I've only a couple times gotten to play someone I've had to teach the rules to. The one time I played someone at the UT Go club, it was gloriously humiliating how I could see exactly when I'd lost effectively 3/4s of the board, yet could do nothing to stop it.
There are worlds of difference between even medium level players and beginners.
Nowadays, I bet there are great AI agents to play and learn from. Would love to know if anyone has any leads on that...
I find both the etiquette and the rules very interesting as well. As courtesy calls for notifying the opponent when they have only one 'Liberty' left. That the whole point is to maintain liberty for ourselves by aligning with our neighbors and we all lose if we get completely surrounded, a useful framing for Citadel Building, too.
Ov1, a Taoist Bitcoiner
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