Go a Game

Here's my first post for for this blog.

So, I've decided to put some philosophical musing to the game instead of uploading my games so I can look at my comments in a chronological order. Go has many references to life, and every time I play, I learn another concept to life.

I saw this in a person's profile on KGS (Kiseido Go Server) "If Go is like a war, then chess is a a knife fight in a phone booth." Go is a simple game with few rules compared to chess, but the game is far more complex and difficult to master. Computers can dominate grandmasters in chess, but not against go professionals.

For those who don't know what a go set looks like. Here's a picture below.



I decided instead of explaining the rules. Why don't you play it? Here's the link to the go site where I first learned how to play.
Learn to Play Go

In the future, I hope to write about how go relates to life and vice versa. It's quite interesting and when you play enough, you see a reflection of yourself in the game. The only philosophical thing I learned from chess was "You don't kill pieces, you capture them.... so you can kill them later". (I'm kidding)

For the go players at godiscussion.com, feel free comment on your views of go.

David Dang