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Go (Board Game)
This thread is for talking about anything involving the Asian board game, Go.
This storefront is very good for buying both beginner and expert sets. They also sell individual parts (Board, Bowls, Stones).
[url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?ie=UTF8&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&me=A3IXHP9WB8UQLD[/url]
This storefront is very good for buying both beginner and expert sets. They also sell individual parts (Board, Bowls, Stones).
[url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?ie=UTF8&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&me=A3IXHP9WB8UQLD[/url]
I love go.
I had my go goban and goishi imported from Japan a few years ago, the shipping was killer... ^^;
Unfortunately I haven't had anyone to play with in a while... ):
I had my go goban and goishi imported from Japan a few years ago, the shipping was killer... ^^;
Unfortunately I haven't had anyone to play with in a while... ):
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Shinji-kun wrote:Hm, was the board a Japanese Shin-Kaya? Was it a floor or table board? The one my brother and I got was a $50. It came with plastic stones and bowls.
I think so - it's been a while since I got it.
It's a table board - less expensive, though I would have liked a floor board very much...
It came with nice wooden goishi bowls and the goishi themselves are made of actual stone (the black ones) and some kind of seashell (the white ones).
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What exactly are the mechanics/rules/etc. of playing Go? I had it at one point on one of those "200-in-one" NES/Famicom playsets you can buy at the flea market, but (A) it was in Japanese, so I found myself groping around in complete darkness, and (B) the damn thing no longer works, so I've been kind of wondering about this game.
Is it anything like Othello/Reversi?
Is it anything like Othello/Reversi?
"To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable...only unexplained."--The Doctor, "Doctor Who".
I think I first learned about the existence of the game of Go after I entered University... there used to be a goban with goishi in the old students' reading room, but unfortunately I never got a chance to play back then...
I wonder where that goban went...
I wonder where that goban went...
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I learned about go in high school from discovering the hikaru no manga.
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This is just my personal opinion, but if you get the chance to play IRL (as opposed to on a computer) I think that's on a whole different level of enjoyment... IMHO. The sensory part of go shouldn't be neglected...
Of course you can also do both (finding people to play with IRL can be complicated, in my experience...)
Of course you can also do both (finding people to play with IRL can be complicated, in my experience...)
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LiLi wrote:This is just my personal opinion, but if you get the chance to play IRL (as opposed to on a computer) I think that's on a whole different level of enjoyment... IMHO. The sensory part of go shouldn't be neglected...
Of course you can also do both (finding people to play with IRL can be complicated, in my experience...)
I think that's overrated. My roommate owns a $3000 go board and $1200 stones, and when we play each other we use KGS. Hearing the stones click on the board when you set them down is nice, but it's just much easier to use a program.
Shinji-kun wrote:There are a lot of technical rules. The thing about go it's easy to learn the basics but mastering it takes years.
There aren't that many rules, much fewer than most board games. Though the simplicity of the game is misleading.
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