How many cubers play the game of Go?

[abunickabhi]

The game of Go is a strategic board game played on a 19x19 board. It is also called as weiqi or baduk.
It is a 2-player game and has a game complexity of 10^150.

The person who captures more territory on the board wins. It is insanely more hard than chess or shogi.

I started playing Go since 2016 after AlphaGo program from the Google DeepMind was able to defeat the world champion of Go. I am quite weak, only a double digit kyu player.

I mostly play on the OGS server online, and I use Lizzie client to analyse my games.

 

[NacksSnack]

Not me but willing to learn every board game these days...

 

[abunickabhi]

Not me but willing to learn every board game these days...

All strategy board games, or fun family type board games you mean, U S R S' R2 E' R' E R2 U' .

 

[ray5]

I played go for years but I never managed to reach SDK, almost but not quite. Have not played much recently though. Very good game though, if you have a lot of time I do recommend it even though it has a steep learning curve.

 

[Ravagerous]

Never tried it yet, isn't it very hard to learn?

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

All strategy board games, or fun family type board games you mean, U S R S' R2 E' R' E R2 U' .

I don't but I have a friend that does. R U F2 U L2 B' L D2 F U2 F2 D2 R D2 L2 F2 R2 F2 U2 D2

 

[abunickabhi]

I don't but I have a friend that does. R U F2 U L2 B' L D2 F U2 F2 D2 R D2 L2 F2 R2 F2 U2 D2

Oh nice, what is your friend's strength, eg 15 kyu, 1-kyu ,3-dan 3p-dan ...

S U M U' M U M2 U' S'

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

Oh nice, what is your friend's strength, eg 15 kyu, 1-kyu ,3-dan 3p-dan ...

S U M U' M U M2 U' S'

His strength is over 9 thousand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spoiler

Seriously, I didn't even know there are strengths in this game

L2 R' D' B2 D' L2 U L2 B' F' R' F2 D2 U' B' L' B F2 D' B2 F2 R2 B F2 R2

 

[Silky]

Love this game ! Never really got into it but know the basics

 

[abunickabhi]

Love this game ! Never really got into it but know the basics

The rules are very simple. There are just 2 rules, one about capture, and one about counting.

The game complexity on the other hand is super big, so it takes more than a lifetime to get a hang of it, R U2 F' R' S' U S U' R F U2 R'.

 

[abunickabhi]

Anyone up for a few 10+3b 19x19 Go games on the OGS server?

 

[abunickabhi]

Interesting Go game coding projects that I have been working on,

https://github.com/abunickabhi/AbhiGo

https://github.com/abunickabhi/minigo

 

[rebuC]

I know this thread is super old but I just learnt Go today. Very interesting and difficult game that I knew practically nothing about before but I'm interested to see if I can get any good at it.

I also had some questions about it if anyone could help out:
How exactly do OGS ratings work?
Are there online or in-person tournaments and are they popular in the West?
And what sets a very good player apart from a beginner like me? Is it completely intuitive strategy or is there more theory to it similarly to chess?