"or maybe, you've simply gotten too strong at go"? LMAO. To paraphrase Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof: "If go strength is a curse, may the good L-rd smite me with it, and may I never recover!"
Very cool Video! I particularly like the „kill them all“ variant, I played it a few times and it is very fun! There is one very cool way of playing Chess in pairs that is called „Brain and Hand“, where two players unite as one. In this gamemode, one assumes the role of the Brain, while the other takes on the role of the Hand. The Brain provides the name of a chess piece, and the Hand decides where to move it, even selecting which piece to move if there are multiple options. This was one of my favorites! Especially because I often played it with friends that weren’t quite so good and experienced, and I often played as Brain. I saw that even if I always needed to change plans and my partner made unpredictable choices, on crucial situations he usually played the key move to avoid a possible blunder and overall I had the impression that a guided hand often played a lot better than usual. I really wanted to try this on the Go board. Here, the Brain could guide the Hand with succinct words like 'approach' or 'enclose,' 'tenuki' or 'react,' 'territory' or 'influence,' 'shape,' and 'kill.', And if not on every single move a special word is required the Brain can just relax a bit and declare a part of the board like 'upper-right,' including the upper right quarter of the whole board.
Sounds like a really cool thing to try in chess! Thanks! Not sure how this would work in Go, but we definitely left quite a few fun variants out, just because of time constraints.
There was a quasi hexagonal board that alternates between having 6 intersections and 3 intersections. Instead of the interior shape being squares, they were rhombuses. I think it might be interesting to try how that board might change things.
Good video. Some of these are genuinely useful creative ways to improve. One other game worth mentioning, which i would put under “just for fun” would be gomoku / 5 in a row
GONNECT is my favorite even more than regular go. I love that it has a VERY SPECIFIC WIN CONDITION (link 2 opposite sides) and that is way less NEBULOUS than "territory" and arguably life and death skill is even more important than in regular go. Chess is mostly tactics with some strategy and Go is mostly strategy with some tactics. Gonnect is about half and half between strategy and tactic, a nice balance. My favorite size is 11 by 11.
I started Go just a few weeks ago. I'm currently donig all the silver tutorials on Go Magic and I play twice a week at my local Go club. I can't imagine reaching a point where I would say: "I'm just to good at Go". I'm 30 and I just hope to reach dan levels in my lifetime.
My favorite board size for go is 11 by 11 (not standard) because its a small board that is a nice 'bite size chunk" that does not take as long as 18 18 but its not the totally cramped "boxing in a closet" of 9 by 9 go that is basically just 4 corner areas pressed together, a little more elegant than 9 by 9 with a little "breathing room". I just really like 11 by 11 go.
i like playing "hidden move" go. you each write down 3 secret moves and then reveal it if your opponent plays on it. get's pretty crazy when you both have ladders going to a secret move but not knowing who actually has the ladder breaker
Play against yourself. Make number tiles from 1 to 6.Choose a six-sided die and make your first move. Choose up to 6 possible Move for white and dice. Play the move. If you think there is only one possible (for example in Endgame) you can play it directly.
I really like the idea of card go. It gave me the idea of a tetris-themed card game where you place four pieces in tetromino shapes according to the card you draw and you get points for every line you make, either vertically or horizontally. The game ends when neither player can draw any more cards or if an opponent can't make a valid move.
What about GO with three 9x9 playing areas where you have to win the most out of three while playing them simultaneous? Do people play a variant like this?
i like the variants where occasionally you're allowed to play two moves in a row (i think fox has a variant like this) miai go seems interesting, though it seems like you would never want to get into a fight in that game where you might have only a narrow path towards your group living
Batoo. High-level, different parts of the board were worth different points. So it changes priorities in the game when it game to placements. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoo
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"or maybe, you've simply gotten too strong at go"? LMAO. To paraphrase Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof: "If go strength is a curse, may the good L-rd smite me with it, and may I never recover!"
hehe
Very cool Video! I particularly like the „kill them all“ variant, I played it a few times and it is very fun!
There is one very cool way of playing Chess in pairs that is called „Brain and Hand“, where two players unite as one. In this gamemode, one assumes the role of the Brain, while the other takes on the role of the Hand. The Brain provides the name of a chess piece, and the Hand decides where to move it, even selecting which piece to move if there are multiple options. This was one of my favorites! Especially because I often played it with friends that weren’t quite so good and experienced, and I often played as Brain. I saw that even if I always needed to change plans and my partner made unpredictable choices, on crucial situations he usually played the key move to avoid a possible blunder and overall I had the impression that a guided hand often played a lot better than usual.
I really wanted to try this on the Go board. Here, the Brain could guide the Hand with succinct words like 'approach' or 'enclose,' 'tenuki' or 'react,' 'territory' or 'influence,' 'shape,' and 'kill.', And if not on every single move a special word is required the Brain can just relax a bit and declare a part of the board like 'upper-right,' including the upper right quarter of the whole board.
Sounds like a really cool thing to try in chess! Thanks!
Not sure how this would work in Go, but we definitely left quite a few fun variants out, just because of time constraints.
There was a quasi hexagonal board that alternates between having 6 intersections and 3 intersections. Instead of the interior shape being squares, they were rhombuses. I think it might be interesting to try how that board might change things.
Haha that even sounds so complicated =)
Good video. Some of these are genuinely useful creative ways to improve. One other game worth mentioning, which i would put under “just for fun” would be gomoku / 5 in a row
We'll make another video on those. This video was only about Go variants...that is even if we change the rules a bit, it's still Go.
GONNECT is my favorite even more than regular go. I love that it has a VERY SPECIFIC WIN CONDITION (link 2 opposite sides) and that is way less NEBULOUS than "territory" and arguably life and death skill is even more important than in regular go.
Chess is mostly tactics with some strategy and Go is mostly strategy with some tactics. Gonnect is about half and half between strategy and tactic, a nice balance.
My favorite size is 11 by 11.
I started Go just a few weeks ago. I'm currently donig all the silver tutorials on Go Magic and I play twice a week at my local Go club. I can't imagine reaching a point where I would say: "I'm just to good at Go". I'm 30 and I just hope to reach dan levels in my lifetime.
"Too good at Go" was a joke (hey, that's a secret) haha
My favorite board size for go is 11 by 11 (not standard) because its a small board that is a nice 'bite size chunk" that does not take as long as 18 18 but its not the totally cramped "boxing in a closet" of 9 by 9 go that is basically just 4 corner areas pressed together, a little more elegant than 9 by 9 with a little "breathing room". I just really like 11 by 11 go.
i like playing "hidden move" go. you each write down 3 secret moves and then reveal it if your opponent plays on it. get's pretty crazy when you both have ladders going to a secret move but not knowing who actually has the ladder breaker
Yeah, spices up the game!
1 you could play with more than 2 players in a free for all.
2 you could play with diagonal points are also connected.
Play against yourself. Make number tiles from 1 to 6.Choose a six-sided die and make your first move. Choose up to 6 possible Move for white and dice. Play the move. If you think there is only one possible (for example in Endgame) you can play it directly.
I really like the idea of card go. It gave me the idea of a tetris-themed card game where you place four pieces in tetromino shapes according to the card you draw and you get points for every line you make, either vertically or horizontally. The game ends when neither player can draw any more cards or if an opponent can't make a valid move.
Doesn't sound like it has much to do with Go but it seems like a fun game actually!
My favorite Go variant is Gomoku! But seriously, I do enjoy playing Go on a 15x15 board.
Gomoku, the perfect blend of simplicity and depth.
Hm-m, 15x15 Go? 🤔 Sounds like you know how to enjoy the best of both worlds.
Multiplayer go but you use skittles and you eat your opponents when you capture them.
This is genius!!😂
I've done this but with M& M's instead.
ahhh one can get diabetes playing like that =)
I'm surprised you didn't mention toroidal go. of the variant boards, it's the one that seems the most interesting imo
Haha there's no way to mention them all...thanks though!
that's fun, i never heard of most of these, now i just have to meet
some friends local to me who play
Let us know how it goes =)
How about a bigger board and using three or more colors for the stones?
Yeah, that's a popular variant but it requires one to buy colored stones which might not be very easy.
5D go would be bonkers
What about GO with three 9x9 playing areas where you have to win the most out of three while playing them simultaneous? Do people play a variant like this?
You'd have to describe the rules a bit more. Not sure if we know this...
i like the variants where occasionally you're allowed to play two moves in a row (i think fox has a variant like this)
miai go seems interesting, though it seems like you would never want to get into a fight in that game where you might have only a narrow path towards your group living
Yeah, we might have been a bit unfair to leave them out...
Plying twice sometimes is a cool option
idk why, but chess and shogi are way more fun to play for me
Great games!
Subjective stuff =)
Batoo. High-level, different parts of the board were worth different points. So it changes priorities in the game when it game to placements. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoo
Wow, Thanks!