What's this game about?

[Shinova]

http://tsunamichan.keenspace.com/comics/20030417.jpg


Look at the upper-right panel. I've seen that game here and there in anime and in Beautiful Mind. What's it about and how's it played?

[Grand Moff Yenchin]

http://tsunamichan.keenspace.com/comics/20030417.jpg


Look at the upper-right panel. I've seen that game here and there in anime and in Beautiful Mind. What's it about and how's it played?

It's called 'Go game' (AKA 'surround chess')

The object of the game is to let your pieces surround the largest area on the board grid (19x19). There are lots of strategies involved and it is very hard to master. An article in Nature said that although computers could beat human in Chess, they couldn't beat humans on Go.

Here's a site for details

[Raxmei]

Here's another site about go.

http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/go.htm

[aphexmonster]

That game looks pretty cool. They were playing it at some comic shop i was at earlier today, but i didn't have time to ask about it really

[Alex Moon]

It's called Go.

It's pretty fun. Each player takes turns placeing stones on the intersections of a 19x19 grid. The opject is to surround more territory than your opponant.

http://www.yutopian.com/go/goLes/goLes1.htm

[Exonerate]

I used to play Go... Was actually quite good too

My ranking level was about 1/9 of World Masters, but I've lost whatever skills I had due to lack of practice...