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I started playing Go a couple of months ago. I love it for its initial simplicity and seemingly endless variations. ie. It's easy to learn, but very difficult to play well. In chess, each piece has a pre-defined set of allowed movements, forcing players to memorize extensive strategies for each piece. In Go each stone is placed separately, one at a time, then over-time the stones will evolve either into living groups or die off.
Since I started I've been playing on smaller 9x9 and 13x13 boards. Today, for the first time, I played an online game on a full-sized 19x19 board. :DDDD Sadly, I seemed to be further along in my learning experiences than my opponent and it ended in resignation. Regardless! It was still very exciting and I enjoyed every bit of it. I think I am getting better. Now after I play stone I will take notice after that play or a couple more that it really wasn't the best move, whereas before it took me a lot of moves until it became clear that had made an error. Now I am really looking forward to going to the Houston Go Club tonight, and getting to play Go for a few hours. ^______^
If anyone is interested, I've been play on the KGS online Go Server. My username is nittnyln
"Success at go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of the poet, the calm of the philosopher, and the greatest intelligence."
-- Zhang Yunqi, Weiqi de faxian (Discovering weiqi), Beijing, Internal document of the Chinese Weiqi Institute 1991, p. 2
other neat ones:
" 'Just one game,' they said, and started to play -- that was yesterday."
-- Chinese proverb
"Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should study go."
-- Confucius, The Analects, ca. 500 B. C. E.
Since I started I've been playing on smaller 9x9 and 13x13 boards. Today, for the first time, I played an online game on a full-sized 19x19 board. :DDDD Sadly, I seemed to be further along in my learning experiences than my opponent and it ended in resignation. Regardless! It was still very exciting and I enjoyed every bit of it. I think I am getting better. Now after I play stone I will take notice after that play or a couple more that it really wasn't the best move, whereas before it took me a lot of moves until it became clear that had made an error. Now I am really looking forward to going to the Houston Go Club tonight, and getting to play Go for a few hours. ^______^
If anyone is interested, I've been play on the KGS online Go Server. My username is nittnyln
"Success at go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of the poet, the calm of the philosopher, and the greatest intelligence."
-- Zhang Yunqi, Weiqi de faxian (Discovering weiqi), Beijing, Internal document of the Chinese Weiqi Institute 1991, p. 2
other neat ones:
" 'Just one game,' they said, and started to play -- that was yesterday."
-- Chinese proverb
"Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should study go."
-- Confucius, The Analects, ca. 500 B. C. E.