White plays two spots below the lone white stone (call that spot A). If Black then captures the lone white stone, White plays one down and one to the left of A (call this spot B) and ends up capturing the huge black group. If Black doesn't capture the lone white stone and instead plays at B, then White captures the black stone and I think barely ends up winning the resulting liberties race.
Also, if you just happen to want my help with the SF novel (bouncing ideas off, reading through a draft and giving comments, or anything else), I'm willing to offer it. :) No offense will be taken if you refuse of course.
Yup, I went through a bunch of sequences, and the best black can do, if white plays at the 'A' point, is to connect the black stone in atari on the left. White will then take the lower group, but black can make two eyes with the upper one by capturing the lone white stone. If black tries to save the whole corner by playing at 'B', then white will win the liberty race and kill all the black stones.
I am not sure what I will do for betaing once I am finished with SF Novel, but probably I'm going to try one of the online critique groups like Critters.
I felt kind of bland without one, lol. I might even start making some posts of my own this summer. We'll see...
I am not sure what I will do for betaing once I am finished with SF Novel, but probably I'm going to try one of the online critique groups like Critters.
Mm, that's fair enough. Just wanted to make the offer.
I'm also writing my first original SF novel! Definitely blog about your experience with Critters if you decide to go that route as I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with my ms once I've declared it worthy of sharing with the world.
"Depending on who you ask, YA SF is trending right now. On the other hand, chasing trends is a fool's game that many aspiring authors foolishly play."
But during the time it takes to write it, the trend will change. Write the story, when the story is done, check out the current trend and add bells and whistles appropriate to the new trend.
So, I've been lurking throughout AQATSA, and finally decided I ought to come out of the shadows and leave a comment. (Probably shouldn't have waited until after the book was over, but hey. I procrastinate.) I'm greatly enjoying your series (currently reading Lands Below, which I hadn't previously read.) I've left sporadic reviews on FF.net as SSJ Leia.
I'm glad to hear you're working on an original novel. I'd love to read it! When I was younger I tried to write a sci-fi/fantasy novel...worked on it for a few years before I realized how utterly horrid it was. But you're a very strong writer, and I'm confident your work will be outstanding. I've enjoyed your book reviews as well. :-)
One question -- is Go similar to the ancient Greek game of Petteia? I know it's also played on a board with black and white stones. The object is to surround and capture opponents' pieces.
Hmm. I looked up Petteia on Google. Certainly there are some interesting similarities--the black and white stones, capturing stones by surrounding them. But there are a lot of differences too. Go starts with an empty board; people place stones on the board one at a time. The goal is to surround as many points as you can with your stones (called "territory"); capturing stones is done by surrounding an enemy group on all sides and that adds to your territory. So a few similarities, but they play very differently.
Still though, the similarities are interesting. And according to this website, the Japanese game Hasami Shogi has a lot more similarities than Go does. It's probably not unreasonable to guess that one was the result of the other (or they influenced each other), despite being on opposite sides of the world.
We even linked to the same website, lol. Great minds think alike? ;) [Well, it was probably more that it was the first result when you type "petteia" into Google but...]
Incidentally, the article didn't state petteia is similar to shogi, but rather to hasami shogi, a variant with rules that are basically exactly the same as the speculated petteia rules. (Honestly it's different enough from regular shogi that I wouldn't call it a variant, but it shares a name so what can you do.)
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Also, if you just happen to want my help with the SF novel (bouncing ideas off, reading through a draft and giving comments, or anything else), I'm willing to offer it. :) No offense will be taken if you refuse of course.
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Yup, I went through a bunch of sequences, and the best black can do, if white plays at the 'A' point, is to connect the black stone in atari on the left. White will then take the lower group, but black can make two eyes with the upper one by capturing the lone white stone. If black tries to save the whole corner by playing at 'B', then white will win the liberty race and kill all the black stones.
I am not sure what I will do for betaing once I am finished with SF Novel, but probably I'm going to try one of the online critique groups like Critters.
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I am not sure what I will do for betaing once I am finished with SF Novel, but probably I'm going to try one of the online critique groups like Critters.
Mm, that's fair enough. Just wanted to make the offer.
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But during the time it takes to write it, the trend will change. Write the story, when the story is done, check out the current trend and add bells and whistles appropriate to the new trend.
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So, I've been lurking throughout AQATSA, and finally decided I ought to come out of the shadows and leave a comment. (Probably shouldn't have waited until after the book was over, but hey. I procrastinate.) I'm greatly enjoying your series (currently reading Lands Below, which I hadn't previously read.) I've left sporadic reviews on FF.net as SSJ Leia.
I'm glad to hear you're working on an original novel. I'd love to read it! When I was younger I tried to write a sci-fi/fantasy novel...worked on it for a few years before I realized how utterly horrid it was. But you're a very strong writer, and I'm confident your work will be outstanding. I've enjoyed your book reviews as well. :-)
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Still though, the similarities are interesting. And according to this website, the Japanese game Hasami Shogi has a lot more similarities than Go does. It's probably not unreasonable to guess that one was the result of the other (or they influenced each other), despite being on opposite sides of the world.
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Incidentally, the article didn't state petteia is similar to shogi, but rather to hasami shogi, a variant with rules that are basically exactly the same as the speculated petteia rules. (Honestly it's different enough from regular shogi that I wouldn't call it a variant, but it shares a name so what can you do.)
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