Go

Progress

• 15k on Igowin

Teaching

• Demo to a big group, each person suggest one move
• 6x6 with stone counting

Capture Go teaching method

• teaching method advocated by Yasuda Yasutoshi
• Hactar Go
• proved PSPACE-complete in “Go Complexities”
• https://forums.online-go.com/t/capture-go-problems/31531/22
• group with single eye larger than 1 liberty is alive

Stone counting teaching method

• used in Ancient chinese rules
• 純棋
  • 用純棋，10分鐘學會圍棋
  • 王銘琬九段 純碁講座
• Crazy sensei rules
• SquishyGo
• Nanago
• Cosumi Jungo
• Dieter Verhofstadt recommended introduction
• Jungo

Solving Ponnuki-Go on small boards

• 6x6 with crosscut: black wins
• 6x6 with stable centre: black wins
  • first move made manually
• 6x6 empty board is unknown
  • assuming optimal start is stable centre, then black wins

One-eyed Go

• stones cannot be put in intersections with no liberties
• much easier to make a living group
• https://senseis.xmp.net/?OneEyedGo

Hexagonal Go

• Go Without Ko on Hexagonal Grids, Browne2012
• TriGo, Bloom

Kill-all Go

• White wins if it can have at least one stone on the board
• KataGo using komi 80.5 thinks that 9x9 H5 is white win, 9x9 H6 is black win

Komi

• points given to white so that optimal play results in a draw
• Mini-GO results
• KataGo book
  • under area scoring: 4 for 6x6, 9 for 7x7, 10 for 8x8, 7 for 9x9
  • under Japanese rules: area scoring komi - 1

Kropki

• also known as Dots
• https://zagram.org/index.en.html

4x4 puzzles

• Cho U’s 4 by 4 Go Puzzle
• third book with 105 problems https://101weiqi.com/book/29223/

9x9 Go

• https://sites.google.com/view/9x9go/
• 9x9 Go Reviews
• GoQuest, 3mins+1s/move
• minifoxwq, 1min+3x20s
• 9x9 opening explorer

Computer Go

Media

• 《围棋》
• 《7%》
• AlphaGo - The Movie
• The Surrounding Game

Portable DIY equipment

• https://www.britgo.org/learners/make.html
• https://jgrimard.itch.io/tic-tac-toe-fold
• using trihexaflexagon?
• https://forums.online-go.com/t/how-to-make-diy-go-stones/40531
• bingo chips as go stones
  • “dual color counting”

Learning resources

• Tiger’s mouth
• Learn to play Go
• Tromp-Taylor rules
• OGS
• AI Sensei
• Go Magic
• 101围棋网
• Michael Redmond’s beginner lessons
• 12 Week Miracle by Baduk TV
• 极简围棋
• 用純棋10分鐘學會圍棋
• 81 Little Lions
• The Art of 9x9 Go