Go
Teaching
- Demo to a big group, each person suggest one move
- 6x6 with stone counting
- https://playgo.to/index.html#/en/intro
- https://github.com/sorianom/kids-go-books
- https://github.com/justintolerable/gobooklet/
Stone counting teaching method
- used in Ancient chinese rules
- 純棋
- Crazy sensei rules
- SquishyGo
- Nanago
- Cosumi Jungo
- Dieter Verhofstadt recommended introduction
- Jungo
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
Random Go
- random initial moves that are balanced according to AI
- https://random-go.antontobi.com/
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
- under area scoring:
Kropki
- also known as Dots
- https://zagram.org/index.en.html
5x5 puzzles
- Keep Fit!: With the 5×5 Board
4x4 puzzles
- Cho U’s 4 by 4 Go Puzzle
- third book with 105 problems https://101weiqi.com/book/29223/
History
- Zuo Zhuan from 424 BC mentions the game when describing an event in 547-8 BC
- oldest surviving go manual is Dunhuang Qijing, 557-581 AD (Northern Zhou dynasty)
- introduced to Japan in 735 AD (Tang dynasty) or even earlier
- earliest game records from ~1100 AD (Song dynasty)
Shapes
- tiger’s mouth
- double variant
- bridge under
- double tiger’s mouth on the edge
- bamboo joint
- diagonal move
- one space jump
- monkey jump
Media
- 《围棋》
- 《7%》
- AlphaGo - The Movie
- The Surrounding Game
Portable DIY equipment
- whiteboard + magnetic buttons
- https://www.britgo.org/learners/make.html
- https://jgrimard.itch.io/tic-tac-toe-fold
- https://forums.online-go.com/t/how-to-make-diy-go-stones/40531
- https://github.com/tkrajina/travel-goban/
- using trihexaflexagon?
- bingo chips as go stones
- “dual color counting”
Playing
Video lessons
- Go Magic
- Awesome Baduk
- Michael Redmond’s beginner lessons
- 12 Week Miracle by Baduk TV
- 极简围棋课 棋圣带你入门
- Boom your sense up
- 用純棋10分鐘學會圍棋
Written lessons
Learning resources