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Go Review - A video 4,000 years in the making

Has anyone ever played Go? AKA Weiqi in China and Baduk in Korea. I've been a bit obsessed with it ever since I first watched the anime Hikaru no Go. I finally got a real wood Go board with stones and now I'm excited to play it, trying to get my friends into it. I suck at it though, I keep losing against the AI even on easy. I've always sucked at strategy games so I'm trying to learn strategies and practice to get better. This game is ancient, for anyone familiar with Romance of the Three Kingdoms you can find paintings of Guan Yu the god of war playing Go while recovering from surgery. Until a few years ago an AI could not beat a human at Go, because the game has more possible scenarios than Chess, finally AlphaGo could beat humans at it, and LeeSedol was able to beat AlphaGo during his fourth game with what is known as a divine move.

I love Go. I played it a few years ago with a friend and I loved the simplicity of it. Maneuver and counter-maneuver; mind games--its great fun.
I also got into it bc I'm a bit of a weeb. That and Japanese chess/shogi. Although I've sadly never had a chance to play the latter with a real person.

I have never played it. It looks interesting and exciting!

My weeb status is what got me into the game in the first place, via Hikaru no Go. Plus I just love board games and strategy games, even though I suck at them, I still enjoy them. I've never played Shogi but I would like to try it.



It is! There are a lot of situations that can happen and one move can be the difference between life and death. Once in a lifetime moves that turn a game around are called divine moves. I really like all the terminology that surrounds this game.

I'm playing it, and like to encourage everyone try to find and visit local Go-communities. I promise you will fit in maybe not in the first club you try but in one of them. (Ok, meetings in person are rare these days in the world, but it will change again)

It was some years ago I 'meet' that game and instantly felt in love. I very rarely use that four-letter-word, but I don't know any better word than love for that what happend to me then.