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Speaking of Nerdiness, I've started to get my hand on one of the most ancient strategic game known t

HebrewBombHebrewBomb Member UncommonPosts: 520
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No, I'm not talking about backgammon or chess in the West, I'm talking about extremely popular board game in East called Weiqi (in Chinese), Baduk (in Korean), Igo (Japanese).

Apparently, many of world's best known nerds have shown a very kin interest in this game, if not being called an addict.

I know my work supervisor got hopelessly absorbed by this game after working hours. And if I remember correctly, my Analysis II prof back in undergrad years dedicated one entire lecture on this game.

Now the torch is passed on me and I'm hopelessly trying to self-educate on this game since 3 months ago but can't help myself.

I find myself defeated countless times by the same anonymous dude who call himself "LogosBerna" in one amateur site that I've subscribed. Ironically, he never accused me of "not-worthy-of-his-time-and-energy", yet still insists that he thinks that I don't know what I'm doing with my own move that I planned on my own. image

The complexity of this game just blows everything that I've known so far out in the water.

But I'm starting to get addicted to this one as no one around me, my girlfriend, colleague would've suspected.

Here is the pic.

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  • BigPeelerBigPeeler Member Posts: 1,270

    Off-Topic but whatever...

    Look at all those pieces T_T gives me a headache just thinking about it image

    So what... is it like Chess or something?

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  • ianubisiianubisi Member Posts: 4,201

    Congratulations?

  • OrccOrcc Member Posts: 3,043

    How do you play? It looks like that reversi game that comes with windows...

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  • HebrewBombHebrewBomb Member UncommonPosts: 520


    Originally posted by Orcc

    How do you play? It looks like that reversi game that comes with windows...

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    I'm still learning.

    Knowing the basic rules, some basic moves is like 0.000001 % of the game's learning curve.

     


     

  • GenjingGenjing Member Posts: 441

    Yeh... the game is much, much deeper than it looks. Even though all the stones are the same, and the rules are very basic, there's just an incredible amount of depth involved.

    Go got a popularity boost in Japan from the manga/anime "Hikaru no Go", too.

  • WickesWickes Member UncommonPosts: 749
    Go, as it's commonly called, despite being thousands of years old, is the most perfect and most difficult game invented by man.  Like chess, some devote a lifetime to it.  A year from now, if you think you know something, go to the international go server for a lesson in humility =)  Fabulous game though.

  • GlorayGloray Member Posts: 4

    Isn't that Othello?

  • TheWarcTheWarc Member Posts: 1,199
    Those fiches look like candy, can you eat them?

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  • ZelphZelph Member Posts: 115

    Here is an introduction to Go for those interested. It is a very simple game, few rules, and strangely addictive. Technically, if that guy has been beating you for the longest time then he should be giving you a handicap (placing extra stones wherever you want on the board at setup) until the game becomes a close match. As you increase in skill your handicap will be lowered to balance the gameplay out. There should be no reason for you to be losing that long because the handicap allows even novices to beat grandmasters.

    Though Go is not an mmorpg, it is perhaps the best board game I have ever played. image

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  • OrccOrcc Member Posts: 3,043

    Interesting, so is there a site where begginers can play online?

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  • FadeFade Member Posts: 419

    looks like the game Stones from the Wheel of Time book series

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  • GenjingGenjing Member Posts: 441

    Originally posted by Orcc
    Interesting, so is there a site where begginers can play online?image

    You can play it on Yahoo games for free i think

  • BendenBenden Member Posts: 103
    For some reason I was not hooked by this game when I tried it (maybe because I sucked ?). Just to be addicted by EQ later. I feel pityfull image

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  • Kaos_nyrbKaos_nyrb Member Posts: 244

    Hehehe:

    Go online

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  • DekronDekron Member UncommonPosts: 7,359
    You can get that on the Hoyle Boards games CD.  Got one myself.  image  I thought it was a pretty easy game, especially since my 5 year old beats the computer on expert level.
  • UlfarUlfar Member Posts: 75

    If you want to play an ancient strategy game then play Starfleet Battles and I don't mean those travesties that they put on computer.

    Feel the pain as someone takes down your shields and starts blasting away at internal structure.

  • WickesWickes Member UncommonPosts: 749
    It's so easy that if you spent most of the next five years of your life playing it and then went to the international Go server, e.g., you could not hope to beat a mid level player. Unlike chess, no computer program yet exists which can handle the game in the slightest ... far far too many variables.
  • tummblertummbler Member UncommonPosts: 267

    this a very funny thread..

    all you MMORPGers who have possibly seen everything there is to see in a mmorpg are amazed by this simple game.

    heh

    lol, i think this game is fun, though

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  • ShmarrShmarr Member Posts: 2

    Hey, that looks like a pretty interesting game,i enjoy chess etc. Where could i go to play it online or learn the basics of the game?
    Thanks
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