Any go players?

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#24

I’ve already internalized that playstyle from lots of board games: You won’t learn the strategy to a new game by trying to analyze all possible outcomes, better to just play poorly a number of times until you get a sense for how a game is played.

our game was on a 9x9 board so it wasn’t a long game for them.

If all go players are as friendly as this one was, I’m kind of pleasantly surprised. I’m v used to video game and other nerd-game adjacent communities being aggressive and gatekeepy (and to tell the truth I avoided playing go online for so long under the assumption that the community would be like that)

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#25

my strategy is to play a bunch of games every few months barely thinking the whole time and taking long break in between losing whatever tiny bit of progress I make ever so as to remain forever at 17 billion kyu

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#26

The club I play at is generally super nice. The dan level players there are all happy to play teaching games and review me and generally point out what I did right, and it’s encouraging

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#27

I think the Go community is not mainly teenagers

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#28

There’s a guy I play with at a cafe who’s more than likely over 70

#29

I got owned by ferrets then she gave me a nice lecture on not totally boning up your corner invasion

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#30

Welp, now that everyone has been owned we’ll never see ferrets again ;_;7

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#31

I haven’t been owned by ferrets yet!

#32

Here’s your chance for redemption because I’m ready to go again

#33

unfortunately I have to head out soon so I can’t do another game until later tonight or tomorrow.

#34

I gave him a ride today because we were the only two people who showed up. He invited me to hang out on Thursday and just play with each other. It was really surreal, I never thought I’d be making friends with a 76 year old man

I guess the game has no boundaries of age

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#35

@Doolittle recommended Cribbage With Grandpas which I got for me wife, who grew up tending her family’s small-town pharmacy/ice cream parlor. A place like that has a regular crowd of a dozen olds who hang out, complain that the 25c-coffee is too expensive, and hassle each other.

She can only play it for a short period before she starts crying

#36

I finally owned Tulpa but it was pretty close.

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#37

close + owned = cloned

#38

I need to start playing more ranked games. Sometimes it feels like I only win when I play non-ranked and I only lose when I play ranked

#39

Go is a game I wanted to learn for years.

I learned it wrong 3 times so far…

where have the Go senseis gone?

#40

I should have some time today to play some Go if anyone is down.

#41

what’s the best online go?

#42

KGS has a very high user population, but its interface is literally over a decade old and can be off-putting to some. OGS (online-go.com) is very well polished and has a great mobile site. It’s mostly populated with western players, so it’s better for English speakers, but you won’t find as many games on OGS than on KGS. It’s up to personal preference.

#43

I guess Dutch is helping.

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powerful cattings

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