Video Tutorial for the Game of Go - Part 2, Playing (WeiQi, Baduk)

[SuperAramis2000]

Small point -dan is pronounced "don" not "dan". 

[SuperAramis2000]

@SuperAramis2000 I just noticed this was said in an earlier comment. Sorry!

[Trotskisty]

A great continuation from Part 1 -- with the understanding that you're trying to reach adults and youth here. Getting kids to play would AFAIC require a different approach.

[USERNAMEKLEMPTOR]

im pissed at this game.... im 3000000000000 kyu for littlest things

[mariowolf903533]

i learned a lot and i got a Go board and stones and me and my dad played and i won thank u for teaching me

[Shahal1]

These are great thx

[abelhenry]

Thank you - very nicely presented. 

[TheAllenX]

IM 300000000000000000000000000000­0000000000000000000000000 kyu



[steve201314]

This game is hella complicated. I wish I know how to play.

[Trotskisty]

@steve201314 :

The rules themselves are simple enough. It's how you build on the rules that makes the game complicated.

[ttthttpd]

Why would black be captured 4:30, wouldn't the empty space above that group count as a liberty? (The space in the 8th column)

[GoshawkHeron]

You're right that Black would not be *immediately* captured. The meaning there was that Black would be *inevitably* captured after that point. It's common in Go discussions to speak in this sort of "completed" sense once the outcome is essentially a done deal.

[TheYamakasiNinja]

what is the name of the program that you are playing Go

[warriorman396]

i thought the komi rule was 5.5 not 6.5

[GoshawkHeron]

@warriorman396 - The best value for komi is still being worked out, and different places use different values. Sometimes, in fact, a variable komi is used based on the exact rating history of the players, which can even be a negative number (!).

[JJTheBigDog]

@warriorman396 originally there was no komi at all. the 6.5 komi was introduced in Japan 2002. Other countries nowadays even use a 7.5 komi.

[Fakeflame]

Hi, does anybody know any GO websites where you can play online realtime?

[BoredAV]

Understand the rules of Go but still suck at it? Watch the end of this video (7:50 to 9:25). He is correct about the common newbie mistakes and seeing the visual explanation will help teach you what to avoid. This is an excellent tutorial but the end is what will really help you improve your game.

[xXAkeiraXx]

Thank you very much for the great video, it really helped !!

[felipebuzatti]

His voice remembers me of Dr. Pierre Chang

[faunflynn]

Once again thank you.

[GoshawkHeron]

@hasnamaste Sorry for the delay in posting the subtitles for this part. They should be working now.

[gocrazy432]

@hasnamaste

You're right. I just thought it might have been a bit simpler. Then again I guess not. xD

[QuanYin71]

i recently found Go to be a nice game to play .

Thanks for the vids they do help out a lot :)

[louisng114]

"Dan" is not pronounced right in the video. Think of the honorific "-san" but replace the "s" sound with the "d" sound.

[QuanYin71]

@louisng114 :

this might have to do with the language :)

[gocrazy432]

@louisng114

For English Speakers Dan sounds more like the name Don, because its origins are Japanese.

[cstvbestfriendsshow]

I want to be a good student of a Go Game

[Buzi360]

ty man , good vid .

[bekuso89]

is there any website where you can play go against a computer?

[Libertarian87R]

There are plenty of games on the Internet. download from some site with old stuff and games and play;]

[gocrazy432]

361 points, just google it

[lukaspukas1]

KGS

[spectrophotography]

I'm not sure, but there's Go on Yahoo for free

[Luero]

download pandaglgo and gnu go

[19prodigy85]

I just strazed and there is one thing I don´t understand. Why can´t at 3:00 blacknot just start playing behind the white line? Me and my friend always end up filling up the opponents corridor.

[GoshawkHeron]

The problem is that there's not enough room there to make a group with two eyes so it can live. Well, it would be possible if you could make about a half-dozen moves in a row, but remember you have to do it while the opponent is trying to stop you! To get a feel for this, try out some beginning life-and-death problems - there are good books and web sites for this. Many players love working these puzzles - they're like "Sudoku for Go".

[minmin314]

by the way for your ko-threat example, I think white's "ko-threat" on black's 3 stones on the top left corner is way too small comparing to the ko-fight on bottom right.. In a real game, black would ignore white's atari on top left and connects and kills white's 4 stones on bottom right (this is a 20-30 point gain for black while maybe 5-6 points loss on top-left corner)

[minmin314]

in fact a much better move for white would be at 9-2 (on bottom right), if black captures white with 9-3, white responds with 9-6 and black's stones on the right side are dead

[ITAmich]

Just a couple of things:

1. Now a professional player dans are often wrote as 1P through 9P and usually refer themselves as "Pro Dan" or "Professional Dan"

2. You don't mention that handicap stones are to be put on the hoshi (star) points.

Anyway this is a good guide, looking forward to see next part.

[sushiisfishy]

I'm not sure I understand how at 4:30 the black group gets captured if they pass. It seems to me that the black piece furthest to the right would still have one liberty. Can anyone explain this to me?

[GoshawkHeron]

Hi, sushiisfishy: I guess that saying the black stones "would be captured" is ambiguous. You're right that they would not *immediately* be captured because there's an remaining liberty. The meaning here, though, is that they would *inevitably* be captured since after the triangle move there's nothing Black can do to prevent White from taking the stones.

[shunkwugga]

I was confused about this as well...but, remember in the first video.

White plays at that triangle point...if Black passed, then White played, Black's group would be considered dead if the game ended then and there.

[HmongYou2Tube]

Basic stuff.

[ommit]

hey good job :) this was useful! I'ma check out number 3 :).

TIM