@zenorogue Aesthetically, I’d want the stones to be a bit bigger, almost or even touching, to make it easier to see the groups. Also, even toroidal go is very different from standard go due to the lack of boundary. It would be interesting to see a game played on a hyperbolic board in the shape of a suitable right angled polygon.
@henryseg@zenorogue I played a game of torus go once, against a player a few stones weaker, and won the entire board (harder to establish a live group in the absence of sides and corners).
I have played Go on torus and it was quite satisfying, I feel that the boundary makes Go less pure, so to say (by having special strategies for edges and corners). (Similarly stairways in roguelikes are less pure, I am happy that they are avoided in HyperRogue :)
@henryseg@zenorogue while not as cool as a non Euclidean board, have you seen Custom Goban? Can play arbitrary map shapes and the introduction of many corner-like scenarios can make for quite a surprising and weird game
@henryseg Also forgot to mention: bounded subsets of H^2 have this property that most area is close to the boundary, so the boundary effects would be more prominent than in the Euclidean case... any idea of a suitable right angled polygon and a tessellation of it?
@zenorogue You could go as far as making a 15+4 puzzle style board with five 9x9 boards arranged around a single pentagon. Does every pentagon add an extra corner to the board?
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