Doing the counting problems in chapter 2 of Ogawa & Davies's "The Endgame". I'm getting correct or close to it on most of them, but the thought of doing this under the time pressure of a game, remembering (without pencil and paper) the results of several local searches so I don't have to re-read them every turn, and still having the mental capacity to explore the main tree of play? shudder
Anyone out there standing next to a nerd. I would like you to try a tic tac toe variant and tell me if it's interesting:
Kriegspiel tic tac toe
You can’t see your opponent’s moves. But, if you try to take a space they’re already on, you lose your turn, and the space they’ve taken is revealed. Goal remains 3 in a row.
@ZachWeinersmith When you teach the game of Go to mathy types, they inevitably come up with variations. What if we played on a hex grid instead of a square grid? What if the board was a torus that wrapped around? What if the board was 3D?
At the annual US Go Congress, one of the standard events is "crazy go", which tries out some of these variants.
The most bananapants was Team Kriegspiel Go, involving two teams of two players, plus a referee. On your turn, you submit your move to the referee and find out if it's legal. Not only do you not know your opponent's moves, you don't know half of your own moves!
If you're interested in learning the classical Asian game of Go, widely regarded as the pinnacle of elegant game design, the Portland (Oregon) Go Club is teaching beginners are local libraries:
(Lost my first game of the tournament when, with both of us in overtime, I noticed too late that a chain of false eyes leading to safety was one liberty too short.)
According to ai-sensei.com, black's mistake at 138 was the only time that I (white) was ahead in this entire 3 stone handicap game. Unfortunately, white 139 was an even bigger blunder, from which I never recovered. #go#igo#weiqi#baduk
The game of #go, known in Japanese as #igo, involves surrounding the opponent's stones. In a simple example, four stones surround one, for a total of five stones. #BoardGames#Japanese
The game of Go has no hidden information, it's just so complex that the human mind cannot comprehend it all at once. I think that's what makes it so beautiful. The rules are as simple as they possibly can be. At the same time, there is practically no limit to improving in it. #go#baduk#igo#gameofgo#gogame#complexity