this thread is about Go.

>>96137666 (OP)
>666
Then GO fuck yourself, Satan.

>>96137666 (OP)
>Go
away
>and everybody clapped

Love Go. I play some go and some chess matches almost every day. No theory, just learning by playing. I fell all the way to rank 25 when I started and have slowly fought my way up to 14-15 in OGS. Got up to 12 at some point

>>96137963
those are tour matchups? you're not playing on a standard goban, are you still learning? (19 x19)

>>96138154
>are you still learning?
>>96137963
>just learning by playing
For the love of fuck anon, start reading the posts you respond to.

>>96138194
sorry

>Tfw beat the "12 kyu" preteen who was beating everyone no handicap at the local tournament.

>>96142617
based did he cry?

>>96144853
No, he took it fairly well. The satisfying part about it was that I consider myself weaker than some of the people he managed to win against, but I got pretty adept at playing against the "no" style of constant overplaying that kids naturally gravitate towards by playing on Fox.

>>96137666 (OP)
how is it different than reversi?

>>96145654
whats reversi?

I don't get the rules, you're supposed to construct a huge territory or take the opponent's stone mainly??

>>96145751
Points will come mostly from territory unless someone does something stupid, but there is never a shortage of that.

>>96145654
The commonality with reversi ends at the aesthetics level and even that is superficial, you place stones at the intersections in Go.

>>96145751
>>96146048
Wait actually no. For each point that comes from a captured stone you also get a point of territory that comes from the spot the captured stone occupied. It's practically impossible to get more points from captures than from territory.

>>96138154
I like the 9x9 boards. I play 19x19 sometimes too, but they take a lot longer and I don't have that much time

>KIMI GA IMA!
>BOKU WO SASAETE!
>BOKU GA IMA!
>KIMI MO SASAERU!

>>96147438
ok
>not much time
no problem

how did you learn go? when did you learn?

>>96150533
>when
Couple years ago
>how
Made an account in OGS (they also have an unofficial app called Sente - Go which is still a work in progress but pretty nice and comfy).
I played a tutorial, didn't really get it, tried to read something online, and the first thing I came across was something along the lines of "stop trying to read advice if you're just getting started. Just go play 50 games. Don't analyze much. Don't waste much time. Just play 50 games."
So I just did that. Turns out it's a pretty good way, I think. It gets you running pretty quickly and you develop an intuition for what works and what doesn't. Then you start looking for little tips, read a bit of theory to solidify some things you were kinda seeing but not quite putting together, and suddenly you're as good as you'll be without studying the game.
Thinking of it as a sorry of vehicle for philosophy works too. If you're too ambitious, you'll get fucked. Giving in makes you stronger.
It's completely different than something like chess. It can even feel awkward or give you a little headache at first.
Just go play your 50 games on a 9x9 board.

>>96155518
you played online or against AI?

>>96137666 (OP)
ok.

>>96137963
>>96137666 (OP)
I would love to play more but can't get into playing it online and no one around me knows how to play nor wants to learn.

>>96150533
Started around 2018, I had a bad case of analysis paralysis at first and it took me reading a book (EZ Go by Bruce Wilcox), playing no timelimit games against AI and doing a bunch of tsumego to snap out of it. I only started playing online after I could consistently beat gnugo on 19x19 and by that time I was already around 14kyu. It would have been better to play online from the start, but I would have most likely lost most games on time in that case. Likewise, I would have assimilated more of the book if I read it after some practice, but I couldn't get in practice because I felt completely lost about what to do; at least it gave me confidence to get started. I ended up rediscovering most of what that book was trying to teach me myself during reviews after I forgot all about it. I also reviewed my games with strong AI from the very start, it was overwhelming at first, but I eventually learned how to constraint myself to the important variations. It did gave me a bad habit of post-hoc rationalizations during reviews though.

Basically, I did the opposite of all the common newbie advice and I still managed OK. The moral of the story is to do it whichever way feels best. As long as you spend time thinking about the game you can't really go wrong.

>>96157080
Online only, through OGS.

>>96164585
There's probably some club around. Other than that, you're kinda stuck with online

>>96137694
>>96137700