Learn to play go

i downloaded “goban” on my mac and it’s pretty cool. you can play the computer, play online, or watch other people play online. i really like that feature for learning to play

I learned how to play a few months ago, but I’m not very good. There aren’t a lot of people around here that play, so I think I’m going to have to play online if I want to continue on with it.

I’m not affiliated with either of these, I just thought I’d throw them out there for anyone looking to play online who hasn’t found the right place.

For turn-based/correspondence Go, I like online-go.com. It’s not very big in number of members, but it’s a very nice site with some great features. For live Go, I like KGS (found at gokgs.com). The CGoban client is very nice, and there are good people on KGS.

to say it was a disaster would be an understatement. ive forgotten ev’thing.

but its all about practising, i need to play at least 3 full games a week.

Right now, I’m working on building a board. It’s just too expensive to order one, plus it’ll be a fun experience.

Great game, super emotions!!!
more games you play, better player you will be!

Though I don’t have the motivation to play over the ‘net for the time being. I need to find someone local to help me get into it.

The guitar comes first. :)

I got a starter set for Christmas from my sister. It came with a book and the board and pieces. I’ve been playing (best as I can, still not any good at all), and it’s been fun. I think I’m going to start playing online some and hopefully go from there. One of the bad things about living in a rural area is that there aren’t a lot of people who are into things like go and chess (more like deer hunting for them), so I have a limited supply of playing partners. I’d love to get to the point where I had regular games in person with people. I guess we’ll just see what happens.

and found a go partner to play with me twice a week. i need to get back to this goal, havent played go in ages.

saw it for the first time on darren aronofski’s movie “pi”. looked perplexing.. i can’t wait.. i also want super smart friends to come visit and play go with me while relaxing by a fire… i wanna be a badass “classic” guy.