Releasing these for my birthday
I'm excited to share that the complete Let's Go Project is released now:
https://soumyak4.in/project/Lets-Go/
New version (v4) of the Go Game Roadmap, visit/install it here :
https://weiqi.soumyak4.in
The first version of BadukTube, the free lectures directory, visit/install it here :
https://baduktube.soumyak4.in
Let’s continue to enjoy, learn, and master the game of Go together
#go #gogame #baduk #weiqi #chess #boardgames #2025 #strategygames #mindsports #birthday #igo
I keep missing the beginnings of games, but North American #baduk pro championship is currently GOing at https://www.twitch.tv/usgoweb and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzArA_1xviU
@icecolbeveridge Compare the technique of "tewari", from the game of Go, which asks, "Would these moves have been effective if played in a different order?"
(This makes more sense for Go, a game of placement, than for Chess, a game of movement.)
Why does it feel like we refuse to localize Go? There are so many terms that you have to learn a foreign language to say and people wonder why this really fun board game isn't spreading in the west. We localized chess for everyone, why can't we do the same for Go? Joseki is now movement, Atari is now trapping, kifu is now score cards. Fight me.
I have learned that when it comes to #Tsumego and learning Go: replay puzzles. If it gets hard, and you cant progress and are losing the fun: work your way back. Go back to easier stuff. Get the fun back, repractice the fundamentals. Even 25k stuff, if just to get back in the groove.
It doesnt mean you are weak. It might just mean you need a break from the hard-for-now stuff. And need a refresher on the more basic stuff to break the hard-for-now.
In zwei Monaten findet unser GO-Turnier in Graz statt. Morgen gibt es wieder ab 17 Uhr einen GO-Abend in der Kometin. Anfänger:innen sind natürlich willkommen. Kommt einfach vorbei!
The pro game collection in SmartGo One has been updated with over 2,000 new games, for a total of over 130,000 games. The names dictionary lists over 4,700 entries.
The increased number of games makes this old blog post on searching for pro games even more relevant:
https://smartgo.blog/2023/07/03/search-in-pro-games/
"There are so many shapes deriving from the basic comb shape that covering it fully is beyond the scope of a proverbs book."
-Power, "Essential Go Proverbs", which is over 500 pages long
Камни для игры Го: история, типы камней и их материал#^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bIPL4gteyA
I LOOOVE that Tsumego Hero has a filter for difficulty now. Now I can practice at one rank of problems at a time. Plus I feel like I am getting what the puzzles are trying to tell me better.
SmartGo One 2.3.5 is mostly a bug fix update, but also adds a setting for showing the SGF circle property as a circle instead of a dot, a frequently requested change. It now defaults to circle on stones, dot on empty points (Settings > Board Display > Circle as Dot). You can also mark the most recent move with a circle, as you may be used to from some other apps (Settings > Board Display > Move Numbering, or just tap on the board with two fingers for quick view adjustments).
The most recent episode of the usually excellent “All Things Go” podcast features an interview with me. Still pretty good.
https://allthingsgogame.alitu.com/episode/9397579c-cd47-407b-affb-f8ed7c1f8dec
Offener GO-Spieleabend
23. Juli 2025, 17:00:00 CEST - GMT+2 - Die Kometin (Kulturverein), 8010, Graz, Österreichhttps://events.graz.social/events/a2c41a8f-d348-45d3-b0ee-664df4e1f236