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Someone talk to me about Go (the board game). I'm in the process of learning it right now. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Maven@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Newbies are often afraid or insulted to use “handicap” pieces

I made this mistake! I started learning Go years and years ago, and it turned out the company where I was working at that time had a former 7-dan amateur player. When he found out I was learning he offered to play me, which I eagerly accepted. I didn't know this at the time, but 7-dan amatuer is the highest Go ranking one can achieve in Japan without playing professionally (there are separate 1-dan through 9-dan ranks for pros). For our first game, he offered to give me the full 9-stone handicap since I was just starting out. I thought that sounded excessive and suggested a 6-stone handicap instead, so that's what we did. He fucking destroyed me that game. It was not even remotely close. For the rematch, I humbly accepted the full 9-stone handicap.

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did those extra three stones make enough of a difference?

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, he still won that second game but the outcome wasn't as lopsided. It definitely made the game more interesting for both of us.

[–] homura1650@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No offense, but the extra stones just made it so he could go easy on you. When I started go, the new player challenge was to end a 9 stone handicap game against the resident 3-dan with a "positive" score. [0]

[0] most official scoring methods either ignore captured stones, or count them as positive points for the player who captured them. However, when scoring by hand, it is easier to count them as negative points for the person who lost them; so thats what we did.