Welcome to the journey of Learning GO

How GO was created

GO is a stratergy chess game originated in China. It uses a grid-shaped board and black & white chesses. According to legend, GO was invented by Emperor Yao more than 4,000 years ago. Since His son Danzhu was very self-satisfied, Emperor Yao invented Go to cultivate his son’s character.

How to win a GO match

There are two types of chess in GO - black and white. It is stipulated that the black side shall go first, then the two players will alternately place black and white pieces at the intersections of the chessboard grid of nineteen by nineteen lines. After the move is completed, you cannot regret the move. In the course of the game, you encircle the ground and “eat” the opponent’s chess. The victory or defeat is determined by how much land you surrounded.

“If there are other intelligent life forms in the universe, they will almost certainly be able to play go.”

– Chess master Emmanuel Lasker

rules of GO

• There’re 4 liberties for each chess, if all of the liberties are blocked by the opposite color, the chess will be eaten.

The crosses here are the liberty of the chess.

• With the increase of the chess connected together, there will be more liberties for the chess connected as a whole. Same thing, if the liberties are blocked, the whole chess will be eaten.

Since the both of the pieces block one liberty of each other, there’re only 6 liberties instead of 8.

• The victory is considered by comparing the area each player got, the side with more area wins. Because of that , the area should be expanded as much as possible during the game.

In this case, the black side wins because there’s more area surrounded with black’s chess.

• Also, In the rules of Go, the black chess need to surround 3 and 3/4 more space than white. Because black chess can place chess first and that gives the black side a little more advantage.