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THE GAME OF GO: PHILOSOPHY ON A BOARD PART 2: HOW TO PLAY Like life, go easy and difficult both. Understand, really, what it is the game takes some time; but in a few minutes you can explain and learn you need to start playing. To understand how to play, we could imagine the board is a vast *** territory. In this territory they come two pioneers who try take possession of it. At first all the territory is free, and each start They are putting their stones as if they were cairns to indicate areas; after they are formed territories, until finally all the board is divided between the two players. Who has more territory wins. This is a very simple example on a board 9x9. There is not even captured stones, but it serves to show the ultimate goal of the game. We can see that the black territory It has 30 points and 26 white territory; Black wins by 4 points. Therefore, it is using fencing territory stones, hence the Chinese name of the game: Weichi, which means "fence". Can It seems very simple, but as the stones are entering the board arise complications, because both players are trying to do the same, in the same place and at the same time. GAME RULES The rules are so simple, logical and natural that we could summarize in three: 1st) Rule alternating plays, which means that both players are taking turns putting stones on the board, one at a time. 2nd) to capture Rule: Does not lives, she dies. 3rd) Rule counting points: Who does more territory wins. With these few rules and you could start to play. And this is perhaps one of the experiences more fun and exciting that provides the go: From ignorance, discover the game, playing !. At first one is confused, does not know where to put the stones and only sees cuadraditos and black and white circles around the board. And in the chaos that was produced, no choice but to learn to bring clarity and order. If this experience It is shared with another beginner, fun and excitement are duplicated, although learning Initial can become very slow. By it is usually better to play with someone already know something, and receive some explanations plus. Start of the game: The game starts with an empty board, and starting using black stones, both players will take turns placing its stones, one by one, at any intersection free on the board; ie not You can put a stone at an intersection where another lost already is in place, and Once placed, the stones no longer move, except when they are captured. catch: When a stone or stones group are surrounded and lose all their freedoms, or spaces breathing, they are captured and removed board, standing apart place, to be counted at the end of the game. Freedoms or breathing spaces: freedoms or "breathing spaces" are called a stone-free intersections adjacent to the stone. In the middle of the board a stone isolated It has four freedoms. On the edge of the board he has three freedoms. And in the corner just two freedoms. When a stone or group of stones have only one liberty, or breathing space, It is said to be in atari, Japanese word which means "threat", similar to checkmate Chess. Groups of stones: Two or more stones of the same color connected together they form a group. The ultimate goal is to besiege the biggest number of free intersections or points territory, and the game ends by agreement mutual, when there is no more land for conquer. Once clogged intersections neutral, worthless, the player who used the stones Black removes the white stones that have been imprisoned within its territory and binds to the captured during the game; and the player who uses white stones ago the same with black. Each player enters the total of stones and prisoners captured in the territory the adversary, reducing their number Free intersections. Finally there are the number of intersections free or points in the territory of each player, and having more is the winner. How does the game start? The game begins with an empty board, and players can place the stone wherever they want. In any site? Anywhere. And what is the objective of the game? The aim of the game It is to make territory. And how forms the territories? To form a territory must be formed as a kind of wall, a wall, a wall formed with stones, for example, in this territory we have six points, if I put a stone inside, I no longer have six, I have five. ah !, I made an eight-point territory. I think the stones are also caught during the game ... If, to capture a stone have to go around, so it is in atari position, if you put here, this Stone has to come out, and what happens to the chips captured? They are saved to the end of the game, when the game is finished, return the captured stones the board, then my territory eight now only seven points, exactly. As already said, the game ends by mutual agreement between the players. This is because sometimes, especially among beginners, it may happen that is not easy to discover when no more territory conquer, or because it is not easy to know if a group of stones is alive or dead. If there are no more territories to conquer but one of the two players do not see it that way, You can keep playing, while the other, If desired, you can pass your turn without playing. In this case, the player who has continued to play He has lost a point for each stone, for He had only two possibilities: Playing inside own territory, which this diminishes, or play on the territory of the adversary, increasing the number of prisoners. The endgame, the stones are prisoners which can not form a living group, and removed the board without cover all freedoms. Therefore, capturing prisoners equates to play within their own territory. It can also happen that yes there is more territory to conquer or points at stake, but one both players do not see it; for example, it could be necessary to defend some point weak in the territory, or could reduced enemy territory ... Pass the turn without playing in such cases is and let the opponent play twice followed, with the loss involved. Before agreeing to the endgame, there Be careful with the points that seem neutral but they are not. We see an example where if White plays at point "A" They earn a point, but lose if it is the turn Black. In any case, if there are doubts about the final moment of departure, as recommended it is to play, especially if put in danger the opponent's territory and this You must respond, because in that case there is no loss. Furthermore, it can be very educational, the end starting, look for weaknesses in stone formation. We now see an example on the big board. This game was played between Honinbo Dosaku and Yasui Shunchi in 1683, and appears discussed in the book "Go, a game Oriental MILLENNIUM (history, philosophy, RULES GAME...)" Before you start counting the territory first neutral spots are filled, in Japanese, gimme points. They are the intersections in the graph are marked with a square. Then the prisoners are removed. Then introduced total stones and prisoners captured in the territory of each color. Then, being careful not to move the stones that make limit or boundary, the stones are arranged generally in forms rectangular, with the sole purpose of easier to count. the points of each player are counted and expires who has more. There is still a small detail. Black ones They made the first move of the game, with the advantage that this entails. Therefore, the end offset this advantage by giving five points and means to white. In Japanese, this concession It called Komi. DEPARTURES WITH HANDICAP Two players from different category may play a game on equal terms thanks to a grant system advantages or handicap. This system results an added excitement to the games, when expert and novice players face and the game begins with the difference offset, or balanced forces. From all these explanations are It will logically deducing how to play, and all situations that arise on the board have a logical answer. The a rule that solves many doubts beginners is that there is full freedom to put the stones where you want, with only two exceptions: 1st Play at a point where there is no space breathing, because it is not allowed "the suicide "of stones. 2nd The immediate capture in a situation ko. And what have we here? This is the situation Basic ko, we see a black stone It threatened in atari, then white could take indeed. The situation is repeated but conversely, is now black which can take, and white could re-take and ad infinitum, to avoid this ko rule states that before returning to take a player has to play in another part. Here again we have a situation ko, at this time is black which could take, and on the corner also, white here I could drink. Ko rule is the only artificial rule game, and it serves to prevent recurrence endless movement could occur. It applies when a stone is captured, and the stone that has made the catch can, in turn, be captured immediately. Ko rule says that the position of the stones on the board should never be As in a previous situation. By Therefore, this rule prevents the other player's capture on the next play, since it would occur a repeat of the previous situation, must make a play "intermediate" at another point on the board before you can capture again. Here we see another situation ko, which It depends on the survival of these six stones black which are surrounded by white stones, being black shift could take ko, and white could no longer take, would to seek a threat to be black to answer, such as here, actually, This threatens to fill the vital point and take all this black, black group is bound defend, and he has not been able to finish the situation ko, which fail to take white, is now black who has to seek a threat to white can not fill ko, for example .... it is now the turn white, let's assume that white decides stay with the six black stones in place to defend these four, which, white He decides to end the ko. Ko 'means' eternity' in Japanese, and is if it were not for the rule of ko, heading would be eternal. So far the basic rules with this you can start playing. From now on We see more complex situations produced during the progress of a game