Talk:Go

--Mystic Philosopher 20:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC) We need to work on the organization, focus, format of this textbook. We need to make it distinct from other online content to give it greater purpose.

I would like to thank whoever got this book on the AGA newsletter (I'm a little behind on emails) I have beet thinking of doing it for a while now but never have. unfortunatly I don't think it has helped much.--Ulfrinn 18:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Holy christ is this book abandoned? I'm writing this in 2023 and God it is badly neglected. Anyway I'm a new user and I want to contribute to this page. Trompowsky (discuss • contribs) 07:15, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Structure changes
--Mystic Philosopher 02:17, 26 March 2006 (UTC) I made changes to the structure layout and developed an introduction. Any thoughts on these changes?

take a look at this page it is the german wikibook (translated with bable fish). It should be a good guide to help with this book.Ulfrinn 05:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I have made many changes to the layout of the book which I think will make it more reader friendly. Many pages still need work and I do not currently have time to do it. Since I have changed the layout many of the links, pointing to the next and previous pages, at the bottums of the pages are now wrong I will adress this when I have more time. Ulfrinn 23:54, 30 July 2006

Those did a great job who wrore this book. But I think a major restructuring and rewriting should be done. The reason is simple: a beginner will play the first couple of games on a board 9X9 most likely. With some experience she or he will switch to 13X13. So smaller board games should be described with the corresponding theory. This would belong to the beginner section. Any comments? Gabaux (talk) 08:56, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

A suggestion to restructure and rewrite the whole 'Beginners' section:
 * move the chapter 'What you need to play' to section 'Introduction'
 * Lesson 1: Basic rules and techniques (topics covered: rules of the game, prohibition of suicide moves, ko rule, atari, elementary examples of liberty counting and capturing)
 * Lesson 2: Small board games (two games on 9X9 board, one with handicap, one without, and the most elementary game comments.)
 * Lesson 3: Introduction to the tactics of Go (the concept of eyes, simple tesujis like the ladder and the geta, simple life and death problems.) It should be very good to use examples from the two games as ilustrations of the tactical elements.
 * Lesson 4: Introduction to the strategy of Go (Elementary concepts of strategy, keeping and taking the initiative, sente and gote)
 * Lesson 5: Playing on the medium sized board...

My ideas or not clear from this point. I will formulate in a couple of days.

Gabaux (talk) 09:52, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Things to do

 * 1) in general we need content.
 * 2) specifically Joseki and Fuseki additions and additions to the beginner section as well.
 * 3) lessons (there are now 2 lesson 3&4 joseki and fuseki need to be renumberd as soon as we got the lessons straight)

Additions to Life and Death and Capture Strategy
I've added some prelim information that may help readers, however, it does need to be elaborated. The information that i have provided should help guide further editors on the subject.

Capture strategy has yet to be discussed. I shall be pulling some stuff from "Teach Yourself:Go" in the near future so that we may be able to develope this area furthur. --Devildope 12:48, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Be slightly careful of copyright. It's a great book and Charles Matthews has done a brilliant job with general go material for beginners and stronger players alike, but he is also protective of intellectual property (and reasonably so). Topazg 10:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Japanese pronunciation of Go
I am no linguistics expert, but as far as I understood the "i" at the beginning is silent, and it is just pronounced "Go" (hence I think the western pronunciation also) - Can anyone else shed further light on this? Topazg 18:07, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

No, in Japanese the 'i' is not silent. Obonggi (discuss • contribs) 15:28, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Ruleset
Maybe it would be best to pick a ruleset and stick with at, at least for the earlier chapters. For example, you could then mention the no suicide rule. I think japanese rules would be best, because they are common in the west, and they don't have things like pass stones and white having to go last. Elsjaako (talk) 00:57, 11 June 2010 (UTC)