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Go equipment refers to the board, stones (playing pieces), and bowls for the stones required to play the game of Go. The quality and materials used in making Go equipment varies considerably, and the cost varies accordingly from economical to extremely expensive.
Connecting individual stones into a single group results in an increase of liberties; for instance, a single stone played in the center of the board has four liberties, while two adjacent stones in the center of the board form a unit with six; to capture the unit, an opponent would have to play stones on all of its liberties.
Life and death (死活) is a fundamental concept in the game of Go, where the status of a specific group of stones is determined as either being "alive", where they may remain on the board indefinitely, or "dead", where the group will be "captured" and removed from the board. The basic idea can be summarized by:
This has led to PokéStops and Pokémon Gyms being placed at dangerous or inconvenient locations, such as a now-deleted Gym at the Korean Demilitarized Zone [10] and Bagram Airforce Base, which was abandoned by U.S. forces in July 2021. [11] Since 2019, these locations also include submissions from Go players which are largely reviewed by other ...
(In terms of points, one stone is considered to be 13-16 points, but this figure is not constant over levels: the more skillful a player, the greater the usefulness of each stone.) For example, a 3 kyu player gives a 7 kyu player four handicap stones to allow for an interesting game with roughly equal challenge for both players. If traditional ...
A full set of Go stones (goishi) usually contains 181 black stones and 180 white ones; a 19×19 grid has 361 points, so there are enough stones to cover the board, and Black gets the extra odd stone because that player goes first. However it may happen, especially in beginners' games, that many back-and-forth captures empty the bowls before the ...
Go positions frequently require scoring stones and territory in a more probabilistic, gradual manner where stones might be probably dead unless the opponent allows the player to make uncontested plays to save the stones, contested, alive as long as the opponent is not allowed one uncontested play, alive as long as the opponent is not allowed ...
Go opening strategy is the strategy applied in Go opening. There are some conventional divisions that are applied. Firstly there is the distinction that may be drawn between go opening theory , the codified variations that resemble chess openings in the way that they occur repeated in games, and go opening principles .