Life In 19x19

Unless I'm missing something (not hard to do at my level!), it looks like White is getting to play two moves elsewhere while Black is sneaking in, and loses only 10 or 12 points as a result, assuming he doesn't really screw it up.

Wouldn't that generally be a good trade, except for fairly near the ...

On the other aspects, broadly speaking studying skills like go can be broken down into two methods. There's the method of simply repeating elements for ten thousand hours. This is the only method that gets you to the top. It's obviously very hard work, and only people who can make that kind of ...

I got around some iBooks limitations on my iPod Touch by using the free Kindle app for it. Calibre (free eBook software) works wonders for converting between formats. I assume it will all work on the iPad too.

On the iPod Touch I use AVPlayer to play AVIs — it seems to play almost anything. It ...

Did anyone try this on the iPod touch? - I am wondering if the screen is not just too small.

I did. It's OK. The moving diagrams are neat, and the 19x19 board is legible. You can also pinch zoom in, just one level, but a quarter of the board will then fill the screen, which is ample. Of course ...

I've been trying to reinvent the wheel with one hand tied behind my back and my eyes closed. I should have looked around first.

There's a lovely little free program called FreedGo which takes up a whole 145 KB which enables playing 3D Go on a variety of boards.

You can even create your own custom ...

CSamurai wrote:
This is called Diamond Go, and is one of the more common 3d variants.

http://www.segerman.org/diamond/

There are a few freeware programs out there as well that allow you to play go on non standard boards, such as a cylinder rather than a square, etc etc.

That wire-frame diamond is beautiful! Thanks very much.

Paul

We'll start with variations on 3 dimensions.

In two dimensions, go is commonly played on a 9x9, 13x13 or 19x19 board. It is possible to play on a 4x4 board, but that is not much of a game.

What is three-dimensional go? It is fairly easy to imagine a cube with a number of regular go boards ...

Thanks everyone for the welcome.

Durham's a bit far to travel on a regular basis, Robinz. Thanks for the offer, though. Maybe I'll make it a nice day out in the summer.

Paul

Fair enough. I'll start a new thread about my version soon. I'm still working on the demo game and updating the sgf in post #22 regularly.

EDIT: I replaced the original 96k sgf with a 40k sgf as the large one was too big and wouldn't play beyond 2/3 of the way through. It's OK now with less symbols ...

I think we're at cross purposes here. It looks like I want to create an interesting game, and you want to write a theoretical treatise that is mathematically as sound as possible.

Anyway, it's my bedtime now. we don't have to agree on this, you know.

Paul

What is the reasoning behind the stones in column 3 not being removed?

Remember the moves in the right-hand three columns are generated three at a time by playing on the grid on the left, and are not made independently. So a move on the left can cause a capture on one of the boards on the right ...

http://www.yawnguy.com/go/4x4x4_versionA_commented_game_1.sgf

I'm currently editing an sgf record of an ongoing game on CGoban3. It has been playing using the usual sgf reading software at this site, so you should be able to read it OK. It's not quite the same as the linked spreadsheet I have ...

Oh! I finally got it through my thick head about the diagonals. Thanks. It's bed time now, so I'll nuke them tomorrow.

EDIT: Now uploaded without diagonals.

Paul

Hi there,

I missed an introduction. Whoops.

I first learned go around 1976, played a bit but had no-one to play with so dropped it mostly. Then I moved and lost my go set and didn't play at all for 20 years. I took it up again a couple of months ago.

I'm English, from London originally, and ...

Take a look at the dynamic spreadsheet I've given links to and toss some moves into the green-bordered bit. It should give a bit more life to my explanation. Sheet2 of that spreadsheet gives the numerical basis for the mapping. I used alphabetical characters on the top sheet because they take up ...