Life In 19x19

Someone said the poem reads like an anime theme song, so I made such a song with Suno. It's called "Let's Go."

For fifty thousand moons, perhaps yet more,
your elders have rehearsed this secret show,
a world inside the world that was before,
cloaked from the West beneath the name of Go.
I'm told of brighter skies, but this is vaster,
a universe of black and white persuasion
where sweetest triumph dances with ...

Try Asli offline with this interactive board:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/346567 ... ard-for-me

drmwc wrote:Keil looks interesting. Can I get a physical board anywhere?

Not to my knowledge, but you can DIY!

bogiesan02 wrote:MORE.

Yes, sir. Stay tuned.

I made a free translation of Borges' famous Go poem , turning it into a "blank sonnet." (Line 12 was suggested by an AI after someone noted an issue with the previous version.)

Go

Today, September ninth of seventy-eight,
I held a small disc in my hand, a fraction
of the three hundred sixty-one ...

Shall I compare you to a game of Go?
You are more colorful and temperate.
Swift raids do capture strings that want to grow,
and early peace has all too short a date.
Sometime too false the eye of my group shines,
and often is my stones' complexion heavy;
and every fight a gain and loss entwines ...

I'm usually skeptical about some of these "go-like" games. But I checked it out anyway, and it is actually a fascinating and elegant looking game (though maybe its predecessors more so). So I look forward to trying it/them out!
I'm glad it caught your eye! We could definitely use more players ...

Asli is a game that feels like Go from another planet. Play it here: https://play.abstractplay.com/games/asli

The key rule is this: a group is captured if there is no path of connected empty points between that group and any other group of its color. The path does not need to be a straight line.

[inlineimg]https://senseis.xmp.net/images/stones/b1.gif[/inlineimg]
$$B
$$ --
$$ | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
$$ | - - - - - X - - - - - X X - - |
$$ | - X X - - X - - - - X - - X - |
$$ | - X O - - X O - - - X O - X - |
$$ | - - X - - - X X - - - X X ...

I had not told anyone yet, for fear of worship or ridicule, that I have kept a random game tree generator running since the beginning of time, in a corner of the universe I now truthfully call my basement. Powered by the stars, unnoticed by the living, it has survived fire and ice, pitiful familial ...

The following versification of my favorite Go ruleset was 80% written by the language model im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot and 20% written by me.

A nameless benefactor, lost in time,
invented Go, a territory game
for two. One player Black, the other White,
they play upon the intersections of
an ...

Defeating eternal life in Tile Go and Cushion Go:

$$W
$$ -------------------------------------------------
$$ - . O O X . - . O O X . - . O O X . - . O O X . -
$$ - X X O X . - X X O X . - X X O X . - X X O X . -
$$ - 1 X O X . - . X O X . - 5 X O X . - . X O X . -
$$ - O X O X . - 3 X O X . - O X ...

Is it the case that, in No-Pass Go with prisoner return, if there are no situations that invite repetitions, the winner in this position is simply the player with the greater sum of territory and prisoners, with the provisions that the ko intersection be counted as territory for the opponent and ...

Tile Go is a finite Go variant without superko rules. It differs from Go in the following aspects:

If the last placement (regardless of color) was made in enemy territory and you want to place a stone on your turn, you must first place a tile on an empty point and then, on the same turn, place ...