EdLee wrote:Probably just a lucky coincidence and not done on purpose:
seems to be a 'bonus' lesson/hidden message:
if you spend most or all your effort making all tiny groups,
your opponent will likely win.
Heh, yes
I think this is
NOT meant to be a suggestion for the “architecture” of one’s game but rather as a
typology of minimal survival.
While sometimes, in a tight game situation, a player may utter a sigh of relief when they manage to finish one of these shapes
just in time, there perhaps are … “genes”
(or vitamins? Proteins? Or are they more like fertilizer? Or perhaps the seeds we sow?) for these “minimal survival”, i.e. shapes we often play:
• Nobi (Stretch)
• Kosumi (Diagonal Move)
• Ikken Tobi (One Space Jump)
• Nikken Tobi (Two Space Jump)
• Keima (Knight’s Move)
• Ogeima (Large Knight’s Move), etc.,
and then the more complex shapes resulting from them, like …
• Table Shape, etc.
Just throw a few of these onto the board, and we have a puddle of
Primordial Soup in which Life
may spring into existence
tchan001 wrote:Actually I was the one who made that years ago and first posted on GoDiscussions forum. Previous to my edition SL had a version that had most of the shapes but not all
Wow, very cool, thank you, tchan001 _/\_
(if I had known, I’d have credited you too in the image before sharing it wide and far …)<edit>Another thought just comes to my mind … I mentioned the “primordial soup”, and now I have an image on my “inner screen” … like:
- some pairs or groups of stones are “solid” (solidly connected, e.g. Nobi), not dividable,
- others are “liquid” or perhaps “fluid” in that they can be definitely connected if one plays the right move (like Kosumi),
- while the last category could be called “gaseous”, in that they can definitely be divided (Keima, Ogeima, given appropriate circumstances)
Sadly I know too little about Chemistry and Physics but maybe some interesting analogies could be found there? (Or am I just having a manic episode again?
)
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