30 Day Challenge: Learning Go
Following Matt Cutts’ talk on trying something new for 30 days, I’m defining new monthly goals for myself, in order to actually get to do some of the stuff that has been on my personal backlog for far too long.
So, starting on November this year, I’m planning to learn how to play Go for the next 30 days. I don’t aim to become an expert on the game, but to be moderately competitive on a 19×19 board. So far, I’ve read a few chapters of “Go! More Than Just a Game”, and played (lost) some games online against a friend. Although the rules are simple, some situations are still not very clear to me. For example, it still takes me a while to recognize that there are no more profitable moves, and thus the game has ended. I was recommended to play with qGo until I was more comfortable playing with a human, and that’s what I’ll be doing the next days. I shall try to post regularly about the challenge.
November 4th, 2011 at 00:04
I haven’t seen Matt’s talk, but I heard about this theory before. I might put it into practice sometime.
I went through the first Go lessons at http://playgo.to (which I think it’s a great way to start) a couple of times, but I’m in the same situation as you. A 19×19 board is quite a big challenge
Thanks for the gGo tip. We should play sometime.
Keep us noticed with your personal progress in the current goal and the following.
January 8th, 2012 at 04:52
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February 16th, 2012 at 22:33
This might be a bit late but…….. a few years back I was glued to this anime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_no_Go it might help with the Go challenge should you give it another go.
February 16th, 2012 at 22:37
Thanks! I think i’m getting back to this next month.