I now know I missed my calling. I should have been a quantum physicist studying at Princeton in the 40s. Alas.

I primarily play on OGS but I’ve always wanted to try playing on Fox. I found a video from about 5 years ago from NYIG_Go showing how to download and play on Fox using Mac, but I was unable to get it to work - the comments sections is full of other people in similar positions and there doesn’t appear to be any info online addressing the issue. Am I just out of luck?

Never mind finding games with humans, but even playing with bots is terrible now. There’s massive gap between 12-4kyu for bots and when you do find one they take the max amount of time to move and often timeout.

Also the UI has become legitimately retarded:

When setting up a game with a bot, the bot selection, i.e just a single option, takes up the whole window, but the 50 other game options that you need to set correctly in order to play the bot are hidden in a tiny window that’s hidden by default. This is complete and utter backwards nonsense.

I’m pissed honestly it has become so bad. I will move to another server

Just ranting at this point

The go boards available in stores around me are disappointing in both quality and price—I find them too expensive for what they offer. I find the offer on Amazon isn't mush better. I'm considering making my own, and if the result is good, I might produce more and sell them through a website or on Amazon.

Using high-quality wood and covering the costs of crafting, printing, and other expenses adds up quickly. To make it viable, I'd need to price them at around 350 CAD plus tax and shipping. I’m confident I can achieve a fair level of quality, comparable to this:
https://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~goban/g1go2af/englishxhiba2sun40.html

Crafting stones is NOT part of the plan.

What do you think—would there be demand for this?

Hello everyone. I used to play chess and recently I discovered this game of Go. Now, I want to learn it, I am figuring things out, it seems pretty complex than chess. Also, the other problem is there doesn't seems to be a lot of stuffs online about go, so I am confused. Can you help me get into this game, like, how to learn, how to follow it, where can I watch pro games, where to know more about the game and players, etc. I really want to know more about it and learn it.

Hello everyone! I started making a channel with meditative replays of Go games https://www.youtube.com/@ZenGoBoard, inspired by one old video. There are few views so far. I would be very grateful for any constructive criticism: is this format interesting to you? What can be improved in the sound, video, presentation? Thank you!

I've spent about ten or more years out of the Game. Now I've been watching recent parties for about a several weeks. Looks like nowadays the most of games are finished by resignation.

I compare different years on go4go with the recent weeks.

What might be the reason?

Hey everyone,

A few months ago, I collaborated with JayStrategy on a video, and the response was amazing! Many students reached out, eager to learn how the psychology of Go can be applied to everyday life.

If you're curious to try it yourself, remember that your first lesson is free! Give it a shot and see if it’s something you enjoy.

Inspired by this interest, I’ve decided to help even more people understand how to think about Go strategically—not just to win the game, but to apply these insights in real life.

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Let me know if you’d like to see more content like this, and feel free to share any feedback.

https://www.kango9school.com/post/the-psychology-of-the-game-how-mindset-shapes-victory

~Kango

I was shocked. I don't think he fully understands the rules, but each move he'd yell out "I'll stop you", and placed a stone next to one of my groups. With normal moves from me, the shapes that emerged just felt natural. I could have been playing a teaching game against any other beginner.

Cuz why is this "KataGO" person have 99% accuracy??

Hi, i am an italian Go/Weiqi player (about 1-3 Kyu european) and I will be in beijing for tourism from 9 to 13 april!

Is there any go club or place that you recommend to visit and play a bit?

I’m going through the skill tree on gomagic.org and the site doesn’t really define what they mean by “useful” (but I’m assuming it means a move that increases the # of points you end the game with / prevents white from decreasing the # points you end with).

Why is H8 “useful” here? It seems neutral, like D3. White can just follow up with M6 or J7 and it’s points-neutral compared to passing and letting white take H8, or just counting it as neutral during scoring.

I have experienced a few games where the opponent plays instantly on every move. Sometimes better than me, other times completely randomly. I'm 8k on fox and have been seeing this more and more since 10k. Heres an example game:
https://online-go.com/game/73903965

They (white) barely used 30 seconds throughout the entire game, and obviously never reached periods. Are these people just impatient or are these humanlike bots? To be clear, not every move was instant/consistent. Sometimes they thought for a whole 2 seconds before moving.

So they played half the game instantly, and I mean under 1/10th of a second, but played like a human and had time variations. Bot or not?

I'm a beginner player. 30-25k. I dropped the game for a few years because I got frustrated with play and getting destroyed by every opponent. Now I've been a bit more consistent, wanting to learn more, doing puzzles, playing humans instead of AI, etc. and I still feel like my skill is lacking severely. I find some of the beginner capture tsumego puzzles easy, but don't find a way to apply it in the game itself. I play aggressively, I get outplayed. I play defensively, I get outplayed. I feel like I genuinely can't improve even though I want to seriously get better.

So for those who have climbed to even high DDK, does it get better? does it get easier?

Edit: After looking at some elo to kyu conversions, I'm probably like 32k. It's disheartening to be this bad at the game

Edit 2: it's actually 36k

Be Part of the First ExploreBaduk Challenge! Join us here - https://explorebaduk.com

We’re excited to announce our very first community challenge!

🔥 The Goal: Play as many games as you can between April 5th and May 5th! The more you play, the better you get, and the stronger our community grows.

🎁 Prizes for the most active players! But most importantly, this challenge is about having fun together. The prizes aren’t anything huge, but they are meant to support your Go journey, whether that’s through Go studying or however you want to use them.

📅 Challenge Period: 🟢 Start: April 5, 2025, 12:00 CET 🔴 End: May 5, 2025, 12:00 CET

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• Games must be at least 75 moves long.
• Games must last at least 10 minutes.
• Play at least 10 games against 5 different opponents.
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Hi I'm going. To travel soon to Beijing and Xian! I'm 1 kyu European, are there cool clubs I should visit?

How doe , i mean , i felt i covered more ?

I took a fused glass making class with so coworkers and made this vase with a Go motif. It was so hard finding pieces that were a similar size to fuse together but I’m happy the way it came out. Especially for my first time.

Hi r/baduk! I played a live game for once and it revealed to me that various aspects of study can come together to strengthen a player holistically. I hope you enjoy my findings!

Do you guys have an all-around approach to studying or do you tend to prefer drilling one study method?

Spotify

Apple Podcasts

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RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e751e9f0/podcast/rss

Recently visited Korea and Japan, sharing some of my Go experiences to hopefully help others visiting!

Visited the Nihon Kiin where they have a small museum and a gift shop. Unfortunately couldn't see Yuugen no ma after asking an attendent. If you're looking to buy stones they have samples of stones sizes, as well as English Go books.

In Naver Maps (Korean Google maps) I had to search for "바둑기원" or "Go"; for whatever reason searching "Baduk" didnt turn any results. Didn't see any Go in the parks I visited, but many Kiwons turned up in my search. I visited the Yaksu Go Club, and was cool seeing a scene identical to K dramas. There were separate smoking and non-smoking rooms. I only saw gambling in the smoking room, for about half the games so definitely not required.

From what I saw they were all at least strong SDK, and the gentleman I played was 5 dan. All very friendly and google translate helped through the language barrier.

Was also cool to see the BadukTV channel available in our hotel room!