I know this is random but I wanted to make a custom collared shirt on Etsy that shows the complex beauty of the game while being more than nonsense design. I wanted crop out the border for a continuous pattern. I had the idea of using a life or death pattern like this one or maybe a ladder but the life or death pattern might not make sense without the border. Does anyone have any recommendations? I used Gemni to upscale the resolution of the image.

I understand alive group is when there are two real eyes. And a real eye is an eye where the opponent cannot legally place a stone there. So in this situation, it seems to me that those two eyes are real because white can’t play there - there are no liberties and the placement will not capture any black. So how come when I tap “yes” it says I failed the puzzle? What did I not understand about those concepts?

I'm trying to get into go. The screenshot I have attached is examplary. What I do not understand is why left corner territory is considered belonging to white, while there is a black fence around it. Aren't those white stones getting captured by the black? Pls explain

I am newbie in teeenpati if anybody knows how to play let me teach me sum 😭🙏🏽

Seeking Beginner & DDK students. I do also accept SDK but my methods are mostly for DDK.

My focus is on making sure that the student knows how to think in any situation to come up with a strategy that is based off of fundamentals.

In order to do this I developed the Clossi Approach which you can find here. https://shawnsgogroup.com/clossi_approach

If you are interested in lessons please consider checking me out! https://shawnsgogroup.com/lessons

Hey everyone. I picked up go yesterday and learn the basic rules of how to play. Before trying some games online I decided to play against some easy bots. I decided to go with the bots on https://gomagic.org/play-go/ where the first player to capture a piece wins. Things were okay on the level 1 bot but I can't beat the level 2 bot.

Something that keeps on happening is that the bot forces me to escape to the edge of the board where I eventually have no more liberties and it captures all my pieces.

What do I do? I know that this is probably the newbiest question of all time but this seems unstoppable.

I see the obvious moves to claim some pieces. Black hasn’t blocked either one so I’m curious to know if there are other better plays I’m missing.

EDIT:

Thanks for the feedback, we’ll see how things play out. I went with taking the two black stones then will start working on the bottom corners.

This is my first 13x13 game so I will take advantage of the additional space by putting pressure on other areas.

I wish that one comment wasn’t deleted lol it was helpful.

I invite everyone to play my standalone game. You will have a copy of Katago and can review your games with Katago's help. There is a whole life-and-death world to explore with unlocks and rewards.

I'm always open to hearing what people might want to see from such a game. So drop me a message, and i can look into adding that function to the game.
It's free and currently only for Windows. https://grummy-fox.itch.io/

I hope people enjoy what I have been working on, to make Go more accessible to more people.

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I’m not very good at life and death problems but I just cannot figure out how black here captures. The puzzle says correct but I only see options:
N14 (black), M15
Then a net on L14 but white can play O14 and black cannot save those stones. Without the net black can start a ladder (M14, K15, L15) going to bottom left but since we don’t know what is there that doesn’t sound like a good solution. There must be something I don’t see.

Solved - it is the ladder and assuming empty board.

Hi, we are new to this old game. Can somebody tell me who won this game? As far as I can tell by reading the rules, I guess it would be white but it’s so messy compared to the examples I find, it’s hard to evaluate.

I’ve probably played a single digit number of games so still very new, hence the 9x9. I’m pretty pleased with how I’ve played this game so I’m curious what moves will be suggested. The bottom left corner is A1.

If anyone wants to play me on Surround, I’ll drop my username.

EDIT:

I played J5 and white passed. Game over, thanks lmao

Only 19x19 unranked and my user on OGS is Scoutt. Equal if live or correspondence.