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Title: Improve your game of Go (or just keep playing) with this collection of apps Post by: HCK on February 01, 2015, 09:00:20 pm Improve your game of Go (or just keep playing) with this collection of apps
<article> <section class="page"> <p>I’ve been playing Go, a grid-based strategy game that dates back thousands of years, for more than three decades, and it’s a game I enjoy a great deal. Unlike chess, which is often an all-or-nothing game of attack and defense, Go is about slowly-evolving strategies to surround the largest territory on the board. Each player, black and white, alternates placing stones on a board with a 19-by-19 grid. Building up territory, where the opposing player cannot get a foothold, each player attempts to enlarge his or her territory, and thwart advances and invasions by the opponent.</p><p>It’s easy to learn the rules of Go; it’s hard to become really good at the game. This is a game that computers can’t yet defeat: the best programs can only defeat professional players with a handicap (Go has a handicap system where the weaker player gets to place from two to nine stones on the board at the start of the game).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2877976/improve-your-game-of-go-or-just-keep-playing-with-this-collection-of-apps.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Improve your game of Go (or just keep playing) with this collection of apps (http://www.macworld.com/article/2877976/improve-your-game-of-go-or-just-keep-playing-with-this-collection-of-apps.html#tk.rss_all) |