From: Ricardo Massamitsu Nonomura AOL COM BR> Date: 22 feb 1999 Subject: Re: Go v.s Shogi and Mails without subject titles!! Hi All, Excusas for not use a subject title... I used the reply button, so I thought that the e-mail was with some subject on it... I think that the beauty of Go is it simplicity... the rules are much more easier to learn than chess and shogi, but the possibilities of "geometries" (moyo) are ilimited... Just to say something on the game (Go), when in shogi or chess we choose one opening line, in Go you use the corners to begin a opening, so as we have four corners we can use four different opening lines in the same game, each one with its specific aim... and you have to accomodate them in a bigger picture... You also have two styles of play (as far as I know): Chinese and Japanese... the Japanese style is something like the old school of chess (kill the king as fast as possible), but in go you are fighting for territory so you divide the board in lots of small fights and solve one by one... in the Chinese style you see all the board as one... so in the Japanese style you win/lose the game by a few points of difference... in the Chinese style you have no doubts about who won the game... it`s by hundreds of points... ----- Original Message ----- From: George Jost HOTMAIL COM> To: techunix technion ac il> Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 2:54 PM Subject: Go v.s Shogi and Mails without subject titles!! >Some discussion on Go and Shogi. Personally I have not played Go >but I don't think one can discount its variety because of the >types of pieces available. The interest in that game is in the >patterns and combinations and I believe its branching factor >is greater than Shogi. (Shogi has a higher branching factor than >chess.) It is difficult to implement a computer Go opponent which >is very strong. Thus obviously this game is not to be dismissed >lightly. My recentment of Go comes from the reactions of chess >players who will look at go because it is truly different and >dismiss Shogi because it is "just a variant of chess". I have >also noticed more females willing to play Go than Shogi ... It is >however a good game as it was when my grandfather played it as >a diversion from Law School. (For him any alternative to Law School >was welcome but he particularily enjoyed playing Go with his >board using pieces made out of nuts and bolts.) > >It would be nice if list members would put an appropriate >subject title on their mails so that those who are >disinterested don't have to read them!!! > > > > > >> >>Of course go lacks variety. It has only got one type of piece :-) >> >>Rikard > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >