# Beginning Go (the board game)

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** board-card-word-game\
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-go-the-board-game/832599 "2019-04-15T23:32:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-go-the-board-game/832599/22 "2024-02-17T19:35:02Z")

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Bumping this thread because it’s later than [my thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go/810762). I’ve just finished my first game of Go on [this site](https://www.cosumi.net/en/). I played on a 9x9 board, and lost by 84 points. I’m not getting it. I’d seal off a territory, and the white stones don’t disappear. I’m guessing that you have to be directly adjacent to stones or line of stones, surrounding it/them, like outflanking someone in Othello. But then it looks like I could outflank someone by putting a stone in the middle of four stones with one of mine on the other side, and it won’t let me move there.

I think that the only way I’ll learn this game would be to have a live tutor who could tell me _why_ I can’t move somewhere, and could offer advice as to where to move and why. Even if I could find one, it’s pretty much assured that our schedules would not coincide. ☹

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