Ask HN: Who Plays Go? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#91

Post by gcao » Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 3:29 AM UTC

Hi thangalin,

Nice to see your post about Go. I'm from China and have been playing Go for more than 20 years. I started to play in high school and improved a lot in college. My current ranking is AGA 5~6D. I don't play very often recently except play turn-based games on my own web site (www.go-cool.org).

Because of my addiction to the game, I even created a variation of Go, Daoqi, which removes border of Go board and makes all positions have same importance. This new game gives players a new and different enjoyment.

I'm also a programmer and have spent a lot of time on side projects. I created a Javascript based game viewer (github.com/gcao/jsgameviewer), a Ruby on Rails application which integrates with a Go forum (http://www.go-cool.org/app)

Like I said, I'm happy to see your post and comments from fellow Go players. Hope I can play with you one day.

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#92

Post by gcao » Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 3:33 AM UTC

matth wrote: post #51

I was working on this for a while: yayforgo.com. I got a new job and just couldn't focus on it. Bummer! Anyone want the source code?

I'm very interested in it. It looks like it is a Python web application, right? I'm a Ruby programmer and should be able to understand the code and steal some ideas if you don't mind :-P

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#93

Post by Willwhatley » Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 4:08 AM UTC

9k KGS.

Same question as OP, but addressed to kyu players-?

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#94

Post by epynonymous » Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 8:16 AM UTC

my dad and uncle are fanaticso, send me your contact information, i'll hook you two up.

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#95

Post by nickfox » Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 3:03 PM UTC

yaskyj wrote: post #57

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #42

Your intro read like prose. In a few short paragraphs I felt I was reading a novel. You have the touch. Are you a professional writer?

Not sure what you mean by prose. His writing was prose, so was yours.

Prose is just prose by any other name... :o)

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#96

Post by adewale » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 1:23 AM UTC

I play as 'adewale' on KGS and I'm currently a 9 kyu. Although, as you can see: http://www.gokgs.com/servlet/graph/adewale-en_US.png , my ranking tends to fluctuate.

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#97

Post by gastlygem » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 11:53 AM UTC

gcao wrote: post #91

Hi thangalin, Nice to see your post about Go. I'm from China and have been playing Go for more than 20 years. I started to play in high school and improved a lot in college. My current ranking is AGA 5~6D. I don't play very often recently except play turn-based games on my own web site (www.go-cool.org). Because of my addiction to the game, I even created a variation of Go, Daoqi, which removes border of Go board and…

哈,我一定在tom論壇見過你!

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#98

Post by inimino » Tue, Oct 26, 2010, 8:05 PM UTC

I play online very rarely (about 1d on IGS and KGS ranks). Lately I've started a couple games on DGS. I'd welcome a game on DGS with anyone from Hacker News.

Re: Ask HN: Who Plays Go?

#99

Post by muloka » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 10:54 PM UTC

muloka wrote: post #77

edanm wrote: post #31

I've never played, but I'd be happy if someone could point me to the best place to learn.

Easiest way to pick up the basic rules and gameplay is through: The Interactive Way to Go: http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/ Its also available in 32 other languages: http://playgo.to/iwtg/ -- Beyond that I recommend 9x9 games, on Windows download yourself a free copy of iGoWin: http://www.smart-games.com/igowin.html or on OSX or Linux check out GnuGo. -- There's also a Linux live cd/distro with lots of learning tools by the…

p.s.: You can find me on KGS, my user name is muloka. I'm just starting to break the 5k boundary.