Questions tagged [go]
Go is an Asian board game for two players, with only a handful of very simple rules but very complex dynamics. This tag is not about the Go programming language.
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Count the Liberties - Advanced
Here's an advanced version of the Count the Liberties challenge. The definitions of the terms liberty and group are the same as the previous challenge, so have a look at the previous one for details, ...
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10 votes
3 answers
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The maximum liberty of a group on a Go board
Bounty One of the convincing conjectures, by Loopy Walt is, ...
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15 votes
9 answers
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Count the Liberties
Background This challenge is about the game of Go. Go is a game played on a board with a square grid N x N. You don't have to know how to play the game to do this ...
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22 votes
1 answer
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Is this Game of Go configuration fully alive?
Background This challenge is about the Game of Go. Here are some rules and terminology relevant to this challenge: Game of Go is a two-player game, played over a square board of size 19x19. One of ...
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58 votes
37 answers
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Which Go rank is higher?
Players of the traditional board game Go measure their skill in a system of ranks: Players new to the game are ranked 30th kyū (written 30k) and progress counting ...
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Place a stone on an empty Go board
See also: Make a move on a Go board. Task Go is a board game where two players (Black and White) place stones on the intersections of grid lines on a 19×19 board. Black moves first — for example, ...
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Build a deterministic Go AI
Here's an interesting problem I thought of the other day, which involves bits of code competing against other bits of code not just in a property that the code has, but by playing a game against those ...
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3 answers
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Make a move on a Go board
You are given a board position for a Go game and a move to play. You need to output whether the move is legal or not, and the new board position if it is legal. A brief explanation of Go moves: the ...
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Score a game of Go
Scoring a Go game is a task that is not all too easy. In the past there have been several debates about how to design rules to cover all the strange corner cases that may occur. Luckily, in this task ...
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