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LIAN: DON’T EAT THOSE!!!
SPIKE: Hmmmm, what’d you say?
Not necessarily. You can go quite well without capturing pieces. It’s much more important that you kill groups rather that you capture them. In fact, usually the only time when (advanced) players actually do capture pieces if they either threaten to capture a piece of your own in the next turn, or if they’d be connected to a safe group in the next turn.
Protip: capturing enemy’s pieces is essential. if you try the “pacifist way”, you will find yourself surrounded and losing pieces, one by one.
Go is more about conquering territory. At the end of the game, players calculate how much territory they reign within their borders, each intersection being worth one point. Capturing opponents stones is optional but often necessary.
They both have two players, they both give each player a different color, and they both have a board that’s a grid of squares. That’s as far as the similarities seem to go? I haven’t actually played Go, so maybe there’s more.
Ah. I’ve never actually played Othello, only heard the comparisons. But the point stands that it’s played similarly, I think.
Wrong. Othello is about flipping captured pieces with only two pieces. Go is about removing captured pieces by surrounding the entire group.
Go. It’s like Othello, invented in ancient China.
_spike…What game is that anyway?
Yeah, there’s something impressive about a game that was invented in ancient China and still hasn’t been cracked by modern computers. There are smartphone apps nowadays that can play chess at a grandmaster level, but there are no programs that can play go at any professional level.
Go really is a neat game.