Amazing 9x9 GoQuest Game

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Hello, @Tårincë_Tarwë,
and LOL, why not enter the game (or upload the SGF) in a demo on OGS so as to make it easier to get a review? You’re asking for a favor after all, better to make it easier for your potential reviewers then.

Or, even better, why not play here?

Besides, what exactly do you mean by “amazing”?

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Here’s an sgf:
RyanCruz.sgf (597 Bytes)
I had to assume passes by black at move 31 and 47.

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The pass at move 47 is pretty ‘amazing’. Black could have lost the bottom of the board and needed to be certain of claiming the top if that happened.

But I suspect the ‘amazing’ we are seeing here is another person discovering the incredible depth of the game of Go. :smile:

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I play all but a few games here, and if I introduce someone to Go, I also introduce them to OGS, but I feel GoQuest belongs to a different category altogether.

From Sussman’s foreword to The Little Schemer:

For the student of Lisp programming, The Little LISPer can perform the same service that Hanon’s finger exercises or Czerny’s piano studies perform for the student of piano.

That’s how I see GoQuest: more a drilling tool than a Go server. Start the app, click on play, choose 9x9 and boom: instant tsumego. Always Chinese rules, 3m+1s/move, and that’s that. Sometimes the opponent plays at a similar level, sometimes we face a purple-username dan magician. And when it’s all over and done, it takes just a few seconds until the next showdown begins.

It used to take me a long time to make the simplest moves. When I first tried GoQuest, I couldn’t fathom how it was possible to play at that pace. Even when I managed not to get destroyed in a few moves, I inevitably lost on time. But without noticing, almost despite myself, I improved—and not just on 9x9: no way I could’ve handled the last fight in the folowing game, under 30sec byo-yomi, not long ago:

Sure, if it’s about playing blitz, playing many games etc., we can do it on OGS, but a tool created for a single purpose does bring ease to handling the task it was specifically designed for, and to fill the gaps throughout the day, for the odd minutes here and there, a break from work, waiting in the line
 there’s GoQuest. It has a special place in my heart, right beside GoChild. :]

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Well said, my friend. I’d like to hear your love letter to GoChild if you have one :pleading_face: