Ancient Go variants

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Would it not be fun to have various ancient Go variants as rules option?

Like the old Chinese rules were you both players begin with diagonal bases on 4-4 and there is a group tax of minus one stone for every group you have more than the other player but no komi?

Or the old Korean Sunjang Baduk rules?

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Could be one place for it.

I think having to fill in all of your 19x19 territory to score could be a bit tedious though.

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claire_yangGo Historian and Librarian


Maybe @claire_yang can help you.
She wrote some very interesting posts on the history of go.

But I am not sure if she is still active on OGS (Forums).

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Counting with filling all could have a place here, with a suggestion to be used by beginners.
It’s not a go variant but an alternative way to count giving a similar result.

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Indeed was mentioned here

and most recently here as a potentially beginner friendly option

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I like these ideas!

HIstorical variants would be really fun!
There’s other variants that would be more difficult to implement but which would be fun nonetheless.
Hidden-move go.
Rengo.
You-once-get-to-play-two-moves-in-a-row-at-a-moment-of-your-choosing go.
Stuff like that.

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Just so you know, Rengo is already available…

See some relevant threads for more details: