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You can find some discussion of alternative gobans within the Go Variants category

Here are some that mainly focus on alternative gobans, but there are also many other variants with other changes to the rules

Escherian Go

I’ve come up with a new board to play Go on. It’s inspired both by Toroidal Go, which is like playing Go on the surface of a Torus, and M. C. Escher’s Prentententoonstelling: [image] or rather, this Droste version of it, made by a group of Dutch mathematicians in 2003: [M.C. Escher's Print Gallery unravelled, 'completed', and zoomed in] Toroidal Go Let’s start with how Toroidal Go works, which you’re probably already familiar with. To make a Torus, we take a rectangle, and then…

Playing Cube Go (Vorlon Go) on OGS

Yes you can… [Screenshot%20(49)cropped] To play on OGS the board has to be represented flat. This can be done by playing on a 14x18 grid and using that part of the board that would be cut out to fold into a cube: [2] The unused lines around the outside, rows 1&18, columns A&O are there to prevent stones registering as captured when they are not but that still leaves the issue of stones that have been captured in a way that doesn’t register: [3] The marked white stone captures the two bla…

Random Gaps + Pie Rule

I would like to try playing a Go variant with two notable changes: 1.) At the beginning of the game, N random intersections of the board are removed. Players may not place stones on these intersections (gaps), and they do not count as liberties for either side. Which intersections are removed is chosen randomly. 2.) Since the advantage of being the starting player may vary depending on the placement of the gaps, the second change deals with Komi. Sensei’s Library calls it You cut, I choose, a.…

Also, here is discussion for a tournament that features the 25*25 board

Hunting at Night: The 1st 25x25 Tournament

Today we started the first 25x25 tournament on OGS. 256 players, very nice. If we’re lucky we’ll see Sadaharu vs earlgreyhot final.