Go Zendo

My thought process

Looking at all the green koans I thought I saw a lot of bamboo joints. Then I realized I was looking at bamboo joints with opposite colors, and also 100 was a counterexample. So, considering what 100 had in common with the others, I thought of simplifying it to just a keima approach.

Then looking them all over again this comment was particularly amusing:

Since just checking it was pretty hard, I assumed that was a secret joke about how carefully Vsotvep had to construct it. I didn’t realize he had a new Go variant in mind!

Turns out that was just a UI limitation, and RubyMineshaft made it easy enough. Open the console and type:

setSize(8)

I don’t quite understand how this tool works though. Is there a way to copy the image without changing its number? Also can we somehow reset the numbers to start a new game?

I have a rule in mind if/when we’re ready for another one.

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