Visualize go this way, instantly make it 30 times easier to count

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@claire_yang

what would Go be like if not playing on a grid like “board”, on a hex honeycomb pattern board? On spider web like ring? there seems to be endless possibilities

There are some scattered articles on Sensei’s library that document experiments with unusual gobans:

• Unusual Gobans at Sensei's Library
• Borderless Goban at Sensei's Library
• Toroidal Go at Sensei's Library
• Edgeless Go at Sensei's Library

I’ve played a couple of games on the surface of a cube, which can be viewed as a form of “edgeless go” but without the supersymmetry of toroidal Go.

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…