Play Go - On A Mobius Strip?

Posted by simoniker on Saturday June 19, 2004 @05:19AM from the head-revolving dept.

Lewey Geselowitz writes "Freed Go is a new freely downloadable game for Windows and Mac OS X that extends the 'game of Go' on any arbitrary 3d graph. These include Mobius strips, spheres, tori, cubes and so forth, and even a few flat boards but with 3, 5 or 6 neighbored nodes. To anyone who has played the game, or is interested in this great game, I assure you that you will find this site interesting and it will help you expand your understanding of the game." There's also Freed Invasion - looks like these are both from the author of the similarly unconventional Quake II stereogram implementation, as previously mentioned on Slashdot Games.

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Re not so:Kinda stupid by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-19 08:41 · Score: 1, Insightful

Absolutely. In fact, that's the point. Or one of them, anyway.
Corners overpowered? by Eevee · 2004-06-19 11:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

I'm not sure what overpowered means in this context.

The corners are easier to defend and create a base for expansion along the sides, true. But they lack influence in the center. You can do just as well pinning your opponent's stones in the corner and grabbing a chunk of the center.

Now, as a double-digit kyu, I like to try for corners. But that's because I still can't estimate influence from other stones worth diddly so I have difficulty building towards the center. Having a corner