How To Play Go (Beginner Tutorial)

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This video will cover how to play the board game .

Go .

The video will start with the general concept and gameplay and then get into more of the details for the game .

The game is played with two players to play .

You will need a go game set .

The go game is played on a grid board .

The board's size is usually 19 lines by 19 lines but can be adjusted for player ability .

This beginner tutorial will use a nine by nine board .

One player will play the black markers .

The other player will play the white markers .

The object of the game is to control more of the board than your opponent by enclosing areas on the board with your markers and by capturing your opponent's markers , these objectives will be covered more later in the video on a turn , players will play one of their markers on an intersection on the board .

An intersection on the board is any point where two lines meet on this nine by nine board .

There are 81 intersections .

The player of the black markers is the first to take a turn , black plays a marker on the board .

After the marker is placed , play moves to white , white plays a marker on the board .

Players continue to take turns playing markers .

The first term to know is liberties .

An open intersection connected to a marker on the board is known as a liberty here .

The marker has four liberties here .

The marker has three liberties here .

The marker has two liberties .

The next term to know is unit markers of the same color that are connected are known as a unit .

A unit will share liberties here .

The unit of two markers has six liberties .

The unit of three markers has seven liberties .

The next term to know is capture when a unit's liberties are all occupied by opponent markers .

These surrounded markers are captured here .

White markers occupy all of the black markers , liberties and is captured here .

White markers occupy all the black units liberties and is captured .

The game ends when both players are unable to gain more control of the board or are unable to capture more of their opponents markers to signal the end of a game , players will pass a marker to their opponent .

Here , black passes a marker to white and white follows by passing a marker to black .

After two consecutive passes , the game is over .

Players will score the amount of open intersections they have enclosed minus any markers that were captured by their opponent .

Here .

Black scores for 28 open intersections minus two for the captured black markers for a total of 26 .

White scores for 15 open intersections minus two for the captured white markers for a total of 13 because black gets an advantage for getting to play first in the game .

White gets compensated for going second .

The amount should be agreed upon before the start of the game for this game .

The compensated amount is 6.5 .

This is added to White's final score .

Black wins the game by 6.5 points .

A player cannot make a play that repeats the prior position of markers on the entire board .

For example , white captures a black marker here , black is not allowed to play a marker back on the board to capture the white marker as this would bring the game back to the higher positions , black must play elsewhere on the board before capturing White's marker on another turn .

If still possible , that wraps up how to play .

Go .

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