Not much happened, eh or anything about go during the last chapter. But I got to do something during this chapter now don't I?
Um ok so here I go!
The game of go can be played on three different size boards. Either 9x9, 13x13, or 19x19. The number refers to how many lines going in each direction there are. The first two are usually for beginners to practice on and master the basics on, but everyone can have a good time on them. Go is a two player game, with one person being white, and the other black. Black always, always, always, always, goes first. But I'm sure that if you play for a while, you might notice that that isn't always fair. So the idea of Komi came along, which was discussed a little bit back. But I'll go over it again, its just 6.5 extra points to be added on to white's score at the end of the game. Also, because there is that extra .5 point in there, there can never be a tie in an even game. But, there can be ties in "handicapped" games. Because in those matches, there is not Komi usually. But we'll talk about handicaps later.
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Now anyways, the game progresses by each player alternating turns putting down ONE stone at a time. The object of the game is to surround the most area on the board. Now this is probably pretty hard to get working out right, because couldn't your opponent just fill up what you surrounded? That's right, they could. That is why you can capture stones. "How?" you're probably thinking. We'll don't worry its not hard. You just surround there stones. Since you place stones on the places where the lines intersect, its not that hard to do. Lets say a scenario: white puts down a stone somewhere. If black wants to capture it, he has to put a stone above, below, to the left, and to the right of the stone. Diagonal doesn't work. And then poof, the stone is gone. And when you capture a stone, then you get to put it in your "capture jar." At the end of the game, under most rules sets at least, you add the total number of captures to your total amount of area surrounded.

Now since I wrote that all, that probably doesn't make any sense does it. But don't worry, I have visuals! Thats right, I know of two amazing interactive tutorials so you can learn the game of go! www.playgo.to has one. And kgs.kiseido.com has one also! They are interactive and everything! I just suggest learning the basics of Go while reading this, it makes it a bit easier to follow the story.

I'll try and put in some more go explanations on these even chapters. It will help you out when reading the story, because I'm sure most of you have no clue how to play, not that thats weird or anything :D.