Learn to play Go

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Rules

• Go Pieces are called stones.
• Stones are placed on the intersections of the board
• Stones can't be moved after they are placed, but they can be removed from the board
• Players take turns placing stones of their colour, one stone at a time
• Black goes first

Liberties

• Liberty is an unoccupied intersection horizontally or vertically adjacent to a stone

• If all the liberties are taken by the stones of opposing colour, such stone is getting captured and is removed from the board

• Groups of stones of the same colour placed horizontally or vertically adjacent to each other share liberties

• If a group of stones loses all of its liberties, the entire group is getting captured

• Accordingly, you can escape from being captured and save your stones

• Stones placed on the edge have fewer liberties than those elsewhere on the board

• Accordingly, it takes fewer stones to capture stones placed on the edge

Ko

• Players are not allowed to make a move that returns the board to its previous position
• An arrangement of stones that allows repetition is commonly called Ko shape

• It can appear anywhere on the board