I saw the Chess thread and being a Go player on a forum of INTPs, I thought I'd make a thread for Go.
I've played for a number of years and I love it. I'm happy to answer questions or provide resources to anyone interested. If anyone wants to play online, I frequent OGS. My name there is GORDONCOLE. KGS is the current biggest server but until its transition from Java to HTML5 I'm staying away from it.
There's some pretty exciting stuff going on in Go right now: for one, the American Go Association got backing to create a pro system (recognized internationally). The US got our first two pros last year! They teamed up against Korean player Lee Sedol, one of the top players in the world, and were thoroughly thrashed. Oh well, one can always dream.
Speaking of Lee Sedol, he is currently in a 10-game match against Gi Li from China. Gu Li and Lee Sedol have been the most consistently dominant players in the past decade and have a more or less even record against each other. They consider themselves rivals. Earlier in the century it was not uncommon for the top players in Japan (which was then by far the most dominant nation in Go) to have ten-game matches like this. They usually got a lot of coverage and press. It looks like the Chinese sponsors decided to bring that form of contest back. It's one game a month and the winner gets ~$800,000. The loser gets $30,000. Lee won the first game in January.
KGS presented the game with live professional commentary in English. Of course, since each player has 4 hours of thinking time, it's difficult to stick around for all of it. I expect they'll do the same for future games.
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