Rules of Go - Part 1

[Music] [Music] hi everyone I'm Stephanie yn1 done professional go player from American and Chinese go association since in New York instead of go was funded in 2016 and after I did a live commentary on alphago coach's game I have received a lot of requests - from players to ask me to open a YouTube channel so that they can learn more about go myself along with the New York instead of go is a proud to present you this serious and spread this great game all around the world so here we are our first video is about how do we play go in ten minutes this is the first one this is the part one the pretty much this is what the goal board looks like and we have a two players one player with black stones and a one player with white stones and the goal board consists of 19 horizontal lines and 19 vertical lines with 361 intersection points on the board and black goes first white goes next so every stones it has to be played on the intersection points it can't be in the square or on the line so it has to be on the intersection points it takes turns to put down the stones on the board once you play the move on the board you can never take it back or remove it it's there permanently so you have to think before you play once you put it you there's no regrets okay so then what's how do win the game was to ultimate go for this game and this game in China it's called the way Chi and it was originated from China 4000 years ago and a lot of people say this is pretty much like our human lives and the character of way means the surrounding so this game is pretty much like a surrounding game so the first example is once you surround one area on the board any area on the board all of the surrounded area it's your it's your territory and every intersection point is your score we call we call it point so now how many point does black have one two three four five and we have a 3 here 3 times 5 as a 15 so at the end of the game whoever surround the most territory wins the game I'd say it weights around this corner and white only gets night point and like what I mentioned earlier at the end of the game we're going to cut all of your points as your territory who have whoever has the most wins so this game is also called a surrounding game and I have mentioned that a lot of people said this game is like our human lives so we need to and pretty much everything every planet every animal needs to have air to breathe so every stone on the board also has an air and we call this liberty so if you put the one stone on the board this still has a 4 liberties sometimes I like to call it air the once the air all of the ears are blocked by black and this stone is dead is it captured so how about this move we have a special name of this move the move of the floor you capture if white ignored this myth you're gonna capture it next so this move is it called Atari move the move the for capture it's called Atari so once you see Atari move you have to be careful because you have to play one more stone to save that stone so after you played here now you have a 1 2 & 3 liberties so then it's impossible for for black to capture now how about I'll have a two white stones on the board then how many Liberty does white have ok let's try it so we have to block here and here here and here and here and here so two white stones have a six liberties how about the dagger no directions are there the liberties do we need to play these four moves to capture two whites the answer is no because the liberties it's is like a similar like the road for the stone to escape so let's say if I don't block here if white plays here wait take wait it skipped from this direction but if I block here even though I can play here but there's no Road here to connect these two stones so then these four diagonal directions or these four diagonal moves are nada liberties how about I have a three stones on the board three white stones on the board how many Liberty does what have nah we have the block here and here and here here all the way we have to completely block white and take or capture these three stones so these three white stones have eight liberties and there's one more important thing for it to remember once you block the last air or the Liberty you have to remember to take them and remove them from the board and keep them on your side never return the stones to your opponent because at the end of the game not only we're going to count how much territory you have plus how many stones you capture so whoever has the most in total wins okay so when we have a three stones on the board straight there are eight liberties how about I have three stones our bend is this still eight to answer is no even there they have the same amount of stones on the board but they have a different amount of liberties because let's try it so I have the block here since the along here and here and here and over here here here and here and how many black stones I use I've used 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 so in conclusion these been three white stone only have a 7 liberties not 4 liberties we talked about earlier it's because these two stones share the one Liberty at the same time so that's why this shape has one less Liberty than this shape ok then now I have a question for you since black plays first and white play next so which color do you like better probably everyone likes to play black because black goes first the black has an advantage and so we have a special rule for that and at the end of the game after we cut all of the lip all of the territory black and white and then we had to either subtract two seven and a half points from Black's territory or at seven and a half points to White's territory that's called a KO me because black goes first black has an advantage to start the game but at the end in order to be fair white has to add seven and a half points or subtract a seven and a half points from from black okay so in go is unlike other four games other board games every piece have a certain way to go but in go game every piece every stone it's equal to before you put down on the board so you can basically can start anywhere you want but how about you start on the first line is it smart think this is the edge of the board that's the last line on the board in order to not be captured if we start on the first line we only have three liberties if we start from the corner we only have the two liberties if we start from the second line about second line let's say star from fourth line then this cell has it for liberties so where do we start and you got the answer already of course we never start from the first line and also that lines called a deadline because that's very easy for your opponent to capture you so remember we never never start from the first line okay so as I mentioned that earlier you can start anywhere you want but there's only one area you can never play that's called illegal point once a stone is captured or the space without any Liberty left that spot is called an illegal point because once black plays here there's no more Liberty left that means the stone dies automatically so then that spot is called illegal point then how about this move is this an illegal point the answer is no that's not a legal point because after white black plays here there's still one more Liberty left so once you have an error where Liberty on the board you're allowed to play there but this is definitely not a smart move because after you go here what will capture that move but still that's not an illegal move you can still play okay so after black plays here and what play ignored that move and the question is now it's the next movie a legal illegal point or not a legal point the answer is that's illegal point because after black goes here there's no more air left all of the heirs or the liberties are already blocked by white so that spot is a legal point okay and black stays ok so since this is a legal point I cannot play there how about I'm gonna spend use a couple moves on outside and then is this a still illegal point for black or not illegal point maybe it looks very confusing so the answer is this is a not illegal point why because let's look at white shape over here these two white stones only have one Liberty left so once you block the last Liberty what's gonna happen to that stone you're gonna capture it so it means this is not an illegal point anymore instead this is a capture move so once the space where the spot is a it becomes to a capture move the illegal point it's no longer illegal because you can capture your opponent's stones and the last important thing is once your capture your opponent's stones please remember to take the stones before your opponent played the next move down because it happens to a lot of my students game so black played here and black forgot to take these two stones and after a few rounds and then when they look back this situation nobody knows who captures first because blacks also don't have any Liberty left so remember once you capture you have to remove the stones first okay that's pretty much about our first part of introduction of the go health hope you all like it and don't go away we're gonna start the part two next [Music] [Music]

Channel: NYIG_Go

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Keywords: Go, Weiqi, Baduk

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Length: 12min 57sec (777 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 09 2018