Sample Game of Go and Territory Scoring

It’s time to move on from theory to actual gameplay. Let’s see a complete game of Go from start to finish and count the score. Doing it comfortably gives you the knowledge how to play on your own.

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If you want to learn how to play Go, we recommend you to take the course there with interactive questions and practical quizzes.

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00:00:00 Game start
00:01:49 Atari on the second line
00:02:44 Down to the first line
00:04:54 A late invasion
00:06:59 Counting territory

[glennclapp]

This is the best tutorial on YouTube. Can't believe how few views it has

[jekmuncada]

Still waiting for the ghost of a Japanese Go Master to haunt me and teach me Go.

[markwinfield]

I've been dabbling in Go and trying to get my head around the rules. You just summarised and clarified everything I'd picked up - and introduced a few new ideas - in 10 mins. Awesome video, guys 😎

[joshuasims]

I love how Go ends with an exchange of prisoners…quite poetic.

[sannovares]

to be honest, I learnt Go when I was in high school back then 2002. and the instructions, tutorial were so complex took me long time to understand the rules, and even to understand rules, I had to play go in KGS server and ask for guidance in the novice room there.

If this tutorials of yours were there that time, I could spend way less time to understand. Good job! Easy to understand and good video editing there.

[FlytoZenith]

I tried playing Go in the past and could never wrap my head around it. But these videos are so helpful. Things that went completely over my head I finally understand and for the first time I feel like I can actually play a game of Go! Thank you so much!

[WishMish]

I just started trying to learn go yesterday and this totally changed my perspective on how to play. Before my boards would just end up like complete scattered nonsense, but I just had my first win against a bot with a very clean looking board like the one you showed. I bet it still gets chaotic on bigger boards, but now i at least understand the concept of attacking and defending territory!

[alphaglucopyranose]

Hi I come from China. The rules for scoring of territory is very different there. We score the entire area. We count both the empty space and the stones on board, and we don’t count the stones that were captured.

For example, if I count the black territory, I would include the empty spaces belong to black, the isolated black stones in this territory, and the black boundaries. During the game, captured stones would be simply put back into the bowl, ready to be reused.

[claraosc]

I'm finally understanding the game now. Thank you so much.

[Nazarenno]

I found a complete 19 x19 Go game with all the chips and instructions. Since I didn't know how to play, I decided to watch your videos because the instructions are somewhat complicated, but thank you very much.

[peerutsiwawetpikul]

The best turorial for me to return playing go. Thank you for making this video.

[Mizai]

i will probably never play this game but this was a relaxing video to watch

[.harshittiwari]

That was the most simplified tutorial I ever saw for counting points, especially that fluid animation thing for territory was cherry on the top.
Thank you for that !!😊🙏
Have shared this with my friends too :)

[chibigirl]

This is the learning style i need. I need yo get a feel for how a game is. Sometimes seeing mistakes and how to recover from them helps too.

[therealcaldini]

Broke my phone smashing the like button. But seriously, thanks for the free tutorial.

[chrisyoung]

This is such a great video and Go chanel! Well done!

[NeonCraftsVideos]

Thank you for teaching me about go, I never would have guessed it would be so simple to understand how to play.

[Bearbok]

Just discovered your videos. Great! Best Go tutorials and explanations i have seen. But also some of the best structured content in general. Great job and thanks for making these videos!

[KagatoIuchi]

I am just starting to learn about Go. The editing and explanation here is great. Thank you.

[TheGreatQuest-wj]

i like your way of teaching
i watched so many videos but unable to learn this game
but now i have a lot of clearity because of you
thank you