Anyone here play Go?

' Because Berliner's work on chess led to the development of IBM's Deep Blue and its descendants, it had great impact and relevance when he said: "You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. Chess is winding down. Chess is gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity". And he concluded: "Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go..."' 
 
For anyone not in the know, Go is the one of the oldest boardgames in the world.  
 
The rules are simple: on an even numbered lined-board, black and white pieces are placed on any of the 360 vertices, with the point being to surround territory. If you're piece(s) is/are surrounded, they become prisoners. There are many smaller, more complex rules, but that is the gist. The scope for depth is unparalleled, and it really is a beautiful, amazingly complex game. It famously appeared in the film 'Pi', as the lead character and his mentor discussed its relevance in the field of mathematics.
 
I know of the KGS servers, but I've not yet tried my hand online; preferring instead to play with friends as I learn the game a little more. 
 
Any players here on GB? We could maybe get some games on, if so.

If you surpass somebody at Go, do you collect $200?

" If you surpass somebody at Go, do you collect $200? "

I say told myself to try for months now. I'M GOING TO REALLY DO IT NOW!

I've always been interested after watching Pi. It looks pretty entertaining.

I love GO, after finding the Arcade game on Xbox Live me and my wife play maybe 1 or 2 games a week now (yeah I know, doesn't sound like much but that's all our lives allow). If you get anything up send me a message.

Nope although I became interested in playing it years ago after watching an anime with Go in it but never got too far in.

I tried to get into it after seeing Hikaru no Go back when I was a socially-retarded weeaboo.
 
I never understood how scoring worked, though.

" I tried to get into it after seeing Hikaru no Go back when I was a socially-retarded weeaboo.  I never understood how scoring worked, though. "

"  http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/ is great for learning the ropes. It's an interactive tutorial -- if you go through it once or twice, you'll come out the other end ready to play some games against another beginner. "

Wehey, Go players! I have the odd game in university with a bloke called Mike, but I'm not really interested in playing online.

Back when I bought Shonen Jump regularly they had a manga in it about a kid that played Go and I always wanted to learn it after reading it, but I never have.

Two co-workers of mine used to play it.
 
I've tried a few times but have yet to get my head around it.

I used to play. I stopped while I still had all my mental faculties, and my limbs. Others I know weren't so lucky. I lost many good friends who didn't know when it was time to quit.

Playing Go will in fact make you want to do a self lobotomy.   Its true.

Yeah.
 
It's fun.

" If you surpass somebody at Go, do you collect $200? "

I remember seeing this come up as a new game on XBL a few weeks back. I looked into it and apparently it's a game developed in "labs" at Microsoft, in an attempt to have a computer be a challenging foe for the game. Apparently it was a hard task and they succeeded. 
 
I'm not talking about the board game, I'm talking about the XBL game. I repeat: Microsoft did not invent the game Go

" I remember seeing this come up as a new game on XBL a few weeks back. I looked into it and apparently it's a game developed in "labs" at Microsoft, in an attempt to have a computer be a challenging foe for the game. Apparently it was a hard task and they succeeded.  I'm not talking about the board game, I'm talking about the XBL game. I repeat: Microsoft did not invent the game Go "

" @GetEveryone: Ok i was just referring to the end of the movie and how Go can make you go insane. Or at leas I think it can. GD you Aranofsky. "

Go makes me feel stupid. There's just a point in the way my mind views the game and how I play that keeps me on the beginner level that I jut can't get past. I'm sure if I played it on a daily basis I'd eventually get past this beginner bar and become at least mildly average but I just don't want to put the time into it.
 
I still can't even beat AI Go players...

I remember Go tournaments being shown on TV in Korea. It's called Baduk in Korean but the same thing.  
 
But almost everyone I knew had a Go board and a Jangi (Shogi?) board at home.
 
I never actually learned it... Just played Connect Five on Go boards with my friends. 
 
Or the other one where we flick rocks at your opponents rocks to get em off the board. That was fun.

I have the trial version to the path of Go. I must admit I only got interested because it was in Tron Legacy (from what I remember).  lol I have yet to beat the master.  The full game looks fun because it looks like there's a ladder system going on and you go from one location to another (which doesn't really have anything to do with go but adds appeal to that game itself).