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Played it as a kid. It's a great japanese board game because unlike Mahjong it's very simple and makes fun. Sadly as good as no one plays this game anymore.

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Mahjong > go
Go manages to be more boring and frustrating than chess. I don't like how it's just an endless grindfest with a never ending learning curve. It can be fun playing against complete beginners just like every other game, but I can't care enough about it to get better.

A lot of people I know use this site for online play.
http://www.gokgs.com/

>>11432729
>>11432684
To put it simply: weiqi/Go is a higher class game whereas mahjong is a pop game. The former is associated with prestigious cross-Asian tournaments and the latter with seedy gamblers.

>>11432774
>To put it simply: one is hipster and the other is fun to play for the sake of fun.

>>11432774
I learned about Go from a cartoon.

I think I asked months or a year ago in a board game thread: but does anyone know something about Indian board games? Considering European, Iranian, Chinese and Japanese board games can all be traced back to India I wonder if they have a lot of chess-like games.

>>11432774
I associate the latter with old people.

>>11432800
Seedy gamblers may have been too far, but you know what I meant.

>>11432793
I think there's some kind of proto-chess. You might ask on /tg/ as well, I'm sorry I don't really know shit about India (other than that's also where Buddhism hails from...)

>>11432807
Eh. I mean there IS that Akagi thing or whatever I guess.

>>11432816
Good idea. I just asked them.

I have a Go board with stones, but no one to play it with.

>>11432918
>he doesn't have invisible friends

>>11432949
>everybody must get stoned!

>>11432774
So basically mahjong is the superior game since it was used for gambling.
go is totally useless for gambling purposes since 1game takes year to finish. They messed up go during the game design stage, the time needed to derive enjoyment from go is totally imbalance.

>The former is associated with prestigious cross-Asian tournaments
Funny how I have never heard of any of these so called prestigious tournaments. For mahjong I have seen plenty of fiction from Japan, Hong Kong and China making a big deal of these so called god of gambler celebrity.
Go? More like dead game.

I like Go but I'm so fucking bad. I can't even tell whether I'm winning or not most of the time.

>>11433076
It's one of those games where you have to think outside the box.

If you're the kind of person who never spends money or takes any risks in JRPGs, you will suck at Go.

Important advice for those to which it's relevant: Don't learn Go until after you read Hikaru; it's much better when you have no idea what's actually happening on the board beyond what the characters' reactions give away.

>>11433086
I haven't had more than 50 in my hand in the last 10 years, and I don't like JRPGs. Maybe I'm not cut out for it.

>>11433086
>It's one of those games where you have to think outside the box.

More like, it's one of those games where you have to learn and follow complex patterns and sequences and be able to visualize where each move will lead you. Thinking outside of the box helps and can help you jump a few steps, but most of it is learning and stacking experience upon experience.