Talk:Go strategy and tactics

Strategy vs. Tactics

This article offers only glimpses of Go strategy with a wealth of tactics.

To win a war, for example, there are many strategies you can employ: cut off food supply, force the armies to retreat into a defensive position by attacking their homeland, destroy enemy war making factories, undermine enemy leadership, divide and conquer, let the enemy make the first move, sacrifice small for large, and so forth.

Tactics are deployed to accomplish the strategic goal. Cutting off the food supply could mean anything from bombing food factories to burning wheat fields to destroying bridges to killing their chefs. The strategic goal remains the same: eliminate the food and the army will starve.

Initial Comments

This looks great!

One point that maybe should be mentioned: beginning players often try hard to capture opponent's stones and neglect the building of territory. It is important to realize that capturing stones which are already dead is actually disadvantageous: the player loses a move and also a point by playing in their own territory; the dead stones would be his anyway at the end of the game.

Oh, and the common "trick" of playing right inside the opponent's territory, sacrificing a stone on a crucial point to prevent the opponent's group from forming two eyes.

And maybe some opening theory: 4,4 or 4,5 moves, and on a 9x9 board 3,3 or 3,4 moves and why. --AxelBoldt

check "taoism" you can find something

I think that Mistakes-section is completely unnecessary, unrelated to article and contains information about game of Go that doesn't seem to be truthful or useful. I'm KGS 1D, and I know for sure that anything suggested in that Mistakes-section just doesn't work. Besides, I think language used there is poor. So, I'll just remove it. Maybe replacing it with Hamete-section, which is actually strategic aspect on Go.

Sente/Gote

The sente/gote part is incomprehensible (to me at least). This page has a better explanation IMHO: http://senseis.xmp.net/?Sente

Please shortly explain "to invade"

The page uses "to invade" a lot without explaining it beforehand. Reading about Go for strategy and tactics for the first time, I'm quite unsure how many stones and how far from some point are seen as an invasion. I'm not looking for numbers, just for a feeling. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.47.181.20 (talk) 18:19, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

Thanks for the input, I'll try and correct it. VanTucky 18:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Yose has been merged and therefor the main template may no longer be in order.

PatheticCopyEditor (talk) 06:45, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

proposed merge

I propose to merge Go tactics and Go strategy into this one. There is no need to have three articles covering largely the same content. Additionally, they are all pedagogical essays and require extensive rewrite to resemble an encyclopedia article. If nobody minds, I will perform a very selective merge in a month's time, ie. on Nov 9. Reyk _YO! 18:06, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

• Y Done. I retrieved all the sourced content from Go tactics; the article for Go strategy had none. Reyk _YO! 09:06, 9 November 2019 (UTC)