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Any Comments?
What do people think of the page so far, I feel it could do with a little more structure and a better introduction. -ZincBelief

I would add the variant of Zen Go, where three players use two colors thus switching teams every time. It's not a competitive mode but still fun. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BQUB17-MEstrade (talk • contribs) 11:59, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Other board games sometimes compared with Go
The section Other board games sometimes compared with Go feels out of place on this page and should in my opinion be reduced to list only games played with Go equipment. &mdash; Tobias Bergemann 11:21, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I know what you mean Tobias. My feeling was this content was already out of place on the main article, and perhaps it could be shoehorned in here. Probably you are right that it is out of place. Later I found that there is already Games played with Go equipment, which is linked from the main article. So perhaps we can just totally delete this content (and add a link you may be interested in other games that can be played...)? I'm quite new and hesitate about arbitrarily deleting stuff myself, but it does seem like a good thing to do here. Out of place and duplicated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ZincBelief (talk • contribs) 15:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC2)


 * As a first step, I have added a link to Games played with Go equipment to the article as a "See also". I am going to remove the redundancy from the article. &mdash; Tobias Bergemann 15:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Tibetan Go
Who removed Tibetan Go from the page :'-( I was going to add in a Sunjang Baduk article too when I had a little more time.

Well I have put Tibetan Go back into the article. I feel it's quite interesting historically, and I hope to expand sunjang baduk when I have the time. There are still a lot of references and background that need to be added for most of the other variants. Lots of work to do ;)--ZincBelief 09:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Well it would be ONLY historical interest. My friend and go author Peter Shotwell spent a month in Tibet, looking for someone who played this way. He didn't find any go players at all.

But I'm not the culprit who removed it. . . :>} kibi 16:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

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I created the image and I say its use in this article is fair. Is that enough? Why am I talking to a bot anyway?--ZincBelief (talk) 13:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Batoo and Kokomo
Batoo is a new variant from South Korea, played only on the internet. We will need to introduce this. Kokomo is from Japan it is a card game using a 9x9 Goban to score. Need some more info on this too!--ZincBelief (talk) 17:13, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

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No Contact Go
I'd like to propose an extremely simplified form of Go, called No Contact Go. As the name suggests, it's not allowed to place one's stone adjacent to an opponent stone.

As usual, play starts on an empty n x n board. After Black's first move, White has the option to switch sides. Thereafter they alternate placing a stone on an empty intersection, not adjacent to an opponent stone. A player loses when they have no legal move.

I got the idea in this Hacker News thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30299779 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tromp (talk • contribs) 13:26, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

"as shown"
The section on Tibetan Go says that it "starts with six stones (called Bo) from each color placed on the third line as shown." However, there is no actual illustration that shows this. Was the image removed at some point? We should either reword this section or add the image. -- Zzedar (talk) 01:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)