Go Caching!
Go is a centuries-old two-player board game not unlike chess. One of the players holds black game pieces, or ‘stones’, and the other player holds white. The game board is a grid of variable size. The 19×19 grid is most common, and the stones are placed on the intersections on the grid. The number of stones a player can play during a game is not limited. The players take turns placing one stone on an empty intersection on the board. Black starts. The winner of a game is determined by comparing the players’ scores after the game. After a game ends, the players’ scores are counted, and the player with the higher score wins. In other words: when a game ends, the player with more stones on the board win.
Scoring
Scoring in Go is via the 'capturing' process - this is the main rule that defines what Go is all about.
When a stone gets surrounded from all four directions by the opponent’s stones, it is captured and removed from the board. A single stone gets captured when it no longer has empty intersections next to it. Therefore, a stone on one of the sides of the board can be captured by three opposing stones, and a stone in a corner gets captured by two opposing stones. If stones of the same colour are neighbours, they share their empty intersections, or 'liberties'. This means that neighbouring stones either live or get captured together. For example, two stones in the centre of the board require six opposing stones to capture.
In the example of a game below, eliminated pieces have been left on the board to show how capturing and scoring would work.
You should get 5 numbers from the example game. When you have figured them out put them in a string into the checker below, like this: 12345
Solution Checker
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