Elephant Go

Elephant Go is a Go variant created by Ralf Gering (Germany) in 2023. The name of the game can freely be translated into any language you wish, e.g. "Elefanten-Go" (German), "Go des Éléphants" (French), "Zō Go / 蔵碁" (Japanese). The game was inspired by Keima Go. However, ladders are possible in Elephant Go, whereas they do not exist in Keima Go.

Rules

Elephant Go is played like normal Go, with two exceptions:

• you have to place two stones instead of just one on each turn you don't pass
• and both stones have to form an elephant jump.

Since each stone captures on its own, one stone may clear the intersection for the other. Neither of them, however, may commit suicide. After two passes in a row, the result is determined via area scoring. Since this excludes free removal of "dead" stones, and capturing may turn out impossible, quite some "territory" may end spoiled.

More rules may be added as needed.