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Variants
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This is a list of what can be done with a goban and stones, other than conventional Go.

Historical or Regional Go Variants, Go with prescribed Openings

Simplified Variants

  • AtariGo - Also known as the capture game or first capture
  • One-Eyed Go
  • No-pass go
  • [ext] Gonnect: the rules of Go apply except that there is no passing and the winner is the first to connect two opposite sides of the board (or to deprive the opponent of legal moves). The game is usually played on a 13x13 board and the pie rule is used.
  • Alter Igo - go-like game with minimalistic ruleset

Complicated Variants

  • [ext] Dango: Captured stones are not removed from the board. They are moved elsewhere on the board by the capturer!

Variants with different Scoring or with Bidding

Games that model particular Aspects of Go

Variants with Restrictions and Limitations

Spiced up Variants

Go on Different Boards

Go with Special Stones

Go for 3 or more Players

Crossovers between Chess and Go

Other Surrounding Strategy Games

Other Games with Go Board and Stones

  • Gomoku - Five in a row
  • Pente - Like Gomoku, but with a way of capturing
  • [ext] Renju - Japanese variant of Gomoku, but with extra rules to give a fairer balance between black and white.
  • Hasami Shogi
  • Philosopher's Football - also known as Phutball. A wonderful game invented by John H. Conway?. On first attempts it seems simple, but after thrashing around for a while you realise that advance preparation is required. Soon you are creating massively complex tours around the board, which can even end up self-defeating.
  • [ext] Tanbo (Tanbo crudely models a system of plant roots which are growing, competing for space, and dying. The object is to completely destroy your opponent.)

Other Go-related Games

Go Variants Collections

Don't know where to put it, might just be regular 9x9 go



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