SimulGo
SimulGo is a MultiplayerGoGame where one person offers to play more than one game of Go with other players, at the same time.
Invariably, the person offering SimulGo plays the white, with or without handicap stones.
This type of games are typically offered to lower skilled players, who often not get much opportunity to play with people many ranks stronger, an example being handicapped SimulGo offered by visiting professsionals to local Go Club members.
SimulGo is often very challenging for the person offering such games, especially in an online situation where there are often tight time limits setup by the one offering these games.
Another significant challenge playing online SimulGo, for example at KGS, is that unlike a real life SimulGo session, the white player cannot glance at other games he has setup, while waiting for the in-focus black player to finish thinking. This in effect made thinking time much less for the white player.
The benefits of SimulGo to the player offering such games are significant as well. The person get to play many more games for the time spent, and get an opportunity to further his multitasking skills.
More often than not, a person offering SimulGo is playing at skills two or more lesser than his normal rank. And there lies the third and often underestimated benefit of offering SimulGo to others. One or more of these concurrent Go Games the white player will find himself getting into a fair bit of trouble. The benefit to the white player (person offering the game) is to train his own emotions against setbacks. Without disciplining ones own emotions, the white player can fall apart in other concurrent games that he is doing well. Over time, the increased skills in managing setbacks (resilience) have flow-on effects to real life situations.
First stab at describing and promoting SimulGo - go ahead and help the community improve the page please. In future intention is to create a SimulGoStrategy? page to discuss these games from the perspective of the white player. See PairGoStrategy for one I setup for PairGo.