I suddenly switched to a new project. (Ever wonder why none of my projects ever get “finished”? I have project ADD.) Now I’m working on another quiz program. (I’ll be re-using bits of the Leitner method system I described in earlier posts.) This quiz program is for Go, though.
One of the most common ways to study Go is to look at “tsumego”, or “life and death problems”. Given some board position, the student has to determine what move to play in order to capture (kill) a group of stones, or prevent its capture (make it live). These problems can start out simple, so that any beginner can understand them, and end up heinously complex such that even a pro player would have difficulty discerning the answer.
My program is intended to help practice these “life and death” shapes in an incremental way, by memorizing simple shapes first, then memorizing what moves lead to those simple shapes, then memorizing more and more moves incrementally until one can simply see, at a glance, the correct move.
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“This got me thinking. Go problems/games are an awful lot like fractals.”