/jp/ - Otaku Culture

For a few months a year or so back I got really into Dots and Boxes, which has some similarities to Go. I started playing on the Android version called Square Wars, learned the basic winning strategies, and practiced them to the point that I could beat every other person on the server except for this one guy who was really good. He invited me to come play at Little Golem, which I did for a while and fared alright, but eventually I started to become less interested in it as it dawned on me just how complicated the kind of calculations and thinking ahead that the best players were doing were. And this was Dots and Boxes, a very simple game. It made me think that top level Go players must really all be autistic savants.