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Miai-Go (or 2-Move Go) - Florian - 08-26-2020

Miai-Go is a variant of Go with a simple addition: each player plays 2 stones at their turn, and the other player is removing one of these 2 stones before playing his or her turn. This gives a new strategical dimension of the game.

Miai is a Go term: 2 moves are miai is there are equivalent from a strategical point of view. Then I think the name Miai-Go is terrible because it is very difficult to find information on Internet (since miai is also a Go term) and the meaning of miai does not picture well the rule addition. Therefore, I propose the English name "2-Move Go".

Some rule specifications:
- Each player can play at most 2 stones at the same time, but then can play just one stone if they prefer, and of course, they can pass. Being able to play one stone only prevents the very rare but possible situation where it is impossible for a player to play 2 stones at the same time.
- The capture rule is triggered when one of the two stones has been removed.
- A player can only remove one of the two stones that had been just played, not stones played in previous turns.
- To make things more visual, we can imagine that Black is playing with 2 red stones, and White with 2 blue stones. Then the remaining red or blue stone is replaced by a black or white stone, respectively, once the opponent chose the stone to remove.


RE: Miai-Go (or 2-Move Go) - Eric Piette - 09-06-2020

Hi Florian,

Even if that's hard to find information about it online, do you have a link with these rules? Or if not, maybe a book?
Because for each game we added in Ludii, we tried to provide a source for the rules.

Eric


RE: Miai-Go (or 2-Move Go) - Florian - 09-06-2020

Except this one-sentence rule on Wikipedia, no, I have nothing. Miai-go is really a terrible name since, like I said, miai is a technical term in Go. So searching for "miai go" or "miai-go" is only giving pointers about the definition of this term.

I found this rule under the name "Choice Go" here: https://senseis.xmp.net/?ChoiceGo