···11+# How to play Go
22+33+- Go is an ancient game that's Chinese name "Weiqi", translates to the Surrounding Game.
44+- Your goal in Go is to surround as much territory as possible, and you can do that by surrounding groups to capture them.
55+ - ( example diagrams side by side, one with a white stone flanked by 3 black stones, the second one showing the same formation with the white stone removed and a black stone completing the diamond surrounding the hole where white stone was. )
66+ - This demonstrates how a single stone gets surrounded and captured
77+- Stones that are orthogonal to eachother (connecting along the lines on the board) form stronger groups, where you must surround the entire group to capture it.
88+ - ( example diagrams where an L shape of 4 white stones are nearly surrounded, with a second diagram shows the black stones fully surrounding the perimeter where the white stones used to be )
99+ - Here we can see the white stones were all surrounded by black stones and got captured together.
1010+- At the end of the game, you will count up the territory that each player surrounds on the board, and get bonus points for all of the opponents stones you captured.
1111+ - ( example diagram showing a small 7x7 board with black stones occuyping the 4th column and white stones occupying the 5th column, territory calculation has been run and shows black dots on the left and white dots on the right of the groups )
1212+ - In this extremely boring game, you can see black controls more of the board and therefore wins by having more points!
1313+1414+# How to use Cloud Go
1515+1616+- Initiating player will always go first (for now).
1717+- Once someone accepts the match, the original initiator can make the first move.
1818+- You take turns playing the game, there are no time limits (yet).
1919+- If your opponent is taking too long or you think the game is a lost cause, you can resign.
2020+- You can click through the move list at the bottom or use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through the move history.
2121+ - If you click on a move, you can add a comment with a reaction emoji and a star rating on it! (might remove the star ratings lol)
2222+- Once both players pass, the game will auto-calculate territories and show them to both players. Whoever is playing black will get the suggested scores and can choose to modify them or commit them to their repo!