Province Go

Province Go is a Go variant which makes the game far more complex. Therefore it is customary to learn the game on a tiny board of 5x5, and then extend to a 9x9, 13x13, etc...

Rules

Province Go 5x5 opening exemple

In Province Go you have two more options of action in your turn. Instead of adding a stone somewhere, you can also dig a river, or build a bridge. Because of it's unick rules, it can't be played on a normal board, but only on a paper with pencil. Here are the rules for those two extra actions:

River

River rules exemples

Unlike ordinary Go the stone is placed on the square it self and not on the crossing lines. So, digging a river is made by markering the line in which the river goes.

• The river has to be straight.
• The river has to start from a one river point, and to connect to another river point.
• The river can't cross another river, and can't start from a crossing rivers point (see river 3 in the picture).
• The river can't be dig in beside of another river (see river 1 in the picture).
• The river can't cross an existing same color stones group (see river 2 in the picture).
• The 4 sides of the board are inital rivers.

province

Provinces exemple

Any time a player dig a new river on the board, he divides a certain province to 2 parts. The initiate province is whole board itself, and then every rivers divides it to more and more provinces. Any province is like a mini board, and has it own territorty points. The river blocks the librety of a stone just like the edge of the board which is a river either. The player who has more territory on a certain province wins the whole province territory points. And the player with the most territory points in general, wins the game.

bridge

Bridges exemples

bridge is built between two squares with a river in between them. The bridge return the liberty of between these two stone, but only for those two bridge-connected stones.

• Bridge can't be built beside another bridge.
• Bridge can't be built on a crossing river point.

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