Go Game Space

Here is a list of positions in professional games where one player has made a nose attachment and then either the opponent made a nose attachment of his own in the next move, or the same player made another nose attachment in his next move.

Which games have the earliest crosscuts; which the latest? This indicates when the first fight starts. Which games have the most crosscuts; which the fewest? This indicates how fighting-intensive the game is. Also, how many crosscuts were there in the game in total?

For each year, I have calculated the median for the number of crosscuts, over all games for that year.

For each year, I have calculated the median for the move number on which the first crosscut occurred, over all games for that year.

I wrote a program that takes thousands of pro-level games, extracts the first twenty moves and assembles them in a single tree. Here I have chosen games from 2016 – the year that AlphaGo made its impact – to 2019 so we can study what kind of openings are played in the AI age.

This visualization shows the number of Go tournaments in European countries over the years.