When playing a standard, 19x19 game of Go with actual, physical equipment, Black has 181 stones (or, in Chinese, 180), and White has 180. Is Little Golem set up the same way? How does Little Golem handle situations that would go beyond these limits?

One of my games currently has 362 moves; I have captured 94 of my opponents stones, and my opponent has captured 3 of mine. My opponent has 87 stones on the board, bringing the total to 181; and I have 166 on the board, bringing my total to 169. The reason for the difference is from the number of times I have passed.

In a non-computer game, we could do a “prisoner exchange” where I would get the three stones my opponent has captured, and I would give back three stones that I have captured, thus allowing three more moves. What will happen on this server?

Before you ask why the game has even reached such a state, let me just state that my opponent will neither resign nor pass; so, unless the server has some limit, I may need to play until the board is so full that all of my opponent's possible moves would be prohibited by the no-suicide rule.

Question: Is there a limited number of stones available for a game on Little Golem?

Answer: No

Hi, Labradors. Just have a look on game #50435 between Dvd Avins and a friend of your's…Good luck and be patient ;-)

This illustrates a possible advantage of Twixt over Go. Make 15 moves against such an opponent and it's Miller time. (That means the game is over.) Sure Twixt is a swimming pool compared to the ocean of Go, but it's still over my head. Sorry for the sermon.

In that game I learned to make moves that would eilminate legal moves for my opponent. But it was irritating to have to go back and forth between that frame of mind and actually playing Go.

Oh, and standard Go rules do allow play as in that game. The shortage of stones is not suuposed to be a factor, except in some unusual scoring system. In an OTB game lasting more than 360 moves, players exchage captives. It is assumed (though we see at Little Golem that the assumption is not always correct) that if the game goes that long, both players will have captives to exchange.