About

This website is centered around building an online Go community out of the many of the fine people I've met who are also fascinated by Go.  The impetus for the Hamete Go Group came when I had to leave my awesome Go people behind when I left Portland.  If this community sounds like something you would be interested in, feel free to send me an email: jrhoak [.a.t.] gmail . [.c.o.m.]

Hamete

Hamete is a term that means trick move in Japanese. Technically, we use the word hamete only to refer to trick moves that happen in opening positions -- i.e., they are well known and standard. Trick moves are fascinating from a study standpoint because they always have obvious answers and they are always wrong. Thus, studying trick moves is a way to train us to think beyond the obvious move, allowing us to probe deeper into the complexities of Go.