Go is played on a very large board, consisting of 361 playing points.
After the opening phase ends, d.
Clearly, a go player needs some Principles to guide him.
An exhaustive brute-force search for finding the best move is clearly impractical.
During the opening phase, there will be perhaps 50 to 100 candidates for a plausible move, and, for each of these candidates the opponent\'s many possible responses must also be considered as well as your responses to each of these responses, and so on.
Go is played on a very large board, consisting of 361 playing points