S4.1 - 3d Jake Kim's Go for a Better World & Lesson Takeaways on Liberty Counting & Endgame | Go / Baduk / Weiqi

This episode is from All Things Go, a podcast about the board game Go, also known as Baduk in Korea and Weiqi in China.

Jake Kim explains how Go for a Better World uses the game to support healthy aging, intergenerational connection, and dementia-prevention education. The episode closes with Nathan Harwit reviewing liberty counting, forcing moves, and endgame decisions that can prevent avoidable late-game collapses.

Full transcript, related episodes, and additional resources:

https://allthingsgogame.com/2026/07/27/jake-kim-go-better-world-healthy-aging/

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Jake Kim Interview

• Jake’s Go for a Better World
• The “Gateway to Go” program for learning Go

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