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  - Go The Board Game   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Go is a board game based on simple rules and simple components like fl and white stones and a large straight lined board.
The young Go players intending to take up Professional Go have to spend their entire childhood and teenage years in the home of their master who trains them as a young scholar full time under his tutelage.
While a school of scholars are of the opinion that the Go board which was originally a fortune telling device, evolved into a board game in latter course of history.
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  Go to Board Game Go. Play Board Games Online
Go is a game of territorial capture - the primary objective is to encircle as much territory as possible.
Go is not only pleasing to the eye, the game itself is also beautifully aesthetic in its simplicity.
Eyes - the key to Go An important point to realise is that a group of 8 stones set in a square is difficult to capture because if the opponent places a stone in the middle of the group, under most circumstances, that stone is immediately captured by the surrounding group.
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 Sensei's Library: Go
Go is an ancient game that originated in China, with a definite history of over 3000 years, although there are historians who say that the game was invented more than 4000 years ago.
The board can be of any size, but a board with 19 lines by 19 lines is commonly used by advanced players and 9x9 and 13x13 by beginners.
Go players cherish the quality of their go board, their fl and white stones (traditionally made of slate and shell) and their wooden bowls that hold them.
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 Go - Other Boards
In traditional GO, the number of connections of a usual cell (i.e., not in the edge of the board) is 4.
This yields a nice round board with 5 connections per vertex, but the board is not homogeneous so tactics vary on different parts of it (I wish to thank Edward Jackman for these diagrams).
Boards with more than 6 connections tend to not have any tactical interest, since it is very difficult to capture any group of stones, except perhaps at the end of game.
www.di.fc.ul.pt /~jpn/gv/boards.htm   (1961 words)

  
 Go - Japanese Board Game Rules and More
Its large board and lack of restrictions allows great scope in strategy, as decisions in one part of the board are influenced by a seemingly unrelated situation in distant parts of the board, and moves made early in the game can shape the nature of conflict hundreds of moves later.
Other board games commonly compared with Go Go appears to stand apart among games in its rules and gameplay; it is difficult to find another board game which could be considered of the same "family" as Go.
The dimensions of the board (traditionally the grid is 45.45cm long and 42.42cm wide, with space beyond to allow stones to be played on the edges and corners of the grid) often surprise newcomers: it is not a perfect square, but is longer than it is wide, roughly in the proportion 12:11.
www.japan-101.com /culture/go_ancient_strategic_board_game.htm   (2828 words)

  
 Debian -- cgoban
Go is an ancient game originated from China, with a definite history of over 3000 years, although there are historians who say that the game was invented more than 4000 years ago.
Go is getting increasingly popular around the world, especially in Asian, European and American countries, with many worldwide competitions being held.
The Go set is comprised of the board, together with 181 fl and 180 white stones.
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 Buy quality Go equipment
Go / Wei Qi Wei Qi (or Wei-Ch'i) as it's known in China, Baduk (Paduk or Pa-dok) as it's known in Korea or "Go", as it is known in Japan, is considered by many people to be the worlds greatest strategic game, far surpassing Chess in it's complexity.
The mathematical elegance of the rules is complemented by the great beauty of the boards and stones - of all board games in the world, Go has been raised by the Japanese to a pinnacle of aesthetic beauty.
The best Go stones are made of slate and clamshell and the quality and the grain on the clamshell matters.
www.mastersgames.com /cat/board/go.htm   (499 words)

  
 Introduction to Go
Praised by the shogun Tokugawa, Go was studied by Japan's warrior class and eventually institutionalized in four "Go houses," where families developed and passed down Go techniques in the same way that other Japanese families developed and passed down techniques of sword-making or the samurai code.
Go never faded from popularity in Japan; it spread to all levels of society and by the 18th century had attained a status equal to that of the famed tea ceremony.
Plenty of English-language Go books exist for beginners to study, but the truth of Go is that you have to play to improve.
www.well.com /user/mmcadams/gointro.html   (1251 words)

  
 Homemade Go Board
The overall dimensions of the board are determined by the number of horizontal and vertical lines (h_lines and v_lines), the distance between lines horizontally and vertically (h_dist and v_dist), and the space left around the edges (edge).
I made my board using the dimensions at the Equipment Dimensions page at Senseis's Library, which says that the distance between the lines on the board should be 22 mm horizontally and 23.7 mm vertically.
Remove all dust from the board and apply one coat to the top and sides of the board using a foam brush.
www.bamsoftware.com /go/board.html   (1231 words)

  
 AGA - What Is Go?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pair go was invented around 1990 in Japan to increase the number of women playing go.
Pair go is a very interesting variation of go, requiring each player to analyze what the other three are thinking.
The AGA Pair Go Coordinator is Allan Abramson.
www.usgo.org /resources/whatisgo.html   (615 words)

  
 Pi: The Game of Go   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Go was born in China, where it is known as Weiqi, over 4,000 years ago.
Go is a simple game to learn, but with it's endless permutations it is almost impossible to master.
In particular, in Go deep analysis is often required just to decide which stones on the board or alive and which stones are dead.
www.pithemovie.com /go.html   (428 words)

  
 GO EQUIPMENT
Boards made of kaya are superior in their color, brightness, and hardness.
Masame boards are further classified into tenmasa (grain running straight across the top) and tenchimasa (grain running from the bottom to the top as well as straight across the top).
Go stones sold by Kiseido are manufactured in Japan with a standard diameter of 2.12 cms for the white stones and 2.18 cms for the fl stones.
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 GO History and Rules
GO was studied by Japanese warrior class who acquired the passion for it and passed down their techniques to their family members in the same way they did with techniques of sword-making and the code of the samurai.
Go translates as "hand conversation," and which the truth of the game is really a series of discussions and arguments.
Go is an art and the beauty of Go appears when it is played in its highest level.
www.game-club.com /gohis/go.htm   (3029 words)

  
 Go, Go Sets, Shogi and Chinese Chess
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This board is made from a single piece of Japanese Katsura wood and will be sure last generations.
This board is made from Agathis and is a single solid piece over a century old.
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 GO: The Game of Complexity
Historically, Go was considered one of the four great accomplishments of ancient China, one of the worthy pursuits of a lifetime, along with poetry, archery, and calligraphy.
Asian Go masters considered the Go board to be a microcosm of the universe - an extremely complex and chaotic universe.
A typical Go game starts with an empty board and usually ends with a full board with the occupation of pieces by both sides with some exchanges of pieces for the control of selective territory.
www.jadedragon.com /archives/entertainment/go.html   (1502 words)

  
 Go Game Board Variations
First experiment is the honeycomb grid (which has 3 connections per intersection), then i'm going to try triangular grid (6 connections), then i'll try some regular or semi-regular tilings with, many of which has 4 connections just like the rectangular grid but different topology.
The board should be increased in sized to increase its strategic appeal.
When we explore different boards of go or cellular automata, we are interested in the topological properties of the grid.
xahlee.org /Periodic_dosage_dir/20031227_goboard.html   (1185 words)

  
 Go | BoardGameGeek
The game doesn't end until the board fills up, or, more often, when both players agree to end it, at which time whoever controls the most territory wins.
The earliest mention of Go appears in the "Analects" of Confucius (551-479 BC), while the earliest physical evidence is a 17x17 Go board discovered in 1952 in a tomb of the former Han dynasty (206 BC- 9 AD).
One story has it that Go was invented by the legendary Emperor Yao (ruled 2357-2256 BC) as an amusement for his idiot son.
www.boardgamegeek.com /game/188   (517 words)

  
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