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 Go (board game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Almost immediately, he appointed the then best player in Japan, Honinbo Sansa, head of a newly founded Go academy (the Honinbo school, the first of several competing schools founded about the same time).
These officially recognized and subsidized go schools greatly developed the level of play, and introduced the martial arts style system of ranking players.
In honour of the Honinbo school, whose players consistently dominated the other schools during their history, one of the most prestigious Japanese Go championships is called the "Honinbo" tournament.
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 Go (board game) - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Shogi schools were founded in Japan about the same time as Go schools, but it never received as much favour as Go.
By the beginning of the 13th century, the game was played in the general public in Japan.
Early in the 17th century, the then best player in Japan, Honinbo Sansa, was made head of a newly founded Go academy (the Honinbo school, the first of several competing schools founded about the same time), which developed the level of playing greatly, and introduced the martial-arts style system of ranking players.
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 Go World Index: T Entries (Frame2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Honinbo Title Match 2005, defeats Cho U in
Cho Chikun vs. Harada (Pro-Amateur Honinbo Play-off 1997)
Schools, Team, Telephone, Telex, TV, Veteran, Women’s, Youth
www.yk.rim.or.jp /~kiseido/GWINDEX/gwi2t.html   (1292 words)

  
 1862 - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
April 7 - American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh - Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
May 2 - The California State Normal School (now "San Jose State") is created by an Act of the California Legislature.
May 5 - Battle of Puebla, Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza defeats the French Army; commemorated as the Cinco de Mayo.
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May 5 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d, 1862)
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