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The Game of
Go is played between two players, black and white, take turns
placing a stone (game piece) on the points (intersections) of
a 19 by 19 board (grid). Black moves first. Stones must have liberties
(empty adjacent points) to remain on the board. Stones connected
by lines are called chains, and share their liberties. Go is an
easy game to play, but a difficult game to master.
The Game of Go is also know as Wei-ch'i (Chinese name), or Baduk
(Korean name). It was developed in China between 3,000 and 4,000
years ago, contends with backgammon for the right to be called
the oldest board game still played in its original form on Earth!
Played by millions in Asia and thousands elsewhere in the world,
the Game of Go is obviously one of the most popular games ever.
It was
taken to Japan 1,200 to 1,400 years ago, reportedly by Buddhist
priests who had visited China. Go seems to have been played first
in Korea before Japan, but it is widely believed that in Japan
the game came to its full potential.
When a stone
or a chain of stones is surrounded by opponent stones, so that
it has no more liberties, it is captured and removed from the
Go game board. If a stone has no liberties as soon as it is played,
but simultaneously removes the last liberty from one or more of
the opponent's chains, the opponent's chains are captured and
the played stone is not.
"Ko rule",
a special rule in the Game of Go: A stone cannot be played on
a particular point, if doing so would recreate the board position
after the same player's previous turn. A player may pass instead
of placing a stone if they so wish. When both players have passed
consecutively, the Game of Go ends and is then scored.
Please
click here to see our range of Go Game Sets that we have available.
Go
Game Sets
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