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Go (-2200)

Use stones to control space in this ancient game with simple rules.

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Number of Players

2 Players
Play Time

30–180 Min

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Suggested Age

Age: 8+
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Weight: –– 3.92 / 5 Complexity Rating

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Alternate Names
The Game of Go, Go & Go Bang Turnier, Go & Gobang, Go + Gobang, Go A Game of Oriental Strategy + 29 more
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My dad's goban, purchased in Japan ca 1962. It lives in his study in the woods in Maine.

My dad's go stones, bought in Japan in 1962. The white ones are a little discolored and some are chipped. They have a lovely feel and vintage patina.

Playing through a pro game on my new go set. What a beautiful game.

It started as a Boardgame Night at a local bar, but then I got a few friends interested in learning Go. When the bar owner became interested, I got more equipment for the bar. The green stones make it easier, for me, to play two games at once.

One stone is enough to conquer the board

Close Up @ Spel 2010 in Broechem Belgium

A goban that Ieyasu Tokugawa and Hideyoshi Toyatomi played on. It is in the Ryogen-in temple, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan.

바둑통: baduk (go) bowls; made in Korea and decorated with an incised illustration.

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By all appearances, Go is just two players taking turns laying stones on a 19×19 (or smaller) grid of intersections. But once its basic rules are understood,Go shows its staggering depth. One can see why many people say it's one of the most elegant brain-burning abstract games in history.

Players place one stone at a time on the board at an empty intersection. The goal of the game is to try to claim the most territory by walling off sections of the board and surrounding or capturing each other's stones. 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.

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Go Review - A video 4,000 years in the making

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The earliest mention of Go (圍棋 (wéi qí)- "surrounding game") appears in the "Analects" of Confucius (551-479 BC), while the earliest physical evidence is a 17×17 Go board discovered in 1952 in a tomb of the former Han dynasty (206 BC- 9 AD). There is a tangle of conflicting popular and scholarly anecdotes attributing its invention to two Chinese emperors, an imperial vassal and court astrologers. One story has it that Go was invented by the legendary Emperor Yao (ruled 2357-2256 BC) as an amusement for his idiot son. A second claims that the Emperor Shun (ruled 2255-2205 BC) created the game in hopes of improving his weak-minded son's mental prowess. A third says the person named Wu, a vassal of the Emperor Jie (ruled 1818-1766 BC), invented Go (as well as games of cards). Finally, a fourth story suggests that Go was developed by court astrologers during the Zhou dynasty (1045-255 BC).

A Go set, consisting of a very general-purpose grid and colored stones, can also be used to play a variety of other abstract strategy games, such as Connect6, Go-Moku, and Pente.

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