Friday, April 24, 2020

Podcast Episode 21: The Most Ancient Game Still Played



The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.

Go was considered one of the four essential arts of the cultured aristocratic

-Instrument

-Go

-Calligraphy

-Painting

Rule 1 (the rule of liberty) states that every stone remaining on the board must have at least one open "point" (an intersection, called a "liberty") directly orthogonally adjacent (up, down, left, or right), or must be part of a connected group that has at least one such open point ("liberty") next to it. Stones or groups of stones which lose their last liberty are removed from the board.
Rule 2 (the "ko rule") states that the stones on the board must never repeat a previous position of stones. Moves which would do so are forbidden, and thus only moves elsewhere on the board are permitted that turn.

Backgammon is a "man vs. fate" contest, with chance playing a strong role in determining the outcome. Chess, with rows of soldiers marching forward to capture each other, embodies the conflict of "man vs. man". Because the handicap system tells Go players where they stand relative to other players, an honestly ranked player can expect to lose about half of their games; therefore, Go can be seen as embodying the quest for self-improvement, "man vs. self".

http://online-go.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.zenandroid.onlinego&hl=en_US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PTXdR8hLlQ

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