Go (game)
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Go, Weiqi, or Baduk is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and i
Go is played on a grid (usually 19×19). Game pieces (stones) are placed on the grid line intersections.
Model of a 19×19 Go board, from a tomb of the Sui dynasty (581–618 CE)
Painting of a woman playing Go, from the Astana Graves. Tang dynasty, c. 744 CE.
Li Jing playing Go with his brothers. Detail from a painting by Zhou Wenju (fl. 942–961 CE), Southern Tang dynasty.
Four arts
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The four arts, or the four arts of the Chinese scholar, were the four main academic and artistic talents required of the aristocratic ancient Chinese scholar-gentleman. They were the mastery of the qi
Go (game)
…19×19 board had become standard by the time the game reached Korea in the 5th century CE and Japan in the 7th century CE. Go was considered one of the four essential arts of the cultured aristocratic Chinese scholars in antiquity. The earliest written reference to the game is generally recognized as the historical annal…
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