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juego de mesa para dos jugadores que se originó en China hace más de 2.500 años
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“The Ancient Japanese considered the Go board to be a microcosm of the universe. Although when it is empty it appears to be simple and ordered, in fact, the possibilities of gameplay are endless. They say that no two Go games have ever been alike. Just like snowflakes. So, the Go board actually represents an extremely complex and chaotic universe.”
“When I was young I wanted to be the world's best chess player and, of course, I didn't succeed. I wanted to be the world's best Go player, too.”
“Go is destined to take the place of Chess as the leading intellectual game of the Occident, just as it has reigned supreme in the Orient for some four thousand years.”
“I learned to play go in college ... It's a very complicated game ... non-linear.”
“The number of all things in Nature begins with one. The points on the go board number three hundred and sixty plus one. One is the first of all living numbers. It occupies the polar point of the board around which the four quarters revolve. The other 360 points represent the number of days in a [lunar] year. They are divided into four quarters which represent the four seasons...”
“Why I play go? The answer inside me is clear... To link the far past with the far future.”
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Go, Weiqi o Baduk es un juego de mesa de estrategia abstracta para dos jugadores en el que el objetivo es cercar más territorio que el oponente. El juego se inventó en China hace más de 2.500 años y se cree que es el juego de mesa más antiguo que se ha jugado de forma continua hasta el día de hoy. Una encuesta de 2016 de las 75 naciones miembros de la International Go Federation encontró que hay más de 46 millones de personas en todo el mundo que saben jugar Go, y más de 20 millones de jugadores actuales, la mayoría de los cuales viven en Asia Oriental.