Sunday, 9 March 2008

Story of go (igo/ weiqi/baduk)

I got it from "go go igo" There are 361 intersections on a 19 x 19 board. This is the same as the number of days in ancient china. And it’s said that one rotation around the first line of the board represents the year. And the white go stones represents the day and the black ones represents the night. In other words, the go boards shows the flow of time on earth. And the go stones are the sky. In other words this is the universe. In the universe there are earth and sky, right? Not only that, there is a theory that go boards and stones were used fortune telling.... Igo is really wonderful...

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