Strategic Board Game

Go is the oldest strategic board game invented about 4000 years ago in China

The game greatly develops the imagination, making every game a special “adventure”. Read more

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Go Game

Go is an ancient strategy board game, invented in China about 4,000 years ago. In China Wei’Chi (Go) is considered one of the 5 accomplishments. The game arrived to Japan by a Buddhist monk or the Japanese ambassador in China. Soon after it became popular and turned into Japan’s national game. In Japan it is one of the 5 arts any noble man should master. Go is both an Art and a Martial art.

Go is considered a reflection of life and many Eastern philosophies are immersed in it. Go has many educational benefits, from basic etiquette to improved thinking, concentration, creativity, and Reasoning.

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Traditional Go Equipment includes a wooden board made up of 19 on 19 lines on the net, 361 game stones, 181 black stones made of grass, 180 white stones made of seashells, and wooden bowls of stones. Go’s cultural influence in the Far East can be compared to that of chess in the West. Before the Industrial revolution in China, Go was considered an aristocratic game and was one of the four Chinese scholarly arts, which included calligraphy, painting, and playing on the Gichchan.

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Go is considered the oldest board game whose laws are still well known, which appeared in China in the 2nd BC (the millennial translation from the Chinese is “The Game of the Handle”). His laws have changed very little throughout history. From the 6th century BC.Go came to Japan in the 7th century AD, and in the 8th century we became popular in the royal court.In the early 13th century, the game was also common among the general public.