Japanese "Go" Game

Some Japanese men playing "Go" in the park. I thought it was cute how they took their shoes off while they're on the mat!

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Sports

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• japanese
• japan
• chess
• go
• igo
• game
• park

[Fralinur123]

That's the best way of spending your days when you get old: sit all day in the park and play go, shogi or chess :D

[thunderrazor]

Go was originated in China during the Spring and Autemn Period, which is between 722bc to 481(perhaps even before that). Japanese people did not start playing go until AD. Go is one of the oldest Chinese culture, so you can't say that China did not have a lot of go strategies. The only thing changed is that Japanese people played go with a clean board rather than put 4 stones on the stars. In ancients times, Chinese players were better on average. Now the best player is a Korean guy.

[vampireking5576]

@thunderrazor WELL now its a Korean guy IN CHINA who won 8 titles

[CrawlingAxle]

I guess it would make more sense to sit on their mat with their muddy shoes on...

[Xiis26]

@Fralinur123 there is nothing wrong with that

[brandalfgjfj]

@hikaruUSA ok maybe he'll get a bit more than 40 maybe (less than 50 though I guess) still b has no good continuation w has an overwhelming wall-if b ties to live- 60 more points if b sacrifies. well from this perspective it does seem w plays a stupid reduction instead of a monkey jump which is much bigger but I cant read with the stones placed like thgat :P probably w ends in sente there.

[brandalfgjfj]

@hikaruUSA lol, no way, black has barely 40 points (less acually) how can he be winning by 50? XD besides white has some 36 SAFE points meaning with komi he is winning already, plus I really dont see how black could live at bottom, and definitely not easily, white is too strong around so white is likely to get some 20 pts in the area if not kill it getting 40 plus points. it's a won game for WHITE. the center group threatens to destroy some points but I didnt count them so it's all good for w

[weavehole]

@jimmyjamesWang

Seems a bit of a stretch. In about 200 years what is now American English is about as likely to exist as Elizabethan English does now. Not all that improbable to say that the US won't exist at all by then.

English will probably make up the bulk of whatever language humans have though, mixed in with more Arabic and Chinese words I'd guess.

Only a guess though.

I reckon we'll either have blown ourselves up or become at one in the internet..

:)

[MakotoShishio5]

@SasukesDead lol i did not mean to insult him when i said "you should learn to play" i did not mean any offence i meant "You should learn to play, it is a very fun game" or something like that i meant NO offence sorry if it looked like that.

[SasukesDead]

@MakotoShishio5 that is true in aga rules but there are japanese rule set chinese swedish ect ect they all count diff so before you try to insult someone about not knowing maybe you should look at how much you know about it yourself =D