New Frontiers - Ancient Chinese games - Go and Chinese Chess 1/3

New Frontiers - Ancient Chinese games - Go and Chinese Chess 1/3

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In 1997, something amazing happened in the world of board games a computer, called Deep Blue, actually beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

In many quarters, Deep Blues victory was hailed as a demonstration of the superiority of computers over the human brain. However, to the true aficionado, chess is far more than merely a test of intelligence.

Like Go, it has been popular for thousands of years popularity that is based on any number of subtle elements - strategy, guile, to name just two. Its only by tracing the history of go and other games of strategy that we can really appreciate their lasting appeal.

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[TheRectangularVerb]

@RYANMOW American Consumerism is primitive, not this :P



[aker1993]

@RYANMOW primitive but fun

[15089643]

go cannot be played by computers, so humans are still useful after all :) HAHA!

[Ohgod89]

historically speaking, go originated from China and spread to Korea and Japan. However, the story of the king is indeed doubtful and is open for interpretation

[wishcraft4u2]

Hm... The explanation mr. Xiaoliu gives is suspiciously reminiscent of the kind of marxist doctrines about stages of history that have so often been enforced in China, I find it hard to give it much credit... In these theories, a priori supposed economical conditions are simply taken, also a priori, to have a determinate influence on every aspect of human life in a given era. It really isnt very scientific but most often it is what goes in China.

[RYANMOW]

primitive

[pokemonffta2]

@zenradiohead no, there is a japanese anime about go, but go is chinese....

[atam017]

@zenradiohead

Bullshit, its ancient chinese get it go home and look at go history before you comment

[ihavenousernamelol2]

@zenradiohead

jap your mom.

[zenradiohead]

ancinet japanese game!!!