GO: Enter the Hidden World of Chinese Chess!
Enter into the world of Go with GO: Enter the Hidden World of Chinese Chess!. The game of Go ( traditional Chinese: åœæ£‹; pinyin: wéiqÃ, Japanese: å›²ç¢ igo, Korean: 바둑 baduk, literally means: "encircling game", is a board game involving two players that originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago.
Confucius also wrote about Go. It was considered one of the four essential arts of a cultured Chinese scholar.
-There is significant strategy and philosophy involved in the game, and the number of possible games is vast (10761 compared, for example, to the 10120 possible in chess).
-There are over 40 million Go players worldwide in over 74 countries.
-Go can be found in books and movies such as:
The Master of Go by Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata
and The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa. The novel Shibumi by Trevanian centers around the game and uses Go metaphors and The Way of Go: 8 Ancient Strategy Secrets for Success in Business and Life by Troy Anderson applies Go strategy to business. GO: An Asian Paradigm for Business Strategy.
-The manga (Japanese comic book) and anime series Hikaru no Go is another example of the popularity of this game.
-Go has been used as a subject or plot device in film, such as π, A Beautiful Mind, Tron: Legacy, and The Go Master, a biopic of Go professional Go Seigen. 2013's Tôkyô ni kita bakari or Tokyo Newcomer portrays a Chinese foreigner Go player moving to Tokyo. In King Hu's wuxia film The Valiant Ones, the characters are color-coded as Go stones (black or other dark shades for the Chinese, white for the Japanese invaders), Go boards and stones are used by the characters to keep track of soldiers prior to battle, and the battles themselves are structured like a game of Go.
-The corporation and brand Atari was named after the Go term.
- Computer Go research has shown that given the large search tree, knowledge and pattern recognition are more important in Go than in other strategy games, such as chess.
-A study of the effects of age on Go-playing by a study by Xiangchuan Chen et al showed greater activation in the right hemisphere among Go players than among chess players. This can improve brain function and decrease the aging process in the brain as well. Are you ready to step into the world of GO and experience, possibly the most life-changing game ever created!? With GO: Enter the Hidden World of Chinese Chess!
