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  2. Go equipment - Wikipedia

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    Wooden Go bowls on a Japanese-style floor board. Go bowls, or go-ke are the containers for the stones. Although not strictly needed to play Go, bowls nevertheless play an important role in storing the stones, and captured stones can be placed on the lids. Bowls are identical, with one holding the white stones and one holding the black stones.

  3. Rules of Go - Wikipedia

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    Players: Go is a game between two players, called Black and White. Rule 2. [8] Board: Go is played on a plain grid of 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines, called a board. Definition.("Intersection", "Adjacent") A point on the board where a horizontal line meets a vertical line is called an intersection.

  4. Go (game) - Wikipedia

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    Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.

  5. Go strategy and tactics - Wikipedia

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    The whole board opening is called fuseki. [1] An important principle to follow in early play is "corner, side, center." [2] [3] [4] In other words, the corners are the easiest places to take territory, because two sides of the board can be used as boundaries. Once the corners are occupied, the next most valuable points are along the sides ...

  6. List of Go terms - Wikipedia

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    a – hoshi; b – tengen; c – go no go; d – san san; e – komoku; f – takamoku; g – ōtakamoku; h – mokuhazushi; i – ōmokuhazushi As the distance of a stone from the edge of the board has important tactical and strategic implications, it is normal to term the corner points of the board (1, 1) points, and count lines in from the edge.

  7. Handicapping in Go - Wikipedia

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    Each full stone of handicap on a 13×13 board is in any case probably equivalent to about 2.5 to 3 ranks, and each full stone on a 9×9 board is equivalent to about 6 ranks. For example, if the appropriate handicap is 9 (i.e., 8.5) stones on a 19×19 board, the handicap between those two players is reduced to 4 (because 3.5 × 2.5 = 8.75 ...

  8. Go and mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The total number of possible games can be estimated from the board size in a number of ways, some more rigorous than others. The simplest, a permutation of the board size, (N) L, fails to include illegal captures and positions. Taking N as the board size (19 × 19 = 361) and L as the longest game, N L forms an upper limit. A more accurate limit ...

  9. Template:Goban/doc/instructions - Wikipedia

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    Circled board positions (just add a "c" to the end) Note: the appropriate cell codes for the borders are generated automatically by default, so you can leave these parameters blank, and fill only the position of stones, or circled empty positions.