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An empty Go board, with the 19×19 intersecting lines. The Go board, called the goban 碁盤 in Japanese, is the playing surface on which to place the stones. The standard board is marked with a 19×19 grid. Smaller boards include a 13×13 grid and a 9×9 grid used for shorter games that are often used to teach beginners.
The rules of Go govern the play of the game of Go, a two-player board game. The rules have seen some variation over time and from place to place. This article discusses those sets of rules broadly similar to the ones currently in use in East Asia. Even among these, there is a degree of variation.
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.
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.
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 ...
Players of the game of Go often use jargon to describe situations on the board and surrounding the game. Such technical terms are likely to be encountered in books and articles about Go in English as well as other languages.
Contemporary Go opening strategy is more complicated than the old corner opening/whole-board opening distinction suggests. The 4-4 point is used by professionals in about 70% of corners. Corner openings for the 4-4 point are still being developed, but it is more accurate to say that almost all contemporary opening theory is implicated in the ...
Go players simply talk about Go by 3-3, 4-4, 5-4, 3-9, etc. Secondly, there are only 8 numbers for every side of a chess board, while 19 for Go. To put the whole Go board into one quadrant will make it very difficult for players to remember. So go players traditionally conceptualize the Go board into four equal parts.