The "Go Board Game" is known as "weiq" to the Chinese, "igo" or "go" to the Japanese, and "baduk" to the Korean.
The Game of "Go" or "Weiqi" is highly intellectual board game, developed in China more than 3000 years ago. Besides being one of the oldest board game known to man; is also considered as one of the most complex and challenging board game. And is most probably still played by millions worldwide in its original form today.
It is considered more complex than the Chinese Chess, fun and intellectual game to play.
It is normally played on a standard board with grids of 19 x 19 lines. Although it is played sometimes with simplified versions, at different levels.
It is played using black and white stones, and is played by just two opposing players, placing the stones on the intersecting points of the lines alternatively.
The main objective of the game of "Go" is to win as much territory as possible.
"Go Board Game" helps a person concentration, creativity, calculation, the thinking ability and memory. This develops a person thinking skills and developing a good sense of judgment.
"Go" was used by Chinese astrologers to predict and foretell the future in the earlier days of its invention. And later it became pastime for gamblers and leisure idlers. Moreover it has been gaining popularity, and have been enjoying a good following as the world most challenging and intellectually stimulating board game.
There may be different stories about the "Go Board Game", its still remains the fact that the game of Go is a very enjoyable, interesting and challenging game. It is intellectual and also very fun to learn and play. The playing of the "Go Board Game" has become such an event that whereby different group of people from different countries who speak different languages and have different cultures; the "Go Board Game" seems to form a bridge between these people internationally.
Read more on the game at Go Board Game Blog.
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