Inspired by the ancient Chinese strategy game ' Go ', Hasegawa sought to create a game that was rich in strategy, but still approachable by the casual player.

All of these games bear varying degrees of similarity to the ancient Asian game of Go.

In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary, maenads are depicted as corrupted human beings in service of the ancient and powerful Greek vampire Kakistos, whose name means in Greek " the worst ", the natural superlative of kakos meaning " bad ".

He has stated the view that brute-force computation has eclipsed humans in chess, and it could soon do the same in the ancient Asian game of Go.

The Old Book of Tang mentions that Tibetans enjoyed playing both the game of Go and Liubo, but although ancient Tibetan Go boards have been discovered, no examples of Tibetan Liubo boards are known.

Go (), meaning " ancient ", distinguishes it from the later Joseon Dynasty.

Flanders and Swann both attended Westminster School, where in July and August 1940 they staged a revue called Go To It, and Christ Church, Oxford, two institutions linked by ancient tradition.

The addition of Go ( 고, 古 ), meaning " ancient ," distinguishes it from the Joseon Dynasty ; Joseon, is also romanized as Chosŏn.

* Sensei's Library, an internet website and wiki dedicated to the ancient game of Go

Geographers have recorded Kerman's ancient name as " Go ' asheer " ( Bardesheer ).

Trip is knowledgeable about the ancient board game Go, and actually has a Go board in his cabin ( he is seen playing the game with the title character of the episode " Cogenitor ")

Board games and card games have been around for many years such as Go which is thought to have been around in ancient China more than 2, 500 years ago, and although it is not known exactly when the game was invented.

The game of Go ( Chinese: 圍棋, Pinyin: Wéiqí ) originated in China in ancient times.

Go's early history is debated, but there are myths about its existence, one of which assuming that Go was an ancient fortune telling device used by Chinese astrologers to simulate the universe's relationship to an individual.

In ancient China, Go was often seen as the refined pastime of the scholars, while xiangqi was the game of the masses.

Despite its widespread popularity in East Asia, Go has been slow to spread to the rest of the world, unlike other games of ancient Asian origin, such as chess.

* History of Go in ancient China, Korea and Japan

This system was referred to the Dan ranking system of Go, the ancient board game.

The earliest surviving kifu is collected by the ancient book " I Chi " ( The Principle of the Go, 弈旨 ), written by Pan Ku.

" ( in Nambiar's retelling of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharatha, Prince Bhima of the Pandavas tells half-brother monkey god Hanuman to move from his way, by saying " Go lie elsewhere, you obstinate monkey!

* Go Heung, historian of the ancient Korean kingdom of Baekje

This seems to be the case in other traditional games such as Go and Oware ( a type of mancala game ), but data is lacking in regard to contemporary board games.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

Also called Gobang or Five in a Row, it is traditionally played with Go pieces ( black and white stones ) on a go board ( 19x19 intersections ); however, because once placed, pieces are not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper and pencil game.

The Monopoly game board consists of forty spaces containing twenty-eight properties ( twenty-two colored streets, four railway stations and two utilities ), three Chance spaces, three Community Chest spaces, a Luxury Tax space, an Income Tax space, and the four corner squares: GO, ( In ) Jail / Just Visiting, Free Parking, and Go to Jail.

Given that specialized phutball boards are hard to come by, the game is usually played on a 19 × 19 Go board, with a white stone representing the football and black stones representing the men.

Pente is a strategy board game created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku which is played on a Go board of 19 x 19 intersections with white and black stones.

In the nineteenth century, gomoku was introduced to Britain where it was known as " Go Bang " ( borrowed from Japanese ' goban ' 碁盤 meaning ' go board ').

Hideyoshi and Ieyasu played Go ( game ) | Go on this board.

The game of Go has simple rules that can be learned very quickly but, as with chess and similar board games, complex strategies may be deployed by experienced players.

* Go Back Two Spaces, appearing in Square # 6, and Big Bucks, appearing in Square # 12, both directed the contestant to Square # 4, which contained the top dollar values on the board.

Go ( board game ) | Go

Hideyoshi and Ieyasu played Go ( game ) | Go on this board.

Board: Go is played on a plain grid of 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines, called a board.

Go is played on a plane grid of 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines, called a board.

In the board game Go the term describes fighting spirit.

Evaluation functions in Go take into account both territory controlled, influence of stones, number of prisoners and life and death of groups on the board.

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Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

In the nineteenth century, the game was introduced to Britain where it was known as Go Bang, said to be a corruption of Japanese goban, said to be adopted from Chinese k ' i pan ( qí bàn ) " chess-board ".

Arno was interested in running a wiki for the game Go.

Other popular dimensions are 13 × 13 and 19 × 19 as a result of the game's relationship to the older game of Go.

As an illustration, the strategy board-games chess and Go have rigorous rules in which no information ( such as cards ' face-values ) is hidden from either player and no random events ( such as dice-rolling ) happen within the game.

This definition includes such games as Chess, Go and Arimaa ( a game with multiple moves within a turn ).

Some other generalized games, such as chess, checkers ( draughts ), and Go are EXPTIME-complete because a game between two perfect players can be very long, so they are unlikely to be in PSPACE.

In the Go example, the Japanese ko rule is sufficiently intractable to imply EXPTIME-completeness, but it is not known if the more tractable American or Chinese rules for the game are EXPTIME-complete.

DuMont received an Emmy nomination for Down You Go, a popular game show during the 1952 – 1953 television season ( in the category Best Audience Participation, Quiz, or Panel Program ).