Talk:History of Go

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[edit] Expansion

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Isn't this duplicate to the history section of Go? Or does anyone have mind to expand this article into much longer one later? -- Taku 11:40, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Go or chess?

is the board found a go board or a chess board? The article says chess TWICE but tags it as a go board. Any more informtion available? Article reads poorly this way Rick Boatright 03:52, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The original text had "chess" throughout, even though it obviously refers to a game (with unknown rules) played on a 17x17 board. The editors here mystified this into "go". Furthermore, this article appeared originally in a Chinese newspaper, which is not a public domain source, and is presented here without proper quotation or credit, i.e. it is plagiarised. It should be removed immediately, imho, for this reason and for the reason that it is not an overview of the history of go. User:213.77.158.88
In the Chinese language, "Chinese chess" is called xiangqi while "Go" is called weiqi. The "qi" part of both words can be translated as "chess", leading to common imprecise translations. For example, in the movie Hero, the English subtitles translate the game played in the movie as "chess" even though it is clearly seen on the screen to be Go. —Lowellian (talk) 22:17, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Link to chess

I'd wondered about the odd 19-by-19 board. It occurred to me that Chinese Chess is played on a 9-by-9 grid. Stick four of those together, treat the joins as an extra line and you have the standard game.

Of course the Chinese game includes a cannon, and so cannot be vastly old. It must derive from some older game, probably on an 8-by-8 grid, since that is how the game is played elsewhere. This would be true whether the game was originally Chinese, Persian or Indian (the last of these being favoured in the West).

Stick together four 8-by-8 boards and you have a 17-by-17 Go board, as described on the main page.

This is wild speculation, of course. But I thought people might be interested.

--GwydionM 19:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually XiangQi (chinese chess) is played on a 9x10 board. I do have a question about the board size they found though, how is it that the board measures 5.7 cm to 28.5 cm long ? that's a huge difference, is anyone sure it's not a typo?70.111.251.203 14:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Full sentence: The board, slightly damaged and irregular, measures 5.7 cm to 28.5 cm long, 17 cm to 19.7 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick. It is carved with 17 ordinate and 17 transversal lines, which is similar to the modern (19×19) board. It is damaged and irregular, so it is not a square anymore. It originally it was squarish (according to the greed) it had to be, at least, 28.5 x 19.7cm. --81.39.159.42 18:23, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Remove the bad pun

I think it would be better to remove the abysmal pun from the title of the third section. Puns (especially bad ones) shouldn't be in an encyclopedia outside their own, dedicated entry.

88.115.216.68 14:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I have removed it. Thanks. --Neo-Jay 17:12, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Korean history

I think we need to at least make mention of when the game spread to Korea in the intro, and possibly expand mention of how it (relatively) recently produced so many champions. VanTucky 17:14, 24 March 2007 (UTC)