A two-player board game, Go was once considered to be one of the most important skills for a civilised person to learn. Known as weiqi in Chinese, igo or go in Japanese and baduk in Korean, it is distinguished from ‘go’ in English by the use of a capital G. It is best known in the West by its Japanese name of go because early Westerners learnt how to play from Japanese people. Igo comes from the Japanese reading of the Chinese characters, meaning ‘board game of surrounding.’ A popular game in East Asia for more than four and a half millennia, it is gaining global popularity. The game’s simple rules conceal the strategy and skill required to play it.
Black and white stones are placed on a grid and the object is to occupy a larger portion of the board than your opponent.
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