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ancient game which is also called Go and Baduk |
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China
is the cradle of
Weiqi,
it
originated from China with a long history of over four thousands
years, in the history of Chinese traditional culture, it
is regarded as one of the four well-known cultural accomplishments,
i.e. Music, Weiqi, Calligraphy and
Painting; the four accomplishments can appropriately
reflect the progress of the development of human civilization
of China in the old time.
As one ancient game, Weiqi was imported to Japan about 1200
years ago, it had a new name, Go.
In
the late 1800's it reached western world. The same game
is also played in Korea, where it is called
"Baduk".
Even
today, Weiqi or Go survives in its original as the oldest
mind game in the world, it is obvious that a great achievements
has been made in recent years. In China, there are over
30 millions of fans and this number is still increasing.
In Korea, one fourth of the people can plan go, of course,
there are more people playing go in Japan too, it is pleased
to have more and more people in Europe and North American
playing go now. Professional players from China, Japan and
Korea are invited to attend the go congress and other activities
to offer lectures and demonstrations, which are very helpful
to the development of go in these areas.
The fact indicates that the people playing go and practicing
to improve skills are likely improve in the aspects of intellectuality
and ability of close reasoning and analyzing, it is also
very healthy for human body and mind, especially for the
kids and teenagers to improve their ability of understanding
and memory. There are more and more universities and middle
schools, even in primary schools in China have Weiqi Go
as one of their courses.
Hand-Talk is another name of go, which means it is
a kind of social activities, people get to know each other
and become friends by hand-talking.
In general speaking, people surely benefit from this valuable
and amazing board game. |
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go
is an event good for all ages |
"
Beautiful Mind " |
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