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game of go

A kind of the board game to perform with two people with the game of go (there is it).
I leave a stone on a board in turn and compete for the area of the domain that I surrounded with one's stone.
I am called merely go ().

If it says by the words of the theory of games with an abstract game, a kind of the board game, it is two zero sums limited decision perfection information game.

The origin was regarded as China, and it has been got close at least around East Asia for more than 2000 years.
With the various another name that I did including in such culture / history (the another name of the # game of go and the meaning).
It is got close widely in Japan from the Heian era and appears in the classics such as The Pillow Book and The Tale of Genji much.
It was the taste of the military commander for the war-torn country period and spread to the common people widely.
The professional organization led by head master of a school Yotsuya was established in the Edo era, too and greeted the time of the prosperity.
It is got close widely sequentially after the Meiji era, and in late years the net go facing it via the Internet is prosperous.

The international game of go league playing sports like chess from sense of values of the West (in other words I play a game) joins the international sports group total alliance which International Olympic Committee approves and aims at the adoption as the Olympic Games competition.
It was adopted as an event by the 2010 Asian Games held in China / Guangzhou.

A purpose of the game of go is to secure the as possible big ground (the details of the definition, q.v. of the rule).
Oneself is easy to achieve the purpose mentioned above because is zero sum game, and posting a stone to the partner as possible efficiently to be hard to achieve it of the game become strategic.
The end of the game can be performed by one intention or both agreements in the same way as shogi and chess.