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When we think that it would take twentyseven years to play ten thousand games at the rate of one game per day , we can get some idea of the Japanese estimate of its difficulty . The difficulty of the game and the remarkable amount of ...
When we think that it would take twentyseven years to play ten thousand games at the rate of one game per day , we can get some idea of the Japanese estimate of its difficulty . The difficulty of the game and the remarkable amount of ...
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hand , these considerations are balanced by the greater number of combinations and by the greater number of places on the board where conflicts take place . As a rule it may be said that two average players of about equal strength will ...
hand , these considerations are balanced by the greater number of combinations and by the greater number of places on the board where conflicts take place . As a rule it may be said that two average players of about equal strength will ...
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... that in the old books it is stated that in the year 300 A.D. a man by the name of Osan was so skilled in Go that he could take all the stones from the board after the game had been finished and then play it over from memory .
... that in the old books it is stated that in the year 300 A.D. a man by the name of Osan was so skilled in Go that he could take all the stones from the board after the game had been finished and then play it over from memory .
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From that time not only the number of the nobility who played the game increased rapidly , but the common people as well began to take it up . Our frontispiece illustrates an incident which is said to have 4 THE GAME OF GO.
From that time not only the number of the nobility who played the game increased rapidly , but the common people as well began to take it up . Our frontispiece illustrates an incident which is said to have 4 THE GAME OF GO.
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99 Having now given an idea of the importance of the game in the eyes of the Japanese , and the length of time it has been played , we will proceed to a description of the board and stones , and then take up the details of the play .
99 Having now given an idea of the importance of the game in the eyes of the Japanese , and the length of time it has been played , we will proceed to a description of the board and stones , and then take up the details of the play .
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A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T 19 18 abandoned actual advantage adversary adversary's allowed already arises attack become beginner better Black plays black stones called chance Chess commence complete connection continuation corner course Dame dead defend Diagram difference edge examples extend five four gained game of Go given gives group of stones hand HANDICAP Plate Honinbo Ikken illustration important intersection Japan Japanese Joseki kakari kill live lost masters means method move necessary occur once opening period placed player position possible prevent reason regarded reply result retains rule safe secure Sente shown shows side situation skill sometimes supposed surrounded taken Takes territory threatened tion Tsugu vacant space White plays white stones
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Página v - KOREAN GAMES: WITH NOTES ON THE CORRESPONDING GAMES OF CHINA AND JAPAN, Stewart Culin.
Página v - ... existence in the south, chiefly in the province of Nedenaes. A KITCHEN-MIDDEN has just been discovered at Ginnerup, in Denmark, at the foot of a cliff near a dried-up sound. It is about a yard in depth and of considerable extent, and contains quantities of shells of oysters, mussels, &c. THE last numbers of the Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (vol.
Página ix - ... rather than through the fighting of the common soldiers. Go, on the other hand, is not merely a picture of a single battle like Chess, but of a whole campaign of a modern kind, in which the strategical movements of the masses in the end decide the victory. Battles occur in various parts of the board, and sometimes several are going on at the aame time.
Página 67 - ... advanced. In the mean time the syringe was modified in France by a rack and pinion attached to the piston, so that water could be injected and withdrawn with great force, — a procedure not only useless, but detrimental to the bladder, if inflamed and thickened.
Página ix - Go, on the other hand, is not merely a picture of a single battle like Chess, but of a whole campaign of a modern kind, in which the strategical movements of the masses in the end decide the victory. Battles occur in various parts of the board, and sometimes several are going on at the same time. Strong positions are besieged and captured, and whole armies are cut off from their line of communications and are taken prisoners unless they can fortify themselves in impregnable positions, and a far-reaching...
Página 62 - PLATE 13 territory, and beginners are likely to play their stones directly in contact with the advancing forces. This merely results in their being engulfed by the attacking line, and the stones and territory are both lost. If you wish to stop your adversary's advance, play your stones a space or two apart from his, so that you have a chance to strengthen your line before his attack is upon you. The next thing we will speak of is what the Japanese r* j call the "Sente.
Página 31 - ... the board, and hence it would be impossible to surround this group of white stones unless two stones were played at once. The white stones, therefore, can never be surrounded, and form an impregnable position. This is the principle of the two "Me...
Página viii - Chess are of a past age, in which the king himself entered the conflict - his fall generally meaning the loss of the battle — and...
Página 32 - Me" are on the edges or in the corners of the board, or how far from each other they may be. Plate 3, Diagram vi, shows a group of stones containing two vacant "Me
Página 18 - Go Ban" as it is called in Japanese, is a solid block of wood, about seventeen and a half inches long, sixteen inches broad, and generally about four or five inches thick.
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| Título | The Game of Go: The National Game of Japan |
| Autor | Arthur Smith |
| Editor | Moffat, Yard, 1908 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Largo | 220 páginas |
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