Busacca Gallery

A old pair bowl stone slate Goishi Goki Goke. A Japanese Antique Go Game Set: presented in wood jars with covers There are two wood bowls filled with the black and white game pieces. The GO stones are made of genuine shell and slate. There are hundreds of Nachi black slate and hundreds of Clam antique shell stones within each box. Japanese antique GO Game Board In Original Natural Wood maybe available? (Please ask for photos). Go is a classical East Asian game. Is a controlled and pattern recognition game with very easy rules and can be very complex. What’s special about Go is the amazing Aha! moment you can get from it. Try to find a Go club and learn to play on a small (9×9 or 13×13) board. After 3-5 games you’ll start to realize what you’re doing. After 5-8 games you’ll start to realize that you’re seeing patterns that aren’t there yet, you’re recognizing where things will go, how the territory will lie. And that’s a take away, that human players will spot patterns that a computer will completely miss. That we’re pattern recognition animals and will spot patterns even if there are no patterns there. That’s a key point. Humans like to spot patterns. We get excited when we think we’ve spotted a pattern and we feel rewarded when we can confirm a pattern we’ve spotted (leading to synchronicity bias). If you understand that point on an intuitive, gut reaction level, you’re likely to be able to spot (pun intended) opportunities. There are only two rules in Go (or 5 or 7 depending on how you split them up): 1. You place stones on intersections of a 19×19 grid and if a stone or a chain of orthogonally adjacent stones does not have a free grid point next to it, it is captured and removed from the board. 2. You may never play in such a way that you repeat a previous arrangement of stones. Go has a tremendous amount of possible games, 10^761 (that’s a ten followed by 761 zeros, compared to about 10^120 for Chess), and no computer has managed to beat a professional Go player – the best computers play at amateur dan ranks, or junior level tournament player.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

Go, is an abstract board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent.



The game originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago, and is the oldest board game still played today. It was considered one of the four essential arts of a cultured Chinese scholar in antiquity. The earliest written reference to the game is generally recognized as the historical annal Zuo Zhuan (c. 4th century BC).



There is significant strategy involved in the game, and the number of possible games is vast (10761 compared, for example, to the estimated 10120 possible in chess), displaying its complexity despite relatively simple rules.



The two players alternately place black and white playing pieces, called "stones", on the vacant intersections ("points") of a board with a 19×19 grid of lines. Beginners often play on smaller 9×9 and 13×13 boards, and archaeological evidence shows that game was played in earlier centuries on a board with a 17×17 grid. By the time the game had spread to Korea and Japan in about the 5th and 7th centuries CE respectively, however, boards with a 19×19 grid had become standard.



The objective of the game—as the translation of its name implies—is to have surrounded a larger total area of the board with one's stones than the opponent by the end of the game.



Once placed on the board, stones may not be moved, but stones may be removed from the board if captured. This is done by surrounding an opposing stone or group of stones by occupying all orthogonally-adjacent points. The two players place stones alternately until they reach a point at which neither player wishes to make another move; the game has no set ending conditions beyond this. When a game concludes, the territory is counted along with captured stones and komi (points added to the score of the player with the white stones as compensation for playing second) to determine the winner. Games may also be won by resignation.