Only if all this made sense to me... 😭😭😭 I don't know the name of the game. In my country, we only have chess, and checkers-those are the two board games similar to this one in looks anyway. I don't know how it's played. What's it name??
Only if all this made sense to me... 😭😭😭 I don't know the name of the game. In my country, we only have chess, and checkers-those are the two board games similar to this one in looks anyway. I don't know how it's played. What's it name??
Originally it's called "Weiqi" (in China), but because it spread to the west via Japan, its Japanese name "Go" stuck, and it's generally called "Go", or "the game of go".
Since the original name translates to "encircling game", I named our Go-club "Saarto", which basically means "surrounding". We call it "go" in Finland, but "saarto" could actually work too. ;)
In Korea, they call it "Baduk", and in Thailand "mak-lom". Apart from Korean (the etymology of which is unknown) they all mean pretty much the same, surrounding or encircling.
The idea of the game is to surround free space (and occasionally opponent's stones) from the board by placing stones on the adjunctions of the lines on the board. The surrounded adjunctions and stones will be counted as points when the game is finished.
Anyway, it's really a very easy game to learn, with only 3 basic rules:
Wow! Thanks for the explanation