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Also known as goe, igo, baduk, weiqi, encircling game, surrounding game
board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,500 years ago
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Go is an ancient board game for two players that began in China over 2,500 years ago. It remains significant today as one of the world's oldest games still widely played, valued for its strategic depth and cultural importance.
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- Instance of
- mind sport
- Image
- Go board.jpg
- Significant event
- AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol
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- Commons category
- Go (game)
- history of topic
- history of Go
- authority
- International Go Federation
- topic's main category
- Category:Go (game)
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- Go (board game)
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Othello
- uses
- Go stone
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- WordLift URL
- data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/go
- minimum number of players
- 1
- time of discovery or invention
- 2255-00-00
- maximum number of players
- 2
- indigenous to
- China
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Korean name Hangul바둑
Japanese name Kanji囲碁 or 碁 Hiraganaいご or ご Katakanaイゴ or ゴ
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