Forum - View topicHikaru no Go?
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LordShishio
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What is Hikaru no Go?
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king_micah
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Hikaru's Go. Hikaru is an ordinary student who becomes possessed by the spirt of the greatest Go player in history and gets involved in the game at first by the spirit's longing, then later for his love of the game.
Go is an ancient game played mostly in asia that is both simple and complex. It is, according to many, harder than chess. The game is a real one and is not some manufactured one designed to sell cards. |
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Kolianich
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u know, king, the first paragraph sounds a bit like *cough* YUGIOH *cough*
Is it anything like that? |
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king_micah
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Completely different. Go is an actual game. The only supernatural elements is Sai. No one else interacts with him, making Hikaru no Go a sports title similar to Hajime no Ippo (about boxing) or Prince of Tennis (about tennis). There is no card game here. Go involves a wooden board and black and white counters, nothing else. The game was mostly played by older people in Japan, with the young folks getting into other games. The manga creator wanted to help revive the game to the levels it has in Korea or China, where it is much more popular. The game itself has been played in China since about 1000 BC, and was later imported into Japan, where it became the game of the royal court.
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Kanna no Mai
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But, don't the Chinese call Go a differnet name? (Why did I leave my World History textbook at my locker?)
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cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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yes, they do:
the japanese call the game 'igo' ("e-go") 'weiqi' ("way-chii", or thereabouts) is chinese for the game. 'baduk' ("bah-dook", i think) is korean for the same game. 'go' is the english word, obviously loaned from japanese. yes, it's originally from China, where people played under slightly different rules than the modern game.. my understanding, for example, is that early on, each player put down a stone on 4-4 for opposite corners.. either they were the first 4 moves of every game, or that was simply the rules. there were some variances in how points were counted, as well as how to determine how to count points. even today there are different ways of counting points, which becomes important when games are close. Based on surviving records, the acclaimed "best" go player of sengokujidai Japan (~1580 AD/CE) ranks roughly as a 5-dan amateur.. the players from 1000 BC/BCE are probably much less skilled, but the philosophy of playing go was different, back then.. it's only in the modern era that go _really_ takes on a competitive nature, and leaves the "pasttime" style of gameplay behind, for the most elite players. |
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Kolianich
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o ok 
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