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In case you are not aware, the logo is a picture of Go Game, an ancient Chinese strategic board game dated back over 2500 years ago.
Go is played by two players who alternately place black and white stones on the vacant intersections of a grid of 19×19 lines. The object of the game is to control a larger part of the board than the opponent. To achieve this, players strive to place their stones in such a way that they cannot be captured or to capture stones of the opponent. A stone or a group of stones is captured and removed if it has no empty adjacent intersections.
Go is known for being rich in strategy despite its simple rules. Each stone is “created equal”. In a game the importance of its role over the others is the location that it is placed and the relationships with the other stones.
Players of Go can generally classified in three groups:
1. The ones who know the rule of the game.
2. The ones who not only know the rule of the game but also know how to calculate the next steps in different scenarios, the more steps one to calculate, the better chance he would win.
3. The third group of people not only knows 1. and 2, but also knows the balance and tradeoffs between near term interests and long term potential under different circumstances, and have a vision to guide and control the evolution.
This is similar to the society that people are different levels of players, the ones that are most satisfied are the ones know what they want and are willing to give up certain short term interests in gaining long term potential. By the way, I am not speaking purely in financial sense; I am speaking in the context of “LIFE” as this group pertinent to.
A strategy is the decision of what to do and what NOT to do in order to achieve a goal.
Go is played by two players who alternately place black and white stones on the vacant intersections of a grid of 19×19 lines. The object of the game is to control a larger part of the board than the opponent. To achieve this, players strive to place their stones in such a way that they cannot be captured or to capture stones of the opponent. A stone or a group of stones is captured and removed if it has no empty adjacent intersections.
Go is known for being rich in strategy despite its simple rules. Each stone is “created equal”. In a game the importance of its role over the others is the location that it is placed and the relationships with the other stones.
Players of Go can generally classified in three groups:
1. The ones who know the rule of the game.
2. The ones who not only know the rule of the game but also know how to calculate the next steps in different scenarios, the more steps one to calculate, the better chance he would win.
3. The third group of people not only knows 1. and 2, but also knows the balance and tradeoffs between near term interests and long term potential under different circumstances, and have a vision to guide and control the evolution.
This is similar to the society that people are different levels of players, the ones that are most satisfied are the ones know what they want and are willing to give up certain short term interests in gaining long term potential. By the way, I am not speaking purely in financial sense; I am speaking in the context of “LIFE” as this group pertinent to.
A strategy is the decision of what to do and what NOT to do in order to achieve a goal.
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Permalink Reply by Frank on -
Although you are right in saying that the game originated in China, it is called Wei-Chi there.
Go is the (Western) abbreviation of its Japanese name I-Go.
Unlike real life, the rules of Go are extremely simple and can be learnt in minutes, yet the strategy takes a lifetime to master (if ever). This is reflected by the fact that (unlike the much easier Chess) there is no computer program able to play as well as a good human.
Greetings,
Frank
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