The game of Go - how Westerners would name it

[Kaya.gs]

Grasp has that ordinary feeling like "chutes & ladders". Makes it sound like a mere board game .

How about "Lithos". Go greeks .

EDIT: actually i just said it half jokingly, but now i like it quite a bit. mmm.

[jts]

How about "Lithos". Go greeks .

Ooh, Greek! How about "Peri ta Perikyklos"?

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How about "Lithos". Go greeks .

Ooh, Greek! How about "Peri ta Perikyklos"?

then Go Moku can be called Pente

[Bonobo]

How about "Lithos". Go greeks .

Ooh, Greek! How about "Peri ta Perikyklos"?

then Go Moku can be called Pente

I’ve actually seen Gomoku under that name somewhere.

[luigi]

Ambrosio Wang An-Po, who introduced Go in Spain in the 1950s, named it Cercado, which in Spanish means "fence" or "enclosure".

More info: http://www.elcercado.org/

[Inkwolf]

then Go Moku can be called Pente

I’ve actually seen Gomoku under that name somewhere.

It's a variation marketed by Hasbro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente

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It's a variation marketed by Hasbro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente

yeah, as soon as I realized that my Pente board was the same size as a Go board, I went to the craft store and bought some more of those irregular shaped flat bottomed glass stones and used it as my first Go board.