First sentence about go

[msgreg]

Also, I probably will start to modify "the oldest game in the world played in its original form" to "the oldest game in the world that we know the rules of".

Do we know that? I'm not a huge history researcher, but while I do know that the history of Go is very long... Do we actually know that we play it now like it was in its original incarnation? Or that we know the historic rules? Maybe simply "the oldest known board game" because I doubt that even with a 4000 year history it is older than hide and seek!

Yes I should have said "board game" good catch!

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[LocoRon]

The fact that a game is 4000 years old is something that everyone I've said it to has found interesting,

Everyone I've told that to has found it interesting as well. And not a single one of them has been inclined to try Go because of it.

(As for my comment about Monopoly; I actually think its history is fascinating as well. It just wouldn't get me to play it.)