.How about "Lithos". Go greeks
.EDIT: actually i just said it half jokingly, but now i like it quite a bit. mmm.
The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
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Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
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.
.How about "Lithos". Go greeks
.EDIT: actually i just said it half jokingly, but now i like it quite a bit. mmm.
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Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
jts wrote:Kaya.gs wrote:How about "Lithos". Go greeks
Ooh, Greek! How about "Peri ta Perikyklos"?
then Go Moku can be called Pente
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Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
xed_over wrote:jts wrote:Kaya.gs wrote: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.
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Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
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/
More info: http://www.elcercado.org/
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Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
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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Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
Inkwolf wrote: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.