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Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:07 am
by Kaya.gs
Grasp has that ordinary feeling like "chutes & ladders". Makes it sound like a mere board game
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How about "Lithos". Go greeks
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EDIT: actually i just said it half jokingly, but now i like it quite a bit. mmm.
Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:34 am
by jts
Kaya.gs wrote:How about "Lithos". Go greeks
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Ooh, Greek! How about "Peri ta Perikyklos"?
Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:45 pm
by xed_over
jts wrote:Kaya.gs wrote:How about "Lithos". Go greeks
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Ooh, Greek! How about "Peri ta Perikyklos"?
then Go Moku can be called Pente
Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:02 pm
by Bonobo
xed_over wrote:jts wrote:Kaya.gs wrote:How about "Lithos". Go greeks
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Ooh, Greek! How about "Peri ta Perikyklos"?
then Go Moku can be called Pente
I’ve actually seen Gomoku under that name somewhere.
Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:25 pm
by 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/
Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:17 pm
by 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
Re: The game of Go - how Westerners would name it
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:58 pm
by xed_over
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.