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The URL says it all
http://www.worldmindgames.net/en/sports ... ts-0-15302

Go is introduced using the text on wikipedia.
How can they shame us like this :'(

Same people who think the US is a continent?

This text illustrates the Othello Syndrome:

Once placed on the board, stones cannot be moved, but they may be turned over.

This URL can be anything...
http://www.worldmindgames.net/en/sports ... !_-0-15302

Bill Spight wrote:This text illustrates the Othello Syndrome:

Once placed on the board, stones cannot be moved, but they may be turned over.

In a way, that's true. It's just not interesting. But it looks like this has been corrected on the original link already. No?

Boywing wrote:This URL can be anything...
http://www.worldmindgames.net/en/sports ... !_-0-15302

but they made it say Draughts :'(

Maybe someone has sneakily updated the site in light of this thread, but I couldn't see the disputed portion. The nearest I got to it is the uncontroversial "Once placed on the board, stones cannot be moved, except in the case that they are captured.".

However, it does says "See Rules of Go" but manages not to include a link. It also manages to mention China and Korea but not Japan in a context where it would be useful.

On the plus side it does at least tone the origin of go down to some 2,000 years ago.

If there is a turning over reference I've missed, could it be explained by the habit of turning over Chinese stones during analysis?

If I click on the link on the left side it says "go" in the url. No idea if they changed it, or if they just made an error with some other link. Personally I think such urls should always issue a redirect to their canonical form if the form isn't canonical yet.
edit: Ah it's the link from the main page that's wrong for go. Looks like a harmless copy/paste error to me.

The text itself has a small issue too: The introduction describes territory scoring, but later it says Chinese rules are used, which would imply area scoring. But it's not like that difference matters much.
"stones cannot be moved, except in the case that they are captured." is a bit sloppy too.

Javaness2 wrote:Go is introduced using the text on wikipedia.
How can they shame us like this :'(

That is the same Wikipedia article that left me expecting the movie Tron: Legacy to have Go as a major element, rather than including a single blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of a goban. Actual quote from the article:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) wrote:Go has been used as a subject or plot device in film, such as π, A Beautiful Mind and Tron: Legacy.

I call shenanigans. Also, somebody owes me the fifty bucks it cost to see the movie.

snorri wrote:

Bill Spight wrote:This text illustrates the Othello Syndrome:

Once placed on the board, stones cannot be moved, but they may be turned over.

In a way, that's true. It's just not interesting. But it looks like this has been corrected on the original link already. No?

Sorry, that was not a real quote, it was my joke.

Bill Spight wrote:This text illustrates the Othello Syndrome:

Once placed on the board, stones cannot be moved, but they may be turned over.

Actually, I wonder... turning over one stone might be made to serve a useful purpose, as another way of signalling a pass.

tundra wrote:

Bill Spight wrote:This text illustrates the Othello Syndrome:

Once placed on the board, stones cannot be moved, but they may be turned over.

Actually, I wonder... turning over one stone might be made to serve a useful purpose, as another way of signalling a pass.

I think from now on I'm going to use it as a way to signal to my opponent "You weren't supposed to play there, I wanted to play there!" (=

I sometimes turn over typically white stones when there is an annoying scratch, dent, dark mark etc. on the upperside, without any intention to signal something.