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2011 In Go
Calendar The following are the scheduled events of the Go (game), ancient game of Go for the year 2011 throughout the world. Most of the List of professional Go tournaments, Go tournaments are held in Asia. January *14 – Choi Cheol-han defeats Kong Jie in the final game of the 12th Nongshim Cup, giving Team Korea the title. *27 – Choi Cheol-han sweeps Lee Taehyun to win the 15th Chunwon title. February *14 – Choi Cheol-han defeats Lee Chang-ho three games to one in the 54th Guksu. *16 – Xie Yimin defends her title against Umezawa Yukari in the 14th Female Kisei. *18 – Rui Naiwei defeats Cho Hyeyeon to win the 12th Female Myungin, her seventh consecutive Female Myungin title. *23 – Piao Wenyao wins the 16th LG Cup, his first international tournament. Wenyao was promoted to 9 dan for winning. March *2 – Li He (Go player), Li He wins the 2nd Female Mingren. Yang Dingxin wins the 5th RICOH Xinxiu Cup. *5 – Cho U wins the 30th NEC Cup, his third NEC Cup title. *7 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go (game)
Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day. A 2016 survey by the International Go Federation's 75 member nations found that there are over 46 million people worldwide who know how to play Go and over 20 million current players, the majority of whom live in East Asia. The playing pieces are called stones. One player uses the white stones and the other, black. The players take turns placing the stones on the vacant intersections (''points'') of a board. Once placed on the board, stones may not be moved, but stones are removed from the board if the stone (or group of stones) is surrounded by opposing stones on all orthogonally adjacent points, in which case the stone or group is ''captured''. The game proceeds until neither player wishes to make another move. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
