''Go Player'' (, literally "Go Youngsters" or "Go Boy") is a children's
animated series
An animated series is a set of animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes should typically share the same main characters, some different secondary characters and a basic theme. Series can have either ...
. It was produced in
China
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.The first season is set in the late Ming Dynasty and follows the development of Jiang Liu'er, a young man with a talent for the game of Go.
The show spans two seasons with 26 episodes in each. The story focuses on the journey of a young, gifted
Go player, Liuer Jiang. The first season first aired on
CCTV
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in 2006. The second season, called ''Go Player 2'' (围棋少年2), aired in 2009.
See also
* ''
Hikaru no Go
is a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go, written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekl ...
'', a Japanese series about Go
References
External links
CCTV program site (in Simplified Chinese)
2006 Chinese television series debuts
2009 Chinese television series endings
Chinese children's animated television series
Works about Go
China Central Television original programming
Television series set in the Ming dynasty
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