Go (gemme)

Go (tradeetional Cheenese: 圍棋; semplifee'd Cheenese: 围棋; pinyin: wéiqí; Japanese: 囲碁; rōmaji: igo^{[nb 2]}; Korean: 바둑; romaja: baduk^{[nb 3]}; literally: "encirclin gemme") is an abstract strategy buird gemme for twa players, in which the aim is tae surroond mair territory nor the opponent.

Go

Go is played on a grid of black lines (usually 19×19). Game pieces, cried stanes, are played on the lines' intersections.
Years active	prior tae Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BCE) tae present
Genre(s)	Buird gemme Abstract strategy gemme
Players	2
Age range	3+[1][nb 1]
Setup time	Minimal
Playin time	Casual: 20–90 minutes Toornament: 1–6 oors[a]
Random chance	None
Skill(s) required	Strategy, tactics, observation
Synonym(s)	Weiqi Igo / Paduk Baduk
a Some Japanese perfaisional gemmes exceed 16 hours an are played in sessions spread over two days.

Go
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	圍棋
Simplified Chinese	围棋
Leeteral meanin	"encirclement chess"
Transcriptions Staundart Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin wéiqí Wade–Giles wei2-ch'i2 IPA [wěi.tɕʰǐ] ( listen) Wu Suzhounese wé-jí Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanisation wàih-kèih Jyutping wai4-kei4 Soothren Min Hokkien POJ uî-kî
Korean name
Hangul	바둑
Transcriptions McCune–Reischauer baduk
Japanese name
Kanji	囲碁
Transcriptions Romanisation igo

Notes

1. Children below a certain age may swallow or choke on stones.
2. The full Japanese name igo is derived frae its Cheenese name weiqi (Middle Chinese "hjwɨj-gi"), which rouchly translates as "buird gemme o surroondin".
3. The Korean wird 'baduk' derives frae the Middle Korean wird 'Badok', the oreegin o which is controversial; the mair plausible etymologies include the suffix '-ok' addit tae 'Bad' creautin the meanin 'flat an wide buird', or the jynin o 'Bad', meanin 'field', an 'Dok', meanin 'stane'. Less plausible etymologies include a derivation o 'Badukdok', referrin tae the playin pieces o the gemme, or a derivation frae Cheenese 排子, meanin 'tae arrange pieces'.See 조, 항범 (8 October 2005). 그런 우리말은 없다. 태학사. ISBN 9788959660148. Retrieved 3 Juin 2014.