Talk:History of Go

message: I'd wondered about the odd 19-by-19 board.  It occurred to me that Chinese Chess is played on a 9-by-9 grid.  Stick four of those together, treat the joins as an extra line and you have the standard game.
Of course the Chinese game includes a cannon, and so cannot be vastly old.  It must derive from some older game, probably on an 8-by-8 grid, since that is how the game is played elsewhere.  This would be true whether the game was originally Chinese, Persian or Indian (the last of these being favoured in the West).  
Stick together four 8-by-8 boards and you have a 17-by-17 Go board, as described on the main page.  
This is wild speculation, of course.  But I thought people might be interested.
--GwydionM 19:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually XiangQi (chinese chess) is played on a 9x10 board. I do have a question about the board size they found though, how is it that the board measures 5.7 cm to 28.5 cm long ? that's a huge difference, is anyone sure it's not a typo?70.111.251.203 14:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Full sentence: The board, slightly damaged and irregular, measures 5.7 cm to 28.5 cm long, 17 cm to 19.7 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick. It is carved with 17 ordinate and 17 transversal lines, which is similar to the modern (19×19) board. It is damaged and irregular, so it is not a square anymore. It originally it was squarish (according to the greed) it had to be, at least, 28.5 x 19.7cm. --81.39.159.42 18:23, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Because the board is only a broken fragment you cannot tell whether it is 17 x 17 or not -- all you can really say is that it is at least 13 x 13. 17 x 17 is probably a guess based on the grid of the complete Wangdu stone board. BabelStone (talk) 15:08, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to chess 

message: I think it would be better to remove the abysmal pun from the title of the third section. Puns (especially bad ones) shouldn't be in an encyclopedia outside their own, dedicated entry.
88.115.216.68 14:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed it. Thanks. --Neo-Jay 17:12, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove the bad pun 

message: I think we need to at least make mention of when the game spread to Korea in the intro, and possibly expand mention of how it (relatively) recently produced so many champions. VanTucky 17:14, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Korean history 

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