By: Joe Merullo Julia Stone and Olivia Pollock

Who plays the game?

•The game is played by two players who alternately place black and white stones on the vacant intersections on a grid of lines 19x19.

Basic rules

• Once placed on the board, stones cannot be moved elsewhere, unless they are surrounded and captured by the opponent's stones. The object of the game is to control (surround) a larger portion of the board than the opponent.

• The point of the game is to capture the bigger side of the board then the opponent.

Where does it come from?& history

• it originated 2,500 years ago in ancient china.

• It was in the 6th century b.c• It was popular in the aristocracy• It was an ancient fortune teller for

the chinese.

Where the game is played

• The game of GO is most popular in East Asia.

• Not many people play it here in the U.S.

• It was very popular because the Chinese liked to learn about their future.

The ancient game of go

• It is similar to the game of checkers because it is a board with a grid and stones.

• It is different because not many games have similar rules to this one.

Other interesting facts

• It is possible to play Go with a simple paper board and coins or plastic tokens for the stones.

• There is an advantage to the player who makes the first move.

• Many chinese people used it on a daily basis for many different reasons.

• When a black stone is taken by a white stone it is called a “false eye.”