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offers us a mass of ways to enrich our lives apart from just placing pieces on a board. Yet there is still another facet that can make the game especially valuable for western players. Although go has traditionally been seen as one of the liberal arts in Asia, it has mostly appealed in the west to players who have some sort of background in mathematics or computing. The reaction of a fair number of these people to go can be seen in that of former world chess champion Emanuel Lasker. Intrigued by the game, he was nevertheless convinced that he and his friends could eventually match the Japanese masters through application of logic and analysis. In fact, he never got to within a nine-stone handicap (rather like queen odds in chess). But it is my experience that, once the shock wears off, such players become even more intrigued by go and realise it has new things to teach them. They are learning for themselves the exhortation of Confucius, from over 2,000 years ago, that one should “renew oneself day by day” Go has often been used as a model of that famous saying, because one aspect of it that fascinated even the ancients is that it is a game of infinite variety—the same game never appears twice.
But, if you prefer, there is no need to be philosophical about the game. The most significant fundamental of go is that it is just plain fun.
John Fairbairn
London, 2009
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