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Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day. A 2016 survey by the International Go Federation's 75 member nations found that there are over 46 million people worldwide who know how to play Go, and over 20 million current players, the majority of whom live in East Asia. (Full article...)

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The Master of Go (Japanese: 名人, Hepburn: Meijin) is a novel by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. First published in serial form in 1951, Kawabata considered it his finest work. Sharply distinct from the rest of his literary output, The Master of Go is the only one of Kawabata's novels that the author considered to be finished. (Full article...)

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The following are images from various Go-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Baekje Baduk board, Seoul Baekje Museum, Seoul, Korea. (from History of Go)
Image 2A traditional Japanese set, with a solid wooden floor board (碁盤 goban), 2 bowls (碁笥 goke) and 361 stones (碁石 goishi) (from Go (game))
Image 3Hon'inbō Shūsai (from History of Go)
Image 4Nie Weiping depicted on a Beijing subway (from History of Go)
Image 5Japanese women in traditional kimonos playing go, a print from the 18th century. (from History of Go)
Image 6Lee Sedol at an LG tournament (from History of Go)
Image 7A simplified ko fight on a 9×9 board. The ko is at the point marked with a square—Black has "taken the ko" first. The ko fight determines the life of the A and B groups—only one survives and the other is captured. White may play C as a ko threat, and Black properly answers at D. White can then take the ko by playing at the square-marked point (capturing the one black stone). E is a possible ko threat for Black. (from Go (game))
Image 8A simplified game at its end. Black's territory (A) + (C) and prisoners (D) is counted and compared to White's territory (B) only (no prisoners). In this example, both Black and White attempted to invade and live (C and D groups) to reduce the other's total territory. Only Black's invading group (C) was successful in living, as White's group (D) was killed with a black stone at (E). The points in the middle (F) are dame, meaning they belong to neither player. (from Go (game))
Image 9Shūsaku (from History of Go)
Image 10The opening section of the Dunhuang Go Manual (British Library) (from History of Go)
Image 11Korean women playing baduk in 1904 (from History of Go)
Image 12Standard fixed stone setup for playing Ancient Chinese Weiqi (Go). (from History of Go)
Image 13Go portrayed as part of East-Asian culture. (The goblet in the middle is from the Nihon Ki-in.) (from Go (game))
Image 14Li Jing playing Go with his brothers. Detail from a painting by Zhou Wenju (fl. 942–961 CE), Southern Tang dynasty. (from Go (game))
Image 15Go stones from the Tang and Song Dynasties. (from History of Go)
Image 16Under normal rules, White cannot play at A because that point has no liberties. Under the Ing and New Zealand rules, White may play A, a suicide stone that kills itself and the two neighboring white stones, leaving an empty three-space eye. Black naturally answers by playing at A, creating two eyes to live. (from Go (game))
Image 17The first 150 moves of a Go game animated. (from Go (game))
Image 18Sakata in 1955 (from History of Go)
Image 19Painting of a woman playing Go, from the Astana Graves. Tang dynasty, c. 744 CE. (from Go (game))
Image 20Go players demonstrating the traditional technique of holding a stone (from Go (game))
Image 21Traditional Sunjang baduk starting position (from History of Go)
Image 22A 9×9 game with graphical aids. Colors and markings show evaluations by the computer assistant. (from Go (game))
Image 23Go Seigen and Kitani Minoru playing (from History of Go)
Image 24Li Jing playing Go with his brothers. Painting by Zhou Wenju (fl. 942–961), Southern Tang dynasty. (from History of Go)
Image 25Model of a 19×19 Go board, from a tomb of the Sui dynasty (581–618 CE) (from Go (game))
Image 26Hon'inbō Shūsai (left), last head of house Hon'inbō, plays against then-up-and-coming Go Seigen in the game of the century. (from Go (game))
Image 27Weiqi at the Ming imperial court, 16th century (from History of Go)
Image 28A finished beginner's game on a 13×13 board (from Go (game))
Image 29According to John Fairbairn (In the Go World Feature "Go in Tibet"), at least one version of Tibetan Go was played on a 17x17 board and began with this fixed stone placement. (from History of Go)
Image 30Hon'inbō Dōsaku, the strategist "Go Saint" who was at the forefront of modern Go theory. (from History of Go)
Image 31Katago visual computer analysis of a game (from History of Go)
Image 32Minamoto no Yoshiie by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1886. This popular woodblock print depicts the ancient legend of a husband who suspected his wife was having an affair with the samurai Minamoto no Yoshiie. To prevent his visits, the husband surrounded his house with brambles and placed a Go board on the balcony, hoping he would stumble over it. Instead, the samurai deftly cut the board as he leaped over the balcony railing, avoiding both obstacles. (from Go (game))
Image 33One black chain and two white chains, with their liberties marked with dots. Liberties are shared among all stones of a chain and can be counted. Here the black group has 5 liberties, while the two white chains have 4 liberties each. (from Go (game))
Image 34The illustration [A] displays the four "liberties" (adjacent empty points) of a single black stone. Illustrations [B], [C], and [D] show White reducing those liberties progressively by one. In [D], when Black has only one liberty left, that stone is under attack and about to be captured and eliminated (a state called atari). White may capture that stone (remove it from the board) with a play on its last liberty (at D-1). (from Go (game))
Image 35A 2006 Go tournament in Paris. (from History of Go)
Image 36New York Institute of Go (from History of Go)
Image 37Michael Redmond in 2018 (from History of Go)
Image 38The Black stone group has only one liberty (at point A), so it is very vulnerable to capture. If Black plays at A, the chain would then have 3 liberties, and so is much safer. However, if White plays at A first, the Black chain loses its last liberty, and thus it is captured and immediately removed from the board, leaving White's stones as shown to the right. (from Go (game))
Image 39Game record of the Game of the Century, Go Seigen (black) vs Shūsai (white). (from History of Go)
Image 40An example of single-convex stones and Go Seigen bowls. These particular stones are made of Yunzi material, and the bowls of jujube wood. (from Go (game))
Image 41Outfit for the Go Game, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono), C. 19th century, MET. (from History of Go)
Image 42Yu Lan (1742–1809), "Playing Go Against Herself" (from his Album of Ladies' Elegant Amusements) (from History of Go)
Image 43Hon'inbō Sansa (1559–1623), a Nichiren Buddhist priest, was one of the strongest Japanese Go players of the Edo period and the founder Hon'inbō school of Go. (from History of Go)
Image 44South Korean player Lee Chang-ho plays against Russian player Alexandre Dinerchtein, seven-time European Champion and one of the few non-East Asian players to reach professional status. (from Go (game))
Image 45Stone Weiqi board from the Han dynasty, excavated from the tomb in Wangdu County, Hubei province. (from History of Go)
Image 46Example of seki (mutual life). Neither Black nor White can play on the marked points without reducing their own liberties for those groups to one (self-atari). (from Go (game))
Image 47The famous "ear reddening move" of Shusaku (black plays the center), which reportedly made Inseki Gennan's ear turn red. (from History of Go)
Image 48Katsushika Ōi's (1800–1866) Operating on Guan Yu's Arm, color on silk. (from History of Go)
Image 49Decommissioned AlphaGo backend rack (from History of Go)
Image 50A ceramic 19 x 19 board preserved from the Sui dynasty. (from History of Go)
Image 51Three Japanese professional Go players observe some younger amateurs as they dissect a life and death problem in the corner of the board, at the US Go Congress in Houston, Texas, 2003. (from Go (game))

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Top international title holders

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Rank	Player	Association	Titles
1	Lee Changho	South Korea	17
2	Lee Sedol	South Korea	14
3	Cho Hunhyun	South Korea	9
4	Gu Li	China	8
	Ke Jie	China
	Shin Jinseo	South Korea
7	Yoo Changhyuk	South Korea	6
8	Park Junghwan	South Korea	5
9	Chang Hao	China	3
	Kong Jie	China
	Tang Weixing	China
	Chen Yaoye	China
	Ding Hao	China