New Haven Go Club
Come learn and play this exciting game! The Go Club is located on the Lower Level of the Ives Main Library by the non-fiction stacks every Saturday from 2-4:45 PM.
Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround 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.
The playing pieces are called stones. One player uses the white stones and the other black. The players take turns placing their stones on the vacant intersections (points) on the board. Once placed, stones may not be moved, but stones are removed from the board if the stone (or group of stones) is surrounded by opposing stones on all orthogonally adjacent points, in which case the stone or group is captured. The game proceeds until neither player wishes to make another move. When a game concludes, the winner is determined by counting each player's surrounded territory along with captured stones and komi (points added to the score of the player with the white stones as compensation for playing second). Games may also end by resignation.
For more info:
- Date:
- Saturday, September 21st, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Branch:
- Ives Main Library
- Audience:
- Adults (19+) General Interest
- Categories:
- Civic and Community Engagement Education and Lifelong Learning Literature, Arts and Culture
