GO Beginner Set

Players: 2    Play Time: 30-180 Min     Age: 8+ This beginner Go set is ideal to learn the fascinating game of Go. Single sided 11 1/4" x 11 7/8" board featuring a 19 x 19 Go grid. 181 Black & 180 White Plastic Go stones (1/2" diameter, 3/8" thick). Instruction booklet "The Rules of Go" By all appearances, it's just two players taking turns laying stones on a 19×19 (or smaller) grid of intersections. But once its basic rules are understood, Go shows its staggering depth. One can see why many people say it's one of the most elegant brain-burning abstract games in history, with players trying to claim territory by walling off sections of the board and surrounding each other's stones. The game doesn't end until the board fills up, or, more often, when both players agree to end it, at which time whoever controls the most territory wins. The earliest mention of Go (圍棋 (wéi qí)- "surrounding game") appears in the "Analects" of Confucius (551-479 BC), while the earliest physical evidence