BaroqueInMind

BaroqueInMind , 5 months ago

It's called Igo and it was invented in Korea. It has less unique pieces than compared to chess, yet is more complex than chess by a higher order of magnitude.

BaroqueInMind , 5 months ago

The claim that it was invented in China is actually from baseless speculation from a flawed study published back in 1993 from a Chinese university tied to a government propaganda campaign and regurgitated in an essay posted in 2004 that someone cited on Wikipedia in 2014.

BaroqueInMind , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

The British Go association is citing gobase.org which is registered in the Netherlands, who is citing a historian named H.J.R. Murray. who said he read a 1983 Watanabe Hideo book where that guy says he saw a picture of a Go board excavated in China back in 1954, that is not possible to correctly carbon date since there was no reports of that excavation having any evidence of organic material collected to properly carbon date and no one has any photographs nor records to inspect of the actual excavation.

You are literally relying on a Chinese university tied to the Chinese government telling you "trust me bro we invented this" without providing the public any factual info to investigate.

BaroqueInMind , 5 months ago

The origin of the name given to the game "baduk" is controversial because no one can prove where it came from, and also the words "bat" and "dok" mean "flat stone" and is not a name, but rather a description.

BaroqueInMind , 5 months ago

I'm literally going through all the citations that are available in Wikipedia and the links OP is posting. You want me to post that shit in a redundant unecessary way? Because that's actually what I'm doing.

BaroqueInMind , 5 months ago

What was this originally from?

BaroqueInMind , 5 months ago

Hell fucking yes they did.

BaroqueInMind , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

This is a great read. Never knew Opera transitioned to an enshittified abomination of crypto spyware and bloatware.