Youngstown Go Club - (330) 720-3138

Meeting Place: The Girard Free Library, 105 E. Prospect Street, Girard Ohio,44420. 6-8PM Call 330-720-3138 or email Yogoclub@yahoo.com for more information

Check out the Youngstown Go Club's facebook page and Theduddha2's You Tube channel for more information on the game of go.

The American Go Foundation's website is also another excellent resource for information. http://agfgo.org/pages/home.php

Go is a two-person strategic board game, invented in China millennia ago (Confucius wrote about it), and still played today just as it was then. Wildly popular in Asia, it is oddly unknown here, one of the West's best-kept secrets. Welcome to a small but growing "in" group who have discovered the ultimate mind sport!

Go is the essence of simplicity. The rules and object of Go can be stated in nine words: "Take turns placing stones; control more of the board." That's it! But without further understanding of the meaning and implication of those words, new players often find the game arcane in the extreme. At first, you may even find it hard to tell whether the game is over.

Go is also the essence of complexity. The absence of arbitrary conventions means that a player can play anywhere on the 361 intersections of the board. As a result, the number of possible games far, far exceeds the number of subatomic particles in the known universe! If you seek quick mastery, look elsewhere. But for those who are looking for a game with fathomless depths of understanding, worthy of time spent, you have come to the right place.

http://agfgo.org/pages/learn1.php

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