![]() ![]() ![]() It must have been a gradual change, because the oldest known goban is a 17x17 stone board found in Wangdu County in 1954, and dated as at least 1800 years old, but the oldest surviving game record, which is dated about the same as the stone board, is played on a 19x19 board (between prince Sun Ce and his general Lue Fan). The size was presumably increased to 19x19 in order to increase the challenge, but no one is exactly sure when the change happened. ![]() Smaller boards have also been discovered, but 17x17 seems to be the oldest. As far as historians and archaeologists can tell, the original board size was 17x17 instead of 19x19. The goban has evolved somewhat over the years. Here in South Korea (where we call a goban a " badouk p'an"), popular games include a simple 5-in-a-line Tic-Tac-Toe-type game and a sillier game that involves putting five stones on the board and flicking them to try to knock the opponent's stones off the goban. Games other than Go can be played on a goban. Nowadays, most boards are much thinner and more portable, although they are still made of wood and bulkier than a standard chessboard. The lines are carved into the top and painted (or scorched) black. if there is an "official" size, let me know). Made of an exceptionally thick and heavy (the one I picked up felt like about 20 kg) piece of wood standing on short stubby legs, they are usually about 50 cm x 50 cm and maybe 30 cm high (these are just my estimates. Thus, a move on the hoshi ( star point) in the bottom left would be called D4.Ī traditional goban is like a small table. When describing moves, or keeping a record of a game, the points are usually labelled with numbers 1-19 in one direction, and letters A-T (skipping I, because a capital I is too easy to confuse with a lower-case L, or the number 1) in the other. Unlike in chess, stones are played on the intersections of the lines, rather than inside the squares. They are known as hoshi in Japanese or star points in English The 4-4 points, 10-4 points, and 10-10 point are marked with black dots for reference purposes. They come in many shapes and sizes, but what they all have in common is that they are divided into a square grid, with 19 lines in each direction. A goban is a board for playing Go ( Wei Qi/ Badouk). ![]()
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