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Re:Questions I would ask God about the game of Go by jhbadger on Saturday January 18, 2020 @04:23PM (#22087326)
Well, sort of. Chess spread from India, but in many different forms. The form we call "chess" today is only around 500 years old, although the original game is over 2000 years old. And even today, the Chinese and Japanese have chess games distinct from Western chess (Xiangqi and Shogi respectively). It's interesting that Go didn't similarly "speciate". Perhaps because unlike chess, there wasn't the multitude of pieces and movements that seemed arbitrary.
Re:Questions I would ask God about the game of Go by samatman on Saturday January 18, 2020 @06:26PM (#22088118)
It did, though. Go, I mean.

Korea had Sunjang Baduk: https://senseis.xmp.net/?SunjangBaduk

Tibet had its own variant: https://senseis.xmp.net/?TibetanGo

I didn't meant to imply that chess didn't mutate as it travelled around. It's still striking to me that Go was unknown anywhere which didn't use Hanzi to write.