On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:38 AM, David Ongaro <[email protected]>wrote:
> Go really isn't "traditionally" played on 9x9 and 13x13. They where > introduced in recent times to make teaching easier. The traditional board > sizes are 17x17 and 19x19. The reason for odd sizes is simple: even sizes > lag a tengen which is quite an important point for symmetry and > philosophical reasons. A Go board lacking the "center of the universe" > isn't really a universe (= Go Board). I see. Modern cosmology teaches us that there is no center of the universe, and actually no privileged points at all. So perhaps we should play on a toroidal board. :) http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/go/variants.html#torus Álvaro.
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