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[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[-] Sage_the_Lawyer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

No, I want you to provide a source that says Go was invented in Korea. I also checked Wikipedia, and several other sites about Go, because you made me curious, since I had always heard it was invented in China.

Everything I've seen has said it was invented in China.

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Looks like I misread a John Fairburn book where he says Wei'Qi was invented 1000 years ago and the Chinese lied that they invented it 4000 years ago. Even those claims come from dubious archeological excavations done in China.

I'm going to dig deeper, but I remember reading somewhere there's evidence of it actually being invented in India long before it was popular in China, based on the game called Navakankari/Daadi made of small wooden pieces that are less likely to survive archeological records.

[-] WidowsFavoriteSon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 0 points 9 months ago
[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I don't know what you were trying to prove here, but not a single one of the links mentions Korea as the birth place, if they worked at all. As you go further down the list, they either don't work or have access to the content. For the ones that do work, they all start with a variation of the following:

Go is one of the oldest board games in the world. Its true origins are unknown, though it almost certainly originated in China some 3,000-4,000 years ago. In the absence of facts about the origin of the game there are various myths: for example that the legendary Emperor Yao invented Go to enlighten his son, Dan Zhu.

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