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Go History
    Keywords: Culture & History, People

DaveSigaty: Until now the best place for Go History (at least the history in Japan) has been Andrew Grant's pages. These are no longer up (see [1] below) so it seems necessary for the SL community to produce a "Do It Yourself" version of Go History.

I have taken the Names in Go lists plus a few other items (so far) and created "time lines" by country. I have ordered people based on their birthdays. Please add your events and expand on those listed below as you see fit.

  • China [2]
  • Japan [3]
  • Korea [4]
  • Elsewhere [5]

Note that John Fairbairn was gradually publishing a varied and fascinating series of [ext] historical essays and other (often historical) materials on the [ext] features page at Mindzine. The site has become inactive but it and the materials are still there. Most materials on Go history in English are about Japan. John's work is much broader, covering not only the big 3 (China, Japan, and Korea) but digressing to Tibet and Okinawa as well. Read them while they last. And if you have the opportunity, push John to find a new venue for publishing additional works as well!!

[2] Timeline China

[3] Timeline Japan

[4] Timeline Korea

[5] Timeline Elsewhere


[1] Andrew Grant has written a series of articles on the history of go. You can find them at [ext] http://www.honinbo.freeserve.co.uk/.

This link seems to be broken, does anyone know what is up? I've been trying to go there for a week now... --BlueWyvern

Andrew just (05/09/01) told me that the site has been taken down because he wants to publish the contents as a book.

Some other links to Go history are at [ext] Jan van der Steen's site.

-- MortenPahle



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