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Etymology of Go
    Keywords: Culture & History

Jan: Does anyone know why Go is called Go? A colleague just asked and I couldn't for the life of me remember the Etymology of Go... I know it has something to do with the word igo but what does that mean?

I seem to remember I have been told that "Igo" is the Japanese pronouncation of the characters for "weiqi", which also means that it's its literal translation. "Weiqi" in turn seems to be "game of surrounding" or something similar. -- Andre Engels

Yes, the Wei (围) refers to surrounding while Qi (棋) refers to chess. --unkx80

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