Go Basic
The number of lines are on a standard Go board
What is 19?
The number of intersections on a standard Go board
What is 361?
The country in which Go was invented
What is China?
The name of the AI that famously defeated a world champion in 2016
What is AlphaGo?
The smallest common Go board used for beginners
What is 9×9?
The color that always plays first in Go
What is Black?
The Korean name for Go
What is Baduk?
What is (over) 2,000 years ago?
The name of the professional Go player AlphaGo defeated in 2017 (following Lee Sedol)
Who is Ke Jie?
The medium-sized board often used for faster games
What is 13×13?
The term that refers to the opening phase of a Go game
What is fuseki/buju?
The order of increasing importance of territory to be secured in a game of Go between corners, sides, and the center
What are the center, sides, and corners?
What are Korea and Japan?
The title given to top professional Go players
What is dan?
The name of the empty points surrounded by your stones at the end of the game
What is territory?
The rule that stops players from repeating the exact same board position
What is the ko rule?
What is tengen/tianyuan?
The class of people in Japan famous for studying Go during the Edo period
What are samurai?
Go player considered by many players to have been the greatest Go player in the 20th century
Who is Go Seigen (Wu Qingyuan)?
The name of what is the added to White’s score to compensate for Black going first
What is komi?
The name of the a move that creates two eyes at once
What is a vital point (or decisive move)?
What is 170? (accept a range)
The four essential arts of a cultured Chinese scholar (name two)
What are Qin (Guqin), Qi (Go), Shu (Calligraphy), Hua (Painting)?
The name(s) of the most prestigious Go tournament(s) (answers may vary)
Accepted answers:
Seven Crowns, Samsung/LG/Nongshim Cup
What are dead stones?