VERY RARE, TWO VOL. SET, ORIG. BOX, 19TH CENTURY HOW TO PLAY "GO" GAME, JAPANESE

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RARE AND OLD INTRUCTIONS, IN JAPANESE, ON HOW TO PLAY THE GAME "GO".
I BELIEVE THAT IT IS PRINTED USING WOODBLOCKS.
I HAVE LOOKED EVERY WHERE AND CAN'T FIND ANOTHER ONE LIKE THIS.
INCLUDING GOOGLE, AND EBAY.
THERE IS A STAMP ON THE BACK PAGE OF ONE OF THE BOOKS, SEE IMAGE, BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT'S FOR OR WHAT IT SAYS.
IT HAS IT'S ORIGINAL BOX.
THERE IS FOXING COVERING THE BOX AND THE OUTER PAGES OF THE TWO BOOKS.
AS YOU GO INTO THE BOOKS THE FOXING FADES.
THE COVER TO THE BOX IS MISSING A SIDE FLAP. SEE IMAGES.
OVER ALL FOR AS "OLD" AS THIS MAYBE IT IS FANTASTIC.
THERE IS A STAMPED "MADE IN JAPAN" ON THE LAST PAGES OF BOTH BOOKS.
THIS WAS DONE SO THAT IT COULD BE TAKEN OUT OF JAPAN.
THIS ALSO LETS US KNOW THAT IT WAS MADE PRIOR TO THE 1880'S, COUNTRY STAMPS OR MARKINGS HAPPENED AROUND THAT TIME PERIOD.
PER WIKEPEDIA:
Go or
Weiqi,
Weichi
(
Chinese
: 围棋；
pinyin
: wéiqí ) is an
abstract strategy
board game
for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.
[1]
[2]
A 2016 survey by the
International Go Federation
's 75 member nations found that there are over 46 million people worldwide who know how to play Go and over 20 million current players, the majority of whom live in
East Asia
.
[3]
The
playing pieces
are called
stones
. One player uses the white stones and the other, black. The players take turns placing the stones on the vacant intersections (
points
) of a
board
. Once placed on the board, stones may not be moved, but stones are removed from the board if the stone (or group of stones) is surrounded by opposing stones on all
orthogonally
-adjacent points, in which case the stone is
captured
.
[4]
The game proceeds until neither player wishes to make another move. When a game concludes, the winner is determined by counting each player's surrounded territory along with captured stones and
komi
(points added to the score of the player with the white stones as compensation for playing second).
[5]
Games may also be terminated by resignation.
The standard Go board has a 19×19
grid
of lines, containing 361 points. Beginners often play on smaller 9×9 and 13×13 boards,
[6]
and archaeological evidence shows that the game was played in earlier centuries on a board with a 17×17 grid. However, boards with a 19×19 grid had become standard by the time the game reached
Korea
in the 5th century
CE
and
Japan
in the 7th century CE.
[7]
Go was considered one of the
four essential arts
of the cultured
aristocratic
Chinese scholars in antiquity. The earliest written reference to the game is generally recognized as the historical annal
Zuo Zhuan
[8]
[9]
(c. 4th century BCE).
[10]
Despite its relatively
simple rules
, Go is extremely complex. Compared to
chess
, Go has both a larger board with more scope for play and longer games and, on average, many more alternatives to consider per move. The number of legal board positions in Go has been calculated to be approximately 2.1 × 10
170
,
[11]
[a]
which is vastly greater than the number of
atoms
in the
known, observable
universe
,
estimated to be
about 1 × 10
80
.
[13]
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