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Board,Bowl,Stones
You can buy a board or make one yourself, most of the boards are made of wood and you should storage them in a good place to prevent it from getting woodworm, mould and discolouration, in regular tempeture and should be covered with silk clothing to prevent dust.
A bowl is used as a container for the chips, you can get it in plastic, straw or wood(the most expensive).
Stones have a wide range of variety:plastic, etiquette, Slate and clamshell, Porcelain, glass, yunzi………
Now it’s time to play!

Go is a board game for two players, placing black and white stones on a board with 19X19 lines placing them in intersection, there is a whole big theory and stories about this game, it claims to have simple rules but is very rich in strategy and looks impossible to people who come across it for the first time, there are people who get hooked on this game very much and enjoy playing it for years and years.
Go in its Korean name is called “Baduk” and its Chinese name is “Weiqi”, one of the main points of this game is the capture a larger territory than the opponent, once the stones are placed they couldn’t move unless they get captured and surrounded by your opponent.When placing stones near each other makes it harder for your opponent to capture them but placing them far apart also has an advantage, one of the most important strategies is finding the balance, playing both offensive and defensive.

A likely and common source for the origin of the gravel game known as GO lays on the way of the Zhou dynasty. Man’s warlike nature caused the heaven’s order to Fate to become entirely about war. Most of the content in the ancient scriptures is War related, and most prophecies are of whom and how many men would die in battle.
Thus it’s not hard to imagine the battlefield as a huge game-board, alternately painted in black and white and with gravel pieces of the same colors (which represent life and death, accordingly). It’s very easy to vision the game evolving these ancient times, when priests and warlords played it using bones and rocks just to simulate the fighting in the background.
Although never proven and strictly speculative, this version seemed to be the favored amongst go lovers, because of its romanticism or perhaps for its dark evolution. If this version is even remotely true, then the game will celebrate its 2,500th birthday sometime this century. But no matter what the game’s origin (or when), it became a well-used metaphor for war in the scriptures, although not in modern times (unlike Chess).

Haven’t been able to play as much since school started, here’s a game i played on KGS for the first time in a while. Nothing special, lots of mistakes