Friday, June 6, 2014

Google Doodle honouring Honinbo Shusaku - 185th birthday

Do you play this ancient Oriental board game called GO? If you do, today's Google doodle may interest you. It commemorates the 185th birthday of Honinbo Shusaku considered by many to be the greatest player of the golden age of Go in the mid-19th century.


This is how it looks like..courtesy of Wikipedia.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah in Chinese its *wéiqí*. Got interested in it after watching a cartoon series in tV and played for a while few years back online live with unknown opponents.

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