A reflection on the culture and life philosophy from Chinese American immigrants. It is about the immigration experience and what it means to be both “Chinese” in America and Chinese-American.
Avoid greed;
Be unhurried to enter an opponent's territory ;
Take care of oneself when attacking the other;
Discard a stone to gain initiative;
Abandon small to save big;
Build a base, avoid hasty action;
Moves must respond to the enemy's; Against strong positions, play safely;
Look for peace, avoid fighting in an; isolated or weak situation;
Playing Go is helpful for the intellectual development of the human brain.
It can enhance a person's computing ability, memory, creative ability, thinking ability, judgment ability, and can also improve people's ability to control their attention.
Playing Go will also play a positive role in children, so that they can better analyze things.
The long-term view and big picture thinking is throughout the process of competition. Sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice immediate interests to obtain long-term and overall benefits. Go can cultivate people's comprehensive and historical perspectives to build advanced decision-making ability and long-term vision to achieve a big picture.
The round chess pieces and square chessboards of Go symbolize the 361 intersections on the chessboard of the “Heavenly Place”. The 361 days of the Chinese Lunar Calendar are divided into 4 parts representing 90 intersections of each part of the season and 3 months of each quarter. In the center of the 90-day chessboard, Tai Chi black and white two-color chess pieces indicate yin and yang. Even the victory and defeat of Go also reflects the characteristics of Chinese traditional culture, and the soldiers who are the most advanced are not advocating the killing of thieves.
The purpose of Going is not to kill the other side. The essence of Go is a peace movement. Real masters, rarely shows arbitrarily arrogant. The fighting spirit of the whole process of the two sides continues to take the initiative and the opportunity to expand and maintain dominance in the process. Therefore, the highest state of Go is not a conflict but a harmony as its emphasize on the level of social morality. The existence of Go at least indicates that there is a spirit of democracy and equality in the Chinese cultural system.
Go is an intellectual game with deep intelligence, full of strategy and calculation. The Chinese ancestors invented Go, which was to use it as a tool for high-level thinking games. The shape and rules of Go include a wealth of strategic elements. This innate characteristic fundamentally defines the strategic attributes of the Go game thinking form.
(1) Go is the unity of abstraction and figuration, and it has basic strategic characteristics. (2) The shape of Go is broad, criss-crossed, and full strategic space. (3) Go has run through the entire strategic process from the beginning to the end. Intertwined, full strategic space. (4) Go is the winner of the pursuit of overall comparative benefits, reflecting the high strategic goals.
NEW FRONTIERS - ANCIENT CHINESE GAMES - GO AND CHINESE CHESS