The game of go. Philosophy on a board. Part 1: More than a game.
Surprise and curiosity often results found with a game called go.
-monosílabo- himself and his name is peculiar and even funny. It is not related with
golf, nor bingo, nor with the gogos disco, nor with football ...; And it's funny
check their permanent presence in the language.
Ah !, moss, plant funnier,
because as I told a friend: can play mus and go!
Go is also the verb go in English but no "gou" it is said, and is "the game will";
is that rare game that comes out in the crosswords as "Japanese game" but
that almost nobody knows. And is that the word Go is the name of the game in Japanese,
in China it is called Weichi; and baduk in Korea.
To play go just need a board and stones, white and black. On the dashboard
You must have drawn a grid or grid. The grid has been used more
historically, it is 19 x 19 lines, it's where the beauty is reflected best
and depth of go. But it is known that ancient Tibet used the 17x17 board;
and in any case, to learn to play you can start with a smaller board,
13x13 or 9x9.
We are surprised to see how the go board is present in everyday life:
There are boards go everywhere ...!
on the tiled floor and walls ...,
in the clothes...,
on the street ... in ... manhole covers, look,
this he has just 19x19! ... It's amazing!
and see you under the Eiffel Tower is a board go!
There are also stones everywhere,
Go but must be oval and round. Good are made of black slate
shell and white; currents are simply of plastic or glass.
They are little buttons, or lentils ... and beware with the kids !, they are not candy.
Usually they placed in two bowls, one 180 181 white and one with black, which gives a
total of 361 stones, as many as intersections have the board, but rarely get to use all
Go is a game of intelligence in which
no chance intervenes; undoubtedly the oldest and fascinating of all the games and
strategy that today is known and practiced. He arrived from the East, where was born more
4,000 years, originally it is directly related to education, because it has
a Chinese legend that was invented by legendary Emperor Yao to instruct his son.
It serves to develop imagination, creativity, ability to concentrate,
the ability to discern the meaning Harmony, proportion and aesthetics
Why in ancient China it was one of the
called four arts, with painting, calligraphy and music.
Old and new at the same time fascinates who finds out, he sees appear before it a
wonderful horizon full of possibilities, an infinite, hidden and mysterious space,
an intangible beauty ... A simple game, yes, but full of values
exceeding playfulness. Hence its appeal, its magic and its millenary existence.
So we ask: What is actually the go?
It may be difficult to understand what is because, really, it does not look like any
another game. Go is a natural, abstract game, subtle, full of logic and common sense.
It is a refreshing space for the mind ... Like another world within the world ...
It is also a way to perceive the ephemeral of existence, and become aware of
different reality, beyond time and space. So it is no coincidence that those
Taoism as special beings called Immortals appear in many representations
playing go. And is that the idea of immortality is present on the board: When a
group of stones is alive, means is indestructible, invulnerable ... a point
insurance support, ie immortal.
Despite its simplicity, the board and go stones
They constitute a profound symbolic language.
- The square represents the material world, Earth.
- And the circle the spiritual world, Heaven. The circle represents the intersection of
wheel with its center, which in turn is the center of the cross, the fifth element, consciousness
- The black and white represent the duality,
as the symbol of Yin and Yang, couples from which everything is born,
binary "on-off" present in all the declared.
The image of a panel full of stones also suggests ways of nature,
called fractal geometry,
in which an apparent chaos within very precise mathematical rules hide.
In a way, go practice becomes an extraordinary learning laboratory.
The game teaches us to be bold yet cautious
The very bold and ambitious behavior is as dangerous as very fearful or conservative.
It should not attack while the defense therefore be neglected.
However, excessive caution does not allow
see opportunities when they present themselves, and causes the loss of initiative in the game.
GO teaches us to persevere in the
project development, but also namely time change strategy.
Do not act rigidly insist ideas that are no longer valid to change the situation.
No need to keep fighting for what is lost,
but at the same time not to leave never fight until
He has not exhausted the last hope.
The go reflects the idea of dynamic equilibrium: The stones should be neither too concentrated
or widely dispersed. Often it is surrounded Rodeador; the dead, alive and dead alive.
The win may be obtained by the accumulation small advantages, although sometimes necessary
risk everything in a decisive battle. Is Undoubtedly the beauty of this dynamism, and
the excitement of these transformations.
Develops the vision go together, the
global vision, and allows you to check the excessive localism, particularism and selfishness,
lead to failure.
Each new stone changes the situation on
the board, and the player must learn to recognize and constantly assess changes.
That assessment must be fair, and therefore must consider the entire board.
The opponent must always be taken into account, because in a way, it is a game of go
construction in which two opponents, even without proponérserlo cooperate in production
a work that can satisfy both the winner and the loser.
The kind of intelligence that puts demands go also involved human qualities: Prudence,
courage, tenacity, serenity ... So no software, play
good to go; nor a human being can play well so machinelike.
Go integrates the activity of both sides the brain, the left, which brings into play the
analytical skills and the right, capacity creative. Therefore also it constitutes an authentic
prevention against all types of disease mind, including Alzheimer's disease.
Go practice gives us serenity, calm and balance, allowing us to leave
aside the problems of everyday life and its load remain at least for a while
The concentration and abstraction
facilitating the go can even serve to overcome pain, as in the case many times
represented a large Japanese character He is playing to go as he performed
an operation arm.
The passion and captivates go because it's something that You are discovering oneself. But after a certain
time, a surprising discovery is made: life go and look. How?:
- The game starts with an empty board and, at least in principle, we have much
freedom to go where placing stones We want. Even the stages in which
develops the game: fuseki, chuban, and yose, keep a parallelism
with what is youth, maturity and old age.
In the first stage are plotted the main lines of what will come next,
in the second fully developed our capabilities, and the third is collected
the fruits as lived before. - That initial freedom that is necessary
find meaning or strategy: We need know what to do. Should we not also
discover a meaning in life?
- Go is easy and difficult at the same time.
The simplicity of its rules contrasts with its extraordinary degree of depth and subtlety.
And this paradox leads to another: a master of Go knows how to find the easiest way
play, something that costs a lot of beginners, those who choose very complicated moves,
with disastrous results. - A novice player craves go capturing stones
yet one learns expert sacrifice. It's the same difference
between childishness and maturity. - We play go according to our understanding
the game. Also, necessarily entails living a way of understanding life.
- Each item is different, as is each new day. It is therefore necessary to maintain
the ability to see everything as something new if we want to improve both the go and in life.
Otherwise it falls into the routine, automatism and mechanicalness, main
causes of degradation and aging.
- The go also brings us closer to knowledge
of the laws of life and nature. He board would become a small ecosystem
where everything is harmonically related, and the player is discovering the laws that govern it.
- Like life, the go is dynamic, deep
and mysterious. It shows you always have anything beyond that still do not see but can
discover. So grows the philosophical search and innate sense at all
Humans. Search for balance and harmony, pursuit of abstract beauty that is hidden
behind all forms, search for knowledge.
- And, both on board and in life, that knowledge is what will make us truly
free, as it will allow us to choose which our movements and actions correctly.
In this way the go becomes a way of moral development, consisting of
always seek the best move, the right thing, the best way to act.
One way of overcoming mistakes, their weaknesses,
they are, really, our main adversary.
Go is therefore a purely human game,
and the game comes to amount to a conversation in which both players are showing on
the board even the most intimate aspects of his personality. That's why they call in Japan
"Shudan" which means "language without words ", understood without words," speak without speaking. "
This explains the Chinese proverb that says, "Use the wei-chi to make friends"
since the go facilitates personal relationship and mutual understanding.
Inevitably,
the style of play will reveal whether the player It is aggressive, ambitious, impetuous, reflective,
generous or stingy, bold or coward unruly or submissive, rigid or flexible ...
Therefore we can say that the go is a game purely human, typical of humans,
endowed with discernment and conscience. Although it might be doubted this claim,
if we consider the answer Emanuel Lasker, world champion chess between
1894 and 1921, gave a reporter when he He asked about the go:
"Chess is limited to the inhabitants of Earth, but if there are intelligent beings
on some other planet, surely they know the go. "
All these aspects explain why the go has been and continues to be applied to different
fields of human activity. As a strategy game par excellence,
GO is highly regarded by diplomats and politicians, and it has been traditionally part in the
curriculum of military academies, both Chinese and Japanese, because it can
They are embodied much of the principles contained in the classic treatise by Sun Tzu:
"The Art of War", which some It could well be called "The Art of Peace"
largely because it is dedicated to how prevent conflicts before they occur.
Also in the go he dominates the idea of "living and let live ", not Checkmate, own
Chess; and although there is also life and Death on the go, this death is the same as
It exists in nature, due to natural laws.
Although there is no struggle with the physical body, the go is considered a martial art, because
on the board develops a true combat, where the psychological aspects
and mental are of fundamental importance.
This explains why the mental strength of Go players
is valued with a category system similar to martial arts. And also
He explains why many samurais practiced go.
The go was also chosen by many monks Buddhists, it reflects well one of the
fundamental concepts of Buddhism: Detachment.
It may be that one or more stones have
had a crucial importance at a time of the game, but once circumstances
have changed, you have to play with the possibility abandoning.
And in recent times it has gained prominence the implementation of business development go
and the business world, it is known that most Japanese executives
I usually practice. Leisure and business joined on the board, where negotiations
and exchange gains and losses, growth and expansion ...
Both go as business is important have a proper sense of risk, spirit
entrepreneurial initiative ...
And each player is like the director
of a company, its great strategist.
All these values go explain that their
dissemination in the West will be increasing.
They are known some books that talk about the go: Shibumi, Jian, the player go, Chung Kuo ...
And it is known poem dedicated to him Jorge Luis Borges:
"Today, September 9, 1978, I had the palm a small disc
of three hundred and sixty one required for the astrological game of go,
that other chess East. It is older than the oldest writing
and the board is a map of the universe ... "
There are also some films in which
GO appears: "Pi, Faith in Chaos" and "A Beautiful Mind," based on the
life of John Nash, Nobel Prize in 1994. Nash he perfected the "Game Theory"
Von Neumann and Morgenstern, establishing the chances of a clash of opposites
both sides can win.
It is striking the complex reaction of Nash,
in the film, when you lose a game of Go.
Gradually are the number of Western who accept this legacy from the East. Nevertheless,
It is still pending recovery value traditionally had in the past:
cultural, artistic and philosophical value. A value that will allow Western man
use the game as a way of overcoming staff, value for the Japanese
Kido speak of "the path of go".
Having gone through the centuries with rules
game so simple and almost invariable They give the flavor of the classic: I old
and once again, not subject to fashions, always attractive ...
His likeness with life make it a simple learning laboratory where
each stone is putting us clear life aspects,
of ourselves and others.
Go is also a valuable educational tool,
a tool in our power to develop and keep our minds active,
while we had fun.
If it is true that we live in the "leisure civilization"
with many hours of free time at our disposal, the go is presented
as an alternative extraordinary entertainment, clean, green,
for anyone
of any age. A real challenge for who we are not satisfied with amusements
passive usual, but we seek leisure quality where to test our
capabilities and develop them.
A beautiful alternative to telebasura, consumerism,
crime and so many other problems of our time.
Therefore, we can say that the go is more than a game. That recondite, mysterious
and attractive ..., that enchants the go, that that every human being seeks even unknowingly,
It is nothing other than knowledge, but not a mere academic knowledge;
depth knowledge of the laws of Life and Nature, the universal knowledge
that every human being, of any age and Instead, you need and want to learn.
This is the natural relationship go with -understood philosophy is in its traditional sense,
as love of wisdom, and this relationship produces the real discovery of the game,
thus it is showing us its deepest aspect and magic.
Magic, ultimately, is what has motivated the survival of go for thousands of years,
and guarantee its existence in the future.
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