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New freeware game for smartphone: Pocket GNU Go 2.6.4 November 25, 2003 [MS Smartphone] | By anonymous 1. Pocket GNU Go is a GNU Go player for Pocket PC. Now it has been ported also to Microsoft smartphone: 
Go, also known as Weiqi, is an ancient board game originated in China more than 4,000 years ago. Today Go is played by millions of people around the globe. Beyond being merely a game, Go is an analogy with life, an intense meditation, a mirror of oneīs personality, and a beautiful art form. Like the Eastern martial arts, Go can teach concentration, balance, and discipline. To download this game for free click here. Small history of Go game: The game has had ups and downs in China, where Confucious looked on it as a waste of time, Mao Zedong required his generals to study it, and the Cultural Revolution condemned it as a pastime of intellectuals. It was taken to Japan 1,200 to 1,400 years ago, reportedly by Buddhist priests who had visited China. It seems to have shown up in Korea before Japan, but it is widely believed that in Japan the game came to its full potential. Praised by the shogun Tokugawa, Go was studied by Japanīs warrior class and eventually institutionalized in four "Go houses," where families developed and passed down Go techniques in the same way that other Japanese families developed and passed down techniques of sword-making or the samurai code. Go never faded from popularity in Japan; it spread to all levels of society and by the 18th century had attained a status equal to that of the famed tea ceremony.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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