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[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The British Go association is citing gobase.org which is registered in the Netherlands, who is citing a historian named H.J.R. Murray. who said he read a 1983 Watanabe Hideo book where that guy says he saw a picture of a Go board excavated in China back in 1954, that is not possible to correctly carbon date since there was no reports of that excavation having any evidence of organic material collected to properly carbon date and no one has any photographs nor records to inspect of the actual excavation.

You are literally relying on a Chinese university tied to the Chinese government telling you "trust me bro we invented this" without providing the public any factual info to investigate.

[-] Sage_the_Lawyer@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

As opposed to your source which is..... "Trust me bro."

They asked for your source, not why theirs was wrong. You still haven't provided one.

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm literally going through all the citations that are available in Wikipedia and the links OP is posting. You want me to post that shit in a redundant unecessary way? Because that's actually what I'm doing.

[-] Sage_the_Lawyer@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

No, I want you to provide a source that says Go was invented in Korea. I also checked Wikipedia, and several other sites about Go, because you made me curious, since I had always heard it was invented in China.

Everything I've seen has said it was invented in China.

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Looks like I misread a John Fairburn book where he says Wei'Qi was invented 1000 years ago and the Chinese lied that they invented it 4000 years ago. Even those claims come from dubious archeological excavations done in China.

I'm going to dig deeper, but I remember reading somewhere there's evidence of it actually being invented in India long before it was popular in China, based on the game called Navakankari/Daadi made of small wooden pieces that are less likely to survive archeological records.

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