Asian Origins Of Gaming Exhibited

thrashor writes "A major upcoming exhibit of the Asia Society in New York City explores the Asian origins of games - including many of the favorite board games in the English speaking world. The exhibition looks at how games have been as important as trade and religion in transmitting cultural ideas. Backgammon, dice games, chess, and of course (my favorite), Go/Weiqi/Baduk are explored, among many others." The exhibition preview mentions: "Illustrating the importance of games in early societies, mastery of weiqi was considered by Chinese people to be one of four essential cultural accomplishments along with music, calligraphy and painting."

Comments

dice

[chaosmage42]

"...early Indian sculptures depict the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati competing at dice..."

"God does not play dice" (Einstein)

More seriously, did they invent the die? Or just the game of dice? Inventing the die would be very impressive.

Re:Go Vs. Chess

[bretharder]

I don't frown on tic tac toe; and I don't know of any chess sites that try to devalue it either.
It just seems odd that every Go site that I've visited has something against Chess.

Re:Go Vs. Chess

[hunterx11]

Maybe they just haven't played Fractal Tic-Tac-Toe

Next on the agenda is 4D Tic-Tac-Toe.