IIn the Trevenyan's bestseller "Shibumi" we could read the provocative thought: "To compare Go with chess is like to compare philosophy with accounting". It is also important and that in chess is waged a battle, while in Go a whole military campaign. Difference between the two games can be fixed as follows: Go It is static-constructive play, and chess - dynamic-destructive. But just to list similarities and differences is not sufficient to explain why some choose about Go, and other pilgrims were life of chess, and others - chartered amateur boards.

Games like it specific temperament, and also educated on a specific player's line of conduct in life. Thus the writer Branimir Sabev determine individual games: "If backgammon is bright, provocative chills gentleman and he is a faithful knight, it is in the chess, perhaps cold English gentleman, armed with tails, monocle, hat, cane and indurate flirting and maps are eternal drunkard, gambler and flirt man in pub games. But the games free of emotional color fascinate researchers with symbols embedded in them that make a bridge or a message from the distant past to the present.

From aesthetic point of view black and white classical games on your own attractiveness. They set out the achievements of ancient science, and the board and the figures reveal patterns in the world. According to the legend of backgammon invented Vazhugmihar sage, advisor to the king of Persia Khosrau I (509-579 AC on, etc.). Anushirvan (in Farsi - "immortal soul") is part of myth Iranian dynasty ruler of Sassanid Empire, which are distinguished by wisdom and justice. Legend about it is transmitted in ‘’Shahnameh" by Ferdowsi.

Invention of backgammon was in response to Vazhugmihar of chess brought back from India (Chaturanga also played with dice). The wise men explained the game thus: "From the rulers of this millennium Ardashir was the most active and most wise, so I created the game" Nevardashir" in its name. Nevardashir of the Board (board) to compare the land - Spandarmat, 30-pool are the days and nights. Two dice concatenate with the movement of the stars of heaven. «It can add 24 homes - this time the division of time during the day and 24h15 (days) = 360 - a perfect year. This backgammon associated with the calendar.

In Go, we find also the same expressed similar calendar symbolism. In thirteen chapters in Go "(Qijing Shisanpian, The Classic of Weiqi in Thirteen Chapters) Zhang Ni (XI century) wrote that the point of the board is" 360 plus a unit in the center is the beginning of all numbers. It occupies the center and manages "the entire board. There are 360 days a year. Four corners of the board represent the four seasons and 90-s points in each quadrant correspond to the days in each season.

End points are 72 and correspond to the number of weeks a year. "Node (inner sections) is 19h19 = 361, which approximates the duration of the year. Actually it was almost average of the lunar year, which is 354 days and the solar year, which is 365 days. A Chinese historian Ban gu (AC 32-92 years) in his essay "The essence of Go" (The essence of Go, Yi Zhi) noted: "Board is a square and embodies the world. The lines must be made because embody the idea of Divine (clean) virtue. Pools are black and white, which corresponds to the information, and Jan and their placement on the board in accordance with the heavenly model.

For lovers of exotic and far eastern culture he is the best way of knowledge of Asian thinking. Also says that Go is the best gift from the East to the West guy. Joy is that we have received this gift remains to be assessed. One of the most important characteristics of Go is practice for personal improvement. We want to be better in any way connected with the overall build harmonious personality, developed by the mind and spirit. Intuition and logic in combine make the best way. That will be noticed creativity of game development and the complex image on the board in the same way as anyone who plays Go build his inner world.

Translation: R. Aleksiev