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Have you ever played a game of Go? This popular Asian game, called baduk in Korea, Go in Japan and weiqi in China, is over 4,000 years old. A board with black intersecting lines allows two players to manage the positions of their black or white stones in order to beat each other through the kind of elaborate strategy that comes with simple game rules.
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Bethencourt, P. (2011). A Better You Starts with a New Understanding: Why Networks Matter. In: Success in Six Cups of Coffee. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349407_3
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