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go
, I-go a game for two players in which stones are placed on a board marked with a grid, the object being to capture territory on the board
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Go
(games, application)A thinking game with an oriental origin
estimated to be around 4000 years old. Nowadays, the game is
played by millions of people in (most notably) China, Japan,
Korea and Taiwan. In the Western world the game is practised
by a yearly increasing number of players. On the Internet
Go players meet, play and talk 24 hours/day on the Internet Go Server (IGS).
http://cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html.
Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.go.
http://cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html.
Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.go.
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go
(1) (Go) An open source object-oriented programming language from Google. Styled after C/C++, Go was developed in 2007 to solve Google's own problems orchestrating huge datacenters. Often referred to as "Golang," Go was released to the public in 2012.(2) An on-screen button that is clicked in order to activate a function such as search.
(3) Amazon's automated grocery store. See Amazon Go.
(4) A command used on a BBS or online service to switch the user to a particular forum or section. For example, typing go mac would switch you to a section specializing in Mac computers. Like any command language, one has to know the words to enter. See BBS.
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