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Hi, I guess everyone can have their own ideas, so what do you think about the following theory, which does not contradict any other theory, except that it puts the origin of the game earlier in a more primitive environment. The reason is that I see the following: a board, which is a weave. Weaving was everywhere in ancient times, times even before agriculture. What they call "stones", but nobody had stones like that back in ancient times, and those that did would have been few and far between. The size and shape is the same as nuts and berries. Nuts and berries where collected since likely tens if not hundreds of thousands of years, in all manner of colors and sizes, but generally of the same shapes from the same species. They had what became a Go board in their hands, and the playing pieces where rolling on top of it already, since forever so many thousands of years. Every house had them, every woman collecting berries had it on her. What does it take for a moment of rest (and in tribal times it turns out, people surprisingly had a lot of rest), to play a game with the things you have on you already ? It can be all manner of little games, children's games, games with simple rules, easy to play for a moment. Easy and short rules, materials already available everywhere, time sometimes being available to play with the things around you. People do invent games on their own, children invent games, we invented games when we where young (I mean me personally, and family & friends), just small games, it can be anything. The story also connects in a plausible way with Emperors inventing it or whatever, because they would just have learned it from some corner of the Empire where it existed. It would spread to here, be forgotten there. Areas where it was not, if an Emperor introduced it, it would seem as if he had invented it, a lie he might want to not challenge. Back in the beginning, say, when young Yuhao (imaginary story) who played the little game with his solder cousin, and what you caught you could eat, becomes the village elder and they sit around the hut with the other old folks, too old to do much of anything anymore, he asks for some nuts and shows the little children's game to the guy next to him. They play it right on the mat they are sitting on, with its straight lines. Sometimes it may have caught on, sometimes perhaps it didn't. He teaches his grandson the game, he is waiting for his daddy to come home and may need a distraction. They play it a bit, they stop. In this way many generations may have passed. When the game is somewhat established, or becomes popular when they start to gamble on the outcome (as Chinese people seem to love gambling), and people get richer, they may have wanted luxury versions of a mat with some nuts. Nuts become stones, just like carrying things on your back becomes a wheelbarrow. Woven mats of bamboo are replicated artificial lines on a flat surface, keeping the "stones" more evenly in place. Boredom gripping the empty lives of the rich and the Emperors, they turn to games and may have wanted to distance themselves from the country people from whom the game once originated, by spreading fantasy stories about how they invented the game in the palace, complete with stones and boards which have no other uses, as if it had just dropped from the sky as a finished piece of entertaining art. Then again ... the boredom in a village on a bad day, may be the same as the boredom at the palace where they have too much of everything, including mats and nuts, and it is therefore also possible that they invented it over there with the things they had around them. Either way, it seems to me it is likely to have originated as a simple game, played on a woven surface (which was so common), with nuts and/or berries or something of the like, because of the large quantities of similar objects needed and being available. I also saw the following recently about WeiChi (surrounding & life, Chi meaning life?), that someone claimed that they liked the idea of a tie in the game, because that was perfect Yin/Yang. While I am just guessing here, it feels to me like a modern projection similar to the idea that WeiChi was developed for some advanced purpose / ideology. If you play a game and it ends in a tie, that is a release of social tension, and you can both laugh and have a moment of comradery, because neither was the looser, and though you weren't the winner, neither was the other person. It's just an emotional release of the tension, and social tension could also become dangerous as people may get angry and start fighting, or grow a resentment. A tie is peaceful in that way, and you had a good time playing without loosing face. It is a positive experience. It sounds to me like artificial, to think that they liked the tie because of some convoluted ideological connection with the theory of Yin/Yang. Emotions and social events are powerful, stories about Yin/Yang are just stories and thoughts. You would have to probably be a monk to care so deeply about that, for it to have that kind of impact on you, which given the tension possible in playing the game I would doubt it even then. I thought this illustrates how modern people project ideas and convoluted explanations (astrology, Divination), completely ignoring how simple and basic it all can be. If you ever made your own games when you where young, you may have noticed what I at least noticed, and that is that if you want your younger siblings to play your game, you better make sure the rules are incredibly simple, or else they just won't sit through you explaining it to them. If the game is played with edible goods, it easily becomes playing to keep them to eat them, which is a sort of gambling also (which Chinese people seem to love, gambling that is). So ... given the extreme simplicity of the game, casual & widespread availability of what is needed to play it, in my opinion likely incorrect modern ideas about pebbles and sand as a primitive origin (Emperors could get pebbles though), I think a likely theory is that it was just a simple children's game, played in all kinds of variations, and then it was snatched up by some later forms of power and prestige who turned it from simple into something more polished with its own specifically crafted tools. It also makes sense in the sense that it is a good game, but how can you just invent not just any game, but a very good game. That is probably not so easy, is it ? A game already existing in a primitive form in certain areas between the people, allows for many games to have been tried by them over the many generations, and this one just stuck around because it always ended up being one of the better small games for them. Like natural selection, but in games. I guess it makes sense to see it this way, but the truth is said to be stranger than fiction. What do you think, or did I write so much you fell asleep (sorry).

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Awesome video

Thank you. Well done in explaining teaching. Side note: You're cute 😊

The game doesn't work well because it's prone to repetitive stalemates or repetitive movement which is always a loss for the attacker and I don't know why?

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I could listen to your voice all day. It's very pleasant. I would like to create my own traditional deck.

how did you go about framing your hanafuda set?

The boat moves like a rook And the afil/elephant jumps to squares diagonally.

I read in another set of rules that three pieces in a row make a wall that enemy pieces can't pass over.

chaduranga = chadu + ranga = four + colors

what are those cards framed in the background on the left? look really cool

Great work, much appreciated!

"I am the Senet!" Pharaoh Palpatine

Que video similar recomiendas en español? Gracias 😁

At one point there was no queen for a long time

Hello I have just discovered your channel and I want to say how much I appreciate your sharing your knowledge.I also love the musical accompaniment choices THANK YOU SO MUCH❤

The earliest Go was invented as a divination tool It can be used to study astrology

Why can you pronounce "sh" perfectly when it's Spanish and written as "z" or latinised Arabic and written with an accent, but can't a single time when it's English, even calling our language "Ingliss"? You know, the language you publish your videos in? Is that some kind of petty spite because you think you have to use English to achieve a wide audience?

how are knucklebones not small objects?

Thx!

0:14 what is the cartoon movie's name?

I think I'm going to try and make Petteia next, really interesting video!

If you thought Senet was crazy, just wait until you get to the House of Representatives.

Again, Go is a militaristic game. It looks just like the trench warfare of WW1. It has nothing to do with: An invention to teach some prince. Flood control. Astrology. Divination. For divination, ask the Magic 8 Ball.

Interesting. Abraham was from Ur.

I bought this game being a fan a chess and to pay homage to it's roots. It was a lot of fun.

Chess is originated in India . Thanks you for the video : History of Chess ( Chaturanga) : First ever Sanskrit references to Chaturanga in India date back to the Gupta Empire in the 6th century CE, with the earliest clear mention found in Banabhatta's *Harsha Charitha* from around AD 625. Chaturanga , an ancient Indian strategy board game, is believed to have roots dating back 5000 years to the Indus Valley Civilization. The game's name, meaning "having four limbs or parts," is derived from the Indian epic *Mahabharata*, where it refers to four divisions of an army: elephantry, chariotry, cavalry, and infantry. Later “chaturanga” personal took it and named as Sjataranj and then to medieval Europe , now evolved into modern Chess.

I just discovered this game and I'm so happy for this video. Not only to learn how to play, but I love the history of old games.

10:14 there actually IS an electronic version. There a program called tabletop simulator and you can play any tabletopthing on it, including this. However only the classic board is on there. Im working on a mod for a 2nd millennium BCE board tho

Where'd you go?

Wikipedia hints at Fangqi games. Given the fact of parallel evolution of concepts in geographically disparate regions of the ancient world, there may be something to learn there to complete our reconstruction of Latrunculi.

So this is the original game of Sorry.

This is my favorite game, unlike senet which has guessed rules the rules for Game of Ur are mostly known with a couple tablets for them found. I have the same board as you and regularly play outside in the desert with friends.

Awesome vid! I was reading Cardono's book and didn't know what he meant by playing Talos - now I know that they actually used real bones as dice! Wow!

I can not thank you enough for these custom cards with the icons. It has been a really fun project for me and my wife to make the cards this Sunday morning.

I am a Sanskrit scholar from East Asia. It is wrong to say early Sanskrit work was only religious. Astounding works exist in literature, philosophy and sciences. Some of them may look religious but encoded in them we have the decimal number system and Hindu numerals (0,1,2,3...), so called phythogorean theorem, almost all "fables of Aoesep", a lot on astronomy, and of course you have systems like Yoga, Ayurveda, Pranayama which have now found a resurgence in use after scientific validation. In fact, Samkhya philosophy which predates, Boudha, Yoga, etc talks about the universe made of atoms and even the force of gravity - perhaps the first ever in the world. Please look up Kapila's works.

I think the game of go was popular with ancient kings and governments because it allowed them to rank people based on their intelligence. If you are a great Go player, you probably have a superior IQ, strong observational skills, and an ability to apply logic to solve problems under pressure. That set of skills could be very valuable to leadership in any age. In the ancient world, many people would rise to powerful positions due to their personal connections. In the game of Go, family and personal political connections mean nothing. If you are good, you are good ; it will be obvious. You will wipe the floor with the stupid entitled people who got their jobs through nepotism and aristocracy and you will rise on your merits. If the king needed a large group of really smart people for critical jobs, he could recruit from the best Go players and be assured that he had found some really clear thinking and powerful minds. Intelligence , like lightning, seems to strike the earth at random. The ability to find the best minds in your country if they weren't born to high houses could be the difference between victory and defeat. BTW... to be really good at Go, you have to adapt your strategy constantly. If your opponent is taking big steps, you should too. If they go for aggressive corners, you should build conservative ones and then attack their weak corners. Corners, sides, and then the center. If they play 4,4, I play 4,3 and attack without mercy. Once you have your territory secured, think about frustrating your opponent's ambitions. Attack, block (frustrate), or defend. When you have a strategy, be prepared to change it in an instant. A great game for life.

This is a really good video. Knowing the story behind something helps a lot in the learning process.

Dear presenter, I'm thankful for the video. As a scholar, I feel the need to point out some mistakes: the connection of the Polis with ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians is purely fictional and is not supported by archaeological or bibliographic data. Also the idea that the Ludus Latrunculorum and its terminology overlapped with Chess is mistaken: when chess was introduced in Europe, Latruncoli were already in disuse for more than a half millennium. The most important aspect that need to be fixed, is that in both Petteia and Latruncoli, there was no special piece: any ancient source mention it, and any archaeological finding report the presence of a special piece that could be considered as a 'king' or a 'dux'. About the Ludus Latrunculorum, the most exhaustive and accurate scholarly production is the one of Ulrich Schädler. Most of the others are inaccurate or speculative. All the scholars who study ancient board games gather once a year at the Board Game Studies Colloquium. I warmly encourage you to join this meeting if you want to get in touch with the specialist in this field. Sincerely, Marco Tibaldini

funny the word backgammon was translated to pokemon instead, that literally threw me off a lot, as to how a digital game like pokemon be akin to an ancient game like this so old that probably most people i know I ask would never know this one, good thing I do have a backgammon game back in the days, so I have quickly catch that up one when I see the board layout in the video lol

Your explanation of the history and reference the goddesses is very precise. My fav goddess is Hathor. The game looks fun and if I would definitely play it.

Hnefatafl is my favorite board game by far.

I always thought that "Rook" was meant for the bird "rook". But it meant "Ruhk" which means "Chariot". 🙂

I love the connection to the past, & how people so long ago were not that much different than us today, just with different accesses & knowledge of the resources around them. The only thing that has bothered me is that, for the recreated game, the rosettes mean something, but the other unique designs seemingly do not. Mechanically speaking, it does make sense, because having each square mean something would complicate the game too much. However, no one addresses whether they did mean something, so I remain curious. I don't know if the tablet dives into that, or if an academic article tries to addresses it, but it would be neat to discover why those design choices were made at the time.

Gracias por compartir las cartas con ayuda! Es más fácil aprender así. He visto que las reglas de puntuación varían un poco en diferentes videos. Me imagino que en Japón también es así según cada familia o región.

link for the game pieces?

Great video thank you

Could you please link your deck? I would love to buy this set