Weiqi flourishes in Southern Song court
1145
The ancient board game of weiqi - known centuries later in the West as Go - reached new heights of strategic sophistication in the Southern Song court, where professional players competed in imperially sponsored tournaments before large audiences of scholars and officials. Treatises on opening theory and endgame technique multiplied, and mastery of the game became inseparable from the education of any truly cultivated gentleman.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.