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known in China, for several old Chinese works dating from that period mention the game in poems and allegories.

While it cannot be established from those very early references whether the ancient game was played exactly like the Go of today, the matchless simplicity of the rules of the game makes it unlikely that it went through several stages of development as did the 15 game of Chess, the present form of which is only about four hundred years old. The size of the Go board appears to have undergone changes until it was found that a board of 19 x 19 lines was best suited for the game. But these changes did not affect the character of the game in any way, and so we are really justified in saying that Go is the oldest game in the world - about four thousand years old. 20

13. The text deals mainly with -

(1) the description of the rules of Go (2) disproving the theory that Go was invented by an Emperor (3) hypotheses concerning the origins and history of Go (4) the surprising survival of Go

14. The game of Go -

(1) (2) (3)

was certainly invented by the Chinese Emperor Shun is not mentioned in old Chinese literature has not changed substantially since its invention

(4) is likely to have gone through several stages of development

15. It can be inferred that Go is a game that relies on -

(1) luck (2) mental skills (3) physical skills (4) imagination

16. “This version” (line 6) claims that -

(1) the Chinese Emperor Shun invented Go (2) Go was invented to strengthen the mental faculties of Shokin (3) playing-cards were invented by U (4) U, a vassal of Emperor Ketsu, invented Go

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