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Unit 1

12. What counts as a handicap in one context can actually be an advantage in another.

(1) The same factor can be considered either an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the situation. (2) A number of advantages can result from understanding the context. (3) Who has the advantage in a particular situation depends on the particular handicaps involved. (4) In any given situation, the same factor can be interpreted as a handicap or as an advantage.

מה שנחשב כמגבלה בהקשר אחד, יכול למעשה להיות יתרון בהקשר אחר.

Text I

Outside of Chess, Go is the only game that has survived the trial of many centuries without any material change in its rules. It is three times as old as Chess, if we believe old Chinese sources, according to which the famous Chinese Emperor Shun, who reigned from 2255 until 2206 BC, invented the game in order to strengthen the mental faculties of his son Shokin. Another version ascribes the invention to U, a vassal of 5 Emperor Ketsu, who is also said to have invented playing-cards. This version seems more likely because it makes the game five hundred years younger and because U was a vassal and not an emperor. One is inclined to believe that in those old days, too, emperors left it to others to invent things for them. It is certain that in the tenth century BC - that is, thirteen hundred years after the time of Shun - the game of Go was well 10 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

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