This deluxe Go set features a 30cm x 28cm timber game board, and "Go" stones and instructions. Go originated in China more than 4000 years ago, but if was the Japanese who perfected it and made Go a great strategic skill game. For thousands of years everyone from the working classes to royalty played Go, making it the national pastime. The popularity of Go has now reached the West, bringing with it an air of Oriental wisdom and mystery!