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Using The Game of Baduk/Go/Wei-chi To Teach Across The Disciplines

This document discusses using the ancient strategy game of Baduk/Go to teach across academic disciplines in a fun and engaging way. It provides background on the history and culture of Baduk/Go, and explains how it relates to and can be used to teach concepts in fields like science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and arts. Key points covered include how the game involves pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, and balance - making it applicable to many subjects. Examples are given throughout of how Baduk/Go has been and can continue to be integrated into education.

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Using The Game of Baduk/Go/Wei-chi To Teach Across The Disciplines

This document discusses using the ancient strategy game of Baduk/Go to teach across academic disciplines in a fun and engaging way. It provides background on the history and culture of Baduk/Go, and explains how it relates to and can be used to teach concepts in fields like science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and arts. Key points covered include how the game involves pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, and balance - making it applicable to many subjects. Examples are given throughout of how Baduk/Go has been and can continue to be integrated into education.

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Using the Game of

Baduk/Go/Wei-chi
to Teach Across the
Disciplines
G. Yakman
Jinsoo Kim
ISETL 2007

A game that is easy enough


for a toddler to learn, but
can be complex enough to
stump a genius.
What is Baduk/Go/Wei-chi?
Ancient Asian strategy game
• Developed in China about 4000 yrs. ago

Originally played only by


royalty
•Kept from commoners
to hinder intellectual
development
Why Baduk/Go Stayed East
•High Class controlled game
•600AD from China to Korea &
Japan
•Tibetian book Qi Jing 550AD
references it
•Chess pieces - representative
of European culture
•Baduk/Go pieces – simplistic
•Difficulty for foreigners
•Restricted foreign travel -1842 7th Century
•Gambling culture 1st Baduk Painting in Tibet
How the West Got Baduk/Go
•300 AD Danish grave
•925 AD Saxon Hnefatafl
similar
•Jesuit missions into to elite
•Matteo Ricci d. 1610 wrote on
topic

10th Century Hnefatafl

Montanus
Compared to chess
• Easier to learn,
harder to master
• Built in Handicap
System
• Unlimited possibilities
• No computer yet able
to play at master level
Baduk/Go Schools
• K-12 devoted schools
• Baduk/Go/Chess Clubs at schools (50+ across US)
• Professional Development Schools

Collegiate Level
Middlebury – Huang & Schumer – (see syllabus)
• One collegiate Department of Baduk, at Myongji
University: Korea Founded in 1998 by Asso. Prof.
Jeong, Soo-Hyun - 3 faculty
• Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, Nam, Chi-Hyung &
Choi, ll-Ho.
• Baduk Education, Baduk Research Methodology, Baduk
History, Baduk Culture, Baduk Techniques and
Education, Baduk Psychology
Integrated STEM education
The concept of teaching
across the disciplines of
• Science
• Technology
• Engineering
• Mathematics
with activities that cover
content and application Einstein with professional Baduk/Go
from each of the fields player Fukuda Masayoshi.

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What is STE@M Education
The concept of teaching across all the
disciplines by formally tying the STEM
disciplines to the Arts fields, including;
• Fine
• Physical & Performance
• Manual
• Liberal & Social
(Education, psych., phil., socio., etc…)
.
FUNctional Literacy
Teaching across the disciplines directly
supports transference of knowledge.
AND IT’S MORE FUN & ENGAGING!

Students not only learn to be literate in a


singular (silo) field, but they become
life-long learners who are much more
capable of being functionally literate and
advancing society.
Science Relationships
Boards: Katsura wood
Stones: Slate, Shell, Glass,
Plastic & Jade
Bowls: wood, woven &
decorative
The number of possible games playable
on this board has been reckoned to be
more than the number of molecules in
the universe.
Technology Relationships
Creativity
Strategy
Design
Materials and processes

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Engineering Relationships
Excellent for;
•Cognitive development
•Balance of design
•Computer programming

•Since the aim of a move is to control the


most territory, the optimal move yields
the maximum amount of territory -- a
simple counting procedure and a chore
computers excel at. Yet, the level of
computer Baduk/Go remains about that
of a human who has studied Baduk/Go
for a month. - Richard Bozulich - http://www.kiseido.com/
Mathematics Relationships
Pattern recognition
Binary mathematics
Movie - Pi

360 intersections plus one.


• occupies the ultimate position
and governs the four quarters.
• number of days in the [lunar]
year.
• four quarters symbolizes the
four seasons.
•72 circumference points
represent the [five-day] weeks of
the [Chinese lunar] calendar.
* Arts relationships
History Ex: WWII Japanese strategy & US camps

Literature ex: compares the four quarters to the four


seasons, the stones to night and day, the 361 intersections to
the days of the year, and the center point on the board to the
Pole Star - 17th C Japanese playwright, Chikamatsu – Graphic & Other Novels

Education Ex: Studying Baduk/Go is a wonderful way to


develop both the creative as well as logical abilities because
to play it both sides of the brain are necessary.
Cho Chikun, one of the three great prodigies in Go history - http://www.kiseido.com/

Philosophy Ex: The balance of Yin and Yang is the model for
the equal division of the 360 stones into black and white.
LaTour - ANT
The Art of Playing

Hold the stones between first and middle


fingers, like chopsticks & snap them down
on the board with a sharp click
•Musical Boards
Games

The traditional Baduk/Go board has a 19-


line grid. Beginners play on small 9 or
13-line boards.
Begin Game

Goal: Create territory by surrounding open space


Built in handicap system – 9 points
Players take turns putting stones on the intersections
Black goes first
Playing Stones
Each intersection is a point
of territory

Once a stone is put down it


does not move unless it’s
captured – Atari = Check

Each captured stone is also


worth one point.
Ko- Repetition Rule

One may not play a


move which repeats
a previous board
position.
Claiming Territory

Fenceposts & Walls


Living Groups

A safe group of stones must have two


eyes
•two or more, internal but separate
Game Over

Game End: when all the walls defining the territory is


taken, and there are no plays left to make.
Captured Stones: Are filled in
Counting: Pieces are moved
Resources:

Top 4:
•American Go Association - www.usgo.org
•American Go Foundation - http://www.usgo.org/agf/index.html
•Sensei Go - http://senseis.xmp.net/
•Goshawk Herron’s Curriculum & promo materials

•See accompanying 35 page list

Most major US cities have Baduk/Go clubs.

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