> For the same reason the laws of nature are the same around the universe. I wonder how much is cultural though? Go depends on a 2d grid, but is it possible th

> For the same reason the laws of nature are the same around the universe. I wonder how much is cultural though? Go depends on a 2d grid, but is it possible that some alien Grade 9 math tends to use, say, distance and angle from origin instead of x, y? In that case the intuition for Go might not be there because they don't use grids, even though the math is ultimately the same. Or a culture that likes to use hexagons for their board games (hexagonal Go tends to be more shallow than grid-based Go).