It's been remarked that backgammon is man's struggle against change, chess is his struggle against another man, and Go is his struggle against himself. While th

It's been remarked that backgammon is man's struggle against change, chess is his struggle against another man, and Go is his struggle against himself. While there's some artistic license (a good backgammon player will crush a mediocre one in the long run) this comment does provide some interesting cultural. And there's also a Shibumi quote I like: "Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting." This book was the first time I heard about Go.