Yes, the Niagara Arts & Cultural Center was this weekend’s venue for the area’s first tournament of “Go,” a board game played around the world since almost 500 years before the first Christmas. The Niagara Go Center is hoping to establish permanent roots in Niagara Falls and was happy with the 20-some participants in the weekend tournament.
The center’s founder, Scott Jankowski, is confident the ancient activity would be great attraction for newcomers to the game as well as tourists who are much more familiar with the intricacies of moving stones on a 19” x 19” board. Large Go centers are in operation in Toronto and Seattle, and smaller operations are speckled around the State and Country with followers who like to travel and challenge others in a strategic battle that even computers haven’t figured out.
Rumor has it the three wise men were a little late arriving in Bethlehem due to a deadlock in a Go game where some frankincense and muir were on the line for the winner. Thanks to the NACC for being available for a potentially new interest in Niagara Falls.
For more information, click for The Niagara Go Center on Facebook.
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