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go

, I-go
a game for two players in which stones are placed on a board marked with a grid, the object being to capture territory on the board
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Go

(games, application)
A thinking game with an oriental origin estimated to be around 4000 years old. Nowadays, the game is played by millions of people in (most notably) China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In the Western world the game is practised by a yearly increasing number of players. On the Internet Go players meet, play and talk 24 hours/day on the Internet Go Server (IGS).

http://cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html.

Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.go.
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go

(1) (Go) An open source object-oriented programming language from Google. Styled after C/C++, Go was developed in 2007 to solve Google's own problems orchestrating huge datacenters. Often referred to as "Golang," Go was released to the public in 2012.

(2) An on-screen button that is clicked in order to activate a function such as search.

(3) Amazon's automated grocery store. See Amazon Go.

(4) A command used on a BBS or online service to switch the user to a particular forum or section. For example, typing go mac would switch you to a section specializing in Mac computers. Like any command language, one has to know the words to enter. See BBS.
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We are by birth a proud race and to have to do this, is for many of us shameful, to have to swallow our pride and go begging, albeit in a way that makes us feel we are not begging.
Richards saw a number of opportunities go begging in the first half, but opened the scoring with a calm finish shortly after the interval.
My two were a little young to be getting involved with Halloween this time, but next year I'm going to be dressing both up and heading out to essentially go begging. I think any excuse at the moment to have a bit of fun should be embraced, and what's more fun than your kid dressed as a pumpkin?
Cheltenham would live to rue that missed opportunity and they saw another chance go begging. Dean Sinclair was denied by a superb save from Matt Glennon after his angled 20-yard drive.
Burrows led the last race after coming out as a tac sub off 15m, but wheelied and lost control to see a Bays 5-1 go begging.
But Age Concern says with 95 per cent of people failing to plan for the final event in their history, last wishes may go begging. Spokesman George Burke said: 'Music is certainly one of the most important areas people want tailored to their own tastes.' Second in the poll was Frank Sinatra, followed by Elvis Presley.
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