wikipedia uses the word Go first

Reading and thinking about game theory and daisyworld again… in my research I found a reference to Go and chess, which seems relevant to this blog simply because of the preferred ordering of words on wikipedia.
“Zero sum games are a special case of constant sum games, in which choices by players can neither increase nor decrease the available resources. In zero-sum games the total benefit to all players in the game, for every combination of strategies, always adds to zero (more informally, a player benefits only at the expense of others). Poker exemplifies a zero-sum game (ignoring the possibility of the house’s cut), because one wins exactly the amount one’s opponents lose. Other zero sum games include matching pennies and most classical board games including Go and chess.”


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