Ch2.4 note6 p78 Go should be capitalized

[MarkJeronimus]

"Chinese rules for go"

'Go' is the name of the board game so it should be capitalized.

[echuber2]

It seems that "Go" is often capitalized to distinguish from the English verb "go" according to Wikipedia, but I hadn't actually paid attention to the distinction before myself. Note that common/ancient board games like backgammon and chess, and some card games like poker, and sporting games in general like basketball, are often not capitalized unless they're part of a proper noun.

[jeffgerickson]

What Eric said. Lower-case "go" seems to be standard among professional go players. More generally, the standard I'm used to is that common games are treated like common nouns: checkers, draughts, nine men's morris, backgammon, bridge, blackjack, roulette, eight-ball, snooker, solitaire, tic-tac-toe, rock-paper-scissors, mancala, shogi, senet, and so on. Games that are always capitalized are either brand names/trademarks (like Monopoly, Scrabble, Tetris, Hungry Hungry Hippos) or involve proper nouns (Texas Hold 'Em, Klondike). Compare reversi with Othello, or gomoku with Pente.

See also:

• https://www.quora.com/Is-the-board-game-Go-go-capitalized
• https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/8126/is-the-game-go-a-proper-noun-what-about-checkers-or-chess
• https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/946114/should-game-names-be-capitalized