File talk:Sui Dynasty Go Board.jpg

17×17 board?

The image description says "go board model with 19×19 lines forming 361 crossing points," but in the picture it looks like only the innermost 17×17 are really playable, as the stones would fall off the board if they were placed in the outermost lines. So is the image description wrong? According to the Wikipedia article, "archaeological evidence shows that the game was played in earlier centuries on a board with a 17×17 grid," which makes it seem likely that this is, in fact, a 17×17 board. Am I wrong? —Kri (talk) 15:30, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

The star points at 4/4 indicate that this must be a 19×19 board with the outer edges of the board counting as the external edges of the grid. If this were a 17×17 board then the star points would be on 3/3 which is wrong and not found on other 17×17 boards. Remember that this is a funerary model of a go board, not necessarily a real board for playing real games. BabelStone (talk) 11:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)