Names of the Game Go

[Peter.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> Can anyone tell me, why some People (like Prof. Chen Zhixing for example)
always call the >> Game GOE instead of GO? 
>>
>> Where does this word (or the letter E on it's end) come from and which
group of persons .. >> does use it? I had thought, that the Game is called
Wei Qi (or Wei Chi) in China. Is there >> any translation of Wei Qi? 
As my minor contribution "Weiqi" in Chinese means surround chess. The "Ki"
you refer to later (as a guess) is just the Qi bit. Qi is often used for
games so Chinese checkers is "xing qi" (star chess) or "? qi" (jumping chess
think ? is tao but haven't got a dictionary to hand). Chinese chess is
"xiang qi" (elephant chess).
Regards,
Peter Smith