They'll also laught at the west for seeing chess as the ultimate intellectual game instead of Go.
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go. - Edward Lasker
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If the only thing the others at the galactic congress laugh at us about is our usage of pi instead of tau, I reckon we'd be doing pretty well :)
They'll also laught at the west for seeing chess as the ultimate intellectual game instead of Go.
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go. - Edward Lasker
in the rules for first contact (they do exist) should be "Show them Go and Bach ASAP so we at least have a chance of not looking like idiots."