deaths
October 22, 2010
Eio Sakata, Japanese Go player (born 1920)
Eio Sakata
Eio Sakata was a 9-dan Japanese professional Go player.
Go (game)
Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day. A 2016 survey by the International Go Federation's 75 member nations found that there are over 46 million people worldwide who know how to play Go, and over 20 million current players, the majority of whom live in East Asia.
October 22
October 22 is the 295th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 70 days remain until the end of the year.