If you're interested in learning the classical Asian game of Go, widely regarded as the pinnacle of elegant game design, the Portland (Oregon) Go Club is teaching beginners are local libraries:
Back at the turn of the century, the game of Go was dying out in Japan. A manga called Hikaru no Go managed to single-handedly rekindle interest in the game among the youth of Japan.
@nyrath I've got DVDs of the anime.
Movies where people play games usually get it deeply wrong. For example, the Go board in A Beautiful Mind makes no sense. Hikaru no Go did a clever thing: the games shown are historical games between experts.
Isaac Asimov used that trick in his novel Pebble in the Sky. He wrote a scene where two players had a chess game.
Fans were marveling at how expert the game was. Until Asimov confessed it was copied from an ancient match between two grand masters.
@nyrath Go has a LONG history, of course. The oldest (partial) game record is from around 200 CE. Some famous games include the Ear-Reddening Game, the Blood-Vomiting Game, and the Atomic Bomb Game, which was interrupted (but not stopped!) by the bombing of Hiroshima.
@peterdrake
In the scifi story Four In One by Damon Knight, the game of Go was used as a metaphor for interstellar conquest.
A similar metaphor was used in Time Piece by Joe Haldeman. Only he used the game Oware.
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/futuregames.php#galgo