My eye was caught by the stunningly elegant hand in this Chinese poem scroll in an April 2011 edition of Weiqi Tiandi. It turns out to be yet another talent of the amazing Joanne Missingham (left). She apparently studied Chinese traditional painting, and this scroll was her contribution to a charity event by Taiwanese players to raise money for Japanese earthquake victims. It was auctioned off at about US$4,000, almost a third of the total, which was gathered by players such as Zhou Junxun playing teaching games.

Unfortunately, the article did not comment on the poem, which does not mention go. But it is a well known assocation with Chen Tuan, who is famous for lots of things, including devising the soixante-neuf commas Daoist symbol and a school of kungfu fighting. He is also famous for a go match he played for stakes with a general who was to become the future Song emperor (this would be in the 10th century). Chen won and his prize was the mountain. The match was played on top of the famously precipitous Mount Hua and the pavilion on a terrace near the top is supposedly still there. Modern pros sometimes play festival games at this pavilion. So there is an indirect go link with the painting after all.

Her calligraphy is beautiful. Little girl with many talent!!!!!!!!