Life In 19x19

My copy of Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters , where I think I read this story, is in storage, but my recollection is that Edward quotes Emanuel saying it.
The Internet Archive has a copy of the book, here:

https://archive.org/details/chesssecretsilea0000unse

...but I have searched in ...

A recent go tournament in Schwerin, Germany (Sept 21 & 22, 2024) featured some go-themed cakes. A photo of one of them is here:

https://www.dgob.de/19-go-turnier-schwerin/

I assume that the white stones on the left are meant to lie along the edge of the board, otherwise the position is perhaps ...

The work in AI does deserve recognition, though I think it was a bit of a stretch to put it in the physics category. But if AI wins the Nobel prize for literature, I'll eat my hat.

There is a nice interview of John Fairbairn by Keith Arnold (HKA) on the AGA website:

https://usgo.org/content.aspx?page_id=2507&club_id=454497&item_id=5001&pst=23218#

(They are probably both too modest to mention it themselves.)

If I could ask a non-go related question to John Fairbairn ...

I do not have any special knowledge of T Mark Hall, but I doubt that this refers to him actually being banned from something at some point in his life. I think Keith Arnold is using go as a sort of metaphor for life, and death.

A ko ban limits the moves that a player can make on the board. When ...

4) Daniele Pecorini and Tong Shu, "The Game of Wei-Chi".
Published in 1929, it was reprinted in the 1990s and early 2000s. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an online version.
A small update: A copy of this book is available online, on the Internet Archive. The scan seems rather crooked at ...

I was wondering, have you any fairly definite plans on when the next edition of GoGoD will be released? I don't mean to sound cheap (though I suppose I do), but I was thinking of buying a copy, and wondered if I should wait for a new version.

Of course, if the next version is not due until ...

It seems you are quite correct, and I was wrong. I should have checked my sources before posting :(

However, he did have some success against Go Seigen, in a three-game match. Here is the relevant excerpt from GoGoD, which I had badly misremembered:

Even less well appreciated was his record ...

My memory may be off [*], but I have read somewhere, possibly in one of John Fairbairn's works, that Takagawa Kaku was one of the few players (perhaps the only player) to ever defeat Go Seigen in a jubango. I think it occurred in 1958.

(It did not last. They had a rematch the next year, 1959, and ...

Joaz Banbeck wrote:I found dailyjoseki.com to be useful for variations.

A good site, but the original poster (grid) seems to be referring to variations in rules, e.g., the go variants that luigi sometimes creates and posts here. Am I misunderstanding?

This may not be so easy to find anymore, but at one time Slate and Shell published a two-volume set, called "Masterpieces of Handicap Go", by Robert McGuigan . It may not be exactly what you are looking for, but from the descriptions and comments below, people seemed pleased with the two books ...

Out of laziness, I am including chess in my answer, but there is the big Chess in Schools project in the UK and they quote things like a study by educational psychologist Stuart Margulies in 1996 which found that elementary school students in Los Angeles and New York who played chess scored ...

...so as to point up the wider (and proven) educational advantages... (Emphasis mine.)

Please, if you know of any rigorous studies that have found such an effect, please share them.

I admit, I am rather skeptical that go, or any game for that matter, has such effects. I am of the gruff and ...

Tournament scheduling would have to change to make room for possible draws. This is is the usual explanation given for fractional komi. But I have never found it completely convincing. Chess and checkers (i.e., draughts) games often end in draws, and yet tournaments seem able to cope with them ...

I have looked further into this, perhaps more than the question is worth, but this may be worth pointing out:

It may not be surprising if the old Chinese writers did not go into details about the mechanics of the game. They could assume that their readers were familiar with these things.

However ...