I was also sad to hear that he passed. He sponsored KGS for several years and was always helpful and fair; his promotion of KGS early on in his books had a lot to do with making it as successful as it is today. On top of that he flew me to Japan at his own expense twice during that time, two very exciting trips for me! And of course, as many people have said here, he wrote and/or published a lot of books that were instrumental in developing my interest in the game.

Very sad. "Get Strong at Tesuji" was my favorite book when I was starting out, his layout was beautiful, you could do tons of problems quickly and really work on your shape.

Compare it to "Tesuji" by Davies, while Davies was thorough in his categorization of certain types of positions, it didn't have that same kind of "Get strong at drinking from the firehose" teaching method which I love.

Thank you for all your contributions Richard.

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When I was ordering a book from Kiseido, Richard Bozulich rather gave me the impression that he had at least two eyes.

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So who is this mysterious "guest-writer" who spread this unconfirmed report. It's pretty awful journalism if it turns out that RB is not resting as peacefully as we are led to believe.

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I did some background checks on the person who sent the obituary to me (as part of a group email) and exchanged emails with him before publishing this information. He is not the same person who wrote the obit, but he seems legit, as far as I'm concerned, and I don't think he's even a Go player, just an old friend of Richard's.

The address they used to contact me was one that Richard, and not that many other people have.

So after some research, I made the judgement that the information was true. I know from an unrelated personal experience that it's a thankless task delivering news like that to people. You can't put a grieving person through the third degree and you expect that people won't falsify things like that. Personally I wouldn't be able to function as a human being if I doubted everything at that level.

Richard hasn't responded to direct emails from us, or other people trying to confirm the situation. And you'll note that we're one of Kiseido's customers too.

However, for a couple of days, there have been a number of people receiving emails from 'Richard Bozulich' when they order from Kiseido. At the same time, he's still not responding to emails from several people trying who are trying to clarify things, including me. A few people have forwarded me messages from Richard and it's all incredibly peculiar...

So either Richard is alive, and is in no hurry to clear things up (for some reason), or someone else is impersonating him (for some other reason), or there's something even stranger going on.

I'd be very happy to learn that Richard is truly still alive and I'd publish a correction in no time. However, until Richard confirms that himself to me or one of several other people I trust, all we have is rumours and silence... I'm not sure what to think about this whole thing yet, but I've absolutely no intention to publish anything more about it until we have some real confirmation.

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So, wait, you got the obituary by email, but don't have any link to it being published anywhere? Dude, journalism 101: always confirm your sources.

If this is false, then my apologies for relaying it here.

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Kirk, please reread what I wrote above.

I actually put a lot of time into this whole thing, verifying things and otherwise. And not all newspapers publish obituaries online, by the way.

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Still no excuse. Did you contact other go associations who might have more knowledge of Richard personally? Did you send an e-mail to Kiseido?

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Maybe RB is too busy to respond to enquiries on this topic because he's too busy filling in orders placed with Kiseido during their wonderful sales until the end of November.

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My recall, the article is now down, was that the posting clearly stated that the obit would "soon be published" or something like that, in the "Japan Times" or something like that.

So, by my recall of the post, I was not sure it was published - so kirkmc, given your strong "no excuse" policy - it seems to me you did not read it very well before you posted it here.

Huh?

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It's probably best to report something like this the way the AGA website did on their website with facts on how the statement came to their attention and how they are trying to confirm the statement.

http://www.usgo.org/news/2011/11/ishi-p ... ead-at-75/

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He probably meant that as a journalist, you should have checked up on the sources yourself before relaying the obit given your strong "no excuse" policy towards the publisher of the original article.

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As you should know, that isn't how journalism works nowadays. It's about who gets it out first.

If you're going to criticize people for jumping the gun, then David would be one of the last people you should criticize. Read his post again. He did his job.

I trusted that the site had correct information; that they had done the necessary checking. Since I don't read Japanese, I wouldn't have been able to check it very thoroughly.

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Would be nice if you bothered to check Google to find out the The Japan Times is "the most widely read English-language newspaper in Japan". Just because I know you live in France doesn't mean I should assume you only speak French

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I honestly have never looked for any Japanese newspapers on the web, so while I could have assumed there might be one in English, it really wasn't up to me to check.

Via Twitter, Anders just posted that he has confirmation that Richard Bozulich is indeed still alive.

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After receiving several emails from Richard over the last few days, as well as getting confirmation from a source in Japan that Richard is alive, I can only conclude that Richard Bozulich is indeed alive, which is very happy news.

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You trusted your source, David trusted his source, and I can't say I can blame either of you. How often does it happen that someone fakes a story about another person's death, after all?

Anyway, lets all just be glad that Richard is still alive!

Thats good to know

Good chance to make him a ceremony for his contribution to the go world