Just by reading the first three lines I immediately knew what song it would be a parody of.Bonobo wrote:And another one …
Lyrics from the YouTube page:
When I find myself in time trouble
20 second byo-yomi
There will be a throw in, tesuji..
For though I may be eyeless
There is still a chance for a seki
Fight until it's yose, tesuji..
Tesuji, tesuji
Tesuji, tesuji
There will be a throw in, tesuji
(Posted to »Extreme Go« by @Yunzi Go https://www.facebook.com/groups/extreme ... ream_ref=3)
Mainstream Go Sightings
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It's not exactly too recent, but I spotted this in an Amazing Spider-Man comic from 2008, and I figured it was worth posting.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 7298_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 7298_n.jpg
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I wonder what they are playing there …hailthorn011 wrote:It's not exactly too recent, but I spotted this in an Amazing Spider-Man comic from 2008, and I figured it was worth posting.
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Looks like they're playing with nails!hailthorn011 wrote:It's not exactly too recent, but I spotted this in an Amazing Spider-Man comic from 2008, and I figured it was worth posting.
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From "Across the Nightingale Floor", book one of Tales of the Otori, by Lian Hearn:
This quote from book two, "Grass for his pillow" has nothing to do with Go, but I thought those with wooden go bowls might appreciate the description...Towards evening, the rain began to fall again, and it became a little cooler. Kenji and Shigeru were engrossed in a game of Go, Kenji being the black player. I must have fallen completely asleep, for I was awakened by a tap on the door, and heard one of the maids tell Kenji a messenger had come for him.
He nodded, made his move, and got up to leave the room. Shigeru watched him go, then studied the board, as though absorbed only in the problems of the game. I stood, too, and looked at the layout of the pieces. I had watched the two of them play many times, and always Shigeru proved the stronger player, but this time I could tell the white pieces were under threat.
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They continued to play Go until late into the night. I could not bear to watch the slow annihilation of the white player, but I could not sleep, either, my mind full of what lay ahead of me, and plagued, too, by suspicions of Kenji.
When he returned, he was carrying a small paulownia-wood chest, which he set down carefully on the floor. He left the room and returned three more times, each time bringing a chest or box. Each was of a different wood, zelkova, cypress, cherry, polished so that the color and grain spoke of the long life of each tree, the slope it had grown on, the seasons of hot and cold, rain and wind, that it had endured.
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Shusaku's 185th birthday is celebrated as a Google Doodle:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... gle-doodle
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... gle-doodle
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Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
just to keep the image...
Converting the book Shape UP! by Charles Matthews/Seong-June Kim
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216
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Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
On the japanese google site the first moves of the shusaku opening are played as well.
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Google put that on the UK site too. Problem is its dday remeberance and people are very very unhappy about it.
http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-27732237
Thanks Google! Its hard enough to get baduk in the west without this kind of wrong exposure. I wish this doodle never happened.
http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-27732237
Thanks Google! Its hard enough to get baduk in the west without this kind of wrong exposure. I wish this doodle never happened.
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Wow. Really? That's all I can say to those people who are really offended that they didn't have their D-day doodle. :qq:badukJr wrote:Google put that on the UK site too. Problem is its dday remeberance and people are very very unhappy about it.
http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-27732237
Thanks Google! Its hard enough to get baduk in the west without this kind of wrong exposure. I wish this doodle never happened.
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and probably also explains why it is visible in GermanyInkwolf wrote:Well, that explains why it isn't in the USA, i guess.
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Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Highbrow activity?
In the April 1949 issue of LIFE magazine there's a humorous article about High-Brow to Low-Brow culture in the US -- and Go is identified as the high-brow game of choice
http://books.google.com/books?id=Vk4EAA ... &q&f=false
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In the April 1949 issue of LIFE magazine there's a humorous article about High-Brow to Low-Brow culture in the US -- and Go is identified as the high-brow game of choice
http://books.google.com/books?id=Vk4EAA ... &q&f=false
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Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
There's another article about Go in LIFE magazine, May 1942:
http://books.google.com/books?id=MFAEAA ... 22&f=false
I couldn't find mention of it on L19.
http://books.google.com/books?id=MFAEAA ... 22&f=false
I couldn't find mention of it on L19.