Go on CNN... sort of

[apetresc]

Anders Kierulf just posted the following tweet:

Kissinger talks about Go in the context of USA-China relations, at 7m30s in http://t.co/iCv4xjC. CNN fail: Showing wrong board game. #weiqi

Here's the embedded video:


Indeed, even though CNN has a ticker at the bottom saying "Kissinger: To understand Chinese mindset, have to understand their intellectual game of 'Go'", all the images on screen are either of Chess or Xiang'qi for almost a minute -- Go never shows up at all

Way to go, CNN.

[jts]

An actual example of a Chinese leader using weiqi to analyze international conflict.

[chef]

Henry Kissinger is a Nobel Prize winner?!!! That's like making flipper, captain of the Titanic. Has the whole world gone crazy? I no longer have any respect for and will forever question the validity of the Nobel Prizes

[mohsart]

Henry Kissinger is a Nobel Prize winner?!!! That's like making flipper, captain of the Titanic. Has the whole world gone crazy? I no longer have any respect for and will forever question the validity of the Nobel Prizes

Noteworthy, maybe, is that the Peace Prize is a special Nobel Prize given by Norway and not the Swedish Nobel Academy. (Due to the fact that when Alfred Nobel died, there was a Scandinavian union.)
The Peace Prize is often given to people who seem unworthy of it and it seems the reason behind it is to either put focus on a problem in the world (last year's winner) or push someone further towards what s/he seems to be trying to accomplish (2009 year's winner).
My guess is that Kissinger got the prize because of this

/Mats
PS Another special Nobel Prize is the Economy Prize, that has no connection to Alfred Nobel at all.