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Mainstream Go Sightings
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Author:  Ellyster [ Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:26 am ]
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Kaya.gs wrote:
Ellyster wrote:

Go, the 4th most searched entry in the Spanish wikipedia (2012) :shock: (with almost 6.5 million visits).


wat. How is this possible :S. Neither the language or the verb should be that high up.


In the Spanish wikipedia "Go" is actually the "Go Game" entry, not a general page like in the English version. And of course there is no entry for the verb "To Go".

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go


So it really looks like the game of Go has suffered some kind of boom among the spanish-speaking countries :s
Author:  Dusk Eagle [ Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:39 am ]
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Or the image isn't accurate, or some Go player just felt like pointing a botnet at that page to increase its popularity. I'm interested in the source of those numbers.
Author:  kivi [ Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:10 am ]
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Some googling points to Johan Gunnarsson as the source of the wikipedia most viewed pages. He has this trends tool, doesn't show yearly but monthly/weekly/daily. Go is number 6 this month in Spanish http://toolserver.org/~johang/wikitrend ... month.html and a whooping number 3 in Turkish.
Author:  Lamb [ Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:22 pm ]
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According to this page, Go was the 328th most viewed page in the last week, ahead of things like the Super Bowl (348th), Twitter (379th), YouTube (408th), and chess (2962nd).
Author:  shapenaji [ Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:18 am ]
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Lamb wrote:
According to this page, Go was the 328th most viewed page in the last week, ahead of things like the Super Bowl (348th), Twitter (379th), YouTube (408th), and chess (2962nd).


But below Miley Cyrus...
Author:  Inkwolf [ Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:28 am ]
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shapenaji wrote:
Lamb wrote:
According to this page, Go was the 328th most viewed page in the last week, ahead of things like the Super Bowl (348th), Twitter (379th), YouTube (408th), and chess (2962nd).


But below Miley Cyrus...


Well, hey, we beat Lady Gaga...
Author:  Ellyster [ Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:03 pm ]
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Go came up (not only in images, but also in conversations) in the "Last Resort" TV Series.

Image
Author:  Samura [ Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:37 pm ]
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Wow, Go was the 197th last week!

And ahead of Miley Cyrus! :mrgreen:
Author:  Inkwolf [ Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:49 pm ]
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While looking for a little info on Daniel Barry and Koichi Wakata (the astronauts who played Go on the space shuttle) I unexpectedly came across this photo from an online US archive. In case you ever wondered what the custom-made paper and foam go set looked like!
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Author:  oren [ Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:54 pm ]
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I was able to see this set in the museum at the Nihon Kiin. It's a very unimpressive set, but it was used for a very cool activity. :)
Author:  Redbeard [ Sun Feb 24, 2013 2:57 pm ]
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oren wrote:
I was able to see this set in the museum at the Nihon Kiin. It's a very unimpressive set, but it was used for a very cool activity. :)

It just proves my point. Weak/boring players have the nicest Go sets. The stronger/more interesting the player, the crappier the board :lol:
Author:  shapenaji [ Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:29 pm ]
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Redbeard wrote:
oren wrote:
I was able to see this set in the museum at the Nihon Kiin. It's a very unimpressive set, but it was used for a very cool activity. :)

It just proves my point. Weak/boring players have the nicest Go sets. The stronger/more interesting the player, the crappier the board :lol:


Well... True to a point, I would say, the stronger the player the less distracting the set
Author:  badukJr [ Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:47 pm ]
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shapenaji wrote:
Redbeard wrote:
oren wrote:
I was able to see this set in the museum at the Nihon Kiin. It's a very unimpressive set, but it was used for a very cool activity. :)

It just proves my point. Weak/boring players have the nicest Go sets. The stronger/more interesting the player, the crappier the board :lol:


Well... True to a point, I would say, the stronger the player the less distracting the set


The strongest players I knew didn't even HAVE a set, they'd borrow an mdf board from the club if they needed it for whatever reason (another strong player staying over their house, etc)
Author:  Bill Spight [ Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:50 pm ]
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And then there is this. ;)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... weve-wiped

Paragraph 4.
Author:  vash3g [ Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:00 am ]
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shapenaji wrote:
Redbeard wrote:
oren wrote:
I was able to see this set in the museum at the Nihon Kiin. It's a very unimpressive set, but it was used for a very cool activity. :)

It just proves my point. Weak/boring players have the nicest Go sets. The stronger/more interesting the player, the crappier the board :lol:


Well... True to a point, I would say, the stronger the player the less distracting the set


https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/15283_10100319642625655_1765127074_n.jpg

Oh, you mean this crappy set from the Nihon Kiin? I saw it too.
Author:  Bill Spight [ Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:37 am ]
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shapenaji wrote:
Redbeard wrote:
oren wrote:
I was able to see this set in the museum at the Nihon Kiin. It's a very unimpressive set, but it was used for a very cool activity. :)

It just proves my point. Weak/boring players have the nicest Go sets. The stronger/more interesting the player, the crappier the board :lol:


Well... True to a point, I would say, the stronger the player the less distracting the set

vash3g wrote:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/15283_10100319642625655_1765127074_n.jpg

Oh, you mean this crappy set from the Nihon Kiin? I saw it too.


Did you read the English? The board was used for the first go game played in space. :mrgreen:
Author:  skydyr [ Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:43 am ]
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Bill Spight wrote:
Did you read the English? The board was used for the first go game played in space. :mrgreen:


I think that was the joke :)
Author:  Bill Spight [ Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:29 pm ]
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skydyr wrote:
Bill Spight wrote:
Did you read the English? The board was used for the first go game played in space. :mrgreen:


I think that was the joke :)


Well, I was not sure that Redbeard was joking, despite the :lol: . I would not expect the players to have been strong. And others were responding to him. {shrug}

Edit: I mean, that he was joking about that. He was obviously intending some joke.
Author:  darthmage [ Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:37 pm ]
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Bill Spight wrote:
And then there is this. ;)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... weve-wiped

Paragraph 4.



:lol:
Author:  Mage [ Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:11 am ]
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Not very mainstream, but then, I'm biased ;-)


http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-03-29.html
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