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Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:13 pm
by Abyssinica
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)
Just by reading the first three lines I immediately knew what song it would be a parody of.
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:37 am
by hailthorn011
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
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:15 am
by Bonobo
I wonder what they are playing there …
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:45 pm
by Drew
Looks like they're playing with nails!
did they ever reveal the phantom opponent? Was it Venom?
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 4:23 am
by Inkwolf
From "Across the Nightingale Floor", book one of Tales of the Otori, by Lian Hearn:
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.
....
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.
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...
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.
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:50 pm
by PeterPeter
Shusaku's 185th birthday is celebrated as a Google Doodle:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... gle-doodle
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:52 pm
by oca
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just to keep the image...
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:34 am
by paK0
On the japanese google site the first moves of the shusaku opening are played as well.
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:52 am
by EdLee
paK0 wrote:On the japanese google site the first moves of the shusaku opening are played as well.
Google Hong Kong, as well.
The little animation displays up to Shusaku's kosumi -- the Doodle team knew what they were doing -- very classy indeed.
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Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 11:50 am
by badukJr
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.
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:23 pm
by Abyssinica
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.
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:
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:44 pm
by Inkwolf
Well, that explains why it isn't in the USA, i guess.
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:50 pm
by Bonobo
Inkwolf wrote:Well, that explains why it isn't in the USA, i guess.
and probably also explains why it
is visible in Germany
Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:57 am
by fireproof
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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Re: Mainstream Go Sightings
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:11 am
by fireproof
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.
- Strategists and Soldiers Play it
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