Life In 19x19

Just zapped into “Fist of Legend” (1994, a martial arts movie with Jet Li) on arte (French-German TV)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_Legend

Don’t know about all of EUrope, but French and Germans should be able to view it for the next two weeks in the mediatheque: German, French

There’s a Go scene somewhere between 1:10:00 and 1:18:00, maybe there are more that I have missed.

Found it on YT:

okay, seems to be Gomoku rather than Go

In episode 16 of Shirobako, a character mentions that she was in the Go club in high school, and a bit later there are two brief shots of a Go board.

LocoRon wrote:two brief shots of a Go board.

Hi LocoRon, very pretty; thanks.

Do you happen to remember if the two were completely still shots,
or were they "animated" -- with the camera doing more than just 2D panning or rotation ? In other words, any 3D camera movement at all ?
Just curious.

I ask, because if the scene was CG, then it's trivial to have 3D motion;
but if it was hand drawn, then any 3D motion would be a ton of work for the animators.

EdLee wrote: Do you happen to remember if the two were completely still shots,
or were they "animated" -- with the camera doing more than just 2D panning or rotation ?

They were mostly static; there were two shots of the same board and stones position from different camera angles, with perhaps a bit of panning (unless I am remembering incorrectly). The second shot (pictured) also had a hand reach over the board to place a stone (I timed the screenshot to capture the full board, without the hand obstructing it).

Hi LocoRon, Thanks. Very pretty. Based on this screenshot alone,
it seems they had a much bigger budget than Hikaru.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. During their escape from Orgoreyn Genly Ai teaches Estraven to play Go.

Seen this?

Not mainstream (well, a lot of people visit this town during the summer), but I saw this figure in the front window of a board game/gift shop (they had the usual run-of-the-mill board games inside, not even a go board as far as I could tell) in Mirepoix, France. Looks like white plays horrible, but it seems to be a 9x9 board, playing go (playing on intersections, the way the rightmost player holds the stone)

Henry A. Kissinger, On China (2011)

Here is a blog quote I just read today.

Gaius Publius wrote:As many readers know, I’m a fan of what the game of Go calls a “strong move” — very aggressive play when the position is favorable.

Not what I would call a strong move, but I'll let that pass.

URL: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/ ... ntest.html

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/09/y ... -magazine/

I wish to be Igo Girl

Abyssinica wrote:http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/09/you-go-girl-ancient-game-of-go-reaches-out-to-japans-youth-with-trendy-magazine/

I wish to be Igo Girl

Lol, you already have an anime, but will u need a personality profile?