Life In 19x19

Currently reading The Eternal Zero (EIEN NO ZERO) by Naoki Hyakuta. Chapter 6 is heavily involving go.

This is a bit of a coming from the left field, but bear with me.

There's a Japanese anime series (mostly) called Patlabor. Basically, mechas become industrial equipment. Dangerous industrial equipment. And a branch of the police is set up to deal with them. So far, so good. In episode 46, however, there's an explanation-comparison of the old system for police mecha's OS, a system that learns from the pilot (a la AlphaGo), and a new "neural network" OS that reacts more generally to ANY pilot's movement and environment... Not quite AlphaZero, but...

The episode first aired in 1990. Cell animation is not something you can improvise a script and shoot it the week before.

Take care.

Saw this incredible dance and song centered on go in Street Dance of China (also shared on /r/baduk)

Timestamp (25:51): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km_gQaLCBco&t=1551s

Kakegurui TWIN. Igo and Shogi are both mentioned! Along with Chess, Backgammon, Checkers, etc which are shown, and Mancala is also seen. I won't spoil it by describing what's going on here, but both contexts in which Igo equipment appears are very interesting, it's a Kakegurui prequel that's only 6 24 minute episodes long so well worth watching for the Igo context. The picture above shows Igo bowls next to a Shogi board, the scene below panes down to a 19x19 Igo board.

Wonder Egg Priority, the context strongly implies they're playing Igo not Gomoku!

derkberklin wrote:Saw this incredible dance and song centered on go in Street Dance of China (also shared on /r/baduk)

Timestamp (25:51): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km_gQaLCBco&t=1551s

'Never regret the stone once played', that advice will make a kyu player 5 stones stronger, I learned so much it felt like a 9 Dan Professional was teaching . . . Amazing!

My sister discovered that the Opening of Classroom of the Elite Season 2 involves a Go board with realistic position that changes every episode. Check it out!

Artist's impression of Yoshihara Habu and Iyama Yuta
3 members of AKB48 learn Igo while 3 members of Angel learn Shogi

https://youtu.be/YGZ8494DsRE?t=436

In his interview with Steve Rinella of the hunting show MeatEater, Joe Rogan said, in the context of discussing the advanced state of China's military AI capabilities:

"They're comparing right now, like, computers now that can beat people in the game Go, which I don't really understand but apparently it's very sophisticated"

In the above pic, it is not Habu but Watanabe Akira (the shogi Meijin), and the pic is comparing the earnings of the top player in shogi (81,940,000 yen) and go (133,850,000 yen - almost a million dollars) in 2021 (which was a pandemic-affected year BTW).

The Glory (on Netflix)

CNN article: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/24/asia ... index.html

The new Tetris movie has Go in it.

In the new One Piece live-action, Garp and Cobi play Go.

And I would love to have the board!!