Sakata Eio
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gently-kiai
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Sakata Eio
Does somebody know at what age Sakata Eio start to play the game of go?
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Re: Sakata Eio
I don't know at what age he started but he did not reach 1p until age 15 so I doubt he started much earlier than the typical pro of his era.
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Re: Sakata Eio
Sakata was born in 1920gently-kiai wrote:Does somebody know in what age Sakata Eio start to play the game of go?
The Showa era started in 1926
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That's kind of what I was expecting when I said typical for the era.oren wrote:I assume I answered your question on facebook.
Go school at 9, Insei at 10.
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what? he didn't ask on reddit too?oren wrote:I assume I answered your question on facebook.
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Re: Sakata Eio
From Go World 50, "The Magnificient Obsession. Sakata Eio and Go", p. 55,
Sakata Eio wrote:I learned to play go just around the time I entered elementary school. (...) I picked up the game from watching, which made my father very happy.
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Re: Sakata Eio
xed_over wrote:what? he didn't ask on reddit too?oren wrote:I assume I answered your question on facebook.
FWIW, it was me who suggested asking here if he got no answer on FB
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