Life In 19x19

Thank you for your review of this book. I haven't been active in this forum for a few years now, which is why I'm so late in seeing it.

I've converted many (> 40) go books into the SmartGo Go Books format, and The Games of Fujisawa Shuko is one of my favorites. Shuko was quite a character, and he ...

Because they publish some great books?

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Having my books trapped inside my iPad would only be a problem if I didn't have an iPad.

You do have to hope someone will keep SmartGo Books updated for all future versions of an iPad. I'm not as worried about Kindle books, since there is a very large corporate team that will keep Kindle going ...

Yes. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/715974163

Bill Spight wrote:Nice picture of John and Mark.

I'm glad you like it.

ez4u wrote:"There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
- Sam Walton

True, unless there's no other places left to shop…

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tj86430 wrote:I could also say that Americans are atypical for a variety of reasons, and the result would probably be somewhat different in e.g. Europe.

They prefer the term "exceptional".

p2501 wrote:This is pointless. Pointless to argue about believe. Scientific disscussions are about proof and reasoning. Not about believing.

I believe you're correct.

Today's xkcd mentions go: http://xkcd.com/1263/

Go features prominently in this year's short story Hugo award winner: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9035

I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned this short story by Ken Liu from the anthology The Future Is Japanese. While the story isn't about go, the game does play an important part.



It's currently freely available online here (with the author's permission): http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/ficti ... -no-aware/

What size stones?

That's a rather personal question.

I'm not sure it qualifies as mainstream but:

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