Ugh. Black is playing his 12th stone, white has only 5 on the board, and it appears they are playing on an 11x11 board (the lines are indistinct). It annoys me that they can't even make the effort to have the game resemble anything that could occur in play.

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But they did decide to feature Go. On the cover.

I'm currently reading a cartoon story called Barefoot Gen. It's a tragic story about a poor boy and his family living in Japan during the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
Early on, there is a scene with some officials playing go. The board is very simply drawn though, (maybe 9x6) with only one stone on one of the images.
There may be more go parts later on as well. I am only on volume 1.

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No it's not. The players are a chairman of the village and his friend. All thats said about it is, "How about another game?" Then after, "That chess game lasted longer than expected." He said "chess" but it was definitely a goban and a go stone. Looking at it again, the stone is not on the board, but being held between one of their fingers.
The story is really good, I can't put it down.

This is a bit ambiguous. Could you be more specific:
Are you reading the original Japanese manga in Japanese, or a version translated into English?
Did the character say (a) "chess" (with Rooks and Pawns), or (b) "shogi", or (c) something else ?

In other words, if you are reading an English version of the manga, and the text reads "chess,"
then we don't know whether the original Japanese version deliberately meant "chess" despite
the goban and Go stones (unlikely), or, whether the English translator made a mistake
when converting the original Japanese text from "Go" to "chess" (likely).

I am reading the English version, and he said the word "chess."
Yeah I have noticed English translators call go "chess" by mistake before, so I am sure that is what happened.

Yeah, if you ever watched An Unfinished Chess Game (AKA The Go Masters) in the DVD release YMI offers, you'll absolutely go nuts hearing them call the game "chess" throughout the movie, and the stones "chessmen." Or rather, reading. (Subtitled)

Look at what I found here:


(You can find more versions in http://aaronbasilnelson.com/wp-content/uploads/)

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That would be so cool to see! (Though I imagine that the stones in the planter might keep mysteriously disappearing and need to be refilled.)

So, following the Rockefeller strategy “oil for the lamps of China”, Go stone manufacturers and vendors should give away these Baduk benches for free, no?

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From http://www.flickr.com/photos/29806876@N08/2781691370




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Oh, she made more Go stuff:



This one I like especially:


Artist: http://www.flickr.com/photos/domidesign/

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Tom thanks for bumping this thread to unread, I remembered an unexpected sighting. A few weeks ago I was reading Jordan Mechner's [url="http://jordanmechner.com/ebook/"]The Making of Prince of Persia[/url] (funnily enough, in the Nordic Go Academy summer camp) when somehow, Janice Kim appeared for supper. I didn't connect the dots after the next page. Jordan Mechner (one of the best game developers of the 80s and 90s, having created Karateka and Prince of Persia) is also the brother of David Mechner, former insei. In the book David appears a couple of times, and Jordan also mentions how David may go to Japan to study go.

By the way, I heartily recommend the book to anyone who played the game. The development cycle and the way the book is written (straight transcription from Jordan's journal) makes it for a very deep view of how the game came to be.

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There is a book out there called Satori.

Here is the description:

It is the fall of 1951 and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hoda korosu or "naked kill," fluent in seven languages, and has honed extraordinary "proximity sense"-an extra-awareness of the presence of danger (here, on the back of the book it also mentions that he is a master at Go but it mentions it in a profound way. The descriptions on the internet says nothing about this). He has the skills to be the world's most fearsome assassin and now the CIA needs him. The Americans offer Hel freedom, money, and a neutral passport in exchange for one small service: go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China. It's almost certainly a suicide mission, but Hel accepts. Now he must survive chaos, violence, suspicion, and betrayal while trying to achieve his ultimate goal of satori-the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world.

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Hmm, Nicholai Hel, that somehow rings the bell

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Indeed … I was so fascinated by the book you’re hinting at that I purchased all the other books by that author, one or two of them published under his (probably) real name.



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BTW I also have the book AKaios recommends, but have not yet read it. It already is in the bathroom, though

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I'm not sure it qualifies as mainstream but:

https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/ ... 61/photo/1

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

noticed this:

http://iamkoream.com/february-issue-aut ... ent-korea/

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