In the Spanish wikipedia "Go" is actually the "Go Game" entry, not a general page like in the English version. And of course there is no entry for the verb "To Go".

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go


So it really looks like the game of Go has suffered some kind of boom among the spanish-speaking countries :s

Or the image isn't accurate, or some Go player just felt like pointing a botnet at that page to increase its popularity. I'm interested in the source of those numbers.

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Some googling points to Johan Gunnarsson as the source of the wikipedia most viewed pages. He has this trends tool, doesn't show yearly but monthly/weekly/daily. Go is number 6 this month in Spanish http://toolserver.org/~johang/wikitrend ... month.html and a whooping number 3 in Turkish.

According to this page, Go was the 328th most viewed page in the last week, ahead of things like the Super Bowl (348th), Twitter (379th), YouTube (408th), and chess (2962nd).

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But below Miley Cyrus...

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Well, hey, we beat Lady Gaga...

Go came up (not only in images, but also in conversations) in the "Last Resort" TV Series.

Wow, Go was the 197th last week!

And ahead of Miley Cyrus!

While looking for a little info on Daniel Barry and Koichi Wakata (the astronauts who played Go on the space shuttle) I unexpectedly came across this photo from an online US archive. In case you ever wondered what the custom-made paper and foam go set looked like!

I was able to see this set in the museum at the Nihon Kiin. It's a very unimpressive set, but it was used for a very cool activity.

It just proves my point. Weak/boring players have the nicest Go sets. The stronger/more interesting the player, the crappier the board

Well... True to a point, I would say, the stronger the player the less distracting the set

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The strongest players I knew didn't even HAVE a set, they'd borrow an mdf board from the club if they needed it for whatever reason (another strong player staying over their house, etc)

And then there is this.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... weve-wiped

Paragraph 4.

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https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/15283_10100319642625655_1765127074_n.jpg

Oh, you mean this crappy set from the Nihon Kiin? I saw it too.

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Did you read the English? The board was used for the first go game played in space.

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I think that was the joke

Well, I was not sure that Redbeard was joking, despite the . I would not expect the players to have been strong. And others were responding to him. {shrug}

Edit: I mean, that he was joking about that. He was obviously intending some joke.

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Not very mainstream, but then, I'm biased


http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-03-29.html

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