Robert Terry on "Why Go has Failed to Prosper in the US"

[EdLee]

I don't know if sudoku competitions exist, but imagine how dorky that would be!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#Competitions

It's much harder to play go "just for fun"

Other than pros (and pro gamblers? ), most of us amateurs are by definition doing exactly that.

[hyperpape]

My grandmother does Sudoku. On the one hand, my grandmother is a very smart woman (I mean, she's part of my family tree, duh... ), but on the other, she is not your stereotype of a go player even once you ignore her age. I guess she does genealogical research, which makes her just a bit nerdy, but I suspect there are many more 80 year olds doing genealogy than go.

In any case, even if Sudoku or Crosswords are for brainiacs, it would be great if Go were as popular as either here in the US.

[daal]

Apparently unnoticed by all of us, Mr. Terry, without mentioning L19 by name, has responded to criticism with this post.

On a side note, Mr. Terry, among other things, does work as a translator and has made a considerable amount of Japanese material available to western audiences. He writes:

Since I read Japanese, I have access to an extraordinary amount of go material that surpasses any other source in the world. There is an incomparable depth and richness to it.

Sounds like a job for ... Jasiek.

[palapiku]

Wow... reading his latest post, I almost feel like suggesting to him that the Western go community is indeed beyond all hope, and he may do better by focusing his efforts on this new game called Redstone...

[LocoRon]

I do not normally pay attention to anything in connection with go that appears in English.

No wonder he has so many issues with the AGA.

[xed_over]

I do not normally pay attention to anything in connection with go that appears in English.

No wonder he has so many issues with the AGA.

and then why does he write an english language blog?

[Javaness2]

Why doesn't he advertise his blog?