Mainstream Go Sightings

[Phelan]

A Go friend on FB recently posted a link to this image on what I think is the Vietnamese Go Association's facebook page:

I think it's pretty cool!
Anyone know anything about it?

[badukJr]

I think a country's go association posting something go related is hardly mainstream

But a 7x21 board! is this Vietnam style?

[Phelan]

I think a country's go association posting something go related is hardly mainstream

But a 7x21 board! is this Vietnam style?

Yeah, I thought about that later. :p

Maybe I should start a Go Artwork thread?

[Insane]

Anyone know anything about it?

It's by Andrea Hyon Taylor and illustrates a Korean folk tale.

[Phelan]

Anyone know anything about it?

It's by Andrea Hyon Taylor and illustrates a Korean folk tale.

Cool, thanks! Is the folk tale translated somewhere on the web?
Just found her site, here's the Folk Tales gallery. Wonderful illustrations!

[tapir]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151369965464388 (via Istanbul Go School)

for those unable to understand (how I enjoy this, I never understand the chinese, korean, japanese links as well ): these kids are from a training program for too clever kids interviewed at the occasion of the "national sovereignty and childrens day" (a national holiday in turkey). asked about their favourite lesson in the program two of them (the girl on the left and the boy on the right) answer Go.

they have half a dozen other television appearances with their go school if you browse the facebook page.

[stalkor]

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/de ... complexity go is mentioned as an elegant design:D:D

[Ellyster]

Go, the 4th most searched entry in the Spanish wikipedia (2012) (with almost 6.5 million visits).

[Mike Novack]

I had to go all the way through this to make sure not yet included among the sightings. Weird because certainly a major mainstream film (and of course book).

"Hedgehog" (the book title "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")

First Poloma (the almost 12 year old girl planning to commit suicide on her 12th birthday) gives a corrected description of where go originated and how it differs from chess. Later she plays a game with her (just moved in) Japanese neighbor.

[Kaya.gs]

Go, the 4th most searched entry in the Spanish wikipedia (2012) (with almost 6.5 million visits).

wat. How is this possible :S. Neither the language or the verb should be that high up.

[Ellyster]

Go, the 4th most searched entry in the Spanish wikipedia (2012) (with almost 6.5 million visits).

wat. How is this possible :S. Neither the language or the verb should be that high up.

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

[Dusk Eagle]

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.

[kivi]

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.

[Lamb]

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).

[shapenaji]

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).

But below Miley Cyrus...