Life In 19x19

John Fairbairn wrote:Since it's topical, fans of Go Seigen might like to have a heads-up about the next project from the GoGoD Archives, since I just happen to have been discussing it with Anders Kierulf this week - by pure coincidence as I'd forgotten about the birthday.

Although we haven't actually sealed our moves, I have almost ready the next volume in the Go Seigen ten-game match series. This one is against Karigane Junichi. It is interesting in many ways - Go goes Body Shop with salt, top players end up in court when another top player complains of libel over his grade, and one of the games is known as a "famous games among famous games" (mainly for Karigane's brilliance, actually). Oh, and of course there is a war going on.

This is a relatively short match, but I allowed Karigane to jump the queue over Iwamoto and Hashimoto (both volumes well in hand) because I changed my style of presentation a bit to make it easier to set up the SmartGo version (which will be the only one pro tem - please, no griping, it's out of my hands). My idea was to get the new presentation right before trying it on the bigger volumes.

Doing Go-K first means putting the Meijin Inseki's "Today We Have A Splendid Feast" back a little, but John Mifsud is working on the SmartGo conversion of "Gateway To All Marvels" at the moment, so that should very soon give problem solvers something to get their teeth into for the time being.

Great idea about Google, BTW, David!

google wrote:Unfortunately :
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- Birthdays of living people
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cdybeijing wrote:Am I reading correctly that John Fairbairn is writing a series of books about Go Seigen's matches?

amnal wrote:

cdybeijing wrote:Am I reading correctly that John Fairbairn is writing a series of books about Go Seigen's matches?

He has been doing so for a while, specifically about the famous set of jubango matches. Those currently released (though I'm not sure if they're easy to obtain any more) are Kamakura (vs Kitani), Final Summit (vs Takagawa Shukaku), and 9-dan Showdown (vs Fujisawa Kuranosuke). They are really excellent.

Hushfield wrote:Could we find 100 members to each replay a different game of his? Members so far: RBerenguel, Hushfield. 98 to go.

John Power wrote:In the process of saving his centre top and side groups, White's centre right group has died, so this decides the game.

Hushfield wrote:Could we find 100 members to each replay a different game of his? Members so far: RBerenguel, Hushfield. 98 to go.