Life In 19x19

Inkwolf wrote: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?

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.

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.

AKaios wrote: 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.

Hmm, Nicholai Hel, that somehow rings the bell

Cheers,
Vesa

Vesa wrote:Hmm, Nicholai Hel, that somehow rings the bell

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/

shapenaji wrote:noticed this:

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

Sweet, I must be certain our library gets that series. ^^

Almost forgot this picture I took in a bookshop in Helsinki two months ago (put it between spoiler tags because it's a little larger than what it should be):

RBerenguel wrote:Almost forgot this picture I took in a bookshop in Helsinki two months ago (put it between spoiler tags because it's a little larger than what it should be):

I don't know what he is playing. It can't be go.

At least, even a terrible depiction is advertisment.

It's a 12x12 grid, and the stones are played in the intersections. Just a bad depiction I think (IIRC all chess-like games in Asia are played in 9x9 or 8x8 boards, so this is too big.) Probably a trade off between real-go-board and dang-so-many-lines-it's-cluttered

RBerenguel wrote:It's a 12x12 grid, and the stones are played in the intersections. Just a bad depiction I think (IIRC all chess-like games in Asia are played in 9x9 or 8x8 boards, so this is too big.) Probably a trade off between real-go-board and dang-so-many-lines-it's-cluttered

I count a 12x9 grid. And the number of black and white stones should be of the same magnitude. I appreciate the way he is holding the stone though.

What does the headline say?