Life In 19x19

Dusk Eagle wrote:I have no clue where this picture is from, but there appears to be a smaller-sized go board in between them.

Could it also be Checkers or Chess (with flat magnetic pieces)?

Heck, it could be an "elegant" serving tray for Mentos. The pieces on the board suspiciously resemble the pastry-like things next to it.

Bruce "Leadbelly" Young

EdLee wrote:Could it also be Checkers or Chess (with flat magnetic pieces)?

yeah, if you look at the picture closely and examine stones' positions, the game resembles checkers more than go or anything in my opinion. pity

BaghwanB wrote:Heck, it could be an "elegant" serving tray for Mentos. The pieces on the board suspiciously resemble the pastry-like things next to it.

Yes, they're playing with their food!

Found go in two books.

In Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, go gets two brief mentions in a portion set in futuristic Korea. A book I highly recommend by the way.

In The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet, a large portion of the book is in fact titled "The Master of G"(a reference to the classic) and a climactic scene features go prominently. I would not recommend this book as strongly however.

In the book 'Aurorarama' by Jean-Christophe Valtat one of the main protagonists visits a problem solver / riddle decrypt-er character at his house. The house is described as having various chess boards and goban scattered around with partially played games laid out on them.

Just saw this ad on leo.org:

I'm not posting this as a Shameless Plug(tm), just to share it. I did a mid-week installment of my webcomic as a part of the Comics For Japan initiative that includes a Go reference. It was created as part of a project for webcomic artists to suggest where their readers could donate to the Japan relief effort.

Jenny Everywhere's Infinite: Quark Time, Comic for Japan

Just a head's up -- the game on the goban is nonsense. I considered going to the effort of reproducing a portion of a classic game, but it wasn't really a central requirement of the scene, and the dialogue does say that the game isn't a good one. So pay no attention to the actual moves, I know they're nuts.

I also have a different, wallpaper-sized picture of the main character playing a game against herself under a cherry tree as a vote incentive on the "TWC 100" vote button. One of the character development points for the main character that I've built is that she likes to play Go. Other versions of this character have preferred chess. Still others have preferred scratching in front of the TV.

--Gwen

quarktime, nice!

Hikaru no go is on Netflix for online streaming besides mail order DVD its subtitled and it has 1-75 ... no special though but hey u can't complain
They have a free trail if u never used Netflix so if u haven't seen hikaru or never had Netflix now is the time to kill two bird with one stone

1986 wrote:Hikaru no go is on Netflix for online streaming besides mail order DVD its subtitled and it has 1-75 ... no special though but hey u can't complain
They have a free trail if u never used Netflix so if u haven't seen hikaru or never had Netflix now is the time to kill two bird with one stone

You can also access the full series for free, online, at http://www.hulu.com with some commercials.

its not the whole series on hulu. It stopes when sai dissapears but there are 15-20 more episodes after. Netflix has them all.

infectedbrain wrote:its not the whole series on hulu. It stopes when sai dissapears but there are 15-20 more episodes after. Netflix has them all.

I'm watching them on hulu and they have all 75 episodes.

There is a Go Board pictured (without stones) in the intro to the new anime called "Nichijou".

http://www.youtube.com/embed/CXG9Lfec54w about 1:08 in...

1986 wrote:Hikaru no go is on Netflix for online streaming besides mail order DVD its subtitled and it has 1-75 ... no special though but hey u can't complain
They have a free trail if u never used Netflix so if u haven't seen hikaru or never had Netflix now is the time to kill two bird with one stone

This is great. I have had it saved in my queue for a couple of years now. I thought they would send me an email when saved movies became available. Thanks for the info!