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I can't find a screenshot, but very close to the beginning of "Kubo and the Two Strings" the young protagonist goes into his village and passes two old men playing Go.

Not related to plot, and not remarked upon in any way, but it was nice to see

Amazon's TV series 'The Man in the High Castle' is set in an alternate reality in which Germany/Japan won World War II and have split control of the USA. There's a scene in the first episode in Japanese-controlled San Francisco where main character Juliana walks past two Japanese men playing what appears to be Go.

Humans: Season 2, Episode 2. Head of Global Synthetics, Milo Khoury, plays Go with Eric, the son of one of his employees, while waiting for Athena Morrow, an AI researcher, to show up for his recruitment pitch. The game finishes as Morrow arrives, and Khoury tells her that he plans on hiring Eric as soon as he graduates from high school. Paraphrasing: Khoury then tells Morrow that there are more possible moves in Go than atoms in the observable universe and that such facts put into perspective humanity's insignificance.

Aidoneus wrote:Humans: Season 2, Episode 2.

A tiny bit more description of the scene would be nice?

Relating go to politics. Also, a reminiscence of an 18 stone game from a top pro.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11 ... r-Struggle

Another link where the person makes a more in depth comparison of go and politics. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/0 ... -and-White He even talks about some go proverbs. One annoying thing: he calls sente leading hand. I guess you could say that Trump kept sente throughout most of this campaign.

Bill Spight wrote: One annoying thing: he calls sente leading hand.

That is literally what sente means, though.

Ulquiorra wrote:

Bill Spight wrote: One annoying thing: he calls sente leading hand.

That is literally what sente means, though.

In this context, te means play.

Sente is to gain tempo, gote is to lose it.

he calls sente leading hand.

Geenius wrote:I'd devoted several years of my life to learning and achieving some degree of mastery of the game of go.

( emphasis added )

Hi Bill, any rough estimate of the author's (peak) Go level ?
(I didn't thoroughly read his blog nor searched his articles...)

EdLee wrote:

he calls sente leading hand.

Geenius wrote:I'd devoted several years of my life to learning and achieving some degree of mastery of the game of go.

( emphasis added )

Hi Bill, any rough estimate of the author's (peak) Go level ?
(I didn't thoroughly read his blog nor searched his articles...)

He's 7k AGA (though he hasn't played a tournament in 8 years) and told me a while ago that he was 5k KGS.

fireproof wrote:I can't find a screenshot, but very close to the beginning of "Kubo and the Two Strings" the young protagonist goes into his village and passes two old men playing Go.

Not related to plot, and not remarked upon in any way, but it was nice to see

Here's that screenshot for you!

funny how they have bowl and lid on the board …

Wikipedia says Kubo & the 2 Strings is 3D stop motion -- does that mean claymation ? No CG, all done by hand (literally) ?!

Bonobo wrote:funny how they have bowl and lid on the board …

That's a great way to protect the corner!

EdLee wrote:Wikipedia says Kubo & the 2 Strings is 3D stop motion -- does that mean claymation ? No CG, all done by hand (literally) ?!

Not claymation, but little 3-d puppets -- there's an interesting video here:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/plXmbLAUTRg[/youtube]

They have a great demonstration of how the puppets are made, or how motion works, at the end of each of their films (I'm thinking of Paranorman and Boxtrolls, and Coraline in particular).