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Who Was That Go Player...
Keywords: Question, Culture & History, People
Test your knowledge of the World of Go!
Try to answer the following questions!!
Prizes for those who guess right are totally imaginary!!!
Answers will follow soon...
(Add your questions!)
Who was that Go player...
- ... that, when asked for an interview, answered: "Please wait till I am Meijin"
- ... that played the infamous non-existing ko threat
- ... that was the oldest ever to defend one of the Big Seven titles
- ... that, noticing that his right index fingernail had grown too much, complained to himself that he wasn't studying enough
- ... that said: "My opponent is not the man in front of me, but the game on the Goban"
- ... that composes beautiful whole-board ladder problems, in the shape of a hearth, Japan, letters, numbers...
Stefan: Hmm, let's see... Straight from the hip, without diving into any reference material:
- the candidate Meijin: Yoda Norimoto?
- non-existing ko threat: Cho Chikun?
- old but tenacious: Fujisawa Hosai? (pity, this was close... but he never won any title...)
- fingernail: Go Seigen?
- confusing opponents: No clue, but I'll take a very wild guess. Takemiya.
- whole board problems: this MUST be Maeda!
JoeSeki That would be Yilun Yang
- DJ: Sorry, all wrong answers! Try again, you'll be luckier... (no more than the custom three tries...)
Stefan: Euh... Did I say Hosai? SHUKO, of course! Fujisawa Shuko!! Gosh, where were my thoughts?
I'll have other people take a stab before I try again. Come on guys, where are you? All flipping through your Go Player's Almanac??
DaveSigaty: Here are my guesses. You should check them out after posting your own! :-)
Tim Brent: The whole-board ladder problems are by a man named Nakayama.
WhoWasThatDietersGuesses
HolIgor: my guesses for some of them
DJ: OK, here are the solutions!
And, as I am at it, here are some more quizzes (these are easy...)
Who was that Go player...
- ... (then 8D) who, seeing his younger opponent (... 5D - who was he???) start an important game full of political and psychological implications, with a play on tengen, immediately approached with a keima kakari, just to see his move boshi-ed...
GoGoD + Kombilo are forbidden... ;-)
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/27/e34fb169fad8f82df79e1af696499c1e.png) | ... 8D against ... 5D |
- ... that was playing a ... title match against ... in the very outskirts of Hiroshima the day the Americans dropped the atomic bomb
- ... who said "A Meijin in his twenties is unconceivable!", just to cede the title to the youngster in question (who?) a few days later...
- ... who, when asked which was his losing move in a game of the Gosei-sen preliminary round against Sakata, answered: "The losing move? Playing Sakata was the losing move!" He had resigned after only 1h 13min from the start of the game.
The Atomic bomb game was part of the 1945 Honinbo Final,..Iwamoto Kaoru played Hashimoto Utaro--TimBrent
--DJ: Seeing that nobody seems interested in trying an answer, I added the solutions to the appropriate page
Who was that go player... - new entry on March 28, 2003. Prizes still completely imaginary.
- ...who can boast to be the last non-Korean to have won an international title?
(Andre's guesses moved to WhoWasMarchAnswers)
Some of mine, several going a bit further back in time - Andre Engels:
- Who used to be considered a kisei (go-saint) until political manipulations came to light?
- Who is said to have answered the question how his game went by I had black?
- Who was known as "a genius born at the wrong time"?
- Who startled the go world by playing move 5 at tengen in an important game against the strongest player of his time?
- Who was the first player to reach 9 dan after the creation of the oteai system?
- Which western player once managed to take shared first place (though third place on DOS) in the amateur world championship?
- Who was suspended for eight months after accidentally wounding a fellow professional, and who was the wronged party?
- Who saw his career roughly interrupted by a motor accident?
(DJ's answers moved to WhoWasMarchAnswers)
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