Television
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Here are some television programs that reference
the game of Go.
- Guys, you won't belive it but I saw a couple of go relate scenes in HnG! ;p
- 2004: Andromeda - Episode #84 (production code 418) - There is a dialog-only reference to Go while Dylan and Indra are on their way to the maze on the planet:
- Dylan: I am excellent at Go.
- Indra: [...] I can beat anyone at Go.
- 2004: Arrested Development: episode #122 (1st season's finale?). I was just flipping channels, but it looked like a couple of kids might have been playing Go at the end of the episode. Anyone familiar with the show know if it was Go or not?
- 2004: 24: Some bad guys are hiding out in a club, and when the authorities raid it, we notice some people in other rooms of the club playing Go. In a following scene, they are interrogating a suspect in one of those rooms and the interrogator throws a bowl (+stones) off the table.
Chris Hayashida: The games played are the Atomic Bomb Game, the Ear-Reddening Game, and the Blood-Vomiting Game. The positions might have changed from the original set up after a few takes, though.
- 2003: Enterprise: Season 2 Ep 22 'Cogenitor' A traditional four legged goban with a nearly completed game between Trip and a visiting alien is shown from above and then in some extreme closeups as each player captures a single stone. The alien asks if this means she/he/it (third gender) has won, and Trip exclaims that he has not lost a game in two years.
- 2001: Andromeda - Captain Dylan Hunt and the Nietzschian, Tyr Anasazi, play a variant of Go, possibly 3D, in several episodes in the first season. In at least one, Dylan starts with White.
- Deadly Games episode of Diagnosis Murder, starring Dick van Dyke. A Goban, bowls, and stones appear and are referred to as "weichi" (probable pronunciation).
- 2000 - 2001? TakeNGive saw a music video by the pop-rock band "Creed", which may have had three or four scenes featuring two people playing Go -- but wasn't paying attention until too late; can anyone confirm this sighting?
- Brief view in an episode of Ally McBeal.
- Diamond, UK TV serial. An actor is seen playing Go and a Goban is in the background in more than one episode. (That wouldn't be Jon Diamond, would it :) ?)
- Dutch Jeugd Journaal (news for kids) reported some news about the game of Go and filmed at the ING tournament in March. Also Guo Juan and another Go player explained some parts of the game.
- Kamen Rider 555 episode 1. Yuji's uncle is reading a book and playing Go while talking about Yuji's father's business.
- Tomorrow's World Harold Lee (maybe???) was walking around on a floor sized set dropping stones on the floor against a computer opponent in a bewildering fashion.
Here is the position of the game shown in Enterprise, episode 'Cogenitor'. The picture on my TV was not very good, but I am confident that the diagram below depicts the position correctly.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/41/1103b31b100cefd0933741221831e26d.png)
Cogenitor (W) - Charles 'Trip' Tucker (B)
BTW, Black seems to have around nine white prisoners.
Black (the teacher) plays at 1, White (the pupil, playing its first game) answers at 2 and thus secures the win against the champion of the Enterprise, undefeated for two years. Oh my :-) How do they keep that ship afloat? - GoldenBear?, November 2004
uxs: Off course, given the amount of stones on the board and the amount of prisoners, it seems that the alien either got a humongous handicap, or was allowed to play twice in a row every other turn or so. Given that, it seems Trip didn't really have a chance anyway, and the Enterprise engines are still in capable hands.
IanDavis Yes ;-) This would have been deemed to be the most artistic way to play by the director. I remember a scene in James Bond where the Director got rid of 2 knights from the board because he felt they were cluttering it up. Rendered the whole position (which was copied from Grandmaster Game Bronstein Spassky maybe?) totally unsound. As long as it's Art though.
gtwade: I rummaged online and found two pics from that scene. Would it be copyright infringement to show them here? Otherwise I can just link to them.
IanDavis it could well be, so just provide a link for the authorities to find out about it
gtwade: Here it is.
http://www.voyager.cz/enterprise/epizody/048cogenitorobr4.htm
ThaddeusOlczyk: From what I can see of the overhead shot. There
are two bowls of White stones, and none of Black.
Axel? If the member of the enterprise is the only Go-player on the ship and learned the game by an article of the Computer library (maybe a copie of wikipedia). He is indeed the champion of the ship and then the match is not too bad :-)
gtwade: I never saw the show (don't have TV). Is that scene a tribute to the Edward Lasker quote? Or is it just to show how intelligent the visiting alien is?