If Life Were Like Hikaru No Go / Discussion

Zarlan: Ghost of Shusaku? It was the ghost of Fujiwarano Sai, both in the case of haunting a goban and playing on the internet. Also pros do play on the Internet (there was no indication of it being common in Hikaru no Go. Quite the opposite I think) and Hikaru does more than just watch Sai's games (again: It's Sai not Shusaku).

bud1027 no ,no...fujiwarano sai is shusaku.

Zarlan: No he isn't. Shuusaku let Fujiwarano Sai play through him, just as Hikaru did sometimes. He was however not Sai just as Hikaru was not Sai.

bud1027 ah...yes, u r right. sorry for my mistake~ ^^;

nelsonheber Shuusaku is known by his games, so in a very real sense, Sai is Shuusaku. When they see Sai play, they can see Shuusaku in his moves. Torajirou (the first person Sai "inhabited") allowed Sai to play all his games and only changed his name to Shuusaku after Sai "inhabited" him. Since the name Shuusaku is tied more closely to the games than the person (in the anime and manga anyways), you could say that Sai and Shuusaku are the same.

Zarlan: Ah. Very interesting point of view. You make a rather good point. Still, the things written above, in the list, are rather incorrect or at least misleading.


iopq: Hikaru was no beginner when he started to let Sai play on the Internet. He played against an ex-Insei (which is 6 dan ama) and he was almost as good. That leads me to believe that he was at least shodan at that point. If he were, say, 3d, then going up to 5d in 3 months might be very impressive; yet doable. Remember he got recommended to be an Insei by Ogata-sensei so he might not have been as strong as an Insei when he started.


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