Who Was That Go Player... (1)

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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.


HolIgor: my guesses for some of them


DJ: OK, here are the solutions!


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