famous people playing go
Alexandre Dinerchtein
in Japan and playing go at the local go club?
Is it true, that japanese admiral Isoroku Jamamoto (1884-1943+) was
the strong go player?
Nick Wedd
Dinerchtein <q...@omen.ru> writes
> Is it true, that japanese admiral Isoroku Jamamoto (1884-1943+) was
>the strong go player?
In English, his name is more usually spelled "Yamamoto".
His plan to destroy Allied air power in the New Guinea area was named
"operation Igo". I don't know if this is relevant.
Nick
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Doug McNaught
> In article <5a3ca569.02052...@posting.google.com>, Alexandre
> Dinerchtein <q...@omen.ru> writes
>
> > Is it true, that japanese admiral Isoroku Jamamoto (1884-1943+) was
> >the strong go player?
>
> In English, his name is more usually spelled "Yamamoto".
I read that he was an excellent Shogi player, but not that he ever
played go.
-Doug
peter zandveld
about Yamamoto:
He loved poker, bridge and shogi, the Japanese version of chess. Said one of
his top aides: ''He had a gambler's heart.''
I do not believe the story about Fisher.
By the way, if you are interested in such things, the richest person in the
world, Bill Gates, plays a little go.
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schaak en go winkel het paard
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~paard
ro...@telus.net
<zand...@mep.tno.nl> wrote:
>I found on: http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,127894,00.html
>about Yamamoto:
>He loved poker, bridge
Yamamoto lived for some time in the USA, and apparently played a great
deal (;^) of bridge and poker there.
>and shogi, the Japanese version of chess. Said one of
>his top aides: ''He had a gambler's heart.''
>
>I do not believe the story about Fisher.
I saw a rumor many years ago that Fischer was playing go, and had
reached low dan level.
-- Roy L
bu...@sporadic.stanford.edu
> > Is it true, that japanese admiral Isoroku Jamamoto (1884-1943+) was
> >the strong go player?
>
> In English, his name is more usually spelled "Yamamoto".
>
> His plan to destroy Allied air power in the New Guinea area was named
> "operation Igo". I don't know if this is relevant.
As I recall in the "Naked and the Dead," Norman Mailer blames
the failure of a Japanese Admiral to put up a good defense on Go
tactics.
It's a long time ago that I read that book however.
Daniel Bump
Martin Harvey
news:ad05ko$i5o$1...@news.surfnet.nl
> By the way, if you are interested in such things, the richest person in the
> world, Bill Gates, plays a little go.
I'd heard elsewhere (uncorroborated) news that Bill Gates plays go.
Would you happen to have URLs to any supporting information
(not that I'm doubting you or others,
indeed I trust+hope it's very true)?
Martin.
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Steffen Glückselig
<jhgo...@aol.com> wrote:
Hello Martin,
>...Bill Gates plays go.
...
>indeed I trust+hope it's very true
Why? ;-)
greets Steffen
JHGOHHGO
of the game. Only my humble opinion. If Microsoft know about Go, they might
support it in some way in the future. Call me an optimist :)
Ted S.
news:20020720091100...@mb-fv.aol.com:
> If Microsoft know about Go, they might support it in some way in the
> future.
If Microsoft know about Go, they'll make Windows be incompatible with any
of the current Go servers and create a server of their own. :-|
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We should hope Bill Gates stays the hell _away_ from go. If he should
decide to 'support' go, he'll come up with something a million times
worse than Ing Chang-ki's various abortions.
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Good luck, Mr. Gorsky.
Anonymous
I think everyone knows that astronaut Daniel T. Barry plays Go. He was the
first person to play Go in space.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/barry.html
Look under Special Honors. =)
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Shao Zhang
> "peter zandveld" <zand...@mep.tno.nl> wrote in message
> news:ad05ko$i5o$1...@news.surfnet.nl
>
>> By the way, if you are interested in such things, the richest person in the
>> world, Bill Gates, plays a little go.
>
> I'd heard elsewhere (uncorroborated) news that Bill Gates plays go.
> Would you happen to have URLs to any supporting information
> (not that I'm doubting you or others,
> indeed I trust+hope it's very true)?
maybe this link?
http://www.britgo.org/general/celeb/
Shao.
-
>> "peter zandveld" <zand...@mep.tno.nl> wrote:
>>> By the way, if you are interested in such things, the richest
>>> person in the world, Bill Gates, plays a little go.
> "Martin Harvey" <jhgo...@aol.com> wrote:
>> I'd heard elsewhere (uncorroborated) news that Bill Gates plays go.
>> Would you happen to have URLs to any supporting information
>> (not that I'm doubting you or others,
>> indeed I trust+hope it's very true)?
Shao Zhang <sh...@activesky.com> wrote:
> maybe this link?
>
> http://www.britgo.org/general/celeb/
Says on the BGA webpage there:
"Bill Gates is the chairman of Microsoft. I am assured
that he has played Go, but can find no evidence for this. "
So I decided to search my hard drive for "surprising" Gates references.
This appeared in an El Paso, Tx newspaper sometime during Summer 1997:
Question: Have you ever failed at anything?
w...@eaton.k12.mi.us
Bill Gates: There are things I hoped for that I didn't achieve.
When I was young, I wanted to be the world's best
chess player and, of course, I didn't succeed.
I wanted to be the world's best Go player, too.
I wanted to keep IBM in a happy partnership with
Microsoft, and that didn't work out either.
There are people I wanted to hire whom I couldn't.
So I've had plenty of disappointments.
( send your queries to: ask...@microsoft.com )
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Peter Strempel
> If Microsoft know about Go, they'll make Windows be incompatible with any
> of the current Go servers and create a server of their own. :-|
Isn't there this "Zone" Go server owned by Microsoft? I think it was
developed independant, but then Microsoft bought this whole playing website
to include it into their MSN. Not sure.
I tried their Go "server" once and found it not worth to visit again.
Outdated software and - of course - only runs on Windows.
Peter
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zeng...@yahoo.com
many people have been introduced to Go there. No software is required beyond
the browser that one uses to reach the Zone, which is at zone.msn.com. Also,
there is no charge.
z
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z> There are thousands of games per day being played on the MS
z> Gaming Zone, and many people have been introduced to Go there.
z> No software is required beyond the browser that one uses to
z> reach the Zone, which is at zone.msn.com. Also, there is no
z> charge.
Really? If I try to go there, I get this notice:
If you are seeing this page, we have detected that the browser that
you are using will not render zone.msn.com correctly. To play on the
Zone you need a computer running Windows95 or greater...
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Christopher Hudnall
> >>>>> "z" == zenguyuno <zeng...@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> z> There are thousands of games per day being played on the MS
> z> Gaming Zone, and many people have been introduced to Go there.
> z> No software is required beyond the browser that one uses to
> z> reach the Zone, which is at zone.msn.com. Also, there is no
> z> charge.
>
> Really? If I try to go there, I get this notice:
>
> If you are seeing this page, we have detected that the browser that
> you are using will not render zone.msn.com correctly. To play on the
> Zone you need a computer running Windows95 or greater...
Hmm, Maybe you're banned there too, Patrick :-)
-Chris
Peter Strempel
>> Really? If I try to go there, I get this notice:
>>
>> If you are seeing this page, we have detected that the browser that
>> you are using will not render zone.msn.com correctly. To play on the
>> Zone you need a computer running Windows95 or greater...
>
> Hmm, Maybe you're banned there too, Patrick :-)
All non-windows users are banned there. :*)
Peter, banned.
Patrick G. Bridges
PS> Christopher Hudnall schrieb im Artikel
PS> <ygf8z42...@Vvm.COM>:
>>> Really? If I try to go there, I get this notice:
>>>
>>> If you are seeing this page, we have detected that the browser
>>> that you are using will not render zone.msn.com correctly. To
>>> play on the Zone you need a computer running Windows95 or
>>> greater...
>> Hmm, Maybe you're banned there too, Patrick :-)
PS> All non-windows users are banned there. :*)
Heh. :)
Michael Sullivan
> >>>>> "z" == zenguyuno <zeng...@yahoo.com> writes:
> z> There are thousands of games per day being played on the MS
> z> Gaming Zone, and many people have been introduced to Go there.
> z> No software is required beyond the browser that one uses to
> z> reach the Zone, which is at zone.msn.com. Also, there is no
> z> charge.
> Really? If I try to go there, I get this notice:
> If you are seeing this page, we have detected that the browser that
> you are using will not render zone.msn.com correctly. To play on the
> Zone you need a computer running Windows95 or greater...
Yes, but I have one. It's called a Mac.
And then there's the PC running OpenBSD, which would also be greater
than Windows95. Maybe that message needs to be rephrased?
Michael
zeng...@yahoo.com
> >>>>> "z" == zenguyuno <zeng...@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> z> There are thousands of games per day being played on the MS
> z> Gaming Zone, and many people have been introduced to Go there.
> z> No software is required beyond the browser that one uses to
> z> reach the Zone, which is at zone.msn.com. Also, there is no
> z> charge.
>
> Really? If I try to go there, I get this notice:
>
> If you are seeing this page, we have detected that the browser that
> you are using will not render zone.msn.com correctly. To play on the
> Zone you need a computer running Windows95 or greater...
It's true that it's only for MS Windows users.
z
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: The reason I hope Bill Gates plays go is that if he does, it raises the
: profile of the game.
No, if Bill Gates plays go, it raises the profile of Bill Gates, not that
of go!
-Justin
Nate Smith
indeed. it is as if he stepped up into the boat. he is now higher,
but the
boat is ever so slightly lower.... :-(
- nate