Master play

Yay! Today I received these five books from Slate & Shell, plus the extra pocket life & death book (thank you S&S), I guess I'll start with Lee Changho, I'm quite intrigued with his calm and solid style.

The books are part of the Master Play Series:

• The Style of Go Seigen
• The Fighting Styles of Kato Masao and Seo Bong Soo
• The Style of Lee Changho
• The Territorial Styles of Kitani Minoru and Cho Chikun
• The Style of Takemiya

Mega seki

The following seki involving four groups could have occurred in one of my games.
Whoever plays at A, B or D puts himself in atari.

Go by Borges

Jorge Luis Borges, distinguished Argentine writer, dedicated a poem to the game of Go! Find it below in it's original Spanish an translated to English (extracted from here).

El Go

Hoy, nueve de setiembre de 1978,
tuve en la palma de la mano un pequeño disco
de los trescientos sesenta y uno que se requieren
para el juego astrológico del go,
ese otro ajedrez del Oriente.

Es más antiguo que la más antigua escritura
y el tablero es un mapa del universo.

Sus variaciones negras y blancas
agotarán el tiempo.

En él pueden perderse los hombres
como en el amor y en el día.

Hoy nueve de setiembre de 1978,
yo, que soy ignorante de tantas cosas,
sé que ignoro una más,
y agradezco a mis númenes
esta revelación de un laberinto
que nunca será mío.
 

Today, the ninth of September of 1978,
I had in the palm of my hand one small disc
of the three hundred sixty-one that are needed
for the astrologic game of Go,
that other chess of the East.

It is older than the oldest writing
and the board is a map of the universe.

Its black and white variations
will exhaust time.

Men can be lost in it
as in love and day.

Today, the ninth of September of 1978,
I, myself, who am ignorant of so many things,
know that I do not know one more,
and I thank my poetic inspiration
for this revelation of a labyrinth
which will never be mine.