Re: The Future of Chess and Getting It "Unstuck" (potential heresy

On Apr 5, 5:48 am, Quadibloc <jsav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 4, 4:32 pm, Harald Korneliussen <vinterm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > This thread has about come to the point where someone calls for Hikaru
> > no Abstract.
>
> Having encountered a mention of Hikaru no Go in my searches for
> information on Go, I then heard a friend who was learning Japanese
> note that he had seen that anime in Shonen Jump. I saw a few issues at
> a local secondhand bookstore, but glancing through them, I was not
> impressed; too many of the plots depended on people actually cheating
> at Go, which I suspect is just as rare as cheating at Chess in direct
> over-the-board play - that is, virtually nonexistent. (Cheating by
> computer consultation, on the other hand, is a big problem, but that's
> quite different from moving stones or knocking down one's opponent's
> hand...)
>
> John Savard

So, you are saying if it is shown that a player is channeling the
spirit of Bobby Fischer, they should be banned from a chess
tournament? :-)  Or, were you saying that the main character went
against cheaters?

By the way, when I was running a game tournament at a local
convention, someone in a wheel chair who depended on his brother's
help, to actually play.  He told his brother the moves, and his
brother played.  Would this be acceptable?  As for Hikaru No Go, it
has resulted in a worldwide interest in Go.  It has done what Fischer
did with Chess, but doesn't rest on the stability of a single person
to be able to sustain it.

- Rich