Art & Go

[stone_defender]

[Sketchy_omen]

The four stone starting handicap felt quite princely I must say…

Somewhere along the path however, things have gone awry. Not to worry, it’s art according to me.

[Atorrante]

Go can be pretty abstract

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[Groin]

[Atorrante]

Go Club logo’s & more

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[Groin]

Admiring Go logos (originally OGS group logos)

[image] Teaching League [image] Grupo Iberoamericano [image] God of Go [image] Brasil [image] かおり杯-World Kaori Cup- [image] Leopard’s Resting Tree [image] Go La salle Fromental [image] Asociación Mexicana de Baduk-Igo-Weiqi [image] Punahou Go Club [image] ChicaGo [image] Уральские мастера

[Atorrante]

[Atorrante]

Go Covers

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[Groin]

Is it a “find the mistake” game?

[Atorrante]

It was not intended to be a find the mistake game, but there may be mistakes (since my knowledge of Japanese, Chinese, etc is non existent.)
Wonder where I messed up.

[Groin]

Well the last couverture doesn’t seem to be about go.

[Atorrante]

Correct, it is about Chinese chess.
I found it on the website of Schaak en Go Winkel Het Paard (Chess & Go Shop The Knight: Go / Weiqi / Baduk)

And since it showed Asian characters I assumed (incorrect) that it was about go.

[Atorrante]

Statistical Go Art

Sometimes Go Art is not far away

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Animated version:

Statistics from a 27M game sample

repainted your diagram odd number moves are black after all and replaced the least popular moves with board background first 20 moves: [image]

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Statistics from a 27M game sample

Hi! I managed to download the full JSON dataset from @za3k OGS database dump… …and to reduce it at a convenient size to calculate some stats on it. I’ve been able to convert 27085332 records. I may have lost some, I hope less than 2000. There are 26935658 OGS games and 149674 uploaded SGF. I’m going to focus on OGS games only, since SGF are less interesting for me and they may have weird data (as an example, someone uploaded some SGF apparently with huge boards: 100x100, 666x666, 1000x1000…

[Atorrante]

Okay one more

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Statistics from a 27M game sample

OGS neither implents pass stones nor white pass last. The games are scored using the area method, so the outcome isn’t affected.

[Atorrante]

Borrowed a book from our go club’s library about Japanese woodcarving.

Rose Hempel; Holzschnittkunst Japans, Belser Verlag, Stuttgart, 1963.

It contains a list of artists:

• Ando Hiroshige
• Hishikawa Moronobu
• Torii Kiyonobu (three artist, artist’s dynasty?)
• Torii Kiyotada
• Okumura Masanobu
• Nishikawa Sukenobu
• Torii Kiyohiro
• Torii Kiyomitsu
• Suzuki Haranobu
• Ishikawa Toyomasa
• Isoda Koryusai
• Katsukawa Shunsho (two artists)
• Mori Buncho
• Kitao Masanobu
• Torii Kiyonaga
• Katsukawa Shunei
• Kitagawa Utamaro
• Hosoda Eishi
• Chokosai Eisho
• Rekisentei Eiri
• Toshusai Sharaku
• Momogawa Shiko
• Eishosai Choki
• Kitagawa Kikumaro
• Katsukawa Shunsen
• Utagawa Kunimasa
• Utagawa Kunisada
• Keisai Eisen
• Kikugawa Eizan
• Katoshika Hokusai
• Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Let’s see if I can unearth some more woodcarvings about weichi.

[Atorrante]

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Statistics from a 27M game sample

V3.0 made the board with grid - use it as the first layer [image] and transparent circles grid - use it as the last layer [image] So move 1 now looks like this: [1] move 2: [2]

moves 3 - 60

3 [3] 4 [4] 5 [5] 6 [6] 7 [7] 8 [8] 9 [9] 10 [10] 11 [11] 12 [12] 13 [13] 14 [14] 15 [15] 16 [16] 17 [17] 18 [18] 19 [19] 20 [20] 21 [21] 22 [22] 23 [23] 24 [24] 25 [25] 26 [26] 27 [27] 28 [28] 29 [29] 30 [30] 31 [31] 32 [32] 33 [33] 34 [3…

[Atorrante]

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[Atorrante]

Some more pics

[michiakig]

Here’s a higher resolution composite (using creative commons images from the British Museum) of that tryptich, Raiko’s retainers playing go, with attempted interruptions by the Earth-Spider’s demons

I love many of the prints that Utagawa Kuniyoshi made of various mythical scenes, but this one is one of my favorites for obvious reasons, since the go board is featured so prominently, but also the faces on the demons are so grotesque

While I’m at it here’s another one, The Earth Spider Conjures up Demons at the Mansion of Minamoto no Raiko

The British Museum website is a little bit finicky to search, but you can get an even nicer appreciation of these artworks, because the image viewer lets you zoom in closer (I think the original images are actually higher resolution than they let you download)

edit: oh I guess Discourse will scale uploads so I put the higher res ones here