Christmas Go Haiku Challenge

“Tribute to Guo Juan”

The Party banned Go
Yet on a distant mountain
Stone still clicks on wood

Guo is a pro who learnt Go whilst it was banned during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s; she got away with it because she lived on a mountain.

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Interesting. I didn’t know that go was banned during the Cultural Revolution. Thank you.

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“Want of Skills”

Double-digit kyu
I’m going to put my group
In self-atari.

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Christmas Debacle

I lost a go game
On the fourth day of Christmas.
Four groups a-dying.

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Kiema, nobi, crawl,
Running my stones to freedom,
My overplay lives!

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‘Tesuji’

Little wooden click…
Smell of surprise, then silence.
Stones are shaking.

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Tengen

“Tengen is awesome”
“Then you must be mistaken”
Says Alphago Teach


Source: https://alphagoteach.deepmind.com

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Haiku!

I was playing go,
I thought, but thought I was dead,
Then the board was mine!

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I didn't know that! Thank you!

“The Game of the Century”

Shusai’s win a loss
The true victor shadow-screened
One more tsumego

If you don’t know the Game of the Century, now you have to look it up! Just forced you to study Go history.

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Christmas tradition:
Playing go against Santa.
Takes generations.

I feel like I’m in dueling banjos. lol

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Crane’s Nest Haiku

Behold the crane’s nest!
There shall you find only death.
(Giggles for me though.)

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Preying

Sharpening my knife
Gonna cut you from inside
Ah?! A sacrifice

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Feeling prolific today. Another haiku:

Prey

Could you let me live
There is no place to hide
Please? Just one more eye.

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The forgotten gift
The wise men brought from the east:
A goban and stones.

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“The Hobbit’s Game”

Bilbo’s tsumego
Enthralled the trolls; arguing
They saw dawn too late.

How Bilbo really outwitted the trolls in The Hobbit.

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Love this one! Really did lol. I’m a Hobbit fan from way back.

Cosmic Style Haiku

Black plays gorensei.
(More delusions of grandeur?)
White has a hangnail.

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Sweden’s white Christmas:
Warm house, hot glögg, fiery go.
What more could you want?

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I came to this a day late, so here’s a double dose to catch up.

San-San Haiku

I claim this corner,
And so there’s an end of it!
(Sheesh, it looks so small.)

Mirror Go Haiku

You are entering
A parallel universe.
Better pack a lunch.

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