It’s interesting to note that the board dimensions in these scenes appear to be 25x17. I’m curious if anyone knows if this was just the artist’s choice, or if this was actually the standard size of the time?
Qí 棋 is a board game and art form which is now called wéiqí (圍棋) in Chinese (go in Japan and the West), literally meaning “surrounding game.” Current definitions of qí cover a wide range of board games, and given that in classical Chinese qí could also refer to other games, some argue that the qí in the four arts could refer to xiangqi.[1] However, xiangqi is often considered a popular “game of the people,” whereas wéiqí was a game with aristocratic connotations.
These remind me a lot of DGT (digital transmission) chessboards, which are used to transmit the move of a pro game live to a website like Chess24. When received by the website, they’re displayed automatically onto an interface. I had always just assumed that because of the light stones and smaller playing spaces on a goban (DGT boards use the weight of the pieces to track the moves, afaik), the technology was simply impractical for use on them. But this has gotten me thinking again: why not make DGT gobans?
Let’s for a moment assume that weight-based DGT gobans would be impractical, so we’re left with magnetic DGT boards. For this, I have an idea: instead of painted metal stones, what about making the stones out of a mixture of glass and powdered metal? For instance, nickel with clouded glass for the white stones and brass with dark-tinted glass for the black stones? Hopefully those would have enough magnetism.
HyunHyunKyung
From the quality of paper, the estimated publication period of HyunHyunKyung is 19th century. The size of the book is 183 x 255 mm (width x length) with 8mm of thickness. The book is made of hanji (Korean traditional paper) and has 78 pages in total including the cover.
The feature of this book is that not only were letters imprinted but the baduk boards were also printed. The book was printed by carving each and every page separately. The baduk stones were stamped with brush covers.
What a curious picture! I couldn’t find it with tineye.com , who is the artist?
Also, I love the idea of the brooding lava in the goban, just waiting for that small disturbance in the shape of the stones, but then erupting in a violent fight.
It’s a wonderful picture, but can it really be of olden times? How long ago did people know that there were layers in the crust, with lava pushing up like that? And the idea of the crust floating on lava - isn’t that very new geology (comparatively speaking)?