2 posts tagged with "Go"

After retiring, Old Li's greatest pleasure was to play a couple of games at the park's chess stall every afternoon. He called himself a "chess fanatic" with fifty years of experience, proficient in various chess principles, and boasted that he could play chess with "flowing moves, containing profound mysteries." Old Li often said: Go is like life, basic moves, brilliant moves, and common moves are all choices.

There was a young chess player in the park, whom everyone called "Little Ma". Little Ma had a strange style of play, not following conventions, often making seemingly "common moves," but often winning unexpectedly. Old Li disliked Little Ma's style, feeling he was defiling the "elegance" of Go.

Secretary-General Wang of the Chinese Weiqi Association had been very irritable lately. The controversy surrounding the LG Cup final was raging, and the matter between Ke Jie and Byun Sang-il was dominating the headlines of major media outlets every day.

His superiors were urging him to make a statement, the public was waiting for an explanation, and his phone was ringing off the hook every day. But the problem was, how should this statement be written? Who should be said to be right or wrong? Would writing it offend anyone?