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If you look at the core

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of this tree,

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there are many lines emanating.

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You can only get it from a large tree.

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Each ring represents one year.

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From here to there, that's one hundred years.

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Do you see how slowly this tree grew?

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Yet its life continues.

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That's why it is most fitting

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for a Go board to be made from trees.

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The board is a window to the human mind.

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Whether we want to or not

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it draws a picture of our thoughts

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and reveals what is inside us

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Nine, eight, seven, six,

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five, four, three, two, one.

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The game has started.

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The key is not to lose a game

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or otherwise the top pros probably won't play you.

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I don't care about that.

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Who wants to play the top pros?

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Who wants to get their asses kicked?

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Me.

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So Andy decided he was going to be insane,

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more so than usual.

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He's going to try to win 40 games in a row

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playing against other people online.

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He has 21 hours remaining.

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No, I need a four.

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So what number win is that?

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It's two.

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There are two ways you can get very good at this game.

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One, you study very hard and take lots of good lessons,

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think hard, study, do your homework.

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The other, you play maniacally

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for days on end without stopping.

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Every time I'd go to the Go club in Flushing

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I'd always encounter Andy Liu.

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He was about 8 years old

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and had become very strong already.

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I would say he's a genius.

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He might have some mutation.

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I don't know how his social skills are

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but on the Go board he's obviously a monster.

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He has 18 wins, zero losses,

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so he needs to win another 22 more without losing any

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to make it on time.

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Andy, he doesn't train.

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He just plays 20 games everyday online.

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But doing that, he's now the strongest player

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in North America I think.

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I think he's stronger than me now

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because of his weird style.

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You have five minutes.

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It all comes down to this.

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Yes!

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There he goes, 60 bucks in the bag.

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I didn't think you were gonna make it.

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I've never seen anyone play this much in my entire life.

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Once you reach a certain level,

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if you live in the United States,

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you don't have anyone to play in person.

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I mean there's a tiny handful of people

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who are really serious about it.

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And actually if the bar for being serious about it

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means going to Asia and training,

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then maybe I'm the only one.

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If you win a game you feel great,

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you think about staying in Korea, you know how great it

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is,

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and when you lose you think about you know,

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going back to the US, going back home ,

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giving it all up, it's just highs, lows.

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All day, everyday for years.

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I've had these times where it's like,

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I'm living my life with these tiny Asian boys and girls

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and I'm just like where am I?

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I have no choice, given the things I care about,

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and given the speed at which I want to improve.

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Yeah, I don't have much of a choice.

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Where did my wife put the filters?

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So we got the coffees here, cake if anybody wants it.

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Alright.

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In 1975, walking down 57th Street,

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I go by a little game store and I noticed

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that there are two guys playing Go.

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I walk in, I say, hi, you're playing Go.

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And they said, "You know that this is Go?"

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And I said, yeah sure.

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The rules of Go are very simple.

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It's played on a grid of lines.

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Two players take turns putting stones on the intersections.

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Once stones are played on the board they don't move.

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But stones can be captured and removed

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if all the empty intersections around them

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are occupied by their opponent.

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The goal of the game is to surround territory

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with your stones.

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At the end of the game, whoever controls

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more of the board wins.

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When you are playing Go, you're often kind of

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zoomed in to one corner of the board

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and you're thinking about what's gonna happen

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locally as a result of making this move.

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So I'm gonna go here and black's gonna go here

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and then white goes here and black goes there.

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Oh I see, what if I go here and there and blah, blah, blah.

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So you're really zoomed in and you're focused.

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But the thing about Go is that

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that's happening all over the board at the same time right.

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Those little situations are emerging here and here

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and here and each one of them is its own tactical puzzle.

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But they're all subtly connected

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because the outcome of this tactical situation

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is going to exert an influence on this one.

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You have these rules and they're simple and in a way,

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obvious, and yet they lead to this rich,

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ambiguous, complicated, subtle, hard to predict,

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and hard to understand set of possibilities.

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Go is so complex and so open-ended

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that it requires the intuitive and the aesthetic

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part of the brain as much as the analytical part

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so it rewards creativity and analysis simultaneously.

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And it's never boring, every game is different.

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Go is by far the toughest strategy game for computers.

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In chess there's about 35 legal moves

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on the board at any one time.

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In Go there's over 200 and so if you want the program

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to look four moves ahead, it has to look at 35

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and then 35 for each of those,

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and 35 for each of those in chess.

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In Go it's 200 times 200 times 200 times 200.

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There is no brute force search for Go

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and there never will be.

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The only way to simplify that, to be able to manage it,

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is to have a feeling for the game

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and that's the right brain side of the game.

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Where you go, hmm, I don't know but this feels right.

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Go is a game that really fits the human mind very well,

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it fits with who we are, it fits with our ability

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to take a lot of disparate information

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and make patterns out of it.

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To become a

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professional Go player

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you must walk a very arduous path.

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You have to give up regular school

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leave home when you're about ten years old

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and train every day from 8 AM to 10 PM.

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They start at the age of five or six.

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And then become pro like 13, 14.

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From our experience, the younger the better.

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As you can see these tables are

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arranged

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so you are by yourself.

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I only could go back to my hometown

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like once a year or twice a year.

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And I remember like when I, every time when my parents

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called me I cried and I said oh I miss you

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and I want to go back and my Dad always said,

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"If you want to fulfill your dream you have to stay there,

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"you have to study, you have to work harder."

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Most of the people who want to become professionals,

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they gave up the education because they don't have

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enough time to study both.

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Becoming professional is their dream

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so they can give up everything.

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Only people

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who have Go deep in their souls

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would walk down this path.

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It's very different when you're trying to

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take something

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which is not a part of a culture and add it to a

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culture.

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So here.

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These are all the old pictures.

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I mean I always liked it and I always played it,

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but I couldn't find other people to play with

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most of the time, that's just the way it goes.

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In the 50s and 60s, I rarely ran into another Go player.

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If I met somebody who was Asian I asked

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and usually they didn't play either.

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There was a time when I think the AGA membership

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was in significant danger of just going out of existence.

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Terry Benson took over and he served

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as President for 10 years.

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My belief is that he probably saved the AGA.

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The AGA had fallen to 200 members

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and nobody was doing anything

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and there were checks left in the drawer,

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so they immediately drew me into the circle,

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I started playing tournament Go and within eight months

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I was editing the American Go Journal.

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We were sittin' around just talkin' saying,

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"We oughta have a big tournament,

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"invite everybody from the whole country."

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♪ I build a big white group with points by the dozen♪

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♪ Right in the center of the board ♪

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♪ I can move right here ♪

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I wanna see Go become a cultural

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normal thing in America.

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It's gonna take awhile for that to happen in America

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but I think that someday if somebody says,

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"Oh yeah and I'm a Go player," they won't have to explain.

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I've been dreaming and preaching and arguing

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for growth and promotion as the number one priority

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for the AGA for many years.

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We're 75 years old and to have a membership of 2,100

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or 2,200 after 75 years, it's breathtakingly sad honestly.

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Bags and other large containers

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are subject to random search by the police.

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What does the normal college grad do?

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I mean who wants to work in a corporation?

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Like everybody follows rules, there's cubicles,

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like you have to work in cubicles,

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every morning you receive a memo you know,

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that kind of environment and I'm a little bit

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afraid of that.

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I could try to play Go better but that's not meaningful

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in the sense that it could be a career or whatever.

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It's just not a career path.

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This is every pro who became professional

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from one of the three schools,

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going back to the very first one which is my teacher.

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There, you just don't go.

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You don't go to A, you don't breathe the rarefied air of A.

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But that's all, that's a professional

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study group basically

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and this door, I don't know what do you think?

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Can I open it, can I go in?

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I hear people in there.

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We've always referred

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to China, Korea and Japan

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as the Three Kingdoms of Go.

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It has been passed down generation after generation

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each stronger than the last.

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There is chess in the West

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but Go is incomparably more subtle.

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It is the most difficult game

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ever devised by human beings.

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Passing down the beauty of Go to many people

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is a professional's responsibility.

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Handing down this beauty

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is as important as winning prize money.

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The level of the whole Go world...

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...improving the global level of Go is what's most important.

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That is the direction everyone

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especially professionals

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should move towards.

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At the highest levels, what the pros are

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thinking about is

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several orders of magnitude more

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than what any of the amateurs think about.

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Everyone starts as a beginner where you know

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how to put the stones on the board,

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how to capture, how to get to the end of the game.

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But every level above that you're learning something.

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The ranking system starts at 30 kyu.

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As you improve you move up, 20 kyu, 10 kyu, one kyu.

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Then you enter the black belt master ranks:

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one dan, two dan, to nine dan.

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And above that are the professionals:

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pro one dan, pro two dan, all the way to pro nine dan.

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I'm Gregory Marshall and I'm in 16 kyu.

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My name's Rachel Small.

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I am playing as a nine kyu.

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My name is Larry Morningvey.

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I'm theoretically a six kyu.

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Somewhere around five kyu, at least in my experience,

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it starts getting a little thick,

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it gets a little tougher to move up.

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Oh lord, I've been a four kyu for so long.

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Among the dan level players, we kyu,

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have not yet begun to learn.

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You almost definitely play at least

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closer to 1,000 games to become a dan player.

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After that you're on the road of playing serious Go.

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When I was around four kyu, three kyu, in there,

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I became convinced I'm gonna have this game down you know.

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And then you get to one dan, two dan

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and you start realizing, oh crap, I don't know anything.

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For the top amateur players and all the

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professionals,

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what they are considering, what they're thinking about

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is almost beyond my comprehension.

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They will be thinking about 20 and 30 move sequences,

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using their knowledge base of shapes and patterns.

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At the top level they are in a different world frankly.

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You know in the past 20 years, a lot of AGA organizers,

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they put a lot of time and a lot of effort

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into youth activities.

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We have built up a collection

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of awesomely strong kid players.

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And we needed to be in a position

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to give them some kind of a next step.

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My name is Myungwan Kim.

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I came from Korea and I'm a Certified Nine-Dan Professional

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from Korean Go Association.

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Myungwan came over as an ambassador

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for the Korean Baduk Association.

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First thing he said to me was,

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we need a pro system in the United States.

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You need to have a professional system to have geniuses.

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Just one or two people

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one or two geniuses can change the picture.

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He came back and said, "I found you a sponsor.

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"They've agreed to support the qualification tournament."

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And I said, oh well, now that might be different.

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Good evening and welcome to all our

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distinguished visitors

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as we witness the first qualifying tournament

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for the AGA Professional Certification System.

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There will be 16 finalists, and they play to

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pick 2 professionals.

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First time outside of Asia that an organization

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is certifying professionals but we will have

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our own unique American brand.

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It's very much a beginning for us because we really don't

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know what an American

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professional system is going to look like.

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So what did you get?

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Did you get me anything?

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Uh, I got Pringles, beef jerky, Doritos, and Naked juice.

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Welcome, we will be playing three rounds today,

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two rounds tomorrow.

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The winner of this tournament will have the opportunity

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to go to North Carolina this summer

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to compete to become one of the first two

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homegrown and homemade American pros.

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At meetings I derided the idea

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that this country was ready for a pro system.

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That being said, it was an opportunity

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that was hard to say no to.

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Back in the States to play in this Professional

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Tournament.

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It's not the seriousness of Asia

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but I think it's the first time in 10 years

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where I've seen some serious stab at it.

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Easy work... easy work.

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'Cause of the shortage of liberties.

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But here he's just not going to.

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He didn't turn so now he's just gonna push and play here.

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Ready to kill him!

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It gets ugly.

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I like ugly games.

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His playing style is hyper-aggressive,

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with no regards for his own safety

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or those of his opponent.

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For the AGA Pro Selection Tournament

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the winner is Benjamin Lockhart.

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And first place, undefeated is Liu Zhi Yuan

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An invitation to the first AGA Professional

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Selection Tournament.

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The tournament was great.

354
00:25:58,182 --> 00:25:59,766
I thought the muffins were great,

355
00:25:59,766 --> 00:26:03,603
the chocolate chip cookies, the coffee.

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00:26:11,028 --> 00:26:16,450
Alright, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.

357
00:26:16,450 --> 00:26:21,372
Actually I need a container so I'm just gonna do this.

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00:26:26,584 --> 00:26:27,753
You wanna help yourself?

359
00:26:27,753 --> 00:26:29,547
Sure.

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How much is that?

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780.

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Andy, he's a huge favorite.

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00:26:41,434 --> 00:26:43,102
What did you say?

364
00:26:43,102 --> 00:26:44,686
You know who I think is the second favorite?

365
00:26:44,686 --> 00:26:46,021
Dude, I think you're number two, that's my opinion.

366
00:26:46,021 --> 00:26:48,648
I think Calvin Sun, no Calvin Sun.

367
00:26:48,648 --> 00:26:50,067
You know where I'm really confident in myself?

368
00:26:50,067 --> 00:26:53,028
I'm confident with my poker skills.

369
00:26:54,738 --> 00:26:56,449
Yeah dude, we're gonna be playing a lot of poker,

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we'll be careful about getting enough sleep and stuff.

371
00:26:58,451 --> 00:27:00,453
I mean I'm gonna take it pretty seriously.

372
00:27:00,453 --> 00:27:03,372
Oh you're gonna take it seriously for the Pro

373
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Qualifier?

374
00:27:03,372 --> 00:27:06,125
Yeah, dude, do you understand that I've been training

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for a long time in Korea?

376
00:27:08,626 --> 00:27:10,421
-Do you know what I've been-- -Wait, how long, how long?

377
00:27:08,626 --> 00:27:10,421
You're not going to college?

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Seriously?

379
00:27:12,798 --> 00:27:15,301
Well not yet, I don't think I'm ever gonna go to college.

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I think it'll just be too much time of my life.

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00:27:20,764 --> 00:27:24,143
I just hope you don't fall into the old way of thinking about

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playing Go.

383
00:27:24,143 --> 00:27:25,852
Oh dude, I am.

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I mean the most important thing to me is winning period.

385
00:27:28,397 --> 00:27:30,732
I don't care about the beauty of the game anymore.

386
00:27:30,732 --> 00:27:32,359
You have to fight, you always have to fight,

387
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,236
always a resistant fight, I mean that's go.

388
00:27:34,236 --> 00:27:37,072
Oh shit, oh shit, I think Ben is getting the concept now.

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00:27:53,088 --> 00:27:56,716
The origin of Go is very

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mysterious.

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Chinese history goes back 5000 years

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but many ancient records are essentially legend.

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About the origin of Go, there is one story.

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People who wanted to observe the universe

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would use a net to envelop the sky

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and record the location of the stars

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at the crossing threads.

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The oldest evidence we do have is sixth

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century B.C.

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At this time we had the Korea Go game

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but still we don't know how big the Go board was that time.

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In China traditionally, Go was one of the four fine arts.

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There's music, painting, and calligraphy, and Go.

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00:29:08,664 --> 00:29:12,376
And when Japan acquired the game in the eighth century,

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it was considered as a fine art.

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By the Tang dynasty, Go had

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reached Japan.

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Go advanced so much in Japan

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they left China and the other countries far behind.

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These are the official Go archives.

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This room is used to present the history of Go.

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In the tale of Genji, the game of Go is mentioned

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so we know that Go is played by the Buddhist clergy.

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It was played at the royal court.

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00:30:02,301 --> 00:30:07,431
In ancient times, Japan was a

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very rigid hierarchy.

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00:30:07,431 --> 00:30:09,349
But Go gave the common man

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a way to climb the social ladder.

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00:30:12,811 --> 00:30:15,606
If a person played Go very well

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00:30:15,606 --> 00:30:20,026
they could speak with the top government officials!

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00:30:20,026 --> 00:30:23,238
During the 17th and 18th and 19th

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centuries,

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Japan was the center of the Go playing world

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00:30:26,408 --> 00:30:29,119
and it was regarded so highly that they decided

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to subsidize Go and during the entire Edo shogunate

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00:30:32,790 --> 00:30:37,544
from 1612 for the next well over 200 years,

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00:30:37,544 --> 00:30:40,673
the best Go players enjoyed a stipend from the government

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00:30:40,673 --> 00:30:44,677
and it just produced a whole string of tremendous players.

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00:30:53,059 --> 00:30:57,022
Go Seigen was a Chinese Go player who was discovered

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when some Japanese players visited China

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00:30:59,817 --> 00:31:01,527
and brought over to Japan.

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00:31:02,902 --> 00:31:04,446
Even before he was 20 years old,

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he was one of the top players in Japan

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00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,744
and they organized a series of 10 game matches

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between him and other leading Japanese players

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00:31:13,539 --> 00:31:16,166
and he won almost all of these matches.

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00:31:16,166 --> 00:31:18,251
Over time, he defeated all of the other

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strongest Japanese players.

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00:31:21,755 --> 00:31:24,633
He sort of changed the flow of the game.

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00:31:24,633 --> 00:31:26,552
When I was a child

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00:31:26,552 --> 00:31:31,890
I had a chance to see one of Go Seigen's games.

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00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:35,227
This was in the old days.

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00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:39,565
when it was not easy to get close to the players.

444
00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:44,110
I was looking at Go Seigen's back

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00:31:44,110 --> 00:31:48,824
and I saw an aura, a glowing aura.

446
00:31:48,824 --> 00:31:51,618
I don't know if anyone else saw it

447
00:31:51,618 --> 00:31:54,162
but I felt it that way.

448
00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:57,457
To us Go Seigen was not human

449
00:31:57,457 --> 00:32:00,586
but something way above.

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00:32:00,586 --> 00:32:03,463
A whole different level.

451
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:18,311
This board is signed by master

452
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:18,311
Go Seigen.

453
00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:27,780
It's from 70 years ago, I believe.

454
00:32:33,118 --> 00:32:36,622
Alright, everybody in?

455
00:32:36,622 --> 00:32:40,834
Now, what we have to do is let each other show off

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00:32:40,834 --> 00:32:42,795
by laying down something really simple

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00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:45,422
for the other person to show off so like.

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00:32:54,264 --> 00:32:56,850
Andy on the track.

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Is Andy on the track?

460
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♪ Is Andy on the track ♪

461
00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:06,192
And is Andy on the track?

462
00:33:20,081 --> 00:33:22,167
The Go Congress is the national gathering

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for 400 dedicated Go players.

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00:33:25,253 --> 00:33:26,713
If you play Go it's the place to be for a week.

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00:33:28,966 --> 00:33:33,052
This is a Go board in the shape of the United States.

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This is blind Go and the white pieces are flat

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so the players who are blindfolded

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00:33:37,683 --> 00:33:39,309
can tell what they're doing.

469
00:33:40,811 --> 00:33:43,856
This is spiral Go, this is the 3,4,6,4 tessellation.

470
00:33:43,856 --> 00:33:45,649
Oh, somebody just got captured.

471
00:33:45,649 --> 00:33:50,362
Two gold stones just got captured by red,

472
00:33:45,649 --> 00:33:50,362
green, and blue.

473
00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:54,533
This is my 26th Congress in a row.

474
00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:57,410
Go had to take the place of sex for me for a year

475
00:33:57,410 --> 00:33:59,538
and it's kind of scary how well it did.

476
00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:02,541
Well I have Go tattooed on my back.

477
00:34:02,541 --> 00:34:04,125
Even though the stones don't move

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00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:06,085
once they're on the board, they kind of develop

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sort of cloud shapes forming and reforming.

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00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,801
It's an iconic Congress because someone goes Pro,

481
00:34:12,801 --> 00:34:14,845
first US Pro, that's amazing.

482
00:34:14,845 --> 00:34:16,054
Outside of Asia we're the first

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00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:17,681
Western country to do this.

484
00:34:17,681 --> 00:34:20,809
We're going to find our Bobby Fischer

485
00:34:20,809 --> 00:34:22,936
who's gonna energize the whole country,

486
00:34:22,936 --> 00:34:25,564
and we will become internationally competitive.

487
00:34:51,048 --> 00:34:53,717
So the main thing about the tournament is

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that we have a couple of constraints.

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One is we only have a week to do it in,

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but two, we need to be sure that we've selected

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00:35:01,934 --> 00:35:03,393
the strongest people.

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00:35:03,393 --> 00:35:05,896
So one of the best ways to do that

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00:35:05,896 --> 00:35:08,523
is a double elimination tournament.

494
00:35:08,523 --> 00:35:11,401
So people come in, they start playing here,

495
00:35:11,401 --> 00:35:13,862
and as they win they go through this bracket,

496
00:35:13,862 --> 00:35:16,114
if you lose you drop through here,

497
00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:18,992
and if you manage to beat everybody else,

498
00:35:18,992 --> 00:35:22,746
you can still manage to turn up as one of the pros.

499
00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:31,838
I need everybody to come up here and initial by it

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00:35:31,838 --> 00:35:35,133
indicating that you agree to the rankings shown.

501
00:35:38,428 --> 00:35:41,556
I really want to thank you all for coming here.

502
00:35:41,556 --> 00:35:45,143
When we decided to try this difficult experiment,

503
00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:48,271
we put American Go on a new heading

504
00:35:48,271 --> 00:35:54,694
and we don't know exactly where it's going to wind up.

505
00:35:54,694 --> 00:35:56,154
We're trying to make an American Go community

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00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:59,449
where when someone decides to put as much time

507
00:35:59,449 --> 00:36:02,577
and as much effort and as much passion into the game

508
00:36:02,577 --> 00:36:05,705
as you guys have, they can go as far

509
00:36:05,705 --> 00:36:08,458
as hard work and talent will take them.

510
00:36:12,796 --> 00:36:15,632
Alright, it's the official start.

511
00:38:20,590 --> 00:38:22,592
How did I manage to lose that game?

512
00:38:22,592 --> 00:38:24,052
Unbelievable.

513
00:38:27,931 --> 00:38:31,476
So you lost, Dillon lost, Ben lost.

514
00:38:31,476 --> 00:38:35,272
He threw it away, you got your ass kicked.

515
00:38:35,272 --> 00:38:37,816
I am so fucking pissed right now.

516
00:38:40,944 --> 00:38:43,989
I know, but I really threw it,

517
00:38:45,157 --> 00:38:48,034
really whooping his ass all game.

518
00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:49,953
I thought I was like, I had the entire game,

519
00:38:49,953 --> 00:38:53,623
like I thought I was just controlling the entire game

520
00:38:53,623 --> 00:38:56,209
and eventually I end up losing that much.

521
00:38:56,209 --> 00:38:57,627
How much?

522
00:38:58,920 --> 00:38:59,921
7.5.

523
00:38:59,921 --> 00:39:01,464
Shit.

524
00:39:01,464 --> 00:39:06,052
Dude, that was biggest upset in Go history I think.

525
00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:10,265
You're arrogant, you both are arrogant.

526
00:39:12,725 --> 00:39:15,561
This game was way too huge.

527
00:39:15,561 --> 00:39:17,022
You can't lose the first game dude.

528
00:39:17,022 --> 00:39:18,898
Dude, you really can't.

529
00:39:21,234 --> 00:39:24,445
One of the striking things is time just disappears.

530
00:39:24,445 --> 00:39:25,864
You're so absorbed in the game

531
00:39:25,864 --> 00:39:27,866
and it's just the most refreshing thing.

532
00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:31,036
Instead of having all this clutter in your head

533
00:39:31,036 --> 00:39:32,954
and worry about things you're just absorbed

534
00:39:32,954 --> 00:39:35,248
in this ideal world of the Go board.

535
00:39:35,248 --> 00:39:38,126
But it's a long process and somewhere in the middle

536
00:39:38,126 --> 00:39:44,423
of the game one has to encounter,

537
00:39:44,423 --> 00:39:46,384
or one comes to terms with one's own imperfections,

538
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:50,222
a certain kind of impatience or fear or greed

539
00:39:50,222 --> 00:39:53,725
and it's like some of the beautiful elements of the Go

540
00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:57,395
suddenly become clouded with all these other emotions.

541
00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:06,779
At the heart of Go is a concept called emergence.

542
00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:09,407
How do you go from something that's obvious

543
00:40:09,407 --> 00:40:11,993
to something that's non-obvious right?

544
00:40:11,993 --> 00:40:14,037
How do you go from something that's simple

545
00:40:14,037 --> 00:40:17,082
to something that's complex.

546
00:40:17,082 --> 00:40:20,252
So stone's empty neighbors are called its liberties

547
00:40:20,252 --> 00:40:22,962
and I can capture a group by filling in

548
00:40:22,962 --> 00:40:25,173
all of its liberties.

549
00:40:25,173 --> 00:40:26,799
When there's one liberty left,

550
00:40:26,799 --> 00:40:30,053
we say that that group is in atari.

551
00:40:30,053 --> 00:40:34,724
Then with one more move I can capture that group.

552
00:40:34,724 --> 00:40:36,768
Now this group is harder to capture

553
00:40:36,768 --> 00:40:39,104
'cause if I try to put a white stone in the middle,

554
00:40:39,104 --> 00:40:41,898
it actually gets captured first.

555
00:40:41,898 --> 00:40:45,818
So instead I have to surround the outside first

556
00:40:45,818 --> 00:40:47,528
putting black in atari.

557
00:40:47,528 --> 00:40:51,991
Only then can I play in the middle and capture them.

558
00:40:51,991 --> 00:40:54,327
Now, what about this group?

559
00:40:54,327 --> 00:40:56,746
Even after I surround the outside,

560
00:40:56,746 --> 00:41:00,583
wherever white plays next, white would be captured first.

561
00:41:02,835 --> 00:41:05,797
So actually, black can never be captured

562
00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:08,507
because it has these two internal liberties

563
00:41:08,507 --> 00:41:11,136
which we call eyes.

564
00:41:11,136 --> 00:41:15,723
And any group with two eyes can never be captured.

565
00:41:15,723 --> 00:41:19,311
A fundamental strategic concept in Go is to make two eyes

566
00:41:19,311 --> 00:41:21,604
when your groups come under attack.

567
00:41:24,774 --> 00:41:26,651
Now there's no rule in Go that says

568
00:41:26,651 --> 00:41:28,736
you can't capture a group with two eyes.

569
00:41:28,736 --> 00:41:32,865
It just follows necessarily from the existing rules,

570
00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,951
and this is a very simple example

571
00:41:34,951 --> 00:41:37,495
of what we mean by emergence.

572
00:41:40,832 --> 00:41:44,419
So there are lots of examples of this in the world.

573
00:41:47,088 --> 00:41:50,133
How do we get from atoms interacting

574
00:41:50,133 --> 00:41:54,429
according to the rules of physics, to thinking?

575
00:41:56,764 --> 00:41:59,851
How do we get from the material stuff

576
00:41:59,851 --> 00:42:02,228
of the gray matter inside your head

577
00:42:02,228 --> 00:42:06,565
to the sensation of being alive, to consciousness?

578
00:42:08,193 --> 00:42:09,694
And it's hard to see how it's even possible

579
00:42:09,694 --> 00:42:11,863
that they could arise from the operation

580
00:42:11,863 --> 00:42:14,449
of simple, deterministic rules.

581
00:42:16,784 --> 00:42:23,041
And yet, here's Go to show us that it's all of a piece.

582
00:42:23,041 --> 00:42:26,419
That those things can exist, that the mysterious

583
00:42:26,419 --> 00:42:31,174
and the obvious can exist in the same square.

584
00:42:32,633 --> 00:42:35,345
So I'm playing against Justin Tang, nice key name.

585
00:42:35,345 --> 00:42:37,722
Nice, who's?

586
00:42:39,182 --> 00:42:40,517
Dude, I'm gonna be playing Matthew Burrall.

587
00:42:40,517 --> 00:42:41,976
Which means they're gonna be covering me

588
00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:47,440
in an unofficial white man championship.

589
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,817
I think he's the strongest white guy in America.

590
00:42:49,817 --> 00:42:51,277
But that's not saying anything.

591
00:42:51,277 --> 00:42:53,029
We'll bet on that game.

592
00:42:53,029 --> 00:42:54,447
I'll bet on Matthew.

593
00:43:42,287 --> 00:43:45,706
We create these things

594
00:43:45,706 --> 00:43:51,045
because we've seen the treasure concealed in Go.

595
00:43:55,633 --> 00:44:00,888
This wood is in the process of drying.

596
00:44:02,890 --> 00:44:04,350
They have to dry in the shade

597
00:44:04,350 --> 00:44:07,520
for up to ten years

598
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,523
because they're quite thick.

599
00:44:10,523 --> 00:44:15,153
This is my second older brother.

600
00:44:16,070 --> 00:44:17,405
He's the craftsman.

601
00:44:17,405 --> 00:44:19,782
Forty-nine years!

602
00:44:19,782 --> 00:44:24,120
I've been making Go boards since I was 13 years old.

603
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,705
First I put this on the board.

604
00:44:26,705 --> 00:44:30,168
And then with a drafting machine.

605
00:44:30,168 --> 00:44:33,546
Up and down, up and down.

606
00:44:33,546 --> 00:44:36,549
I draw all these lines by hand.

607
00:44:36,549 --> 00:44:43,931
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,

608
00:44:36,549 --> 00:44:43,931
nine.

609
00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:48,353
These are shells for making stones.

610
00:44:52,106 --> 00:44:57,111
A clam has to die and be submerged underwater

611
00:44:57,111 --> 00:45:00,114
for decades before you can get this.

612
00:45:02,992 --> 00:45:06,745
This board is made of Gingko tree.

613
00:45:06,745 --> 00:45:11,209
The tree is 500 years old.

614
00:45:12,793 --> 00:45:16,130
Everything is made with purpose.

615
00:45:19,842 --> 00:45:24,972
The baby turtles hold the stones.

616
00:45:27,850 --> 00:45:31,979
Why do we make the board out of trees?

617
00:45:31,979 --> 00:45:35,441
We use wood because it represents the Earth

618
00:45:35,441 --> 00:45:40,613
to express what happens in this world on the board.

619
00:45:42,114 --> 00:45:45,826
As we protect our territory

620
00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:48,246
we build upon what came before.

621
00:45:48,246 --> 00:45:51,123
We position ourselves more firmly

622
00:45:51,123 --> 00:45:55,878
on the path we have chosen.

623
00:46:18,651 --> 00:46:21,320
Yeah, he just made a call in Calvin's corner

624
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:26,284
so Calvin's still struggling but he's probably done.

625
00:46:29,746 --> 00:46:31,330
I kind of wanted to go further

626
00:46:31,330 --> 00:46:34,875
but I mean these people are too strong.

627
00:46:38,713 --> 00:46:41,132
60 seconds.

628
00:46:46,304 --> 00:46:48,306
You have 60 seconds.

629
00:46:53,269 --> 00:46:57,356
That is one whitey down.

630
00:46:57,356 --> 00:46:59,484
Last place standing.

631
00:46:59,484 --> 00:47:01,319
The White Castle is helping.

632
00:47:01,319 --> 00:47:06,574
I'm just happy that I don't, I'm not fuckin' out.

633
00:47:08,117 --> 00:47:10,369
You can see the competition sparking among them,

634
00:47:10,369 --> 00:47:14,957
and you can see how the games seem to be inspiring them

635
00:47:14,957 --> 00:47:17,251
and driving them that much further.

636
00:47:17,251 --> 00:47:19,836
And that's everything you can hope for

637
00:47:19,836 --> 00:47:23,675
and so right now it's been a dream.

638
00:47:23,675 --> 00:47:27,637
In America, yeah it might be very difficult

639
00:47:29,263 --> 00:47:32,891
to push a kid to study more than 10 hours,

640
00:47:32,891 --> 00:47:37,480
they don't study that much, not like Asia,

641
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,609
but still I think it's possible to be

642
00:47:41,609 --> 00:47:44,362
a very good professional.

643
00:47:44,362 --> 00:47:46,364
There are always pros and cons,

644
00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:47,740
if you want to gain something

645
00:47:47,740 --> 00:47:49,826
you have to sacrifice the other one.

646
00:47:58,250 --> 00:48:02,004
I grew up doing little math puzzles and games.

647
00:48:02,004 --> 00:48:03,840
I was thinking you take me, I take you,

648
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,510
then that, I would go there or there.

649
00:48:07,510 --> 00:48:08,845
I guess.

650
00:48:10,429 --> 00:48:15,226
From the ages of nine to 15, Go is just the thing

651
00:48:15,226 --> 00:48:20,314
I was always by far the best at and most talented at.

652
00:48:20,314 --> 00:48:22,316
There was this time where it's like, I'm 16,

653
00:48:22,316 --> 00:48:27,613
I spend my time studying Go, walking in the park.

654
00:48:27,613 --> 00:48:32,660
But my priority was always just getting outside of school

655
00:48:32,660 --> 00:48:36,080
and outside of having to be somewhere.

656
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,624
Andy and I would just stay there all night

657
00:48:38,624 --> 00:48:42,420
playing online or against each other for six or seven hours

658
00:48:42,420 --> 00:48:46,758
and get fast food or whatever food was open at 4:00 AM.

659
00:48:46,758 --> 00:48:50,553
You know, both skip school the next day.

660
00:48:50,553 --> 00:48:52,929
You develop too much of a relationship with something

661
00:48:52,929 --> 00:48:56,392
and then especially if you don't suck at it,

662
00:48:56,392 --> 00:48:58,811
it becomes impossible to pull away.

663
00:49:46,818 --> 00:49:48,360
There's a saying in China:

664
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:52,490
one wrong move and the world crumbles.

665
00:49:52,490 --> 00:49:55,159
The first time Japan sent a Go delegation to China

666
00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:57,954
was in 1960.

667
00:49:57,954 --> 00:50:00,873
But they had no chance against the Japanese players.

668
00:50:00,873 --> 00:50:03,835
They were way behind.

669
00:50:03,835 --> 00:50:06,170
For a long time, China was trying to catch

670
00:50:03,835 --> 00:50:06,170
up

671
00:50:06,170 --> 00:50:10,925
with Japan and Korea too, and eventually they did.

672
00:50:12,593 --> 00:50:16,096
And for historical reasons, in China and especially Korea,

673
00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:19,183
beating Japan is very big.

674
00:50:19,183 --> 00:50:21,435
In the 1960s we entered the New

675
00:50:19,183 --> 00:50:21,435
China era.

676
00:50:21,435 --> 00:50:23,521
After the founding of the People's Republic of China

677
00:50:23,521 --> 00:50:27,232
came the greatest development of Go

678
00:50:27,232 --> 00:50:32,363
because the government gave it unprecedented importance.

679
00:50:32,363 --> 00:50:34,824
They started producing some strong players.

680
00:50:34,824 --> 00:50:38,536
In the 1970s China had Nie Weiping

681
00:50:38,536 --> 00:50:40,955
and he could beat most of the Japanese pros

682
00:50:40,955 --> 00:50:43,958
and he did it repeatedly and this of course,

683
00:50:43,958 --> 00:50:46,627
caused a sensation in China.

684
00:50:46,627 --> 00:50:49,630
My happiest memory was the

685
00:50:46,627 --> 00:50:49,630
China-Japan Super Go tournament.

686
00:50:49,630 --> 00:50:54,050
which I won three times in a row. It was miraculous!

687
00:50:54,050 --> 00:50:58,180
And afterwards I got a call from Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping

688
00:50:58,180 --> 00:51:00,016
congratulating me.

689
00:51:00,016 --> 00:51:02,100
As for Korea, one of their strongest players

690
00:51:02,100 --> 00:51:06,397
was Cho Hunhyun who made pro at the age of nine.

691
00:51:06,397 --> 00:51:08,733
Then when they started playing international games

692
00:51:08,733 --> 00:51:12,277
professionally, he won the first Ing Cup.

693
00:51:21,829 --> 00:51:24,790
After winning the match...

694
00:51:24,790 --> 00:51:27,251
...they told me to get in a convertible

695
00:51:27,251 --> 00:51:31,630
Since I was the winner I had to get in.

696
00:51:31,630 --> 00:51:35,009
And we were riding in a parade from Gimpo airport.

697
00:51:35,009 --> 00:51:40,347
before I even knew what was happening.

698
00:51:40,347 --> 00:51:44,100
After Cho Hunhyun won

699
00:51:40,347 --> 00:51:44,100
the Ing Cup

700
00:51:44,100 --> 00:51:47,897
the media began covering the game extensively.

701
00:51:50,983 --> 00:51:55,279
The attitude towards Go was changing totally.

702
00:51:56,864 --> 00:52:00,242
We became thinking like Go is not a philosophy

703
00:52:00,242 --> 00:52:03,119
but a game or a sport.

704
00:52:03,119 --> 00:52:05,957
The starting age became lower

705
00:52:03,119 --> 00:52:05,957
and lower.

706
00:52:05,957 --> 00:52:08,084
These days we start

707
00:52:08,084 --> 00:52:10,878
as young as kindergarten.

708
00:52:12,504 --> 00:52:16,258
If you become pro at the age of 13,

709
00:52:16,258 --> 00:52:18,052
then you can have a good chance

710
00:52:18,052 --> 00:52:20,554
to become World's Best Player,

711
00:52:20,554 --> 00:52:26,018
but if you are already 15 you won't have any chance.

712
00:52:26,018 --> 00:52:29,396
At that time it was not considered as late

713
00:52:29,396 --> 00:52:33,567
but these days, too late.

714
00:52:35,736 --> 00:52:38,990
When I was learning we

715
00:52:35,736 --> 00:52:38,990
studied the Japanese style.

716
00:52:38,990 --> 00:52:42,158
which focused on being aesthetically pleasing.

717
00:52:43,577 --> 00:52:46,914
Today it's impossible to win with that style.

718
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:56,548
Because now winning is everything.

719
00:53:12,857 --> 00:53:14,900
I won.

720
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,070
Ben is black.

721
00:53:18,070 --> 00:53:20,572
Black doesn't witness too many liberties.

722
00:53:20,572 --> 00:53:22,867
There's seven, yeah there's one, yeah.

723
00:53:22,867 --> 00:53:24,702
Black I don't think.

724
00:53:43,219 --> 00:53:47,265
Oh my goodness dude, like he's not clutch.

725
00:53:47,265 --> 00:53:48,976
What do you mean, he died?

726
00:53:48,976 --> 00:53:51,103
I said Ben is not clutch.

727
00:53:51,103 --> 00:53:53,229
Ben's gonna be pretty mad.

728
00:53:53,229 --> 00:53:55,357
He's gonna be so pissed.

729
00:53:58,861 --> 00:54:00,278
So, he resigned?

730
00:54:00,278 --> 00:54:02,364
He resigned.

731
00:54:04,533 --> 00:54:06,451
It went so fast.

732
00:54:28,057 --> 00:54:32,019
Threw it away.

733
00:54:32,019 --> 00:54:34,563
No, I don't think you're bad. I just think that.

734
00:54:34,563 --> 00:54:37,691
Why did you connect? You wanted to kill more?

735
00:54:37,691 --> 00:54:40,736
I dunno. I hallucinated.

736
00:54:40,736 --> 00:54:43,614
I thought either way I lived.

737
00:54:43,614 --> 00:54:44,990
But why is Andy, wait. Of course Andy's.

738
00:54:46,366 --> 00:54:47,576
Dude, no why do you play so fast?

739
00:54:47,576 --> 00:54:49,078
You have so much time left.

740
00:54:49,078 --> 00:54:51,622
When he went down why don't you take 30 minutes

741
00:54:51,622 --> 00:54:55,417
and figure out almost all the variations?

742
00:54:56,334 --> 00:54:57,628
Sloppy dude.

743
00:54:59,213 --> 00:55:00,839
I got sloppy.

744
00:55:09,181 --> 00:55:10,808
I won.

745
00:55:20,692 --> 00:55:22,569
Andy won?

746
00:55:31,912 --> 00:55:35,291
I spent several hours in front of the Go board

747
00:55:35,291 --> 00:55:38,169
everyday for the past two years.

748
00:55:41,297 --> 00:55:45,676
I mean the first time I didn't sit in front of a Go board

749
00:55:45,676 --> 00:55:50,931
for 24 hours was my plane ride

750
00:55:50,931 --> 00:55:55,186
back from Korea a week and a half ago.

751
00:55:55,186 --> 00:55:56,270
And then the first thing I did when I landed

752
00:55:56,270 --> 00:55:58,939
in New York was go upstairs.

753
00:55:58,939 --> 00:56:00,858
I've never, I mean it's the only thing

754
00:56:00,858 --> 00:56:05,196
where I've ever just given 100% you know.

755
00:56:25,590 --> 00:56:29,094
My ideas about life all, the only consistent pattern

756
00:56:29,094 --> 00:56:30,888
is that the way you should spend your life

757
00:56:30,888 --> 00:56:32,848
is by playing around with your brain.

758
00:56:32,848 --> 00:56:34,390
What else are you gonna do?

759
00:56:34,390 --> 00:56:38,312
You gonna run around like try to get super rich

760
00:56:38,312 --> 00:56:42,983
and just kind of engage in all sorts of

761
00:56:42,983 --> 00:56:47,112
like carnal pleasures and that's what

762
00:56:47,112 --> 00:56:50,406
you're gonna spend your life trying to do?

763
00:56:50,406 --> 00:56:54,161
I don't even know if that's, well that's pretty gross to me.

764
00:56:54,161 --> 00:56:56,412
I'm just saying it's not easy to feel,

765
00:56:56,412 --> 00:57:01,710
it's not easy for me to feel okay with things in this world.

766
00:57:05,547 --> 00:57:09,885
I wanna spend all my time in the world of Go

767
00:57:11,345 --> 00:57:13,138
and I don't really wanna spend much time

768
00:57:13,138 --> 00:57:15,057
dealing with the real world.

769
00:57:27,611 --> 00:57:30,281
He won.

770
00:57:49,216 --> 00:57:53,678
On a scale of one to 10 right now, I'm like 7.5 pissed.

771
00:57:55,180 --> 00:57:57,849
Dude, I think I should quit Go with you.

772
00:57:57,849 --> 00:58:00,685
Like before I thought I stood a chance to beat Andy,

773
00:58:00,685 --> 00:58:03,814
right now I can't even beat them.

774
00:58:05,649 --> 00:58:08,110
I was lucky that game. I did not play well.

775
00:58:09,027 --> 00:58:10,654
I did not play well.

776
00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:16,285
I just want Andy to lose a game.

777
00:58:16,285 --> 00:58:17,535
That can't happen.

778
00:58:17,535 --> 00:58:19,413
Andy can't lose unless he wants to.

779
00:58:19,413 --> 00:58:21,915
Dude no, that's definitely not true.

780
00:58:21,915 --> 00:58:23,459
Gansheng.

781
00:58:23,459 --> 00:58:26,211
Gansheng please win so I can play you.

782
00:58:26,211 --> 00:58:28,046
I know your style.

783
00:58:28,046 --> 00:58:32,301
-Oh shit, oh shit. -Is that a challenge?

784
00:58:32,301 --> 00:58:34,136
If you beat Andy two to zero,

785
00:58:34,136 --> 00:58:35,846
I'll finally admit.

786
00:58:38,474 --> 00:58:40,184
I'm gonna be in the finals playing Andy Liu

787
00:58:40,184 --> 00:58:43,395
and you know, he's a strong opponent.

788
00:58:43,395 --> 00:58:49,526
I just think he has a different mindset

789
00:58:49,526 --> 00:58:51,528
and he doesn't play the normal moves

790
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:54,823
and I think I just gotta play solid with him,

791
00:58:54,823 --> 00:58:56,450
you know not make too many mistakes

792
00:58:56,450 --> 00:58:58,910
and try as hard as I can.

793
00:59:03,374 --> 00:59:07,461
Nine, eight, seven, six,

794
00:59:07,461 --> 00:59:11,840
five, four, three, two, one.

795
00:59:19,431 --> 00:59:22,684
I'm sort of like a perfectionist so I think

796
00:59:22,684 --> 00:59:26,480
our brainpower is not nearly enough.

797
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:29,400
I mean multiply our brainpower by a million

798
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:32,361
and our imaginations will still not be rich enough.

799
00:59:36,323 --> 00:59:40,118
Take every possible configuration of

800
00:59:36,323 --> 00:59:40,118
matter in the universe,

801
00:59:40,118 --> 00:59:42,579
arrange the universe into all possible configurations

802
00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:45,957
and you can come up with some pretty intelligent beings.

803
00:59:48,835 --> 00:59:51,880
Hyperintelligent beings who just look at the world

804
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,091
and then the ability to predict everything

805
00:59:54,091 --> 00:59:55,759
that will happen afterwards.

806
00:59:59,804 --> 01:00:02,974
My lifetime goal would just be to be reincarnated

807
01:00:02,974 --> 01:00:06,353
in a far higher being.

808
01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:11,066
Imagine an intelligent being that does not have an ego.

809
01:00:11,066 --> 01:00:13,485
It won't have emotions, all it would be able to do

810
01:00:13,485 --> 01:00:17,114
is just perform endless calculation.

811
01:00:18,449 --> 01:00:22,660
And yeah, that would be a computer I guess.

812
01:02:09,809 --> 01:02:11,978
I win by 10.

813
01:02:30,706 --> 01:02:34,209
Andy and I, we've been friends since 2000 maybe.

814
01:02:34,209 --> 01:02:36,378
We've known each other for 12 years

815
01:02:36,378 --> 01:02:38,422
and we've been like rivals, like you know

816
01:02:38,422 --> 01:02:40,549
he went back to China sometimes to learn Go.

817
01:02:40,549 --> 01:02:43,594
I went back to China and we just kept on doing that.

818
01:02:43,594 --> 01:02:45,136
Andy doesn't care about the prize money.

819
01:02:45,136 --> 01:02:48,806
Andy cares about his theories and his thoughts

820
01:02:48,806 --> 01:02:50,434
and that's like me too.

821
01:02:52,102 --> 01:02:53,811
The more I think about it, he's just not a normal person.

822
01:02:53,811 --> 01:02:55,230
No, you need to be like that dude.

823
01:02:55,230 --> 01:02:56,523
To be good at Go.

824
01:02:56,523 --> 01:02:59,568
Study the game and be a normal person.

825
01:02:59,568 --> 01:03:00,944
I'm actually, I think I'm quite normal.

826
01:03:00,944 --> 01:03:02,362
You know who's just a normal like--

827
01:03:02,362 --> 01:03:03,947
Do you think I'm normal?

828
01:03:03,947 --> 01:03:07,576
Gansheng's pretty normal, he tries to hit on girls,

829
01:03:07,576 --> 01:03:11,162
he likes girls whereas Andy, Andy you know what,

830
01:03:11,162 --> 01:03:12,456
I don't think Andy likes girls.

831
01:03:12,456 --> 01:03:15,667
I think he, maybe he does, I don't know.

832
01:03:15,667 --> 01:03:18,754
When you really ask him he's like "No, I don't care."

833
01:03:18,754 --> 01:03:20,756
But Gansheng and I, we're clearly

834
01:03:20,756 --> 01:03:23,133
like almost exactly the same.

835
01:03:23,133 --> 01:03:24,509
We do a lot of shit the same.

836
01:03:24,509 --> 01:03:27,554
Our thoughts are the same like play Go,

837
01:03:27,554 --> 01:03:31,600
try our best, if we can't we lose, we go back to college,

838
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:33,518
you know have some fun with some girls,

839
01:03:33,518 --> 01:03:36,647
and then you know study, get a degree,

840
01:03:36,647 --> 01:03:38,440
and then you know start working, have a good life.

841
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:41,192
That's our thought but I don't know about Ben

842
01:03:41,192 --> 01:03:44,446
but Andy's thoughts doesn't, it's all messed up,

843
01:03:44,446 --> 01:03:46,197
he doesn't know what he wants.

844
01:04:04,966 --> 01:04:07,427
Andy has managed to go undefeated

845
01:04:07,427 --> 01:04:09,805
in all of his games all the way through.

846
01:04:09,805 --> 01:04:13,600
And so he is in the final, best out of three,

847
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:17,479
and he is up one game so if he is to win this game

848
01:04:17,479 --> 01:04:21,149
then he would be our first certified professional.

849
01:04:23,694 --> 01:04:26,780
One minute to settle down and find your places.

850
01:04:26,780 --> 01:04:28,699
One minute please.

851
01:04:28,699 --> 01:04:31,284
How much time did you use?

852
01:04:31,284 --> 01:04:33,411
-Fifty. -Oh shit.

853
01:04:33,411 --> 01:04:36,873
I made Andy use more than 30 minutes.

854
01:05:09,489 --> 01:05:15,495
I think Gansheng Shi played much better this game.

855
01:05:17,997 --> 01:05:20,291
Andy, on the other hand

856
01:05:20,291 --> 01:05:22,669
played fast in the beginning

857
01:05:22,669 --> 01:05:26,172
so he made a few mistakes.

858
01:05:26,172 --> 01:05:29,384
Maybe he was too confident?

859
01:05:30,719 --> 01:05:32,220
It looks certainly like he's confident

860
01:05:32,220 --> 01:05:35,724
about what he's doing, he's playing so fast.

861
01:05:35,724 --> 01:05:38,643
This thing in the lower left corner blew my mind.

862
01:05:38,643 --> 01:05:45,149
He's just putting stones in everywhere.

863
01:05:45,149 --> 01:05:47,694
Isn't it Andy's normal MO though to just play fast

864
01:05:47,694 --> 01:05:49,696
and super confidently?

865
01:06:42,707 --> 01:06:47,211
The last thing I was able to

866
01:06:42,707 --> 01:06:47,211
see was Go.

867
01:06:48,463 --> 01:06:52,843
So Go is my last memory and final image.

868
01:07:04,771 --> 01:07:10,401
Not being able to see has made me concentrate more

869
01:07:11,319 --> 01:07:14,906
and read more thoroughly.

870
01:07:36,761 --> 01:07:38,889
The game is endless.

871
01:07:40,264 --> 01:07:44,268
I don't think human beings can ever master it.

872
01:07:56,155 --> 01:07:58,533
Andy appears to be irritated,

873
01:07:58,533 --> 01:08:03,830
he appears to have not foreseen what has begun to happen.

874
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:06,708
If he connects those two stones.

875
01:08:06,708 --> 01:08:07,918
-You're talkin' about here at Q12?

876
01:08:06,708 --> 01:08:07,918
- Yeah.

877
01:08:07,918 --> 01:08:09,293
Then that would be one big eye

878
01:08:09,293 --> 01:08:11,504
and why he would need to find another eye.

879
01:08:11,504 --> 01:08:15,675
I actually beat Andy in New Jersey Open

880
01:08:15,675 --> 01:08:19,596
when he was four down so I actually have a win against him

881
01:08:19,596 --> 01:08:22,139
so it will be kind of cool if he becomes the first pro.

882
01:08:22,139 --> 01:08:26,436
Then I can say, well I'm one and oh against him myself.

883
01:08:29,313 --> 01:08:31,315
He was very young.

884
01:08:50,209 --> 01:08:51,836
Is that group in a tie?

885
01:08:51,836 --> 01:08:55,381
Is that group, yeah, I mean I think he's.

886
01:09:06,476 --> 01:09:07,852
Good game.

887
01:09:09,896 --> 01:09:11,731
It's over, he resigned! It's over.

888
01:09:11,731 --> 01:09:13,108
Andy resigned.

889
01:09:14,233 --> 01:09:16,402
He's dead?

890
01:09:16,402 --> 01:09:19,030
He's dead, it's a false eye.

891
01:09:20,156 --> 01:09:24,368
Ooh, those guys got cut off.

892
01:09:24,368 --> 01:09:25,954
Those guys are dead.

893
01:09:25,954 --> 01:09:29,082
He was late, he had a chance to connect.

894
01:09:29,082 --> 01:09:34,545
Yup, yeah those guys were always a target.

895
01:09:42,637 --> 01:09:47,934
Well it's, I would say 50-50 now right?

896
01:09:47,934 --> 01:09:50,603
Whichever one takes the next game is the first pro.

897
01:09:53,397 --> 01:09:56,275
-Andy, what happened? -I dunno.

898
01:10:02,824 --> 01:10:04,993
You're so territorial.

899
01:10:04,993 --> 01:10:07,537
Like territorial.

900
01:10:17,421 --> 01:10:19,924
Yes, yes!

901
01:10:19,924 --> 01:10:23,720
See, I told you, Andy's not that much stronger than us.

902
01:10:26,931 --> 01:10:28,641
Let's go.

903
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:46,159
The average human lifespan is a bit short,

904
01:10:46,159 --> 01:10:50,205
I would prefer to be living for like maybe 3,000 years or so

905
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:54,751
like that would be enough to learn a lot of things

906
01:10:54,751 --> 01:10:56,544
that I would want to learn.

907
01:10:58,671 --> 01:11:02,842
I would prefer not to put myself in the thick of things

908
01:11:02,842 --> 01:11:06,554
but just watch our evolution from or like,

909
01:11:10,391 --> 01:11:13,269
ideally I would like to be blessed with a prodigious

910
01:11:13,269 --> 01:11:16,689
imagination and just create my own worlds in my mind.

911
01:11:19,150 --> 01:11:21,402
You would be the ruler of your own imaginary universe

912
01:11:21,402 --> 01:11:26,991
without actually subjecting other people to your whims.

913
01:11:28,826 --> 01:11:30,536
As long as you don't feel stupid just living

914
01:11:30,536 --> 01:11:33,456
in your own imaginary world it's pretty enticing.

915
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,925
The game is so difficult

916
01:11:45,260 --> 01:11:50,265
only part of it has been conquered.

917
01:11:50,265 --> 01:11:53,101
When I sit in front of the board

918
01:11:55,311 --> 01:11:56,980
I fall completely into the game.

919
01:11:56,980 --> 01:12:00,608
When I am lost in my passion

920
01:12:00,608 --> 01:12:02,777
I have endless dreams...

921
01:12:04,821 --> 01:12:09,909
dreams of unbelievable moves

922
01:12:09,909 --> 01:12:16,499
that never occurred to me before.

923
01:12:18,626 --> 01:12:21,545
But once I reached a certain level

924
01:12:21,545 --> 01:12:23,380
the more I played

925
01:12:23,380 --> 01:12:27,093
the more I felt its difficulty.

926
01:12:27,093 --> 01:12:30,263
Even the best players in history

927
01:12:30,263 --> 01:12:33,308
their level is low

928
01:12:33,308 --> 01:12:35,768
in light of the game's sheer complexity.

929
01:12:38,604 --> 01:12:43,442
Many of the famous top players...

930
01:12:43,442 --> 01:12:46,029
they will sometimes sit at the board

931
01:12:46,029 --> 01:12:48,656
through the whole night.

932
01:12:48,656 --> 01:12:51,034
Just the empty board?

933
01:12:51,034 --> 01:12:52,118
Yes.

934
01:12:52,118 --> 01:12:53,703
They won't play,

935
01:12:53,703 --> 01:12:56,080
they won't read books,

936
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,875
they just sit there and think.

937
01:13:04,339 --> 01:13:06,632
Ever since I was young

938
01:13:06,632 --> 01:13:10,427
I've been studying Go Seigen's games.

939
01:13:11,971 --> 01:13:15,558
It changes the way you play.

940
01:13:15,558 --> 01:13:21,231
After every move lies a world unknown.

941
01:13:21,231 --> 01:13:23,066
You are not Picasso or Monet

942
01:13:23,066 --> 01:13:26,319
just because you imitate their paintings.

943
01:13:26,319 --> 01:13:30,698
Art is formed by putting your own color into something.

944
01:13:30,698 --> 01:13:35,119
A legendary player isn't just remembered for winning.

945
01:13:35,119 --> 01:13:40,333
They change the paradigms of the game.

946
01:13:40,333 --> 01:13:42,626
That's what I am striving to do too

947
01:13:42,626 --> 01:13:45,504
but I have a long way to go.

948
01:13:45,504 --> 01:13:49,133
More than forty years ago

949
01:13:50,134 --> 01:13:53,137
as computers were getting bigger

950
01:13:53,137 --> 01:13:55,973
a computer expert told me

951
01:13:55,973 --> 01:14:02,063
that computers would become more and more powerful.

952
01:14:02,063 --> 01:14:07,318
But considering the amount of space on a 19x19 board

953
01:14:07,318 --> 01:14:09,987
wide as the universe

954
01:14:09,987 --> 01:14:14,325
if a computer manages to win

955
01:14:14,325 --> 01:14:16,827
many things will be different...

956
01:14:16,827 --> 01:14:19,830
the age we live in will have changed.

957
01:14:26,587 --> 01:14:28,256
Anyway, today's about you.

958
01:14:28,256 --> 01:14:30,716
Today's about you and how you're gonna lose to Gansheng

959
01:14:30,716 --> 01:14:32,551
and make a bunch of excuses about it.

960
01:14:32,551 --> 01:14:35,221
I mean he played well against me,

961
01:14:35,221 --> 01:14:38,099
but can he repeat that every game?

962
01:14:39,392 --> 01:14:40,935
I don't know.

963
01:14:40,935 --> 01:14:42,145
It's in the bag.

964
01:15:06,294 --> 01:15:09,046
What are you guys thinking about the game?

965
01:15:09,046 --> 01:15:12,091
-No idea. -I encourage Gansheng...

966
01:15:12,091 --> 01:15:13,426
Beat him!

967
01:15:14,677 --> 01:15:17,013
He's got to get that group out anyways,

968
01:15:17,013 --> 01:15:19,056
it's just a question of whether his other group

969
01:15:19,056 --> 01:15:21,267
is strong enough to get any type of a double attack going

970
01:15:21,267 --> 01:15:24,312
between the two white groups right?

971
01:15:24,312 --> 01:15:26,356
Yeah, that's what this is about,

972
01:15:26,356 --> 01:15:28,524
the last 10 moves have been all about.

973
01:15:28,524 --> 01:15:30,109
Here he's blocking.

974
01:15:30,109 --> 01:15:32,111
This white group doesn't have much territory

975
01:15:32,111 --> 01:15:35,572
so I would say in this exchange

976
01:15:35,572 --> 01:15:38,368
Andy has scored a minor victory.

977
01:16:12,985 --> 01:16:16,697
I'm gettin' scared Andy's gonna over attack again

978
01:16:16,697 --> 01:16:18,032
and it's gonna bite him.

979
01:16:18,032 --> 01:16:19,534
I have no basis for this opinion on him.

980
01:16:19,534 --> 01:16:20,535
He's gonna what?

981
01:16:20,535 --> 01:16:22,912
He's gonna over attack again

982
01:16:22,912 --> 01:16:27,208
and lose something like he did last, yesterday.

983
01:16:30,627 --> 01:16:32,004
Oh boy.

984
01:16:32,004 --> 01:16:34,507
They're jostling for position in the middle

985
01:16:34,507 --> 01:16:36,759
so now it's kind of like an arm wrestling match

986
01:16:36,759 --> 01:16:40,430
in the middle if whoever pushes the other guy away

987
01:16:40,430 --> 01:16:43,516
is going to have a big advantage.

988
01:17:02,159 --> 01:17:04,661
White has won the arm wrestling competition,

989
01:17:04,661 --> 01:17:08,583
he's kind of got black surrounded now.

990
01:17:08,583 --> 01:17:10,626
It seems like white scored, Gansheng scored

991
01:17:10,626 --> 01:17:13,629
a very major victory in this fight.

992
01:17:13,629 --> 01:17:16,340
He's obviously completely closed down

993
01:17:16,340 --> 01:17:20,844
but if he can survive the game is great for white.

994
01:17:27,226 --> 01:17:29,353
Black was quite prepared for that,

995
01:17:29,353 --> 01:17:32,940
threatening the double atari on one side

996
01:17:32,940 --> 01:17:35,818
and the tomb of capture on the other.

997
01:17:35,818 --> 01:17:37,987
Now Andy's thinking.

998
01:18:00,134 --> 01:18:01,760
There's been like three times

999
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:04,639
when Andy's been most confident,

1000
01:18:04,639 --> 01:18:10,603
and the other guy's managed to throw a wrench in the works.

1001
01:18:10,603 --> 01:18:12,146
I think he's still okay.

1002
01:18:12,146 --> 01:18:13,939
30 seconds.

1003
01:18:16,817 --> 01:18:20,571
Of course, Gansheng tries to kill the entire group.

1004
01:18:20,571 --> 01:18:22,448
This is extremely exciting.

1005
01:18:22,448 --> 01:18:26,577
Now black has no way to live, he has not enough eyes.

1006
01:18:26,577 --> 01:18:29,288
Now the only thing he can do is he can push

1007
01:18:29,288 --> 01:18:32,416
and cut off the middle white group against,

1008
01:18:32,416 --> 01:18:33,626
and the corner white group,

1009
01:18:33,626 --> 01:18:35,794
neither of which are alive either.

1010
01:18:41,509 --> 01:18:43,469
This is a nasty race.

1011
01:19:16,293 --> 01:19:19,213
So right now, Andy's definitely winning

1012
01:19:19,213 --> 01:19:21,674
because Gansheng's middle group is dead.

1013
01:19:22,592 --> 01:19:24,594
Oh man, this is terrible.

1014
01:19:24,594 --> 01:19:28,764
I think Gansheng probably made a mistake in reading.

1015
01:19:28,764 --> 01:19:31,100
That's the end of the universe.

1016
01:20:09,722 --> 01:20:11,432
If you're still playing a game,

1017
01:20:11,432 --> 01:20:13,976
please pause your thoughts for a moment.

1018
01:20:17,980 --> 01:20:21,692
Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present

1019
01:20:21,692 --> 01:20:28,282
the first US Certified Go Professional, Andy Liu.

1020
01:20:42,296 --> 01:20:46,091
Andy!

1021
01:20:50,095 --> 01:20:53,516
-Next time you should play teaching games!

1022
01:21:09,323 --> 01:21:12,993
Please pause your thoughts for one moment.

1023
01:21:12,993 --> 01:21:15,663
I would like to present the second

1024
01:21:15,663 --> 01:21:19,583
US Certified Go Professional, Gansheng Shi.

1025
01:21:34,931 --> 01:21:38,352
These two emerged as the top of the heap

1026
01:21:38,352 --> 01:21:44,983
and are achieving the first AGA certificates as professionals.

1027
01:21:44,983 --> 01:21:49,739
And they deserve all our honor and respect.

1028
01:21:49,739 --> 01:21:52,825
We have high hopes for their futures.

1029
01:21:55,703 --> 01:21:59,498
Green tea, five different kinds of green tea.

1030
01:21:59,498 --> 01:22:02,543
And when you make these teas and drink these teas

1031
01:22:02,543 --> 01:22:04,670
you can remember this experience.

1032
01:22:06,463 --> 01:22:12,386
So the AGA will send you to the five biggest tournaments in

1033
01:22:06,463 --> 01:22:12,386
Korea.

1034
01:22:12,386 --> 01:22:17,933
You are not just individual Go players anymore.

1035
01:22:17,933 --> 01:22:21,270
You are representing the American Go Association as well

1036
01:22:21,270 --> 01:22:25,148
and the American Go community as a whole.

1037
01:22:25,148 --> 01:22:30,070
So if you become strong and hero

1038
01:22:30,070 --> 01:22:32,364
and make a lot of money

1039
01:22:32,364 --> 01:22:35,158
there will be thousands of kids

1040
01:22:35,158 --> 01:22:38,287
who'd like to learn Go because of you.

1041
01:22:38,287 --> 01:22:40,372
They want to be like you.

1042
01:22:46,295 --> 01:22:49,840
It may seem like the same as it was a few days ago,

1043
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:51,258
everything's changed.

1044
01:22:56,263 --> 01:22:59,433
Apparently we get our own business cards.

1045
01:22:59,433 --> 01:23:00,643
Oh, well then.

1046
01:23:00,643 --> 01:23:01,936
Where's Gansheng?

1047
01:23:02,937 --> 01:23:04,396
Oh, right here.

1048
01:23:05,731 --> 01:23:07,149
Is that weed?

1049
01:23:07,149 --> 01:23:09,318
No.

1050
01:23:10,569 --> 01:23:13,489
BC card, LG card, Samsung card.

1051
01:23:13,489 --> 01:23:14,531
There's two more.

1052
01:23:14,531 --> 01:23:15,950
Are invited?

1053
01:23:15,950 --> 01:23:18,118
Like you don't even have to play or pre-qualify?

1054
01:23:18,118 --> 01:23:19,453
It's our precondition.

1055
01:23:19,453 --> 01:23:21,163
A main tournament?

1056
01:23:21,163 --> 01:23:23,415
Out of 32 people there's going to be two American players?

1057
01:23:23,415 --> 01:23:25,876
Yeah, they invite our association.

1058
01:23:25,876 --> 01:23:28,671
And we get our own business card.

1059
01:23:29,546 --> 01:23:30,798
With the AGA.

1060
01:23:30,798 --> 01:23:32,257
Oh my goodness.

1061
01:23:32,257 --> 01:23:33,258
I don't know what to say.

1062
01:23:33,258 --> 01:23:34,885
What was your question?

1063
01:23:34,885 --> 01:23:36,679
Like when do you think we might go to Korea

1064
01:23:36,679 --> 01:23:38,722
to play in these tournaments?

1065
01:23:38,722 --> 01:23:41,266
I'm not sure.

1066
01:23:42,267 --> 01:23:45,896
I'm actually... my attention

1067
01:23:45,896 --> 01:23:49,441
is being taken away by this game.

1068
01:24:15,258 --> 01:24:18,971
I'm not going to leave a good thing in Korea.

1069
01:24:18,971 --> 01:24:23,433
When I say it's a good thing, it's as opposed to what?

1070
01:24:25,310 --> 01:24:29,899
You get your one adventure while you're still alive.

1071
01:24:29,899 --> 01:24:31,650
Like what else am I gonna do?

1072
01:24:31,650 --> 01:24:34,528
This is the thing that I'm best at,

1073
01:24:34,528 --> 01:24:37,656
take your talent to its full potential

1074
01:24:37,656 --> 01:24:39,199
and see where that goes.

1075
01:24:41,368 --> 01:24:43,787
Factoring in all that, I just don't even care,

1076
01:24:43,787 --> 01:24:45,748
like okay whatever, better, worse,

1077
01:24:45,748 --> 01:24:48,584
I have to live in a studio apartment for

1078
01:24:45,748 --> 01:24:48,584
the rest of my life

1079
01:24:48,584 --> 01:24:51,795
like that's not changing anything about the fact that

1080
01:24:53,589 --> 01:24:56,008
everything's what you make it and like

1081
01:24:57,593 --> 01:25:00,429
treated my brain the way it wanted to be treated,

1082
01:25:00,429 --> 01:25:03,265
did it what it was asking for and made myself happy

1083
01:25:03,265 --> 01:25:06,476
as opposed to lying to myself and

1084
01:25:07,603 --> 01:25:10,397
living in a suit that doesn't fit.

1085
01:25:17,153 --> 01:25:19,907
I don't know, I'm a little bit scared for him.

1086
01:25:19,907 --> 01:25:24,578
I don't know, he's not gonna thrive,

1087
01:25:24,578 --> 01:25:28,290
he's not gonna survive in a corporate setting, I know that.

1088
01:25:28,290 --> 01:25:33,837
Will he be okay if he just spent the rest of his life

1089
01:25:35,965 --> 01:25:39,927
not as an outcast but just an unusual member of society,

1090
01:25:39,927 --> 01:25:42,596
just like a.

1091
01:25:46,016 --> 01:25:50,020
Neither of you fit into society very well.

1092
01:25:50,020 --> 01:25:52,397
Neither of us?

1093
01:25:52,397 --> 01:25:56,359
I think I have the ability to fit in.

1094
01:25:56,359 --> 01:25:58,779
You do?

1095
01:26:00,322 --> 01:26:01,657
Okay.

1096
01:26:01,657 --> 01:26:06,369
I'll try to watch my stuttering, for example.

1097
01:26:06,369 --> 01:26:11,541
The only reason I do that is because I look for...

1098
01:26:11,541 --> 01:26:13,627
more precise words to describe myself.

1099
01:26:13,627 --> 01:26:15,671
But that's not how most people speak.

1100
01:26:15,671 --> 01:26:19,049
If you don't wanna work, what are you gonna do?

1101
01:26:19,049 --> 01:26:20,592
What do you mean?

1102
01:26:20,592 --> 01:26:24,013
Well if you're not gonna go and do some random job.

1103
01:26:24,013 --> 01:26:27,390
I am going to, just in time.

1104
01:26:27,390 --> 01:26:29,143
Oh, so you are?

1105
01:26:30,060 --> 01:26:31,687
Yeah.

1106
01:26:31,687 --> 01:26:33,229
Okay.

1107
01:26:41,905 --> 01:26:44,199
A job is important.

1108
01:26:44,199 --> 01:26:48,203
I agree.

1109
01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:03,677
Hi.

1110
01:27:05,303 --> 01:27:07,973
So we have to find, I think if we go downstairs,

1111
01:27:07,973 --> 01:27:11,935
there's gonna be more stores and you can get a cake.

1112
01:27:11,935 --> 01:27:14,730
Yeah, I'd love to get a cake with a 99 on it.

1113
01:27:27,576 --> 01:27:29,953
I was expecting rolling green hills,

1114
01:27:29,953 --> 01:27:33,415
like he lives on top of a mountain or something like that.

1115
01:27:37,002 --> 01:27:38,795
Hope he likes the cake.

1116
01:27:45,928 --> 01:27:49,723
We will bring him in.

1117
01:28:22,923 --> 01:28:25,634
It is close to your birthday

1118
01:28:25,634 --> 01:28:27,928
on the old calendar.

1119
01:28:27,928 --> 01:28:30,264
So we will have a birthday party.

1120
01:28:35,435 --> 01:28:38,647
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪

1121
01:28:38,647 --> 01:28:42,692
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪

1122
01:28:42,692 --> 01:28:48,615
♪ Happy Birthday Go Seigen ♪

1123
01:28:48,615 --> 01:28:50,826
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪

1124
01:28:50,826 --> 01:28:52,619
Everyone together!

1125
01:28:52,619 --> 01:28:55,371
One, two, three!

1126
01:29:11,263 --> 01:29:13,932
This is strong.

1127
01:29:15,767 --> 01:29:19,813
An amateur might cut here

1128
01:29:19,813 --> 01:29:21,982
but this is the vital point.

1129
01:29:21,982 --> 01:29:24,109
Better hit the key point.

1130
01:29:24,109 --> 01:29:27,279
Even if you capture two stones

1131
01:29:27,279 --> 01:29:29,323
it's no good!

1132
01:29:33,118 --> 01:29:35,829
This is big.

1133
01:29:37,706 --> 01:29:40,000
It's big.

1134
01:29:44,296 --> 01:29:47,465
- What year? - 1942.

1135
01:29:49,926 --> 01:29:53,013
It was his first game of Jubango.

1136
01:29:55,015 --> 01:30:01,230
I often played with Kitani sensei overnight.

1137
01:30:08,402 --> 01:30:13,700
I would get tired when it was late

1138
01:30:13,700 --> 01:30:18,955
but then I'd be more awake in the morning

1139
01:30:18,955 --> 01:30:21,875
and catch up.

1140
01:30:23,710 --> 01:30:27,089
We used to play pool

1141
01:30:27,089 --> 01:30:31,509
near the Go center.

1142
01:30:31,509 --> 01:30:38,141
Kitani would be taking off his glasses

1143
01:30:38,141 --> 01:30:41,644
and it would take him

1144
01:30:41,644 --> 01:30:43,939
five minutes

1145
01:30:43,939 --> 01:30:45,857
to hit the ball.

1146
01:30:45,857 --> 01:30:49,027
He's talking about the time when he

1147
01:30:45,857 --> 01:30:49,027
was young.

1148
01:30:49,027 --> 01:30:50,946
They didn't have time limits sometimes,

1149
01:30:50,946 --> 01:30:53,489
sometimes the time limit was a lot,

1150
01:30:53,489 --> 01:30:57,577
and so games would go on throughout the night.

1151
01:31:02,958 --> 01:31:06,586
He was a good-hearted person.

1152
01:31:06,586 --> 01:31:11,258
Once when I went to a temple in Kyoto

1153
01:31:14,761 --> 01:31:20,100
I played an exceptionally good game.

1154
01:31:27,941 --> 01:31:30,819
But with one move

1155
01:31:30,819 --> 01:31:33,447
an atari

1156
01:31:34,364 --> 01:31:38,076
the game was spoiled.

1157
01:31:42,914 --> 01:31:47,419
Master Segoe and the priests

1158
01:31:47,419 --> 01:31:49,587
were all disappointed.

1159
01:31:52,215 --> 01:31:55,551
It was so close to perfect

1160
01:31:55,551 --> 01:32:00,349
but that one atari...

1161
01:32:20,243 --> 01:32:24,914
Go can bring happiness

1162
01:32:24,914 --> 01:32:30,253
to people around the world.

1163
01:32:30,253 --> 01:32:33,089
That is the best thing.

1164
01:32:34,632 --> 01:32:37,760
I'm glad that I have played Go.

1165
01:32:43,808 --> 01:32:46,186
He's tired.

1166
01:33:14,756 --> 01:33:16,632
What are you thinking Andy?

1167
01:33:16,632 --> 01:33:19,719
Wasting too much time on Go?

1168
01:33:21,721 --> 01:33:24,182
- Me? - Yeah.

1169
01:33:25,100 --> 01:33:27,601
Probably, yes.

1170
01:33:28,895 --> 01:33:31,064
I'm mean, I've envisioned myself

1171
01:33:31,064 --> 01:33:33,983
doing other things instead of Go.

1172
01:33:33,983 --> 01:33:37,195
Having not learned Go and...

1173
01:33:37,195 --> 01:33:41,699
I think you can still do all of these things

1174
01:33:42,700 --> 01:33:45,203
cause you're still very young.

1175
01:33:45,203 --> 01:33:48,331
That's not true, I mean...

1176
01:33:48,331 --> 01:33:51,000
The problem is that once you make the commitment

1177
01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:53,711
you're kind of, you're kind of

1178
01:33:53,711 --> 01:33:55,547
You're committed?

1179
01:33:55,547 --> 01:33:58,049
Kind of committed.