Talk:Go Seigen

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There was no People's Republic of China when Go Seigen was born. The Chinese flag should probably be changed.--Jusjih 08:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I have found the Chinese flag used when he was born. Please do not change to current ROC or PRC flag as neither was used when he was born.--Jusjih 18:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) (WP:MOSJP)

The WP:MOSJP states that Japanese related articles should have Japanese names written with the family name second. Can 02:04, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Then change it.--207.68.234.177 (talk) 21:56, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

It doesnt say that anymore. – ishwar  (speak) 17:39, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Reverts

To User:By78. You have put back large changes to the page, without a single edit comment, or any discussion here. This is unacceptable. What is more, you have not respected improvements made to the page. Charles Matthews 16:25, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Picture

I added the photo of Go Seigen (then in his 80s) I am pretty sure that that photo is public domain. I am not very good at inserting photos so if anybody can improve on the layout please do so. SmokeyTheCat 15:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Error?

Go lost just one jubango, and that was against Fujisawa Hosai. However, the match was played with Fujisawa taking the josen handicap throughout, and Fujisawa only managed to win with a score of 6 to 4. Some ten years later, Go Seigen took revenge on Fujisawa by beating him in two consecutive jubango with lopsided scores of 7-2 and 5-1 respectively.

Why would a jubango continue after someone had won 6 games? I believe this should be 6-2, though I am not familiar with Seigen's career to an extent that I can state it was 6-2. But it defies the definition of jubango to continue after someone has won more than half the prescribed game number, which is 10. --70.131.54.157 (talk) 03:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Jubango is supposed to be a match containing 10 games. However, in practice, many players made arrangements beforehand that should one player's margin of won games become too lopsided (i.e. 4 games ahead, thus demoting the opposing player by one rank), then the match could be discontinued (as a face-saving measure). This is why quite a few of Go Seigen's Jubango matches were never finished. —Preceding unsigned comment added by By78 (talk • contribs) 02:51, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

and probably the greatest of all time

this is just speculation since he had no chance of playing for example Dosaku or even Shuei.Btw Shuei did live in 20th Century so saying that he was best is a bit risky.I think Shuei would at last demand a sogo wich would be for Go rather hard:) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.87.13.68 (talk) 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

The opening says this: "He is considered by many players to have been the greatest Go player in the 20th century." I see two problems with that: The phrase "considered by many" falls into the "weasel words" category, and "greatest Go player in the 20th century" is in the "peacock words" category. SlowJog (talk) 00:59, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Which is apparently acceptable in an introduction.SlowJog (talk) 13:22, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Birthdate

Go Seigen's birthdate was June 12, 1914, according to the Gregorian calendar, which I presume is standard for the English language Wikipedia. The date of May 19th that is often seen refers to Go being born on the 19th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar. Since this does not correspond to a fixed day of the Gregorian calendar, it is misleading to present the date as May 19th.

If there is a Wikipedia policy according to which we should give the lunar date, then we can do that, but otherwise I believe that it would be a mistake. JustinBlank (talk) 12:39, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

I agree, from the Japanese wiki we see that "生日は旧暦の5月19日で、新暦では6月12日". Which roughly says that he was born 5-09 in the lunar calendar which is 6-12 in the Gregorian calendar. I have also added another ref from AGA which should be a more reliable source than gogameguru. Other sources such as this Chinese news article exist as well, but I think we have enough. --– sampi ^{(talk•contrib•email)} 17:39, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Popular Culture: film The Go Masters

In the popular culture section, there is this: "Two award-winning films were made about Go Seigen's life. In An Unfinished Game, a 1982 Sino-Japanese coproduction, Go's role was played by the Japanese star Ken Takakura ...". That film, also known as The Go Masters, is fiction, although there are similarities in the lives of one of the film characters and Go Seigen.

Also, The The IMDB page for Ken Takakura shows no credit for that movie, and the IMDB cast member page for the movie shows no credit for Ken Takakura. SlowJog (talk) 14:22, 3 April 2015 (UTC)