The Greatest Games Ever Played 05-09
The Greatest Games Ever Played 01-09 DVD – Free Shipping to All Countries!
After your purchase, you will receive a DVD. The DVD will be sent to your address within 2-6 business days(US) or 7-16 business days(other countries).
You will not have to wait so long to watch the videos, because I will send you a link and you can watch them online before you get the DVD.
The episode 01-04 are also included in the DVD, so you can have a perfect collection.
*Note: The DVD is for computer (PC, Mac, etc.) use only, it may not play on your DVD player.
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The Greatest Games Ever Played 05 – The Atomic Bomb Game
Hashimoto Utaro vs Iwamoto Kaoru – Aug 4, 1945~Aug 6, 1945
In those days, the most important match was the Honinbo title match. On August 4th, the 3rd Honinbo title match was underway. The holder was Hashimoto Utaro, the challenger was Iwamoto Kaoru and the referee was Segoe Kensaku. Because the Nihon Ki-in was destroyed, the game had to be played elsewhere. Some friends provided a location for the match in Hiroshima City. During the match, an atomic bomb was dropped, interrupting the game on its third day. So, this game was well known as the famous “Atomic Bomb Game”.
Before the match, US spy planes were flying unceasingly over the city. The police chief of Hiroshima had a foreboding that something would happen. He insisted that the go players must not play in the city. But the players were persistent…
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The Greatest Games Ever Played 06 – The Cosmic Style
Rin Kaiho vs Takemiya Masaki – May 1, 1980
Rin kaiho was born in China. But he is a nihon ki-in affiliated professional player. Rin kaiho is his Japanese name. His Chinese name is Lin Haifeng…
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The Greatest Games Ever Played 07 – The New Fuseki
Kitani Minoru vs Go Seigen – May 8, 1934~June 1, 1934
But the readers enjoyed their game very much, because these two players were the strongest young players at that time. So the readers donated some money as the reward, let Current Affairs Newspaper hold another three-game match for them. The readers offered a reward for a match, that’s an interesting story.
This game was played in 1943. At the beginning of that year, Kitani Minoru, Go Seigen, and Yasunaga Hajime published a book called <Go revolution-New Fuseki>. The book caused a sensation and sold nearly 100 thousand copies…
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The Greatest Games Ever Played 08 – Three Nose Tesuji
Choi Cheolhan vs Chang Hao – Dec 28, 2004
In 2005, Choi Cheol-han was just in form. He had 3 Korea titles at the same time: Kisei, Tengen, and Guoshou. And he defeated Lee Chang-ho 9-dan twice in the five-game match.
The two players met in the 5th Ing’s Cup final…
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The Greatest Games Ever Played 09 – Blood and Tears
Huanglongshi vs Xu Xingyou (Three-Stone Handicap Game)- Around 1700
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Hi – I just purchased a direct download for Episode 05-09. I enjoyed the free videos and the commentaries. I’m excited to watch the rest of the series. Hope to hear from you soon and Happy New Year!
Go Player from Philippines
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Paul John B. Galera Reply:
April 8th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Hi! I’m from the philippines too. However, I am solely playing Go against computer (smartGo, GO++), I’d love it if we can play and learn together.
send me an email.. ~pj.galera@hotmail.com
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Great commentary and wonderful games! Definately worth buying!
I looked at the three stone handicap game of Huang Longshi and I wanted to search for more games of him (especially the other 9 games of the ‘chapter of blood and tears’, but I can’t seem to find them. Do you know where I could find them?
Please continue making these excellent videos!
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countsheep Reply:
August 7th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I uploaded them to my server.
http://www.gocommentary.com/kifu/chapter-of-blood-and-tears.zip
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Beautiful games, definitely buy it!
Please keep up the good work!!
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Great work as always!
The introduction to the atomic bomb game was fantastic, I was moved deeply by the dedication of these players.
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Thank you very much, your commentaries helped me to see the spiritual and emotional side of Weiqi.
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watched two of them, really awesome. they are extremely helpful.
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I just finished watching “the atomic bomb game”, and your analysis is simply fantastic!!
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P.S.
Thank you for all your hard work. Always great to see Go Commentaries show up in my inbox!
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Would like to have direct download of 1-9. Is it possible?
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countsheep Reply:
April 29th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Sorry, only 5-9 are downloadable.
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FYI, the Atomic Bomb Game was a NO KOMI game. Anyway, the komi of 5.5 (instead of 4.5) was introduced about 10 years after this game.
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countsheep Reply:
April 27th, 2011 at 11:27 am
Yes you are right
Thanks.
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For the direct download, I notice “you must have a Windows PC to run the self-extracting file.” Almost always, if it’s just a zip file that has been made self-extracting, Wine will work for Linux or Mac to run it.
But is it necessary? Can you just send the zip file itself and then not have to limit your potential audience this way? In the West, many go players are computer professionals, and a large minority (I, for one) don’t actually have Windows computers, preferring Linux or Mac.
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countsheep Reply:
April 27th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Thanks for your advice. I am going to make a change.
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countsheep Reply:
April 28th, 2011 at 3:22 am
Now the zip file can be downloaded directly, no windows pc required
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Ethan Reply:
April 28th, 2011 at 6:35 am
Thanks! I’m ordering it right now.
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hasen Reply:
April 30th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
The self-extracting exe is already compatible with Linux (the default archiver in Ubuntu is able to extract it no problem, as if it was just another zip file (at least it worked that way for me))
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Do you have sample screenshots to show the quality of your DVD?
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countsheep Reply:
April 27th, 2011 at 6:46 am
The screenshots above are captured from the DVD.
The quality is better than the online video. The resolution is 720×576(online video is 640×480), and the bit rate is higher.
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