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Go Photo: Cool Game

We came across this great photo posted 11/7/2011 on the V = I·R blog. Titled "Playing Go In Russia," the blogger finds some appropriate ice floe references in James Davies' Elementary Go Series, Volume 3:Tesuji: "A good player tries to read out [ahead] in his head before he puts the stones on the board. He looks before he leaps. Frequently he does not leap at all; many of the sequences his reading uncovers are stored away for future reference, and in the end never carried out. This is especially true in a professional game, where the two hundred or so moves played are only the visible part of an iceberg of implied threats and possibilities, most of which stays submerged." If you have more info on this photo or the blogger -- or want to send in your own go-related photo -- email us at journal@usgo.org
5/7/2012 Update: “I could be mistaken, but the men in that photograph look like Igor Grishin (left) and Maksim Tikhomirov (right) from the Russian Go Federation,” writes Nikolas. “ Alexandre Dinerchtein sent me more photos of them” on the All About Go blog.