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Go miscellany Year End Edition (1 of 3)

Being a collection of interesting items – in no particular order – that have landed in our in-box in recent months but never made it into the E-Journal.
Legend of the Five Rings: Fantasy Flight Games publishes a card game called "Legend of the Five Rings" which takes inspiration from Japanese, Chinese, and Korean history and legend. A short story posted to FFG's website contains an image of a gentleman engaged in an interesting game of go while holding a white stone correctly. The short story, itself, contains a discussion between two characters about Shogi, with a passing comment that one prefers the "purity" of go. - Joe Marino
Atari origins: “Started in 1972, Atari was named by one of its founders, Nolan Bushnell, for a move in the ancient Asian game of Go. ‘Atari was what you said to your opponent if you put their stones in jeopardy, kind of like check in chess,’ Mr. Bushnell explained in an interview. ‘I just thought it was a cool word and a cool name.’ From Atari (Remember It?), a New Console With Old Games, in The New York Times 11/24/2017 Bushnell gave the keynote address at the 2012 Go Congress. - Ted Terpstra
Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself? As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field’s researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it. - From The New York Times, 11/21/2017