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I originally wrote a different post, but I threw it away… I went to the Neil deGrasse Tyson lecture this evening. I went with a friend and I was grateful to go because one it was sold out and two because I love the show Cosmos. I had some idea of what his lecture was…

Go Nation

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At first I was really excited to read this book as I said last week that Go is one of my favorite games but that excitement diminished page by page as I read more into the sexist ideals in China from the game of weiqi. The part that struck me the most was when the…

Response and Image

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I adored this week’s reading on weiqi, liubo, and Chinese playing cards. They were all unique in their own way but what stuck out to me was weiqi. Now I know that we are going more in-depth with weiqi next week but I have been fascinated with weiqi, I knew it as go and thought…

Week 6 response

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I thought the reading were informative but rather difficult to understand. I guess because I do not view games the same ways as the authors of these articles do. Games, to me, are not aesthetically pleasing.. Yes the boards that weiqi is played on and the Chinese cards are beautiful. However, the meaning of beautiful, to…

The Chess Queen

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I love this book. It is just so interesting, fascinating, detailed, and conflicting. I always thought chess was this elitist game for people who wanted to prove their intelligence. I just never understood how moving little pieces on a black and white board, proved that you were both intelligent and important. It is just a…