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hikarunogo2010-06-12 01:43 pm
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Drabble fest: Tiebreaker
Apologies for the delayed response! My offline life took over for a while there...
Our Hokuto Cup results are currently tied with Team Japan, Korea and China each at five points!
Team Japan
qem_chibati
takemyrevolution
jetsam
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hostilecrayon
Team Korea
raikushi
blue_cage
ariadne_chan
Team China
esmenet
lacygrey
aiwritingfic
issenllo
For our "tiebreaker" round, the team that answers the most unfilled prompts by Sunday, June 13, 9 PM PST will win the drabble fest! Reply to this post with any fanwork in response to one of the following prompts, and remember to indicate which team you're supporting.
Ogata & Kurata: Attitude
Akari: The taming of Akota (Wig man)
Shirakawa, professionalism
Ochi, "the little king"
Zhao Shi, "the naturalist"
Hidaka - ambition
Shouji & Oka - rivalry outside of Go
Mitani vs. Touya - Fighting over Hikaru!
Our Hokuto Cup results are currently tied with Team Japan, Korea and China each at five points!
Team Japan
qem_chibati Shindou teaching his mother how to play go
Nase, "the challenger"
takemyrevolution Shindou teaching his mother how to play go (art)
jetsam Akiko - She has her own private Go world, and she shares with her husband - only when he's been good
hostilecrayon Waya - timetravel
Team Korea
raikushi Suyeong and Yeongha, days as a yeongusaeng (= kenkyuusei, Korean version of insei)
Akira/Hikaru are preparing for the second Hokuto cup in Akira's home
Kaga => Tsutsui => Kaga : running hot and cold
blue_cage Ogata/Ashiwara, just convenient or something more? (FST)
ariadne_chan Suyeong, "the pursuer"
Team China
esmenet anyone doing anything that isn't related to go (or any board-game)
lacygrey Akari/Akira - rivalry!
Akari->Nase - I wanna be like you!
aiwritingfic YANG HAI/WAYA - virtual boyfriends!
issenllo Ogata - a world on a goban
For our "tiebreaker" round, the team that answers the most unfilled prompts by Sunday, June 13, 9 PM PST will win the drabble fest! Reply to this post with any fanwork in response to one of the following prompts, and remember to indicate which team you're supporting.
Ogata & Kurata: Attitude
Akari: The taming of Akota (Wig man)
Shirakawa, professionalism
Ochi, "the little king"
Zhao Shi, "the naturalist"
Hidaka - ambition
Shouji & Oka - rivalry outside of Go
Mitani vs. Touya - Fighting over Hikaru!
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I'm totally surprised there was a three way tie. That's funny! XD
Team China
No one from the Nihon Ki-in has ever recognized him. Shirakawa has a neutral face, the kind that makes you look once, think, "That man looks vaguely familiar," and then walk away without a second thought. He isn't high-profile enough to be recognized by journalists or fans. (He had a close shave, once, but the fan, frightened by Shirakawa's glare, whimpered and ran away after a hurried "SORRY!".)
But when he goes out on go-related matters...
Full suit. Large black spectacle frames. His hair always looks as if he got a haircut in the 80s. His smile, permanent (except on the rare occasions when Shindou-kun non-plusses him).
It is Shirakawa's uniform, and wearing it pleases him.
Re: Team China
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Its also very true that no one really notices him. He gets on with his job and there isn't neally so much of a fuss as there is about Ogata or Kurata. He must be somewhere between the two in both age and Go level.
I guess this double life went very smoothly until he was tempted to play Go against Tsubaki, then his level blew his cover... ^_^
Re: Team China
Team China
The world, to Zhao Shi, is ordered and logical. The moment of the planets is governed by physics. The growth of his body is an expression of biology. His reaction to that horrendous-smelling natto Isumi-san brought over from Japan is a matter of course in chemistry.
All go is a function of game theory.
Zhao Shi picked up game theory at the advice of Chen-laoshi, a go coach he still reveres. In his spare time, he has been writing a treatise on the application of game theory in the field of go. It is difficult to find anyone he knows who can follow the text, but Yang Hai has been incredibly supportive. Zhao Shi knows Yang Hai's promise to use his contacts at a university--"When it's finished, mind you, because I'm not about to show them something half-done, all right?"--is a promise Yang Hai will keep. Le Ping made Yang Hai promise, after all.
His parents made a fuss out of it, a then-eight-year-old reading university level textbooks; they were disappointed when he chose to play go, though the disappointment was tempered by Zhao Shi's selection as a national representative.
Everyone Zhao Shi plays is an expression in game theory. If Zhao Shi cannot express some of them accurately, it is not the fault of the field; rather, it is his own imperfect grasp of the mathematics that fails him: this is a conclusion he can whole-heartedly support. He knows he still has far to go. Further than he does in go. Yang Hai's equation changes with every game, though Zhao Shi is learning to recognize which variable makes the most impact: it is when Yang Hai has been staring at his computer with a little too much interest. Le Ping's equation is simple, but the variables are hard to pick up. Isumi's equation constantly needs refining, but Zhao Shi likes it when Isumi breaks his equations: Isumi develops in a known way, and Zhao Shi thinks Isumi would agree to becoming a focus of his treatise. He hasn't asked yet, but the equation says Isumi will if the time is right.
If there is anyone who seems to completely defy game theory, it is Shindou of Japan. Zhao Shi chalks this down to his limited exposure (and thus observation) of Shindou. The best equations are written with long-term exposure to the subject. It's true that for most people, analysis of their go games proves sufficient (especially against people Zhao Shi already has equations for), but Shindou's games are so erratic they defy analysis. It's almost as if there are three Shindous playing.
Zhao Shi won't give up, though. He's beginning to see a possible pattern; Shindou playing has finally begun to converge on a more-or-less stable framework for equation. There is some more work to do so that he can reconcile Shindou's earlier games to the draft equation, but Zhao Shi is confident that hard work and careful thought will see him through this.
After all, all go is a function of game theory. Even Shindou's.
Re: Team China
I couldn't handle this prompt when I tried to think oof something for it: it kept conjuring images of tiny Zhao Shi with a butterfly net and binoculars, which is a little beyond my artistic abilities.
Re: Team China
Thank you for always responding to these! I'm sorry I haven't replied before this, life has been incredibly hectic.
Re: A question of identity ^_^
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I should have got there on my own come to think of it as Ai=Love !
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Team Korea!
~ ~ ~
He snarled as he came home, throwing his laptop case down on the couch in a manner quite unlike his usual restrained behavior. Hearing the slamming of the front door, his grandfather poked his head around the corner to see what the noise was about. "Ochi?" he inquired.
The diminutive boy's face was set in his fierce protective scowl, but he refused to comment or even look at his grandfather as he pushed past and stomped up the stairs to his room.
In the safety and privacy of his bedroom, Ochi slumped to his computer chair and, head bowed, he finally allowed his held-in tears to overflow. It wasn't just that Shindou had beaten him . . . again. He could handle that. He could overcome it and prepare better next time; he learned a little more with each battle. No, it wasn't that he lost today. He lost to other players without feeling this, this overwhelming frustration, this strangling feeling surrounding his heart.
"I-it's not fair!" he shouted, pounding his fists on his knees. "No matter how I play, no matter what my game, they all look at HIM! Only him!" He was so tired of standing in the background, of hearing the others talk about him as "Shindou's opponent" instead of by name! Touya Akira had been there today. Still he only saw "Shindou" and "Shindou's opponent." Ochi swore that one day that would change. He would show Touya Akira and everyone else.
Slowly, Ochi's sobs subsided. The boy straightened, pulled off his glasses, took a tissue from the computer desk and rubbed the wet smears off the lens with focused precision. A momentary lapse, that all this was. He would regain control. He would return to the Go Institute tomorrow. He would learn to play a game to make everyone see him and his go.
Because that was the truth behind this pain in his heart. Playing Shindou made it feel like Ochi's go was worthless. And he wouldn't stop until he changed that.
Re: Team Korea!
What I like here is that, in the spirit of the manga, he's got some motivation out of the situation that will drive him forward also.
Its easy to forget that Ochi was making meteoric progress at the time when Hikaru first became an insei.
Re: Team Korea!
Thankies for always leaving comments on da drabbles! <3
Re: Team Korea!
I could never work out whether he was deliberately trying to destablise Isumi during the pro exam or not, its rather vague. His jealously of Hikaru is understandable, but Isumi? Ochi is like twelve and Isumi is eighteen so it seems pretty unlikely to me that he'd try to play mind games. Whatever's going on though its enough to get Isumi worried.
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http://hikarunogo.dreamwidth.org/12788.html?thread=141044#cmt141044
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Does this mean that Korea won in fact? Or that China equalised?
...Or that we should perhaps have another tiebreaker?
...Or even start again from scratch?