Drabble fest: Tiebreaker

[troisroyaumes]

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

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!

Comments

Team China

[love]

For the prompt: Zhao Shi, "the naturalist".


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

[lacygrey]

I like the way he keeps tweaking his model to fit his opponents.

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

[love]

I had the same problem until I looked up the definition of naturalist in a dictionary. Then it just came to me in a flash. ^_^

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 ^_^

[love]

*laughs* I'm the same person, just with different usernames for different accounts. I'll post a reply with all my accounts and then delete it (because I'm paranoid about Google linking me up).

Re: A question of identity ^_^

[love]

Hope you got the usernames!

Re: A question of identity ^_^

[lacygrey]

Thanks :)

I should have got there on my own come to think of it as Ai=Love !

Re: A question of identity ^_^

[love]

That's all right, I'm not the only "Ai" in fandom (though I may be the only one whose real name is also Ai). ^_^