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Go Spotting: The "High-Brow" Game and An Unlikely Place

The Highbrow Game: Go is classified as a “high-brow” game in a chart detailing “the best and worst of art and popular culture,” in a 1949 issue of LIFE magazine,reports Molly Fitzpatrick on nerve.com .  “Looking at the other classifications, I am unsure whether it’s a compliment or not,” says EJ reader Garrett Bredell, who sent us the link. “But nice to see it mentioned anyway.” 
An Unlikely Place: “My father spotted a go reference in a very unlikely place!” writes Alicia Seifrid. “An opinion article by Bob Pinato  in the latest issue of Microwave Product Digest spoke about the current world political situation, and it mentioned go in reference to China's recent policy of claiming of nearby islands.  The author likened this to a real-life version of ‘GO, the ancient Asian game of power and strategy.’"