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Go Spotting: Go in John Green’s Crash Course World History; China’s News Silk Road Strategy & Go

Go in John Green’s Crash Course World History: "Hey, I was watching John Green's Crash Course World History 2 series and spotted both a depiction of and mention of go," writes Evan Hale of the Columbus Tesuji Go Club. "In the episode, Green covers the Heian Period of Japan and mentions go when talking about how the elite, upper class spent their leisure time. The mention is a little bit after 7:00 in the video."
 China’s News Silk Road Strategy & Go: In Weiqi Versus Chess (Huffington Post 4/3/2015), David Gosset says that "China's New Silk Road strategy certainly integrates the importance of Eurasia but it also neutralizes the US pivot to Asia by enveloping it in a move which is broader both in space and in time: an approach inspired by the intelligence of Weiqi has outwitted the calculation of a chess player." Thanks to reader Ted Joe for passing this along.