“Flowing waters do not compete to be first”
The title of this blog entry is from the book “First Kyu” by Sung-Hwa Hong.
I wrote an article on this book which contains my review. Just to summarize it here: it is a wonderful book (about youth, love, Go and life in general), with a lot of interesting information about the Korean Go scene in late 60’s and early 70′, and very sound Go advice on how to study.
Read the whole review in the “Articles” section on my website.
I’ll go now to replay the “blood coughing game” that the book describes so nicely:
On a rainy day when I fall into loneliness and despair, I replay the game of Intetsu’s. Powerless against moves unfairly coached by ghosts, Intetsu’s stones sigh as they did on a hot summer day in 1835.