Michael Redmond 9p comments

[BlackSN8K]

Chess is better than go. Go is an attention whore always bashing on chess. Fuck you!

[joshmania7]

cool! i wish go was more well known in the western world

[Ljmspor]

So Good video.

[R2242V]

SHE IS SUPER CUTE!!!

[hananokuni2580]

@MatthewPalumbo For now in the US spreading the word on Go is about piqueing interest one person at a time. For one, hardly anyone in America knew about Toyota until the Oil Crisis of '73. Soon something should happen to make the public's interest in Go take off.

I wonder, how would it be if we had a Cold War with China or NK...

[shades715]

If I had a penny for every time she said "hi"

[jariworld]

wow Redmond he's 9Dan.I read his book when he'6dan.

[kovarex]

I like the way the women agrees with everything :)

[rm06c]

So far, it's just Michael Redmond in the game. But once the brothas finish with basketball, football, tennis, golf, scrabble, and Uno, they're gonna get into Go and the world better watch out!

[hananokuni2580]

@rm06c Would an inner city Black (or other non-Asian) kid want to become a Go player in the first place? ("Nerd games" are hard to sell in America nowadays :( )

Ever since the NBA, NFL, and MLB started offering multi-million dollar annual purses to their star players, just about every boy and his brother dreams of becoming one of them. Not all of them make it, of course, but the fame & fortune that comes with being a star player is a powerful draw.

[largelysubatomic]

i know the guy who got redmond to smoke bud for the first time

[hotterThanU101]

any1 knows who the girl is shes cute...

[Kenwolf21]

At this rate, America will never see a game of Go on television. All we seem to care about are reality shows. One after the other. It's very sad. I want to move to Japan, or somewhere else where culture is still practiced and respected.

I like that previous posters idea of random Go problems in the newspaper, at least a little square :).

Here's to hoping!

[hananokuni2580]

@Kenwolf21 Go can be publicized in the US, but it will take a few decades at least. Now, if we were in a Cold War with China or NK...

If you really want to make Go go mainstream in the US, one way to begin is by offering fabulous purses to promising Go talent. Would you give a potential 5p hopeful $15 million a year? Or at least $5 million?

[subarux56]

only western player to reach 9p really incredible

[natnattapong]

He's the best western player. He almost got a title

[XowntXihqX]

asians will still rule at this game

[Bleakfacts]

@XowntXihqX

for now

[Omaplata41]

Damn he knows Japanese and he is such a good player!!!!

[Sieg15]

Considering he's affiliated with the Japanese Go Association, and lives there, I would assume he would have to know Japanese.

Anywho, I kind of wish I could be good like that. I only started so I've got a long way to go.

[OrandajinDesu]

do your best ^^

[hananokuni2580]

@Sieg15 Learning the right playing habits from the first game is essential to improving at Go. Of course you still gotta put in the hours (i.e., playing plenty of games and chewing on plenty of tsumego ^^), but learning the right way to play now will make things much easier later on. I picked up the game in June 2006, but only now am I beginning to develop an understanding of the right way to play Go.

Kids learning Go practice like crazy to get good. Adults players should too.

[SumayahNajaar]

What is this SHIT ?

Am buggerd if I know?

[proof2580]

go players are amazing.... it takes 2-3 minuets to play a sequence of moves that they will foresee in just a couple seconds....

[YellowMagi]

Even I can do that.

[enter5000]

この綺麗な日本語を聞けば分かると思うけど

レドモンドは頭のいい棋士だよ

[Rx2D]

They should like... have a channel for Go or something. It really is an amazing game, and it's a shame that the majority of American's dont even know what it's about. They should do weekly problems in the news papers (you know, little Tesuji or Tsumego problems) like they have for Sudoku. That way, the game can gain some popularity, and we can have more access to Go events in the states.

[aragorn202]

The majority of Americans don't even know about Go's existence, let alone what it's about.

But yes, I agree that Go should be more publicified in the States.

[Iquinin]

@aragorn202 no dobut, im american, but i play this, and believe it should be a world wide gaming sport :)

[oddeye889]

俺、日本人ではないんですがマイケル氏がアメリカ生まれ、アメリ­カ育ちですのでやはりちょっとしたアクセントがあるように聞こえ­ます。当然なことだと思いますよ。それにしても彼の日本語は抜群­に上手い。

[BuckKnowhow]

ィブに質問：文法とか完璧でも、アクセんじゃないです、こ話した­ら、日本 人じがばれますか？俺にはなんとなくアクセントがあるような気が­するけ

[Deliman5]

i ment japenese

[amaone]

A man from the west commentating in japanese about go. now that is a rare site indeed! Is Redmond a pro? (I suppose he is, if he is really 9d, but i'm not sure.)

[Mystrohan]

He's actually challenged for a title or two int he past, I believe - so he's quite good. Go really needs to get some more air time in the U.S, so we can have more international competition.

[Shadowfoxs12]

yea, turned 9dan in 2000, was an insei at age 11.

[daavidb]

日本語のネイティブに質問：文法とか完璧でも、アクセントちょっ­とあるんじゃないですか？つまり、この人と電話で話したら、日本­人じゃないことがばれますか？俺にはなんとなくアクセントがある­ような気がするけど、もしかして気のせい。

[Blixbunneh]

They are explaining tactics not playing a game...

[Mystrohan]

Redmond is quite inspiring, although he's not as good as some of the others - I mean, Korea's players are just insane.

[puxank]

he makes language mistakes in the video by the way

[komoriku]

少なくともこの動画の中では、完璧な日本語しか喋ってないよ

（日本語に詳しいつもりらしいので、日本語で投稿しておきますね­）

[puxank]

完璧といわれても、言葉に詰まったよ。うるせぇ

[ztevo]

Michael Redmond is the whipping boy of Baduk/weiqi/Igo

In korea he would be a 2dan. h t t p ://senseisDOTxmpDOTnet/?RankWo­rldwideComparison

[takitaki0229]

マイケルさん懐かしいですねー。今はどうされてるのでしょうか。­。。；。

[Nycodeamus]

He's been living in Japan as since he was 11, and he's been playing go professionally since then and has of course become a Japanese citizen. At this point he's more Japanese than American, so you can basically say he IS a native.

[ahypnos]

No you can't, since 'native' means "born [there]". He wasn't born there, so he isn't native Japanese. :)

[logicaust]

Racism is fun :)

[Deliman5]

wow that not-chinese guy speaks chinese really well. i wish i was able to speak a forein language like that.........*worships video for all eternity*

[ztevo]

i cant tell if u are trying to be funny or ignorant. The language is japanese Deliman5

[oddeye889]

OMG! his accent is very good. you can only barely tell he is a foreigner. that's inspiring, he' so young

[jm0n3y21]

crazy! lol i wish i could speak another language like that