Go cat plays Go
I played Go against Dan again last night. I lost quite catastrophically. The less said about that, the better. But his cat wanted to get into the game. There’s a LOLcat waiting to happen, I thought – and took some photos. But I’m coming up blank on captions. Ideas?
Hury Up! It’s UR muv!
And as for the game itself:
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I played a Game of Go with my friend Dan last night. He’s slightly better at it than I am, so although he kindly made a few silly mistakes that allowed me to gain some advantage around the edges, he pretty much took out the centre of the board and ran away with the game.
I tried to influence the outcome by giving him whisky, but since I had to drink it as well so that he wouldn’t suspect anything, the potential advantage was lost.
Still… we had a good time and have arranged to have another crack at it in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, is there nobody else in this town who plays Go? Say… someone that I’m slightly better than?
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