Japanese chess | Wang Mingwan: Improving social interaction through Go

Original address: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20201203/dde/018/040/013000c

Hara: Resolving the lack of conversation with Go Go Wang Mei 9th dan

From: Daily News

Kokata: Iwanami Shinsho Editorial Department

Author: Wang Minghuan Jiudan

There are many other names in Go, and "black heron" indicates the color of the pieces of Go. We can understand the words "square circle" by looking at the shape of the chess piece. There is a legend that plays chess to the point of forgetting time, but people who do not know this story may be difficult to associate at once. Of course, there is a word that makes people suddenly realize, there is no more than the word "hand talk", Go for human beings, is nothing more than "communicating with hands".

A long time ago, there was a champion software called "Hand Talk" in the computer Go world. But at that time, there was no concept of "machine learning", so I could only teach computers step by step from scratch. So at that time, if people who didn't know enough about Go, it was difficult to make a powerful Go software. The author of "Hand Talk" used the most important "Hand Talk" in Go as the name of this software.

I came to Japan at the age of 13 to learn Go, but I didn't really learn much About Japanese. Because when I play chess, I don't feel that I have any inconvenience in language. What the teacher was saying, I just had to look at the situation and I could naturally know. Because each hand of Go is nothing more than a sentence of language, plus some words from the teacher, it can play a complementary role.

We are in the winter, and under the epidemic, we believe that the opportunity to wear masks will only increase. Because we wear masks, it is difficult for us to see the expression when we speak at once, not only the amount of information is small, but it is also difficult to hear what the other party is saying. Then even if we wear masks, we may infect each other when we talk. So many people will choose the safest way not to speak. But if it goes on like this, we are worried that there will be a crisis in our relationships and even in our society.

So in order to make up for the current difficult to communicate at the moment, we may wish to try the "hand talk" method of Go. The purpose of the conversation is not to convince each other, but to share happy things and deepen mutual understanding. Although Go is also a thing that needs to be competed, it is the fun of Go for both sides to complete a work in a common space. After a game of chess, both sides also become interested in each other's content, which will germinate a sense of connection.

In fact, Go is easy to learn, plus it can now be played remotely through the Network. At a time when communication is decreasing under the epidemic, we can use "hand talk" to eliminate this uneasiness.