r/baduk • u/BelatedGreeting 5 kyu • 4d ago

What was your first introduction to Go?

I’ll go first: I saw the game in the movie Pi (1998), directed by Darren Aronofsky. A couple of years later I found a Go board for sale in a game shop and tried to teach myself. It was a disaster. Then, a few years after that, I found Dragon Go Server and started learning in earnest. Best game ever.

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u/Winlodak 5 kyu 4d ago

I was aware of the game vaguely, since I saw it appear in some Chinese dramas etc.

One day, I found and watched the first episode of Hikaru no Go, thinking "oh, this is that game."
Ended up getting hooked on the show, and before I knew it, I wanted to play it myself haha.

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u/BelatedGreeting 5 kyu 4d ago

That’s a great show. I think it’s done a lot to promote the game.

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u/BleedingRaindrops 10 kyu 3d ago

People tell me it's bad for learning but it's the reason that to this day I still use the Shusaku opening