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If you like games like chess you might like Go


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28board_game%29
http://www.usgo.org/resources/whatisgo.html

You might even like Anime/Manga about Go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_no_Go

You might even like Shogi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi

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Yeah, Go and Shogi: I have sets for playing both games, but finding over-the-board opponents for both games is impossible even though I live in an area 'colonised' by Japanese companies. On another topic, I have noticed that chess is often used as a symbol for intelligence. This is then usually immediately undermined by the sight of incorrectly oriented boards. This film avoided that error as far as I could see, but made a more subtle one. I mean, what are the odds that so many of the hero's simultaneous opponents (presumably quite good players in their own right) would each miss an immediate mate? Here 'drama' destroyed realism.

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and that this mate hit them all in the same move!

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