우연히 인터넷 서핑중, Sensei's Library 라는 바둑 사이트에 들어갔는데, 놀라운 광경을
보고야 말았다.
전 세계인들이 바둑을 문학으로 향유하고 있었던 것이다. 시를 짓고, 콩트를 쓰고,
우리의 선조들이 2천여년 향유해 왔던 그 문화를 서양인들이 즐기고 있었던 것이다.
우리가 까맣게 잊고 있던 중에 서양인들은 이제 바둑의 묘미를 알아가고 있었던 것이다.
우리가 바둑기계를 양산하는 동안에 서양인들은 우리의 선조들이 누렸던 바둑의 참 묘미를
음미하며 즐기고 있었던 것이다.
김치가 기무치가 되고, 인삼이 진생이 되고, 바둑이 고(Go)가 되버리는 동안
Go Limericks
Cross-cut?
A go player who found that his friend (약)
caroused with his wife one week-end (약)
fled and built a new life (강)
with the other one's wife (강)
explaining "Cross-cut? Extend!" (약)
맞 끊었어 ?
한 애기가가 알아버렸네
친구가 어느 주말 자기 아내와 통음한 것을
상대의 마누라와 도망가서 새 살림을 차렸네
맞 끊었어 ? 그럼 뻗어야지
설명까지 해주었네
(허접한 번역)
이에는 이, 눈에는 눈이라는 서양식 표현 아니라
멋진 바둑 격언 "끊으면 뻗어야지"를
실생활에 이용하는 그들의 실용철학이 무섭다.
-- aokun
Cut, Cut All You Can
There was a Go player named Terry
Who had a daring, bold theory
Cut, cut all you can
Get yourself in a jam
Your opponent is bound to get weary!
-- Graeme Parmenter (originally, written from bad memory) (Everyone in New Zealand knew who the real Terry was)
(These ones are pretty poor, but it might start off something.)
There was a 3k player from Toulouse,
Who had a bad tendency to fall into a snooze.
So while he snored,
his opponent won the board,
upon waking he said "I didn't deserve to lose!"
(Not based on real a person, honestly)
There was a dan player from Gent,
Who saw the four in the corner were bent.
So he smiled from ear to ear,
As he pushed back his chair,
saying "That, my dear friend, was excellent"
-- MortenPahle
(Sorry for the non-Dutch speakers)
Er was eens een gobord en stenen
Aan de bar een stel prachtige benen
Een sente zet, snel !
Toen waren zowel
de vrouw als de aji verdwenen
DieterVerhofstadt
B+R
A tournament player from Bari
had plans for a furikawari.
Two moves down the line
he had to resign:
he'd missed a straightforward atari.
--Stefan
Speed
A student who hated to lose
took 5 or 10 minutes a move
his sensei said "while it's
a tedious practise"
at least it allows me to snooze
--Sc4rM4n
Shape
A room full of clam shell and slate
A painstaking game was my fate
We opened debates
Soon in dire straits
The sense of good shape came too late
--Dieter
Divine intervention
A Japanese insei on the way to Korea,
was playing on the boat crossing the sea.
On the gently rolling Goban
sliding stones helped his chuban,
he said 'Neptune must really like me !'
--MortenPahle
[BadHabits]
A brilliant nidan from Seattle
Annoyingly stones liked to rattle
Until a 1-kyu
With lots of glue
Brought tranquility back to the battle.
Rivals
In the midst of a heated jubango,
I made a hideous dango.
My opponent cried, "Right!
"I've got you tonight!"
And danced a gleeful fandango.
Theory/Practice
A book-learned high kyu? from Kent
In late chuban found cause to lament,
"I opened on tengen,
"Just like Go Seigen,
"But don't know where my influence went!"
An earnest young dan from Sri Lanka
Was getting the hang of the haengma.
Her stones flowed and surged,
Groups linked up and merged.
She said, "Soon my games'll all be in Ranka."
A rude and hotheaded shodan
At the club, had nary a fan.
Complaining of damage
Due to his rampage,
Said they, "he ruined a goban."
--TakeNGive
Here's another one! I'm Italian, so please forgive me if the metric is not correct... Ah! And, by the way, this is a little autobiographical... ;-)
There was an old 3k of Roma
Who always had a garlic aroma
With his bodily smoke,
his opponent would choke,
That unfair 3k of Roma
--AvatarDJFlux
Can I suggest a variation?
There was an old 3k of Roma
Who always had a garlic aroma
With his bodily smoke,
His opponent would choke,
And promptly fall into a coma.
;)
--Connector
Patchi
In last week's go course, Ms. Guo Juan
patchi'd a magnetic goban!
She showed the kiai
of Akira and Sai.
As you guessed, I'm a Hikaru fan.
--Stefan
Speaking of which, I submit
to her Go skills, humour and wit
"Interesting move !"
preluded the proof
my idea was a total misfit
--Dieter
Family Rivalry
There once was a young girl from Brooklyn
Whose Dad said, "We're racing to shodan!"
He'd taught her to play
But his edge lost its sway
After she finally bought her own goban.
--Regyt
I went to a toy-selling store
To ask for this game we adore.
A Go-set I craved
But left quite amazed -
It doesn't exist anymore!
(True story - when the shopkeeper said to me "That game doesn't exist anymore" she was referring to a specific edition a western toy company had once released. She didn't know there are also other editions....)
When playing among many flies
"How very annoying !" he cries.
Until, with a frown,
Looking where one sat down,
He discovers: "That group of stones dies!".
After analyzing the endgame components,
young Michael hesitated a moment;
then threw it against the wall --
goban, stones, and all --
prior to uppercutting his opponent.
Upon losing, Sue cried out in pain
and screamed "I never lose! This is insane!
You cheated! You suck!
I just had bad luck!"
Then typed: "Thanks for an excellent game."
(Dedicated to the IGS addicts)
Bildstein: This one's superb. I love it!
Scartol
Patience
A tourist in fair Hokkaido
Begged a wise man, "Just one game of Go!"
Said the learnèd sensei,
"Being so eager to play
Loses two stones in strength, don't you know."
I once sought to find a new way
To calculate best endgame play.
For weeks I did slave
But neglected to shave
And so found that I'd grown a gote.
KarlKnechtel
A pale pimply kid told me "Yo!"
"Let us play a game of that go."
"I never played before now."
"But, I'll give you 9 stones and a bow,"
"'cause I read Hikaru no Go!"
--Skelley
The Dreaded Pincer
As much as I like to play Go
Some joseki I just do not know
If I play a kakari
To prevent a shimari
A pincer will cause me much woe.
--Alex Weldon
The Beginner
There was a Go Player from Detroit,
who thought his fuseki adroit.
The ladder he played,
left his stones filleted.
His opponent found his shape easy to exploit.
--KRITZ
SAI!!
I frequently wonder of sai
Is he a girl or a guy
he makes my head whirl
cause he's so like a girl
he crossdresses and i wonder why
--naruto3
Staring
Staring staring deep in my soul
Great mounds of shell echo a bowl
Go never lies
Now my demise
Eyes formed by black slate, color of coal
--naruto3
Drink to Go
The best way to approach a komoku
Is to sample your favorite brew
Get too drunk to see
That your kakari
Has ended in quite a snafu
To find the kami no itte
I emptied a bottle of sake
It then became clear
That the honte right here
Is to fill sake bottle in sente
more to come when I am sober... jwaytogo
Fast food
A dan-level baker from Gilling
Sold pizzas at three for a shilling:
The dough he would bake
In a nakade shape
With a stone in the center as filling.
--Gresil
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