Friday, March 3, 1978
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during a decisive move at the Oriental game Go, Joe Lee (center) gave some helpful advice to Kirk Kaufman. The board is game
Ready, set, go!
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
quickly gaining popularity in the United States. Only two players can play the game at one time, and the player with the most money will win.
The Mouse and His Child
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The Goalie's Anxiety
Written by Peter Handke "A beautifully acted and photographed tale of existential alienation"
—Vincent Canby, New York Times
My favorite post-war German film"
—Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic
Monday, March 6, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.
$1.00 Woodruff Aud.
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Walk into the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union on a Wednesday night and listen to the
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Oriental mathematical game, 'Go,' gains popularity among students
Staff Writer
Those imaginary sounds emanate from the minds of a collection of math-oriented individuals playing Go, an Oriental game that begins to be caught on in the United States.
"You can learn how to play Go in five minutes and keep improving your skills for a lifetime," Jim Hlavka, instructor in math, who organized the club this semester, said.
Two players alternately place elliptical black and white stones on intersections to block off territory and thereby win it. Stones are placed stationary once they are placed on the board.
Go is played on a board consisting of 301
intersections made by 19 vertical and 19
horizontal lines.
THE PLAYER with the most territory wins when the game ends by mutual consent. Players consent to end the game when there is no more territory to win.
The game takes from 20 minutes to two hours to play, although championship games usually take longer.
The boards can be any size. Often Go sets are extremely beautiful with wooden bowls carved of wood and shell to hold stones, and plates for serving. Resonate when the stones are placed on them.
Go sets are hard to find in this area, so the players bring as many sets as they can so that everyone has a set.
What is so attractive about Go? Joe Lee,
professor of civil engineering, explained:
"I've played Go for 20 years. This game hasn't insured me, yet. Chess埋我 in a room."
Havka said Go had become popular in the West in the last 10 years because books explaining strategies had been translated into English so people could learn how to play better.
GO STARTED in Tibet about 4,000 years ago. It was considered an upper-class intellectual game in the Orient. Now there are associations throughout the Western world, including the American Go Association, which has nearly 100 clubs.
Go takes concentration and some players don't like to be bothered while playing.
“it's usually popular around university towns. More specifically, people in math, physics, engineering, computer science and astronomy departments often like Go. It's a mathematical game. There's a lot of pattern recognition involved." Havlaa said.
Even so, Go is open to all levels of competition because of its unique handicapping system. According to each player's rating, a player either gives or receives a certain number of stones already on the board at the start of play.
The KU Go Club has about 21 members, some of whom had never played before.
HOWEVER, MOST members stopped playing at Wednesday's meeting when an argument about whether chess or Go is harder to master occurred between a student in the Bill Rummers, a graduate student in developmental psychology, and Hlavka.
"No one has ever been able to write a computer chess program that could win at chess."
"No one has written a Go program that can win at beginning levels," Havaelariz said.
"But, how much effort has been made in go programs?" Remenners asked. "They've got to get that right."
2nd Annual Guild Film Series presents The Memory of Justice a film by Marcel Ophuls (director of The Sorrow and the Pity)
The argument ended unsettled when the two decided to play Go, instead.
"Ophus presents his belief that the Nuremberg trials were an attempt to establish an ideal justice. The Memory of Justice describes our lapses from the principles of that ideal state, and shows how Americans, Frenchmen, German men have all forgotten, or chosen to forget, what Nuremburg was all about."
— Timothy Crouse, Rolling Stone, Jan. 19, 1977
Sunday, March 5
2:00 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium
(KU, Union)
$1.25 at the door
Tuesday, March 7
7:00 p.m.
Dyche Auditorium
(next door to KU. U.I.)
Because of the length of the film, there will be an intermission
Partially funded by K.U. Student Senate
Sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild
THE FILMS OF LES BLANK
Les Blank in Person March 2-5,1978
Woodruff Auditorium Kansas Union Admission $1.00
American Folk Music Documentaries
DRY WOOD Black creole life in the bayou country (1973)
HOT PEEPER Cajun Clifton Chenier and his red hot accor-
Thursday, March 2
THE SUN'S GONNA
SHINE'-Lightning McKinns
TORTERA'-the northeast music of south Texas (1976) Thurs. 7.30 p.m.
Friday, March 3
CHICKEN REEL - A documentary on the second largest packager of poultry products in the country. Buerger, J1968.
A WELL SPENT LIFE — Mance
Lipscomb-blues artist (1971)
GHULAS FRONTERAS — Musa
USA — South Texas (1976)
Fri. 3:30
DIZZY GILLESPEE—Famous
"Bop" trumpet player (1964)
THE BLUES ACCORDIN' TO
LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS His art,
truth, beauty and muscianship
(1968)
CHULAS FRONTERAS
SPEND IT ALL The Cajons of S.W. Louisiana (1971)
CHRISTOPHER TREE Bluegrass and poultry products
A WELL SPENT LIFE Bluesman Mance Lipscomb, 75 year old guitarist, philosopher-songster (1971) Fri. 7:30
Saturday, March 4
GOD RESPECTS US WHEN WE WORK BUT LOVES US WHEN WE DANCE IN LA. A Easter Sunday Love in, (1967)
ROCK STAR FEATURE=Blank presentation unreleased feature presenting the life and performance of a well-known rock star (1975, 90) m; 3:30 & 7:30
LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS
The Lawrence Arts Center 9th & Vermont Admission $1.00
Sunday, March 5 1:30
Presented by SUA and The Lawrence Arts Center
DRY WOOD
DIZZY GILLESPIE
A WELL SPENT LIFE
CHRISTOPHER TREE
THE BLUES ACCORDIN' TO
LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS
This program is presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Fri., & Sat.
Films of Les Blank.
American Folk Music Documentaries
March 3 & 4
LES BLANK IN PERSON
Fri., Mar. 3
CHICKEN REEL
A WELL SPENT LIFE CHULAS FRONTERAS
3:30 p.m. $1.00 Woodruff
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CLEAT JEIE
THE BLUES ACCORDIN'
TO 'LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS
SPEND IT ALL
CHRISTOPHER FREE: A
WELL SPENT LIFE
GOD RESPECTS US WHEN WE WORK BUT LOVES US
7:30 p.m. $1.00 Woodruff
Sat., Mar. 4
ROCK STAR FEATURE-
WHEN WE DANCE— L.A. Easter Sunday Love-in.
ROCK STAR FEATURE — Blank will show an unreleased feature presenting the life and performance of a well-known rock star.
Monday, Mar. 6
THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK
A preview of Wendler's films in anticipation of his tour to KU, scheduled for March 13-15. The film and photographed tale of existential alienation. $100 m. $100 Woodford
alternation
7:30-8:30 p.m. $1.00 Woodruff
Wednesday, Mar. 8
Fritz Lang's American Films
Fritz Lang's American Films:
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
One of Lang's greatest films, evocation of the American Myth of the Outlaw with Henry Fonda
MANHUNT
With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett,
John Carradine
7:30 p.m. $1.00 Woodruff
Thursday, Mar. 9
STRUCTURALIST FILMS:
T. O.U.C.H.I.N.G. Paul Sharits
T.O.U.C.H.N.G. Paul Sharfs
HIGHLIGHT READING COMPREHENSION
George Landow
STRAIGHT AND NARROW, Beverly
CANADIAN PACIFIC, David Rimmer
HAPAX LEGENOMA 1 (NOSTALGIA),
PASADAENA FREEWAY STILLS, Gary
Beydler
7:30 p.m. $1.00 Woodruff