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[22 Sept] [Hikaru no Go] And the Waves Crashed on the Goban 22/?
Title: And the Waves Crashed on the Goban 22/?
Day/Theme: 22 Sept/Your spectrum's from a to z
Series: Hikaru no Go
Character/Pairing: Hikaru/Akira, Isumi/Le Ping
Rating: General
The more he studied Shindou's Go, the more Yang Hai felt that perhaps he should have used the kid's data instead. Sai was the best choice for all the reasons he'd stated to Touya Kouyo, but Shindou's Go was uncanny, too. Fast and thorough, Shindou read with the concentration of the truly paranoid, seeing meaning that the less alert could only dream of. His responses on the goban were even more amazing: it ran the gamut from direct to complicated and ended somewhere on a level of labyrinthian twisted that made his head hurt just to contemplate it.
***
On the other hand, Touya Akira's go showed the direct influence of his father. Even though his playing style had steadily veered away from Touya Kouyo as he matured as a pro, it was staill obvious to anyone who knew his father's Go. Touya Akira's Go built up as steadily as his father's--unshakable too, even under the strongest batterings--with strong, inspired shapes that never grew staid or old. It matched surprisingly well with Shindou Hikaru's Go: a sleek panther against a playful tiger. He had assumed that Touya Akira's Go would be dull, and it was anything but.
***
Sai was the only player he had seen who had truly mastered the skill of playing tricky, yet direct Go. His style was poetic and almost lyrical, never crude--and each hand was perfectly placed; never too strong or too weak. What frightened Yang Hai was that not only did Shindou's Go show the same devastating potential, but Touya Akira's did, too.
"Yang Hai, are you still up?" Le Ping stuck his head in, and he raised his eyebrows when he saw all the sheets of kifu scattered around the room.
"I think they're all worth studying," Yang Hai said.
Day/Theme: 22 Sept/Your spectrum's from a to z
Series: Hikaru no Go
Character/Pairing: Hikaru/Akira, Isumi/Le Ping
Rating: General
The more he studied Shindou's Go, the more Yang Hai felt that perhaps he should have used the kid's data instead. Sai was the best choice for all the reasons he'd stated to Touya Kouyo, but Shindou's Go was uncanny, too. Fast and thorough, Shindou read with the concentration of the truly paranoid, seeing meaning that the less alert could only dream of. His responses on the goban were even more amazing: it ran the gamut from direct to complicated and ended somewhere on a level of labyrinthian twisted that made his head hurt just to contemplate it.
***
On the other hand, Touya Akira's go showed the direct influence of his father. Even though his playing style had steadily veered away from Touya Kouyo as he matured as a pro, it was staill obvious to anyone who knew his father's Go. Touya Akira's Go built up as steadily as his father's--unshakable too, even under the strongest batterings--with strong, inspired shapes that never grew staid or old. It matched surprisingly well with Shindou Hikaru's Go: a sleek panther against a playful tiger. He had assumed that Touya Akira's Go would be dull, and it was anything but.
***
Sai was the only player he had seen who had truly mastered the skill of playing tricky, yet direct Go. His style was poetic and almost lyrical, never crude--and each hand was perfectly placed; never too strong or too weak. What frightened Yang Hai was that not only did Shindou's Go show the same devastating potential, but Touya Akira's did, too.
"Yang Hai, are you still up?" Le Ping stuck his head in, and he raised his eyebrows when he saw all the sheets of kifu scattered around the room.
"I think they're all worth studying," Yang Hai said.