An interview with the Go Master, the 4-th part

What do you think, how many people in Russia are playing Go?

This is a very serious question, from the standpoint that we shouldn’t be interested in the quantity of Go players. It wouldn’t have sense even if there are only “one and half” persons who play Go. Even if you were the only one. It would be better as you could play Go with yourself. But in such a case there should be support to hold out. This person should be a Master otherwise he or she will fade.
Anyway many people play Go in Russia and it is crucial to realize that 99 % of them play it as a table game. In such a situation the change between you – if you support the mastery idea that has always existed in Go as in an ancient evolutional art – and these 99 % will always be hampered. People will pull you to their territory, to the territory of the table game, to the territory of competitions in the table game… Frankly speaking, Go isn’t more important than dominoes. Dominoes is a table game as well and it isn’t worse or better than Go. Draughts is a table-game too if we treat Go as a table game.
If we consider that Go isn’t just a table game then here comes a very important question: how many people in Russia treat Go not as a table game only? In this case we speak about something that is more important, about this one per cent. This one per cent of Go players who treat it not only as a table game but who see something in it, something that connects Go with a person, with life; with important questions which concern human life, human evolution. And another serious question is how many of this kind of people are there in Russia. How many people make this one per cent? Fortunately now there are several dozens of them.


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