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I took up the game of Go about eight months ago. Enthralled, I quickly rose up the ranks from 30kyu to 6kyu. I love this game!

During a Go game earlier this week, I began wondering why Go never appeared in the pages of Usagi Yojimbo. Then I remembered that Kojo (in "Demon Mask") plays Go with Usagi. Today I finally had some free time to go back and read the "Demon Mask" saga in deep anticipation. To my disappointment, I discovered that when Kojo asks Usagi for a game of Go, they play Gomoku instead!

Gomoku is "connect five," and it is played using Go stones on a Go board...but it is not Go.

Go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28board_game%29

Gomoku:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku

Stan is usually so good with his research. What happened here?

I will try not to take it too personally...

You must have read the comic book.

Since then, I read a book on Go, went to a Go tournament, and went to the website of the American Go Association.

It was corrected in the trade paperback.

It occurred because I used to play Go as a kid. Except what I played was not Go at all, but Gomoku which uses the same board and game pieces. When I made that reference in the comic, I heard about that mistake as far away as Germany.

Thank you all for keeping me on my toes.

Thanks so much for the quick response, Sensei! Sorry you had to answer that question again.

Anybody else in the dojo a Go player? Where do you play?

I think the first time i had ever heard of Go was when i bought my first Usagi Yojimbo issue that i ever read, it was issue 35 and the first issue of "demon mask". Though i never got the next issue of that story, i should get it some day. Anyways, i first started playing Go on yahoo games, because it struck my interest, and i did enjoy it, but... i was never any good at it.