(A shicho works or doesn't work, but sometimes you don't see it, you don't play it). The possible and the impossible are visible and invisible. What happens is always what you see, what is played.
- There are possible things, impossible things, and things that happen. Sometimes things happen that were impossible.
“The game of Go”, Chris Linn, 1980 (B-side to Santa Monica Blue Waves)
Let’s play the game of Go
Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go
You sit there on your pillow With your both legs crossed beneath Sunk into deep concentration, I wonder What will your next move be?
I played a good fuseki But I lose the semeai
Atariiiiiiii Atariiiiiiii Tell me time and time again When we play the game of go
Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go
Though you give me three stones I have to fight like mad You seem to catch up so easily From that disadvantage that you had
I started with a big moyo then you just come crashing in, saying
Atariiiiiiii Atariiiiiiii Tell me time and time again When we play the game of go
[Japanese talking:
Through the go board the stones make (bring about) ever changing variations Go is like a scaled down version of life
goban wo bankai ni ishi ga kamoshidasu senpenbanka go to wa jinsei no shukuzu no yo na mono desu. 碁盤を媒介に石が醸し出す千変万化 碁とは人生の縮図の様な物です。]
Atariiiiiiii Atariiiiiiii Tell me time and time again When we play the game of Go
Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go
The yose soon ended (The game of Go) The game seems pretty close (The game of Go) Hey, It turned into a jigo (The game of Go) And no one had had to lose (The game of Go)
Aaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaah
Atariiiiiiii Atariiiiiiii Tell me time and time again When we play the game of go
Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go Go, Go; the game of Go
Chris Linn is the stage name for Christer Lindstedt, a 2-dan who plays at Gothenburg. His last tournament play was at the 1998 Grand Prix d’Europe, where he placed 49th. Linn formed the Gothenburg Association of Songwriters in 2002.