Daniel Hulme <pho### [at] isticorg> wrote:
> > Gobans don't have a checker pattern. They have square lines pattern
> Don't forget that the 'squares' on a goban aren't square. They have
> aspect 12:11 IIRC. The board is placed with the long axis running from
> one player to the other, so when the players look at it from an angle
> the squares appear square.
>
> Daniel
>
> --
> Now  as he walked by the sea  of Galilee,  he saw  Simon and Andrew  his
> brother casting a spam into the net:  for they were phishers.  And Jesus
> said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become phishers
> of men.  And  straightway  they forsook  their  nets,  and followed him.

Wow. I had noticed that on the goban I normally play on they are not square,
but it is nearly 100 years old and I didn't think that was standard, nor
did I know why. An anamorphicly projected board: this I will remember.

-s
5TF!

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