Friends!!!
\nGrandpa Frog, who is a member of the GoMagic group on the OGS, is hosting the June (2024) \"Two girls walking in the garden among the azaleas.\" tournament with the help of GoMagic.
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\nĀ Ā This color woodblock print by Hasui Kawase was drawn in 1935. According to Japanese beliefs, the azalea tree protects family happiness. The lush inflorescences of this flower, close to the stem, symbolize unity and inviolability between members of the same family.
\n\nIn connection with today's topic, it is appropriate to recall the Japanese proverb that a husband and wife are like a hand and eyes, when the hand hurts, the eyes cry, and when the eyes cry, the hand wipes away the tears.
\n\nLove your loved ones and take care of them. To put it in Go terminology, such care will be both urgent and a big move. It is more important than anything else in life, including politics, war, economics, and so on.
\n\nWell, for those interested in non-traditional family values, I recommend reading Oleg Divov's story \"Bear Favor.\" Text in Russian in UTF-8 format. Open in the Notepad program.
\n\n![](\"http://pavelgvozdev.ru/ogs_tournament/Two_girls_walking/Kawase_Hasui_May_1939_signed_portrait.jpg\")
\nĀ Ā A little about Hasui Kawase. Hasui Kawase specialized in depicting landscapes. There are depictions of people in his prints, but they are few. They serve as staffage in the paintings of Western European landscape painters. Even in paintings depicting cities, there are only deserted streets. Kawase himself attributed this to the difficulty of sketching, as people are not static. He created prints, watercolors, and oil paintings. Like the Impressionists, the artist depicted elements of everyday life: houses, fields, streams, hills. Like Claude Monet, he painted the same places at different times of day, in different weather, liked to depict rain and snow. He experimented with light, depicting a subject first on a sunny day and then on a moonlit night. Kawase considered himself a realist and utilized knowledge of Western painting in his compositions. He also practiced artistic fabric painting and created traditional hanging scrolls and screens.
\n\nAnd now about pleasant things, about prizes! First of all, each participant of this unofficial tournament will receive an unofficial prize - a Chinese Go book in electronic form. The link to the book will be posted in the tournament chat for a few days after the tournament starts. Since the chat room is periodically cleared of messages, the link will be removed after some time. If you haven't had a chance to download the book, post in the tournament chat and I'll post the link again.
\n\nSecond, GoMagic.org has generously sponsored prizes for participants of the unofficial tournaments that I host.These prizes come in the form of coupons, which can be used towards the purchase of GoMagic courses and memberships. In each group of our the third round, participants ranking 1st and 2nd will be awarded these valuable prizes.As the host, I will personally deliver the coupons to the winners via private message on OGS
\n\nSomething about the regulations. Please note that each move adds 1 day to the time, but no more than 3 days. Time is suspended for the weekend. This means that you have to make one move per day.
\n\n\nĀ Ā Regards,
\nĀ Ā Grandpa Frog.\n
P.S. James Bond will return in the movie \"From Russia with love\"~~
Tournaments Go Magic will continue in July with the \"Jazz standards - Take Five.\" tournament.
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