The Surrounding Game (2017)

Directed by

Will Lockhart, Cole D. Pruitt

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows several players competing in a tournament to crown America's first professional Go player. It tracks their training and matches over four years across multiple countries.

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What happens

The Surrounding Game is a 2017 documentary about the game of Go. The film was directed by Will Lockhart and Cole Pruitt, who conceived of the project at Brown University. Lockhart and Pruitt also founded the American Collegiate Go Association. The Surrounding Game follows the tournament played to establish America's first professional Go player. It was filmed over the course of a four-year period in several countries, following the paths of several players in the tournament: Andy Liu, the tournament's eventual winner and first American professional player Ben Lockhart, director Will Lockhart's brother, an expat American studying Go in Korea Curtis Tang, a child prodigy Gansheng Shi, a Canadian Go player and second American Go professional The film also features Go Seigen in a short segment filmed only a year or so before his death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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