Anyone else find it so odd how no one on set knows how to play Go/Chinese chess, even on the high budget dramas... I have a whole folder of them playing the games wrong...
On of the most basic rules of Go is in order to capture a stone you must surround the oppositions stone with stones, so in order to capture one stone for example, you must place a stone above, below, and on either side of it (corners are not necessary). They often capture stones without removing them, or the entire board is a mess and there is no specific complaint that can be made, everything is wrong!
I get not knowing how to play but when they zoom in on the board like that and the game is always paired with such language as "You're trapped, the game is over, oh wow! How did you think of that move!" And I'm looking at these strange boards...
Some of these boards I saved because the context to the game was that they had suddenly made a winning move when they were most definitely not winning and in fact were losing very badly. Others because they were just wonderfully terrible.
I wonder if anyone else finds this very funny.
The worst Go board game I ever saw was in a Thai advert where they were in a Chess club and they were advertising a Soy milk that would make you very smart and they show him winning the board game and they had all the stones inside the grid, instead of on the points!