Since I have a 14 hour flight coming up, I thought it might be a good chance to do a bit of Go study. I’ve recently started learning & playing and desperately need to do some study to even stand a chance of getting better. Not time for an Amazon order, So I dodged the mad Christmas shoppers in town and nipped to the bookshop. Nothing. More books than you could imagine about something called Texas Hold’em, a handful on Chess, nothing on Go.
Next bookshop - a bit of a nerd hangout. Role playing games galore, a fair few on this mysterious Texas Hold’em (whoever he is) and a couple on chess. No Go.
Final attempt, the big bookshop. Of course they’ll have a few. Nothing. I even got a helpful lass to check on their system (funny, big queue for the tills at the front of the store, bored staff at an empty till at the back of the store). Gal had never heard of Go, but they have one book listed. One book. And apparently it’s never stocked and would have to be a special order that would take weeks.
Go, the older, second most popular board game in the entire world and there are absolutely *no* books available in the entire town of Reading. :(
