Comments by "Sandy Barnes" (@sandybarnes887) on "Oda Nobunaga: The Great Unifier of Japan" video.

  1. Bonus fact. Oda Nobunaga sought out the strongest players of the ancient game of Go, and gave them generous patronage. He became the pupil of Nikkai, the strongest Go player of the time, who was a Buddhist priest that lived in a pagoda named Honinbo. Nikkai played a famous game against his leading rival, Kashio Rigen in the presence of Nobunaga at the Honnoji temple in Koyto. A triple ko arose which led the game to be suspended without a result. The night after the game, Akechi Mitsuhide rose up in rebellion, surrounded the temple and killed Nobunaga. Because of this, a triple ko was thereafter regarded as inauspicious.
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  2.  @gm2407  I'm not so sure. A triple Ko is extremely unusual in a game. They had to create a special rule about it.
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