The Surrounding Game

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'''''The Surrounding Game''''' is a 2017 documentary about the game of [[Go (game)|Go]].

The film was directed by Will Lockhart and Cole Pruitt, who were students at [[Brown University]] at the time. Lockhart and Pruitt also founded the American Collegiate Go Association.<ref name="washuni"></ref> ''The Surrounding Game'' follows the tournament played to establish America's first [[Go professional|professional Go player]].<ref name="huffpost"></ref> It was filmed over the course of a four-year period in several countries, following the paths of several players in the tournament:<ref name="sampan"></ref><ref name="huffpost"/>
*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
*Evan Cho, a former student of go in Korea
The film also features [[Go Seigen]] in a short segment filmed only a year or so before his death.<ref name="huffpost"/>

==References==



[[Category:Go (game)]]

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