And maybe, upon hearing that the Atlantis crew are in battle with the Wraith, Hikaru challenges a Wraith Queen to a game. At which point, one of two things could happen:
a) he's very disappointed because the Wraith Queen is an awful player who doesn't understand anything about strategy and stone placement and connections, or...
b) the Wraith Queen does understand all of these and is a fabulous player who has just never had a proper challenge (or heard of a board game) before. She becomes an obsessive Go player, too, and decides that war with the humans isn't as interesting as competing with Hikaru and Akira. (Humans are just food, after all, and that's hardly comprable to the wonders of Go!)
But in the end various people are left scratching their heads and Hikaru and Akira continue to challenge each other to ever greater levels of achievement while (mostly) ignoring the rest of the universe (except to train students. Wraith students? Human students? Alien lizard students? whatever!)
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And maybe, upon hearing that the Atlantis crew are in battle with the Wraith, Hikaru challenges a Wraith Queen to a game. At which point, one of two things could happen:
a) he's very disappointed because the Wraith Queen is an awful player who doesn't understand anything about strategy and stone placement and connections, or...
b) the Wraith Queen does understand all of these and is a fabulous player who has just never had a proper challenge (or heard of a board game) before. She becomes an obsessive Go player, too, and decides that war with the humans isn't as interesting as competing with Hikaru and Akira. (Humans are just food, after all, and that's hardly comprable to the wonders of Go!)
But in the end various people are left scratching their heads and Hikaru and Akira continue to challenge each other to ever greater levels of achievement while (mostly) ignoring the rest of the universe (except to train students. Wraith students? Human students? Alien lizard students? whatever!)