Game Records
The kifu of old games typically have an annotation showing the handicap position. Even if the game was a one-off challenge, there was very often the implied context: the players had formal ranks, the game might be notionally part of a longer series. The modern way to indicate Black in a Japanese game record is still to write sen ban.
Read more about this topic: Professional Go Handicaps
Famous quotes containing the words game and/or records:
“Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“What a wonderful faculty is memory!—the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds—this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”
—Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)