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As a Go player, my favourite anecdote about Olivia de Havilland is that her father became so addicted to the game in Japan that his wife divorced him. He marri
by Wildgoose 6y ago
As a Go player, my favourite anecdote about Olivia de Havilland is that her father became so addicted to the game in Japan that his wife divorced him. He married a Japanese woman and went on to write the first Go book written in English.
- dwohnitmok 6y agoWikipedia and other sources seem to paint a darker tale. > Lilian and Walter met in Japan in 1913 and married the following year; the marriage was not a happy one due in part to Walter's infidelities. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland#Early_life. And apparently in his wife's own words > spoke like God, but behaved like the Devil from https://books.google.com/books?id=nmjetV92THsC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=spoke%20like%20god%2C%20but%20behaved%20like%20the%20devil&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=nmjetV92THsC&pg=PP1#v=onep... It doesn't seem like Go was the reason for the divorce.
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- nomad543 6y agoHe was probably the first weaboo ever.