You didn't need to play in person for you to be recognized. Shindou Hikaru may not have played anyone personally, but he still left his own mark in the Go community, and possibly even the whole world. And as usual, with Sai's phantom hands guiding him. Inspired by Amaranthais fic titled 'Lively Shadows'

Shindo Hikaru didn't think there would come a time in his life when he would ever play a board game- blindness did have a way of robbing people of normal, seemingly mundane little things like that. So of course, at six years old, he's skeptical when a ghost named Fujiwara no Sai believes he can change all that with his grandpa's favorite passtime. Blind!Hikaru.

Hikaru was mostly normal twelve years old, aside from he is a borderline shut in, lives with his grandfather and spending most of his time teaching said grandfather and his friends to play go. With his ghost go tutor worrying about his social UPDATE this week, delayed until 18/10/14 due to busy school work.

Hikaru Shindou learned to play Go with his grandfather and an old man name Sai. After living most of his childhood on a small island, he comes to Tokyo for the first time and is about to discover how vast the world of Go really is. Friendship and rivalry await our protagonist on his journey towards the Hand of God.