Purpose of and rationale behind Go Markers U+2686 to U+2689

[Andrew West]

On 10 March 2016 at 07:00, Martin J. Dürst <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
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> So yes, these symbols are used for for mathematical research of the game of
> Go, and not as far as I know for actual notation.

Which indicates how absurd the proposal to emojify these four characters is.

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16021-game-pieces-emoji.pdf

Andrew