American Go E-Journal
November 24, 2008
Canadian teenager Gan Sheng Shi ( left ) defeated both Mingjiu Jiang and Huiren Yang last weekend to earn a berth in the North American Fujitsu Cup championship final against Jie Li. The excitement continued Sunday when the final had to…
November 24, 2008
Dae Hyuk (Danny) Ko ( right ) 7D (AGA 8.712) took first place in the Myung In Tournament, held November 15-16 in Los Angeles, CA. The Los Angeles Go Club, a popular 7-day playing spot in LA's Koreatown, hosted the tournament, which was…
November 24, 2008
Trevor Morris ( left ) 7D swept the Western Massachusetts Go Club's Fall tournament, held November 23 in Boston. Morris was undefeated in four rounds to claim the first-place trophy, while three players had 3 wins each: Eric Osman 2d…
November 24, 2008
Cho U 9P took the second game of his challenge for the Tengen title held by Kono Rin 9P to make the score 2-0 in the best-of-five-game match. Kono, who has held this title for the last three years, defeating Yamashita Keigo 9P in the…
November 24, 2008
Korean Kang Dongyun ( right ) 8P snapped Chinese teen Tuo Jiaxi 3P's winning streak in the international Nongshim Cup, winning by 1.5 points Monday. Tuo, got the Chinese team off to a blazing start in the Nongshim team tournament by…
November 24, 2008
Kobayashi Koichi ( left ) 9P is one of the most popular pros of what is now the older generation in Japan. Though in his fifties, Kobayashi is still active, and won two titles as recently as 2004, though he rarely reaches the later…
November 24, 2008
There's just over a month left to apply for an exciting new go study program in Korea. Applications for The King's Baduk Academy are due by December 31. Applicants must be between the ages of 10 and 25; There will be 10 fully-funded…
November 24, 2008
Princeton Go Club member Larry Bartels ' ( left ) " Unequal Democracy " is among the books that President-Elect Barack Obama has read recently, according to the New Yorker magazine's November 17 edition. In the book, Bartels argues that…
November 24, 2008
A set of 200 Go Puzzles for Beginners , Oliver Richman's River Mountain Go Curriculum and Go For Kids author Milton Bradley's new Improve Fast In Go website are among several new materials The American Go Foundation is making available…
November 24, 2008
I'm glad so many of you appreciated the irony of Takemiya "Cosmic Go" Masaki being unable to challenge for the Tengen (center point) title. Peter Schumer provides the details -"Takemiya has held the Meijin, Honinbo and Judan titles. In…
November 17, 2008
Cho U (left) 9P has taken the first two games of the best-of-five-game title match with Yamashita Keigo 9P for the Oza title . Yamashita has held this title for the last two years, having taken it from Cho in 2006. Cho had held it for…
November 17, 2008
Gu Li (right) 9P won Game 3 to hang on in his best-of-five-game defense of the Korean Mingren (J: Meijin). Gu lost the first two games to challenger Piao Wenyao 5P. Games 4 and 5 are scheduled for November 19th and 20th. Gu currently…
November 17, 2008
Lee Sedol (left) 9P has won the first game in his best-of-five-game defense of the Korean Kuksu (National Champion) title against challenger Mok Jinseok 9P. Lee won this title for the first time last year. Mok won a few titles in the…
November 17, 2008
Li-cheng Chien cemented Chinese Taipei's status among the go superpowers with his win in the just-concluded 3rd Korean Prime Minister Cup, held November 8-11 in Goyang City, South Korea. Chien, the Chinese-Taipei representative, won the…
November 17, 2008
Yue Wu 3d of Houston, TX took first place in the dan division at the Houston Fall Go Tournament held on November 9. "Twenty five players from all over the state (including Waco, Killeen, Dallas, and Saledo near Austin) joined us,"…
November 17, 2008
Andy Liu (in green) 7d (AGA 9.03) won all four of his games in the Masters Open at the New York Go Center in New York City on November 9. "Although only twelve people played in the tournament, it was pretty intense having so many…
November 17, 2008
Believing that growth in membership and funding "are the keys to the future of the American Go Association," new AGA President Allan Abramson in launching a member-to-member membership drive. "If each current AGA member pledged to bring…
November 17, 2008
A group of more than fifty Korean players will be attending - and competing in - the 2009 U.S. Go Congress in Washington, DC, Thomas Hsiang reports. Hsiang, the American Go Association's Vice President on International Relations, helped…
November 17, 2008
The Chinese team is favored to win the Jeongganjang Cup after teenager Song Ronghui (right) 1P swept all five opponents in the just-concluded first stage. The Jeongganjang is a win-and-continue tournament between five-member teams of…
November 17, 2008
As noted above (Chinese Taipei Secures Status As Go Superpower), Ondrej Silt of Czechia was the top European at the Korean Prime Minister Cup, placing 5th. Silt only lost to China and Hongkong and finished one SOS-point ahead of Thomas…
November 17, 2008
The 29th annual Berliner Kranich tournament will be held November 28-30 in Berlin, Germany. The international go tournament one of the largest and oldest in Germany and features seminars, go vendors, food, calligraphy and more. Many top…
November 17, 2008
Hong Seul-ki (left) 7D swept the recent Hamburg Tengen, played in the Hamburg suburb of Rahlstedt November 8-9. Hong was 5-0 in the A group at the 26th annual Tengen, ahead of Michael Budahn 3D (both of Berlin) and Floris Barthel 4D…
November 17, 2008
A popular social room on KGS has now branched out into a slick online publication. Founded in November 2007 by Eric Dunham of Avon, Minnesota, The Enclave room on KGS quickly grew to be the single largest social room on KGS outside of…
November 17, 2008
"In the first meeting alone we matched the record attendance of last year," reports 16-year-old Kris Taylor, President of the Jasper High School Go Club in Plano, Texas. "We had about 30 people for our first meeting, which was just…
November 17, 2008
Jay Tabaniag's new Go Sensei Project now has 15 sample pro game commentaries from Russian player and teacher Alexander Dinerchtein; click here to download these game commentaries.
November 17, 2008
"Between long walks, loafing in the common room, and endless games of Go, it was hard to imagine when work got done," wrote Bruce Schechter in "My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys Of Paul Erdos" (Touchstone, 1998) The famed…
November 17, 2008
"Attendees at the November 8-9 workshop with Tadashi Sasaki 8p of the Nihon Ki-in got a bit of a surprise when Yoshiaki Nagahara 6p (right) and Masaaki Fukui 8p joined in Saturday morning for a few hours of teaching games," reports Andy…
November 17, 2008
The American Go Association Board of Directors last week approved a policy capping top ranks for amateurs at 7 dan, "with exception for rare honors for a small number of players with outstanding achievement, such as winning the U.S.…
November 17, 2008
Last week's Quiz asked what the cultural phenomenon was in both Shonen Jump's 2004 English edition of Hikaru no Go, Volume One and The Middle Game of Go. Many of you, knowing the Middle Game of Go is a serious book, and remembering that…
November 10, 2008
CHO TAKES THIRD STRAIGHT MEIJIN : Cho U (left) has retained his Meijin title after an exciting seesaw battle with Iyama Yuta that went the full 7-game distance. After losing the first two games in his Meijin title defense against teen…