American Go E-Journal
December 14, 2009
ONLINE LEAGUE TO LAUNCH IN 2010 : With fifty players signed up, the online Korean-style International Live Leagues are getting ready to launch in January 2010, reports KILL founder Alexandr Dinerchtein, who says that two more…
December 14, 2009
“A game struggling for United States recognition made the national stage when President Barack Obama presented China Premier Hu Jintao with a go game set as a diplomatic gift in early November,” reported Erin Wiltgen in the Durham (NC)…
December 14, 2009
CORRECTIONS : Tetsuki allows players to connect to IGS, not KGS ( Iphone/Ipod Apps, 12/7 EJ); apparently there's no way, yet, to connect to KGS via the iPhone. However, for Android cellphone users, “there may be hope to connect to KGS,…
December 14, 2009
The TV show Criminal Minds recently aired an episode in which a suspect's house is raided and found a go set in an upstairs room, reports an EJ reader. "A team member, a genius with 3 Caltech PhDs and IQ of 187, glances briefly at the…
December 14, 2009
The American Go Foundation (AGF) has created a new "umbrella grant" program that allows any qualifying US go organization or individual to use the AGF's tax status for their go projects. The program was created at the instigation of Bay…
December 14, 2009
XEBO WINS ST NICK TOURNEY IN BRAUNSCHWEIG : A 4-dan from Göttingen who just goes by the name Xebo won the 27th St. Nicolas tourney December 5-6 in Braunschweig, Germany, ahead of locals Alexander Kirchner 2d (2nd) and Kai Tomerius , who…
December 14, 2009
CHINA WINS 7 TH JAPAN-CHINA AGON CUP : Sun Tengyu 4P of China defeated Japan’s Hane Haoki 9P by 3.5 points on December 9 th to win this year’s Japan-China Agon Cup. The match between the winners of the Japanese and the Chinese Agon Cup…
December 7, 2009
Cho U 9P's efforts to avoid losing another of his titles has become an uphill fight in the Tengen. On December 3rd Challenger Yamashita Keigo 9P won the third game of the best-of-five-games title match to take a 2-1 lead. Cho won this…
December 7, 2009
The best-of-five-games match between Lee Changho 9P and Won Sungjin 9P (right) for the Meyongin (Japanese: Meijin) title in Korea was tied at 1-1 when Won won the second game on December 3rd by 1.5 points. The last winner of this title…
December 7, 2009
On December 2nd, Park Yeonghun 9P avoided a shut-out in the the GS Caltex Cup when he defeated challenger Cho Hanseung 9P in Game 3 of their best-of-five-games title match. Park must win both remaining games to retain the title he has…
November 24, 2009
CHO U EVENS UP TENGEN TITLE MATCH: Cho U 9P (right) won the second game against challenger Yamashita Keigo 9P in the best-of-five-games defense of his Tengen title on November 19th to make the score 1-1. Cho, who holds "only" four…
November 24, 2009
Hugh Zhang 6D (right) captured the ING Cup Youth Goe Tournament for the third consecutive year, winning all four of his games November 8. The 12th annual ING Youth attracted over 100 youth players, with more than 70 in the 19x19 section…
November 20, 2009
DAI JUNFU MEIJIN IN PARIS: Dai Junfu 7d (left) took top honors at the 27th Paris Meijin on November 21-22. French Champion Zhang Yanqi won silver. Youth champ Thomas Debarre scored a remarkable win in Round 2, knocking out defending…
November 16, 2009
TRIPPEL TAKES WINTERTHUR: Lorenz Trippel of Zurich was undefeated in the one-day fast-play Swiss Winterthur tourney on November 14, ahead of Mark Wirdnam and Lisa Tao. Click here for results and photos . - Peter Dijkema, after a report…
November 16, 2009
YAMASHITA TAKES FIRST GAME IN TENGEN TITLE MATCH: Challenger Yamashita Keigo 9P (left) defeated Tengen title holder Cho U 9P on November 12th to take the first game in their best-of-five-games title match. Cho now holds four of the top…
November 16, 2009
MATSUMOTO WINS SEATTLE IWAMOTO YOUTH TOURNAMENT: Ken Matsumoto won the Iwamoto Youth 13x13 Tournament (right) at the Seattle Go Center on Sunday, Nov. 15 with a 4-0 record. The handicapped tournament had prizes for all, including go…
November 16, 2009
This month’s German Go Journal cover (right) features a photo of President Obama ostensibly playing go with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Board 1 at the U.S. Go Congress; the original photo was taken by Pete Souza and adapted by…
November 16, 2009
A five-month-old Chinese baby died in a hospital because his doctor was busy playing go online while his condition worsened, reports say. Officials from the Jiangsu provincial health department said that Dr Mao Xiaojun -- admitted he…
November 16, 2009
In the latest winter go holiday event, Hwang In-seong 7d (right) will teach go 'apres-ski' during six nights at the traditional Go-Ski in Pragelato - host of the cross-country race during Winter Olympics of 2006 - in the Italian Alps…
November 16, 2009
KOREAN GO SCHOOL ACCEPTING FOREIGN STUDENTS: Foreign students have until November 31 to apply at the department of Baduk Studies, Myongji University in Yongin, Korea. Check the pages of the admission office as well as the department's…
November 16, 2009
Kiseido has just published the first three books of a seven-volume series, reports publisher Richard Bozulich. Graded Go Problems for Dan Players “is a translation of a 14-volume series put out by the Nihon Ki-in, compressed into seven…
November 16, 2009
GoGoD’s database of professional tournaments now exceeds 60,000 games, reports T Mark Hall. “This is the most accurate, consistent and exact database in existence in the West, backed by John Fairbairn’s Names Dictionary and his…
November 2, 2009
GO SPOTTING/GO PHOTO : A 1942 Life Magazine photo of Japanese American men playing go at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp in Wyoming is among the Life go photos* found online by EJ reader Troy Anderson. Another one shows “Japanese go…
November 2, 2009
By Yuan Zhou 7d The matches at the just-concluded Korea Prime Minister Cup (KPMC) World Go Championship – the 4th annual -- were very exciting, with representatives from 68 nations fighting hard for their countries. I was pleased to…
November 2, 2009
UK go author and dan player Andrew Grant died in his sleep early on the morning of October 26. “Known throughout the world as the author of ‘400 Years of Go in Japan’, Andrew was well-known for 30 years on the tournament scene as a…
November 2, 2009
GO FOR THE BLIND : In response to a recent EJ classified inquiry about blind go, a reader referred us to the British Go Association’s Go for the Blind page , which contains information on playing blind go and pictures of special go…
November 2, 2009
“From time to time someone asks how the AGA selects players to attend international championship tournaments,” says Tournament Coordinator Phil Waldron. “Eligibility is not complicated, but it does require some planning.” To be…
November 2, 2009
Go teacher Joey Hung 7d is shuttering his Fremont, CA-area school “for a while” he tells the E-Journal, to focus on business opportunities. Meanwhile, Gabriel Benmergui 6d and Ali Jabarin 6d have just started up the online Atsumi Go…
November 2, 2009
The new AGA Player Database and the European Go Database have now been cross-referenced with links for those players who have competed in events in both Europe and the United States. The new links are shown in the cards of players who…
November 2, 2009
With winter looming across North America and Europe, thoughts turn to the Cyprus Go Championship, as the leaves in that Mediterranean country change color in the Troodos mountains and vineyards take on gold and crimson hues against a…