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…