American Go E-Journal
July 31, 2010
Players are beginning to arrive at the 2010 U.S. Go Congress in Colorado Springs, CO. Hundreds are expected for the year’s biggest go event in North America. The website will be updated on an ongoing basis, and the E-Journal will be…
July 30, 2010
Ilya Shikshin 7D is leading the European Go Championship after the first week of the European Go Congress in Tampere, Finland. Click here for results through Round 5, as of July 30. Shikshin also won Wednesday’s 13x13 Tournament.…
July 30, 2010
Wolfram Research, makers of the renowned Mathematica technical and symbolic computing software, announced today that it’s donating ten student editions of Mathematica to be used as US Open prizes at the Colorado Springs U.S. Go Congress.
July 30, 2010
Janice Kim 3PProfessional player Janice Kim 3P addressed "stone capturing disease" and other go problems at a weekend go workshop in San Francisco, CA July 24-25. Students provided game records in advance so that Kim could prepare…
July 29, 2010
(7/28/2010) An elderly man bit the thumb off a 71-year-old foe during a fight over a board game at a Queens senior center, authorities said yesterday. Bok Jin Kim, 74, allegedly began taunting his victim, Sang Lee, as Lee was playing Go…
July 28, 2010
Brandon Gress 5d, Sung Yeo 4d and Lee Huynh 1d shared top honors at the July 24 Congress Tune-Up in Chicago, Illinois. There were 29 players, half of whom “came out for pizza, setting a new record,” reports TD Bob Barber. “And some got…
July 26, 2010
California Sate Senator – and Speaker Pro Tem -- Leland Yee came to the San Francisco Go Club on Sunday, July 18th to present Mingjiu Jiang 7P with a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate in honor of the Ing…
July 26, 2010
"Is there still a classified ad section of the EJ?" writes Roy. "I can't find it in the new format." Yes, new classifieds appear in the daily and/or weekly editions of the E-Journal and are posted on the AGA website's news page as well,…
July 26, 2010
Yusuke Oeda 9P has died. Born in 1935, he was a student of Nobuaki Maeda, and was Michael Redmond 9P's dojo mentor.
July 26, 2010
The new Empty Sky Go Club t-shirts are now available. “This was designed by our very own Becky and it looks great,” reports club president Steve Colburn. The Hanes Tagless t-shirts in Kelly Green can be pre-ordered now; orders will ship…
July 26, 2010
Curtis Tang 7d will be competing in the Redmond Cup at the upcoming U.S. Go Congress. Tang, who placed third in the finals, will face Jianing Gan 6d in a best-of-three match in the Senior Division. In the Junior, eleven-year-olds…
July 25, 2010
Gu Li Stays Alive in Super Meijin (7/25): In the second round of the Super Meijin Tournament, Gu Li defeated Iyama Yuta by 4.5 points. The third and deciding round will pit Gu Li against Lee Changho on July 27th. Lee Changho defeats Gu…
July 22, 2010
Marjorie "Su Co" Hey has been chosen as the AGF’s Teacher of the Year. An ordained Buddhist nun, she is in good company, joining Honinbo Sansa, the 16th century founder of the Honinbo House, among notable go playing Buddhists. Hey,…
July 16, 2010
The American Go Association's youngest member, 8-month-old Madelyn Terpstra -- AGA #18087 – tries out her new go set, a birthday present from proud grandfather Ted Terpstra (AGA #754). Click here for membership info; send your…
July 16, 2010
Like Park Yeonghun 9d in League B, Kang Dongyun 9P remains undefeated in League A of the 38th Myeongin. He defeated Baek Hongsuk 7d by resignation on July 15, which eliminates Hongsuk from a spot in the Myeongin semifinals. - JustPlayGo
July 16, 2010
Park Yeonghun 9P is moving toward accomplishing an undefeated record in League B of the 38th Myeongin. Yeonghun has won all three of his league games so far, notching his latest win against Won Sungjin 8P. - JustPlayGo
July 15, 2010
Dates for the annual Cotsen Go Tournament – which features over $5,000 in prizes – have just been announced. The tournament, sponsored by Lloyd Eric Cotsen with the American Go Association, will be held September 18-19 at the Los…
July 13, 2010
Park Junghwan 8P won the 14th China-Korea Tengen Tuesday, defeating Chen Yaoye 9P by 1.5 points in the final round. This is Park Junghwan’s first C-K Tengen title win and the eighth time Korea has held the title. Chen Yaoye won the…
July 12, 2010
Park Junghwan 8d defeated Chen Yaoye 9d by 2.5 points in the second round of the 14th China-Korea Tengen on Monday, July 12. The series is now tied at 1-1; the final game will be played on July 13th. - JustPlayGo
July 12, 2010
Jianping Wang 3D took first place in the July 11th Skip Ascheim Memorial Tournament at the Massachusetts Go Association in Somerville, MA. In second was Graham Higgins 6k, also with 4-0 and Pete Martin 4k and Brian Lee 1k tied for…
July 12, 2010
Thirty five players came out for the Bay Area Go monthly ratings tournament in Palo Alto, CA on July 10. Lucas Baker 3d topped the Dan division with three wins, while Larry Qu 5k and Eric Sumner 17k led the Kyu division with three wins…
July 12, 2010
Phil Waldron 6d (r) won the 2010 GO for All Game Summit Open tournament , which drew a diverse field of players triple the size of last year’s event. The event – held amid a gaming convention -- was held in Ottawa, Canada on June 13.…
July 12, 2010
“Uno de los atractivos de ser un jugador kyu es la facilidad con que puede mejorar su juego—algo mucho más difícil para jugadores dan,” says Yuan Zhou in Como No Jugar al Go, a just-issued Spanish translation of Zhou’s popular How Not…
July 11, 2010
In the first game of the 14th China-Korea Tengen match, China's Chen Yaoye 9P defeated Korea's Park Junghwan 8P by resignation earlier today. The Tengen is an annual best-of-three match between the respective winners of the Chinese…
July 11, 2010
China’s twelfth annual Agon Cup got under last week. In the set of first-round matches held Thursday, July 8, Sun Tengyu, Qiu Jun, and Gu Li all won their respective games. Sun Tengyu 4d, the defending Agon champion, defeated Sun Li 4d…
July 11, 2010
Sakai Hideyuki 7P defeated Cho U 9P in the second game of the the 35th Gosei title match. After losing the first game by resignation in late June, Sakai Hideyuki rallied this Friday, winning by 2.5 points. - JustPlayGo
July 11, 2010
Bernd Schütze 4d swept the 2010 German Championship Preliminary, held June 25-27 at the Chinese Culture Centre in Berlin, Germany. That same weekend, Lei Chen 6d won the China Cup, also held at the Chinese Culture Centre. Nils Ole Timm…
July 11, 2010
Jie Guo 4d won the 31st Kieler Go Tournament, played June 19-20 in Kiel, Germany. Bernd Lewerenz 2d came second and Hans Nelki 1k 3rd. In Freiburg, Leon Stauder 3d won the Freiburger Go Turnier. Tommy Schladitz 3d took 2nd and Michael…
July 10, 2010
After go, says the British Museum's Dr Irving Finke, "you could argue that the world's board games went downhill." BBC Radio aired a 30-minute program on “Why Go?” on May 13 in which reporter Chris Ledgard “explores the world of Go,…
July 10, 2010
RECENT UK TOURNAMENT HIGHLIGHTS Recent UK tournament highlights previously unreported: YOHEI NEGI IN A JAM AT SCOTTISH OPEN: Yohei Negi from St. Andrews made it three in a row with his win at the 2010 Scottish Open, May 29–30 in…