American Go E-Journal
August 30, 2010
Guochen Xie (front left) won the Boston Go Open on Sunday, August 29, topping a field of 26. "It's a really competitive tournament and no player won all four games," reports organizer Ke Lu. Three players were 3-1 in the open division,…
August 30, 2010
Han Zenki and Tsuruyama Atsushi advance in Daiwa Cup. Surprising second round results from the Daiwa Cup have two of Japan’s top professionals being defeated by less well-known 7 dans. Mukai Chiaki to challenge Xie Yimin for Female…
August 30, 2010
TARANU WINS ROMANIAN MASTERS: Catalin Taranu 5p won the 2010 Romanian Masters, held August 25-29 in Iasi, capital of the [2010.08.30 EuroNews] Romanian province Moldavie. Artem Kachanovskyj won the first edition of the Iasi Cup, held…
August 30, 2010
DUDE, WHERE ARE MY CLASSIFIED ADS? “Ever since you changed the format of the E-Journal from weekly to daily, I've been unable to find the classifieds,” writes Craig Brown. “I've even gone back to the weekly newsletter thinking this…
August 29, 2010
To play go,” writes programmer Reg Braithwaite, “one needs a huge amount of humility and patience. At first I thought I lacked these qualities, but then a funny thing happened: I purchased my first-ever mountain bike.
August 28, 2010
During the August 7 closing banquet at this year's Go Congress in Colorado Springs, Myung-Wan Kim 9P (r) again donated $500 of his US Open prize winnings to the American Go Foundation (AGF). “The American go community is very fortunate…
August 28, 2010
by Roy Laird Strolling through the vendor area at this year's U.S. Go Congress, I realized that it's time for some updates on what's happening recently in the small but active world of go publishing. Watch for posts over the next few…
August 27, 2010
In a true Cinderella story, Sakai Hideyuki 7P has become the new Gosei by defeating Cho U 9P by 2.5 points in the fifth and final round of the 35th Gosei, winning the series 3-2. This is Sakai Hideyuki’s first major title win, which…
August 26, 2010
Barely a month after launching, IgoLocal already has more than a thousand users.
August 23, 2010
Sakai Hideyuki evens Gosei 2-2 with Cho U. Sakai Hideyuki 7P defeated Cho U 9P by 3.5 points in the fourth round of the 35th Gosei title match. Lee Changho defeats Lee Sedol in Myeongin league play. In the final regular League A game of…
August 23, 2010
Applications are now being accepted for the 4th Kim-in Cup International Senior Baduk Competition. The tournament is being held November 5-8 in GangJin City, Korea and is open to male go players 50 and older and female players 30 and…
August 23, 2010
There's theory and there's practice. In go, practice means studying problems. Kiseido is five volumes into an ambitious seven-volume series of problem books for dan-level players originally published in Japanese by the Japan Go…
August 23, 2010
Peter Shotwell, author of Go! More Than a Game, has published two articles based on subjects in the upcoming update of his book to the AGA's Bob High library. The first is a look at his re-dating and re-interpretation of early…
August 19, 2010
The All About Go website is sponsoring a contest to build its collection of go-related art, photography, digital images, stories, and poetry.
August 19, 2010
Samuel Gross 1d and April Ye 3k each won four games to lead the pack at the Bay Area Go monthly ratings tournament on August 14 in Palo Alto, CA. The playing field consisted of 35 players ranging from 5 dan to 30 kyu. Everyone got to…
August 19, 2010
Korean players dominate the professional go scene these days and now amateurs have some new opportunities to study with top Korean pros. The Yang Jae-Ho Baduk Dojang is recruiting foreign players to study go in Korea, while in…
August 16, 2010
Jiang Weijie & Li Zhe Advance to Mingren tournament finals. They will meet in the 23rd Mingren challenger decision match and the winner will face Gu Li 9D. Cho U defeats Hane Naoki in 2nd Round of NEC Cup. Cho U 9D defeated Hane Naoki…
August 16, 2010
Curtis Tang 7d, was named Honorary Redmond Meijin at the final awards banquet at the US Go Congress, Aug. 7th. Tang, now 17 years old, has a long history of success in the Redmond. He took the Junior Division championship in 2001,…
August 16, 2010
Oliver Wolf 2d, age 11, won the Junior Division of the Redmond Cup at the recently concluded US Go Congress. His opponent, Henry Zhang 1d, also 11, took second place. Wolf won the first round match, held Aug. 2, but Zhang rallied to…
August 13, 2010
Iyama Yuta 9P, the young turk among Japanese pros, is doing well in his first year as Meijin...
August 12, 2010
Ilya Shikshin 7d of Russia is this year’s European Go Champion, winning the main tournament at the recently-concluded European Go Congress in Tampere, Finland. Click here for complete results in all EGC tourneys, including the Weekend,…
August 10, 2010
Lee Sedol vs. Lee Changho in Price Information Cup: Lee Sedol 9P defeated Won Sungjin 9P by resignation in their semifinal match on August 8 to advance to the finals of the Price Information Cup. Surprising advances from the Samsung…
August 9, 2010
Earlier this week, Keith Arnold jokingly asked me if the E-Journal Congress Team was as big as the 32-player Ing field yet. Actually, it’s larger, as it turns out (click below for the complete list). Forty terrific volunteers…
August 9, 2010
Jonathan Bresler has been appointed Vice President for Ratings of the American Go Association, AGA President Allan Abramson announced.
August 7, 2010
Myung-Wan Kim 8P repeated as U.S. Open Champion Saturday, sweeping all six games and collecting his third straight Open title. He finished off his perfect run this week with a 161-move win by resignation over Canadian James Sedgwick 6D.…
August 7, 2010
photos by Chris Garlock & Andrew Jackson
August 7, 2010
This game between Ing finalists Eric Lui 7d and Huiren Yang 1P -- the first Ing final appearance for both -- was projected on two large screens in the main playing area of the 2010 U.S. Go Congress to a crowd of several hundred…
August 7, 2010
Organizing Go Congresses takes a huge amount of hard work by a lot of people who volunteer their time and energy to pull [2010.08.07 CongressStaff DSC_0026] together the annual gathering of hundreds of go players, professionals, go club…
August 7, 2010
Official E-Journal broadcasting partner KGS tattoos were ubiquitous this week at the 2010 U.S. Go Congress. The temporary tats showed up on the most unexpected people -- including Cyberoro and Tygem commentator Seong-Yong Kim 9P and in…
August 7, 2010
Peter Shotwell, author of Go! More Than a Game, stopped by the U.S. Go Congress Friday evening to talk about some of the updates coming in a new revision of the book due in the next few months. In the seven years since the publication…