American Go AssociationE-Journal Archive

American Go E-Journal

January 2011

January 31, 2011

YKNOT Draws Large Online Field

Over 20 players remained undefeated after first two rounds of Young Kwon National Online Tournament, held January 22-23 on KGS.

January 31, 2011

Tacoma Club Resumes Meetings

After a year-long hiatus, the Tacoma Go Club is resuming meetings. The club will be hosted by the Tacoma Art Museum’s Workz Cafe on the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 11a to 5p.

January 31, 2011

Learning from Ants

Could stronger go-playing programs draw their inspiration from ants?

January 31, 2011

GO SPOTTING: Summer Wars

“Nine and a half minutes into the movie Summer Wars there is a character replaying a game of go,” reports Steve Colburn.

January 24, 2011

Kissinger on Go and Chinese Strategic Thinking

Discussing China on CNN Sunday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that "One has to understand the Chinese intellectual game, which is what we call go (and) they call weiqi."

January 24, 2011

School Teams Delayed for NJ Open

The AGHS School Teams Tourney has been pushed back one week, to avoid the New Jersey Open. The event will now be held on March 5 and 12. Full information, including registration, can be found on the AGHS website .

January 24, 2011

Canadian Cities Face Off Online

Hanxi Zhang has organized a Canadian online super go competition on KGS between top players in Ottawa/Gatineau and Montreal/Quebec City.

January 24, 2011

GoClubsOnline Adds Features

GoClubsOnline now has "dozens of new features and extra options to make GoClubsOnline easier to use for club organizers and volunteers," reports Robert Cordingley.

January 22, 2011

Missingham Promoted to 5 Dan

Teen go prodigy Joanne Missingham, better known in China as Hēi Jiā Jiā, has had a very good year. She took 2nd place in the first Bing Sheng World Ladies cup, scored 2-1 at the Asian New Star Cup -- where she was the only Taiwanese…

January 17, 2011

YKNOT Tourney Launches Saturday on KGS

More than 120 members of the American Go Association will vie for nearly $3,000 in prizes in the inaugural Young Kwon National Online Tournament (YKNOT), which begins this Saturday.

January 17, 2011

YOUR MOVE: Where’s the 2009 Yearbook CD?

“The 2009 Yearbook, mailed out in the spring of 2010, did not include the CD, which was still being produced,” writes AGA member John Pellegrin.”I don’t recall that I ever received it subsequently. Did I miss it, or was there some other…

January 17, 2011

GO CLASSIFIED: Players Wanted

Southern Arkansas: Looking for go players in the mid to southern Arkansas area for practice matches and tournament partners. Anyone interested email me at go_demon@yahoo.com

January 17, 2011

Flying Finn wins London Open

Antti Tormanen 6d of Finland bested favorite Wang Wei 6d in the London Open at the end of December...

January 16, 2011

School Teams Tourney Registration

Registration for the AGHS School Teams Tournament is now open. There will be four rounds: Round 1 (12 pm ET) and Round 2 (5 pm ET) will be on February 26; Round 3 (12 pm ET) and Round 4 (5 pm ET) will be the next Saturday, March 5.…

January 16, 2011

Go Featured at Japan Day at Hebrew University in Jerusalem

By setting up tables in the corridor at Hebrew University’s mid-December “Japan Day” in Jerusalem, go organizers Shavit Fragman and Barak Gluska “trapped many of them in ‘geta’ and made them stop, look, ask and learn about go,” reports…

January 11, 2011

Redmond Cup Registration Opens

Young American go players can now sign up for the 19th annual Redmond Cup Tournament. Preliminary games will be played on the Internet, courtesy of IGS-PandaNet, and the four finalists will be invited to the 2010 US Go Congress to play…

January 10, 2011

Wilde About Go

Tron: Legacy actress Olivia Wilde was apparently the inspiration for the inclusion of go in the holiday hit.