American Go E-Journal
June 27, 2011
With registration for the 2011 U.S. Go Congress -- July 30 - August 7 in Santa Barbara, CA -- on a record-breaking pace, every playing attendee who registered by 11:59pm PDT on June 1 “will receive our first discount of $15 off…
June 27, 2011
Princeton undergraduate Michael Chen 7d swept the field as sixteen strong players competed June 25-26 on KGS in the second online North America Ing Masters (NAIM) qualifier for the opportunity to be in the top 16 in this year's NAIM,…
June 27, 2011
Wouldn’t it be cool if every time you used your credit card you also helped to promote go, support tournaments, chapter services and the U.S. Mind Games team?
June 26, 2011
The MyGoFriend program scored a 2-2 result against Kim Young Sam 8P in a June 16 9x9 exhibition match played during the recent Kido Cup in Hamburg, Germany and broadcast live on KGS. MyGoFriend – a Gold Medal winner at the 15th Computer…
June 26, 2011
“Forget chess,” said the Wall Street Journal on June 11. “To understand geopolitics in Taiwan or the Indian Ocean, U.S. strategists are learning from Go.”
June 25, 2011
The Tampa Go Club was included in a May 20 St. Petersburg Times write-up on area gaming clubs
June 25, 2011
Serbian go player Zeljko Veselinovic would like to meet local go players during his visit to Atlanta (GA) July 22 – August 3. The dan player hails from Nish, Serbia, home of the country’s “strongest go players,” says Veselinovic, shown…
June 25, 2011
Yojiro Takita’s next film has an interesting historical connection to the game of go.
June 25, 2011
The 13th Iberoamerican Go Tournament will be held in Mexico City October 8-10.
June 20, 2011
Starting this week 2011 U.S. Go Congress attendees will be able to register online for tournaments, the first time this has been possible.
June 20, 2011
Registration is now open for Feng Yun 9P's August 22-26 Summer Go Workshop in New Jersey.
June 20, 2011
The American Go Association has been invited to send a team to the Sport Accord Mind Games in December in Beijing.
June 20, 2011
Last weekend’s DC-area North American Ing Masters (NAIM) qualifier spanned two states and as many days.
June 20, 2011
Tim Huang, longtime member of the Vermont Go Club and a tireless promoter of the game of go passed away June 14 after a long battle with leukemia and its after-effects.
June 20, 2011
The AGA East Coast Go Camp is still on, but time is running out for kids to register. With the AGF needs-based scholarships , kids can attend camp for as little as $500. Every summer since 1998, kids from 8 to 18 from all over the US…
June 19, 2011
Two more sections of the 2010 American Go Yearbook have just been released. The Scoreboard (below right) section is a 10-page full-color PDF featuring a selection of photos from go events held across the country in 2010. Go Tools…
June 18, 2011
The author of the BruGo online joseki dictionary has just released an iPad Joseki application, BruGo Joseki . "The Brugo Joseki iPad version is fast and reliable and contains more sequences than you could ever dream of," says author…
June 18, 2011
The 16th LG Cup has continued to defy the predictions of go fans, creating a very interesting tournament going into the quarter finals. As we mentioned last week, Lee Sedol 9P, Gu Li 9P and Kong Jie 9P were all knocked out in the first…
June 16, 2011
Twenty-six adults and children came out to San Francisco's Japantown Center to play in the monthly ratings tournament held June 11. Players ranged in rank from 20 kyu to 5 dan. Richard Malcolm 2d (right in photo) led the dan players…
June 14, 2011
From the Hollywood Hop On Hop Off Tour to the La Brea Tar Pits, Deep-Sea Fishing, Whale Watching and Tandem Skydiving, this year's U.S. Go Congress has a record number of local activities planned for non-players.
June 14, 2011
In the biggest turnout in Atlanta go tournament history, 46 players participated in the June 11 Emory University Chinese Student & Scholar Union Go tournament.
June 13, 2011
Jung Hoon Lee won the North American Ing Masters qualifier last Saturday, June 11 at the Rocky Mountain Spring Go Tournament in Boulder, CO. Eric Moakley took first place in the main section of the tournament and Anthony Zhang was first…
June 13, 2011
This week living go legend, Go Seigen , turns 97. As many readers will know, Go is famous for his brilliant record in the newspaper sponsored jubango (ten game matches) of the 1930s-50s and his involvement in the Shin Fuseki (new…
June 13, 2011
Cherry Shen (cherrysaur on KGS) and Curtis Tang (cjheaven) will play Lin Lu (crazybbbb) and Edward Zhang (feamed) for the 2011 [sgf sgfUrl="/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/2011_06_12_OnlinePairGoTournament2_Wang-Zhou-Shen-Tang.sgf"…
June 13, 2011
East Coast go fans will be able to watch top players compete -- as well as play themselves -- in the June 19 Wisonet Cup semi-final in Somerset, NJ. A 1-round morning game for all players (see below for details) will be followed by…
June 13, 2011
U.S. representative Eric Lui 7d placed third in the 2011 World Amateur Go Championship, the highest finish ever achieved by a U.S. player. Eric sent along this report on the tournament, as well as the exciting final-round game -- with…
June 13, 2011
Many go players know that video game pioneer Atari was named after the go term, but how many know that this was actually the second choice for the company's name? "Sente" was the first choice by Nolan Bushnell (r) and his partner Ted…
June 13, 2011
Author in the process of producing new go works in electronic format needs assistance. Three works currently available on the Amazon Kindle. Two new works are in finished HTML format with completed sgf/eps diagrams, but help is needed…
June 12, 2011
Just days remain before AGA board nominations close on June 15.
June 12, 2011
German 5-dan Robert Jasiek has released the second volume of his series on joseki , which focuses on joseki strategy. Jasiek describes the goals for the book in his review : "The book serves the two purposes of teaching joseki strategy…