American Go E-Journal
October 31, 2011
If you enjoy researching go facts and are good with words, consider being on the AGA Website Transition Team! The AGA is revamping its website , and part of this project involves going through each existing web page and updating…
October 31, 2011
“I just saw this 9x9 set shown in SPIEl 2011, Europe's largest board game conference," writes Ramon A. Mercado. "I was wondering if someone in the AGA would know where a set like this may be found in the U.S. This set would look great…
October 30, 2011
Challenger Yamashita Keigo 9P (at right) won the Meijin title match last Friday, taking the title from defending Meijin Iyama Yuta 9P in six games. After Yamashita went up 3-1 in the seven-game match, Iyama was in a tight position. He…
October 30, 2011
Go author Jonathan Hop is starting a video lecture website aimed at popularizing go and providing more resources for people who want to learn more.
October 30, 2011
Leading networking company TrendNet is sponsoring a brand-new tournament in Southern California.
October 30, 2011
SHREWSBURY TOURNAMENT , 2 October: The winner of this year's Shrewsbury tournament was Toby Manning, after a long struggle with Baron Allday. Kathleen Timmins also won three games. Although numbers were down on last year, those…
October 30, 2011
Computer go has improved dramatically in recent years, For instance, a program named "Zen" recently earned a rating of KGS 4D by playing 83 games in 24 hours at that rating, and winning 60 of them.
October 29, 2011
Two dozen go players turned out on October 29th in Rochester, NY to play in the seventh Greg Lefler Memorial Tournament.
October 29, 2011
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October 29, 2011
Zhiping You sent along this photo, “taken in my hometown, Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan province. I didn't take it personally, I got it from an article about home trip experience. The picture is a random photo in a park.…
October 28, 2011
Ed Lee and Jennie Shen 2P stopped by the Nihon Kiin in Tokyo during a recent visit to Japan. “Yoda Norimoto 9P was playing in the Yuugen no Ma on the 5th floor, Kobayashi Kouichi 9P was on the 7th floor and we also ran into Michael…
October 28, 2011
Deadline for registering for the 10th World Student’s GO OZA Championship is this Sunday, October 30.
October 24, 2011
Alexandre Dinerchtein’s Korean-Style Insei League on the Kiseido Go Server is a training league aimed at providing online participants with an experience similar to Dinerchtein’s insei training in Korea.
October 24, 2011
Two classrooms of kids at Luxmanor Elementary School, in Rockville MD, were recently introduced to go by Edward Zhang 6d, and Justin Teng 4d. Teng, who is 15, created the project for his Eagle Scout Badge (the highest rank possible in…
October 24, 2011
Over 40 players have already signed up for the Young Lions Tourney, according to AGHS VP Justin Teng. Registration closes November 1, so sign up now if you want to play. Participants must be 18 or younger and have solid, KGS or AGA…
October 24, 2011
Japanese American high school students are invited to apply with the Japanese Consulate for a free trip to Japan. "I would like to introduce an invitation program for Japanese-American students by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of…
October 24, 2011
A number of readers wrote in to advise us that not all the links in the 2010 American Go Yearbook (2010 American Go Yearbook Released 7/28/2011) were hotlinked. We’ve fixed the problem and uploaded and updated version of the Yearbook…
October 24, 2011
The new Central Mississippi Go Club -- an official AGA chapter -- will start playing November 1st on Tuesdays in Clinton, MS. The club is just west of Jackson, MS off Springridge Road Exit near the Natchez Trace.
October 24, 2011
The American Go Association is sponsoring the 2012 International Go Symposium , a scholarly conference to explore go’s rich educational, cultural, historical, literary, artistic and scientific dimensions. Papers are now being accepted…
October 23, 2011
Jeff Horn 1d (right) swept the October 15 th Davis/Sacramento Go Club’s Fall Quarterly tournament, winning all four games. The 10-player field included first-timers Vlad Lopes-Campbell-Forbes, Zack Peach, and Shiloh Pfeifer. -…
October 23, 2011
Ralph St. Louis 10k (right) took first place in the October 16 Massachusetts Go Association Fall Tournament, held at the Boylston Chess Club in Somerville MA. St. St. Louis edged out fellow 4-0 winner Steven Wu 2d (left) to top the…
October 23, 2011
The out-of-print Killer of Go: Technique and Preventative Measures by Sakata Eio (published by Yutopian) is now back to life in SmartGo Books.
October 22, 2011
Les Lanphear reports that he spotted go in the 2010 China-Hong Hong epic mystery film “Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.” “Toward the end of the movie there is a go board that seems to have 19 lines and colored pieces…
October 22, 2011
Two friends play one final game while awaiting internment, in San Francisco, California, in early 1942. From The Atlantic’s August 21 photo essay “World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans,” part of a weekly retrospective of World…
October 17, 2011
The Hankuk Kiwon (Korean Go Association) sent Chun Poong Jho 9P to Mexico this month, in honor of the XIII Iberoamerican Go Tournament. Chun has promoted go internationally for decades, and speaks several languages. Local organizer…
October 17, 2011
Do you have what it takes to be the leader of the pride? Registration is now open for the Young Lions Tournament , run by the American Go Honor Society ( AGHS ). Last year's winner in the dan division, Vincent Zhuang 6d, went on to…
October 15, 2011
The 2nd Bingsheng Cup came and went this week and Park Jieun 9P chalked up another international win. The Bingsheng Cup is a competition for the strongest female go players worldwide. First held last year, the tournament takes place at…
October 10, 2011
D’mitri Moore, of Detroit, MI, and Jasmine Yan, of Edison, NJ, have each won $1,000 towards their college expenses, from the American Go Foundation. The scholarship recognizes high school students who have served as important youth…
October 10, 2011
Crystal Lake South High School Chinese Club, in Illiinois, launched its first event of the semester with an introduction to go (weiqi) by Chicago teacher and weiqi enthusiast Simon Xinming Guo, on Sept. 22nd. Guo came at the…
October 10, 2011
by Roy Laird Earlier this year, we covered the skeptical reaction to Henry Kissinger's claim, in his new book On China , that principles of go -- or weiqi, as it's known in China -- influence Chinese military and political thinking. (…