American Go E-Journal
August 28, 2012
On August 28, Meng Tailing 6P and Tuo Jiaxi 3P met in the final of China’s 4th Quzhou Lanke Cup . Despite a higher ranking, Meng probably entered the final as the underdog, because Tuo recently won the CITIC Bank Cup (previously the…
August 27, 2012
The second International Children’s Go Art Painting Contest received almost seventy entries, submitting countries included Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Argentina, Mexico and the United…
August 26, 2012
Jan Simara Surprise Winner at Euro Championship: Jan Simara 6D was the surprise winner of this year’s European Championship title when he won the deciding game against Ilya Shikshin ( click here for the game) at the recent European Go…
August 26, 2012
Ron Paul, the libertarian politician who ran unsuccessfully for this year’s Republican Presidential nomination, will have a disproportionate influence at the GOP’s convention this week thanks to his employment of shi (pronounced…
August 26, 2012
Go is the first example of “5 things your brain does better than a computer,” a recent post on the Mother Nature Network blog. “There are still a few activities that are too complex for a computer to bash its binary way through,” writes…
August 26, 2012
Better. Faster. That pretty much sums up the latest version of Alexandr Dinerchtein’s Korean-style insei league on KGS. Dinerchtein is instituting several new concepts and rules changes as of September, including mainly reviewing…
August 25, 2012
China won both divisions of the 29th World Youth Go Championship, repeating their victories in this event from last year. The week-long tourney wrapped up on August 21, and was sponsored by the Ing Foundation. Twenty-two young players…
August 24, 2012
Chinese professional Weitang Liang 9P put on a brilliant display of technical virtuosity for a captivated audience of 50 go fans in a special event at the Rockville United Church in Rockville, MD on Tuesday August 14. “The strength of a…
August 24, 2012
Twenty seven players ranging in age from eight to 72 came out to Palo Alto, CA on August 18 to play in this month's AGA ratings tournament organized by Bay Area Go Players Association . Ranks ranged from 20 kyu to 6 dan, with six…
August 24, 2012
Here’s a chance to win a free trip to the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing. The International Go Federation is organizing the SportAccord World Mind Games Online Tournament September 16 through October 26, in cooperation with…
August 24, 2012
Fort Washington, PA: Come and join us on Sunday afternoons playing go at the Upper Dublin Township Library, 805 Loch Alsh Ave, Fort Washington, PA 19034. We play from 1P until 4 (or until we're thrown out). Players of all levels,…
August 19, 2012
Chinese Taipei is dominating the World Mind Sports Games , winning six of the 9 medals awarded thus far, including gold, silver and bronze in the Men’s Individual, gold and silver in the Team, and gold in the Women’s Individual.Japan…
August 19, 2012
After 7 months of intensive development, the Kaya Go Server ( Kaya Go Server Aims at Online Audience 9/19/2011) programmers are releasing the beta version. “Kaya has been growing a lot technically in the past six months,” reports lead…
August 18, 2012
Congress Tournament Winners: In addition to winning the North American Ing Masters, Matthew Hu (right) won the 2012 U.S. Open at the recent U.S. Go Congress, collecting a set of jade stones and bowls donated by the Confucius Institute…
August 18, 2012
The AGA will hold simultaneous men's and women's selection tournaments to fill two U.S. slots at the 2012 SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing, China, from December 12-20. The two selected players – one male and one female -- will…
August 13, 2012
The second World Mind Sport Games (WMSG) opened on Friday, August 9 at the Lille Grand Palais in Lille, France. In all, about 2,000 players from five sports will compete in bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), go, and xiangqi (Chinese…
August 13, 2012
Fresh from his appearance at the U.S. Go Congress, Liang Wei-Tang 9P will appear at an event in the Washington DC area on Tuesday, August 14. The Chinese professional’s visit is sponsored by the the Capital Go Club and Rockville Go &…
August 10, 2012
In a dramatic game that saw the lead change hands several times 14-year-old Zi Yang (Matthew) Hu 1P (at right) prevailed over brand-new U.S. professional Zhi Yuan (Andy) Liu 1P in the North American Ing Masters (NAIM) tournament final…
August 10, 2012
Kelsey Dyer 1D (right) and Yuan Zhou 7D (left) won the 2012 U.S. Pair Go Championships Thursday night at the U.S. Go Congress. They defeated Yukino Takehara 2k and Justin Ching 3D in the first round and then beat Amy Su 4D and Lionel…
August 10, 2012
At the 2012 U.S. Pair Go Championships, August 9 at the U.S. Go Congress ( Dyer-Zhou Win 2012 U.S. Pair Go Championships 8/10/12 EJ). photos by Chris Garlock except center photo by Phil Straus; collage by Chris Garlock
August 9, 2012
Call it our very own Go Olympics. Top-seeded Zi Yang Hu (below right) and #2 seed Andy Liu (below left) , already scheduled to play for the 2012 North American Ing Masters (NAIM) title tonight -- 7p on KGS, with live commentary by…
August 9, 2012
Andrew Lu Sweeps Congress Die Hard Tournament : Nearly a quarter of the Congress attendees -- 93 players -- participated in the Die Hard tournament instead of taking the day off Wednesday. Andrew Lu swept all his games, going 4-0 in the…
August 9, 2012
Top right: spiral go; middle right: Galactic Go; Bottom Right: 4-color Go; Bottom left: Blind Go; Middle left: TD Terry Benson being interviewed by The Surrounding Game documentary crew; Top left: 3-color Go. all photos by Phil Straus…
August 9, 2012
Top right: dancing to bluegrass music at the Wednesday night Live Bluegrass and Dessert event; bottom right: playing "Big Brother" go with Chinese professionals; middle bottom: playing in the Midnight Madness Tournament; bottom left:…
August 8, 2012
Amy Su 4d and Ge Liu 6d won the top table of Youth Adult Pair Go at the US Go Congress on Tuesday afternoon. Su is the daughter of Feng Yun 9P, and looks like she is becoming a strong player in her own right. Thirty-two players…
August 7, 2012
U.S. Open Round 3 Results: Zi Yang Hu, Andy Liu and Ge Liu head up the list of undefeated players in the U.S. Open after three rounds, setting up some tough match-ups later in the week when the Open continues after the traditional Day…
August 7, 2012
Despite professional-level trash-talking – “Yeah, yeah, you got that wrong, didn’t you? But then you had so little time to think” – Keith Arnold won just one of his 20 games in the Keith Arnold Kyu-Killer Challenge Tuesday afternoon.…
August 7, 2012
Jianing Gan 7d and Aaron Ye 5d swept their divisions in the 2012 Redmond Cup. Fifteen-year-old Jianing Gan 7d, from Canada, placed first in the Cup's online qualifiers and proved unstoppable, with a perfect record. His opponent in the…
August 7, 2012
Dan: Brandon Zhou 2d; Andrew Zalesak 1d; Peter Zhang 3d; Willis Huang 1d; Amy Su 4d Kyu: Sathiya Anand 2k; John Redford 7k; Justin Cheng 4k; Alvin Chen 12k; Philip Brix 6k; Alex Kuang 22k; Zihang Yin 3k; Jerry Lu 10k. TD: Keith Arnold -…
August 7, 2012
The AGA-TYGEMGO Pro Tournament finals were made possible by the work of many people who logged a lot of hours at Black Mountain last week, including: Myung Wan Kim 9P (event organizer, Tygem support, pro commentator), Andy Okun (event…