American Go E-Journal
August 31, 2014
Lee Sedol 9p ( left ) secured a solid lead against Gu Li 9p after winning Game 7 in their ten-game match on August 31 in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, widening his lead to 5-2 and putting him just one game away from winning outright. Gu's back…
August 31, 2014
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August 31, 2014
Players from China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S. gathered in Qingdao, China on August 26-28 for the group stage of the 19th Samsung Cup. However, the stand-out competitor was Chinese player Rui Naiwei 9p (left) , the only female…
August 31, 2014
The Bay Area Go Players Association and the San Francisco Go Club got a jump on Learn Go Week at the August 22-24 Japan Expo, which attracted thousands of fans of Japanese culture to San Mateo, California. The BAGPA and SFGC were on…
August 30, 2014
Game 7 in the MLily Gu vs Lee Jubango will take place Sunday, August 31 in Lhasa. Live online coverage is being provided by Go Game Guru’s An Younggil 8p on Baduk TV Live starting at midnight, Sunday morning (9pm 8/30 PST), and…
August 27, 2014
UK: Aja Huang 5d took the MSO Open on August 25 in London. Francisco Divers 2d placed second and Andrew Simons 4d third. Sweden: John Karlsson 4d bested Mingyu Chen 5d at the Stockholm Open on August 23 while Charlie Aakerblom 4d was…
August 27, 2014
As school starts for most of the country, so has registration for the next year of the Pandanet-AGA City League . "We are changing things up a little this year and are looking for more teams!" reports TD Steve Colburn. "We are expanding…
August 27, 2014
Terri Schurter 9K posted her best-ever US Go Congress tournament results this year, taking second place in the 9K division. The retired high school art teacher (at left) from Ewing, New Jersey, is a longtime go player who’s taken up…
August 26, 2014
by John Power, EJ Japan Correspondent Iyama Takes Lead, Then Kono Catches Up In Gosei Title Match: The third game of the 39th Gosei title match was held at the Nagaoka Grand Hotel in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, on August 11. This…
August 26, 2014
AGA chapters planning to participate in the upcoming Learn Go Week (September 13-20) can not only take advantage of special deals on go supplies and equipment available to them from the American Go Foundation , but the first 20 clubs to…
August 25, 2014
By Shawn Ray, Special Correspondent to the E-Journal When you think of a go school you probably imagine us holed up inside for endless hours of study, practice and play. So you would have been surprised to see the Blackie’s…
August 25, 2014
Wei Zhou 7D won the 2014 Korean Ambassador’s Cup , held August 17 in Sydney, New South Wales. Zenglin Wang 5D won the B Division and Florian Max 5K won Division C . The first Sydney Spring Tournament is set for Sunday October 19 in…
August 25, 2014
The 2014 US Open crosstab has been updated with nearly 60 game records sent in by players. Deadline for submitting game records is this Friday, August 29; email them to journal@usgo.org . Games must be in sgf format with all game info…
August 24, 2014
Photographer Sarah Small’s album of 31 images of the 2014 US Pair Go Championships is now posted on the AGA’s Facebook page . Small brings an original and creative eye to the highly popular go variant first introduced in 1990 . photo by…
August 24, 2014
The next session of In-seong Hwang 7D’s online go school starts next week but there’s still time to sign up for the American Yunguseng Dojang . A well-known top player in Europe, Hwang Inseong 7D has participated in major European…
August 24, 2014
Where's the 2015 Go Congress? “I've heard that the next Congress will be in Seattle or in Minneapolis,” writes Wayne Nelson . “Which is it?” St Paul/Minneapolis, AKA the Twin Cities: see 2015 Congress Website Launches 8/14 EJ.
August 23, 2014
Hugh Zhang 7d will be serving a second term as co-president of the American Go Honor Society (AGHS), alongside Calvin Sun 1P, who will be serving his first term. The organization, run entirely by high school students, has opted for two…
August 23, 2014
Registration is now open for the 2014 SportAccord World Mind Games – Pandanet Online Tournament . This year’s go tournament, held jointly with Chess.com and BridgeBase.com, includes different bands and multiple winners in each band.…
August 22, 2014
Response to our request for US Open (or Masters Division) game records from last week's US Go Congress has been so enthusiastic that we’re extending the deadline one week. Over 50 games have already been sent in for posting to…
August 22, 2014
The Go and Math Academy in Chicago is looking for volunteers to help to promote go/weiqi at a Chinese cultural festival on September 27. About 1,500 students are expected to attend the daylong festival. “We need volunteers to prepare…
August 21, 2014
So you want to run a go demonstration for Learn Go Week ( “Learn Go Week” Planned to Launch September 13 7/19 EJ) , but aren’t sure what to do? You’re not alone. Since proposing Learn Go Week in July , the folks at Go Game Guru say…
August 20, 2014
Reminder to players in last week’s US Open (or Masters Division) tournaments to send in your game record(s) and we’ll add it (them) to the official US Open crosstab . Thanks to Anders Kierulf (at right) , Keith Arnold, Andrew Hall and…
August 20, 2014
These cuff links are made from beautiful Japanese go stones with sterling silver posts. The set includes one white and one black cuff link. The white stone is Hinata clam shell from Japan. The black stone is Japanese Nachi Kuroishi…
August 18, 2014
A new AGA chapter has just started up in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. The Wauconda Go Club meets Wednesdays from 6-9p at Middleton's on Main , a gastropub in Wauconda, IL. The brand-new club just started on August 4 and organizer…
August 18, 2014
The 2014 E-Journal Congress Team provided expanded coverage of this year’s US Go Congress, from top player previews before a single Congress stone was played to live online broadcasts of top boards at all nine rounds of the new US Open…
August 17, 2014
A large crowd of somber friends shared memories of a great teacher at a memorial held last Friday evening for Sasaki Tadashi 8P, who died last month at 51 ( In Memoriam: Sasaki Tadashi 8P 7/28 EJ & The Power Report 7/30 EJ) . Players…
August 17, 2014
Send in your US Open (or Masters Division) game record(s) in sgf format with all game info complete, including both players’ full names, and the round number(s), and we’ll add it (them) to the official US Open crosstab . Email game…
August 16, 2014
Mark Lee 7D (Lee Sang Hyeop) defeated Songyan Jiao 7D in just 208 moves on Saturday morning to sweep the 2014 US Open Masters Division, 9-0. Conner Li 3P took second with 7 wins followed by Matthew Hu 2P in third place also with 7 wins.…
August 16, 2014
Bill Lin 7d and Aaron Ye 6d are the winners of the Redmond Cup, after a series of online matches, and then a live final at the US Go Congress. In the Junior Division (under 13) Ye, who has held the Redmond title for the past three…
August 15, 2014
Mark Lee 7D (right) locked up the US Open Masters Division championship on Friday night with his 8th-round win over Andy Liu 1P, giving the 17-year-old former Korean insei an impressive 8-0 record with one final round to play Saturday…