American Go E-Journal
March 30, 2015
Kellin Pelrine 6d took top honors at the Colorado All-State Go tournament, held March 21st, in Denver. "The inaugural tournament conducted by the Littleton Go Club was a huge success," said TD Stuart Horowitz. "Thirty players…
March 30, 2015
Su Guangyue, a fourth-year law student who had been runner-up in 2013, won the 13th World Students Go Oza Championship, held February 24-25 at the Ginza Internet Forum in Tokyo. The contestants were sixteen university students: ten from…
March 29, 2015
by John Power, Japan Correspondent Ida fights back in Judan: Ida Atsushi 8P suffered some setbacks recently but he also won his first open title, as detailed in our last report, and he seems to be taking his cue from the latter. In the…
March 29, 2015
Chess Grandmaster Tiger Hillarp has become a dan go player on KGS, according to a recent post on Hillarp’s blog, Chess at the Bag of Cats. "It might seem like a rather small step for mankind, but it felt quite big to me and merited a…
March 28, 2015
EYGC : The UK had six players representing it at the European Youth Go Championships held on March 12-15 in Zandvoort am Zee in the Netherlands. The team ended with a score of 14 points out of 36. 5 members played in the Under 16…
March 28, 2015
Students under the age of 25 who register for the Nihon Ki-in Summer Go Camp before May 31 will get 10% off the program fee. The intensive training program for non-Japanese go players who want to raise their level and improve their go…
March 28, 2015
Through May 31, Kiseido is having a sale of all English-language go books ; order 3 or 4 books and get free shipping; order 5 books or more and get 10% off the listed price with free shipping. Kiseido has also obtained two kaya go…
March 28, 2015
Trigantius Tournament : On March 7, the Trigantius Tournament was held in the Cambridge University Social Club. Taking the Trigantius Trophy, and his second title since taking up tournament Go at the start of 2015, was London's Charles…
March 27, 2015
Twenty-seven children, ranging from preschool to 4th grade, played in a chess and go tournament at Taborspace in Portland, OR, on Sunday, March 15th, reports Peter Freedman. "This winds up the tournament season for players from the…
March 26, 2015
Karoline Burrall (right) has exchanged her role as AGA Tournament Coordinator for work as a Congress correspondent for the AGA E-Journal. "We owe Karoline a huge debt for the tireless work she put in and the extremely professional and…
March 25, 2015
by John Power, EJ Japan Correspondent Ida surrenders lead in Honinbo league to Yamashita: Ida Atsushi 8P (right) held the sole lead after the first four rounds in the 70th Hon inbo League and seemed to be headed for a rematch with Iyama…
March 25, 2015
After-school go club teachers in Seattle have often used handouts with go problems, but this year they have started giving each student their own workbook with their name on it. The results were surprising: the beginners really liked…
March 25, 2015
Li Keqiang’s Go Metaphor: In a departure from previous years, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang did not cite any traditional Chinese sayings or poems at a recent news conference after the annual National People's Congress. Instead, he used a…
March 23, 2015
The AGA Go Camp will take place from July 18th through July 25th at YMCA Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio (just 40 minutes from Cincinatti). Directors Amanda Miller and Nano Rivera return to organize the event, and they invite campers of all…
March 23, 2015
The School Teams Tournament has extended their registration deadline to this Wednesday, to catch any last minute teams that didn't have time to sign up. The tourney starts this Saturday. All matches will be played online, and schools…
March 23, 2015
Players from the University of Tokyo edged out players from UCLA in an online friendship match on Saturday, February 14. The University of Tokyo team defeated the UCLA team with a 3-2 record. Players from both teams are active members…
March 23, 2015
Julie Burrall 1d topped the Davis/Sacramento Go Club’s Spring Tournament at the Rancho Cordova library on March 14. There were 10 players. Burrall won the upper division, and Tai-An Cha, 5k, won the lower division. The library…
March 17, 2015
Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On The Horizon: “It took about 50,000 CPU hours and 4PB of disk IO, but now we know the exact number of legal 18x18 Go positions ,” johntromp wrote in a recent post on slashdot .…
March 16, 2015
John Power, Japan Correspondent China Beats Japan in Agon-Kiriyama Play-off: The 16th Agon Kiriyama Cup Japan-China Play-off was held at the Kyoto headquar ters of the Agon sect of Buddhism on March 14. Representing China, the 17-year…
March 16, 2015
Hungarian Schoolkids Championship: The Hungarian Schoolkids Championship, a class C tournament, played on 3/7/2015 in Budapest, Hungary, was won by Dominik Boviz 4d (photo), second came Viktor Toth 13k and third was Barnabas Kollner 8k.…
March 15, 2015
The Manhattan Go Club and Seattle Go Center top the first month of the new AGA Chapter Rewards program, earning 150,000 and 125,000 points, respectively. AGA chapters earn points when they get new or renewing members or when their…
March 14, 2015
Former Korean insei Mark Lee took home the $700 first-place prize at the 2015 Southern California Go Championship, held the weekend of February 28-March 1 in Monterey Park, California. Seventy two players from Southern California and as…
March 14, 2015
by John Power, EJ Japan Correspondent Yamashita Draws Level in Kisei, Forcing Decisive Game 7: The sixth game of the 39th Kisei title match was held at the Gyokushoen Arai i nn in Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 11 and 12.…
March 14, 2015
Europe’s newest professional go players are Mateusz Surma (left) from Poland and Ilya Shikshin from Russia. Surma took first place in the European Pro Qualification tournament, held March 6-8 in Pisa; Shiksin was second. They join Pavol…
March 14, 2015
San Diego Go Club members taught go to all interested and played exhibition games at the Tenth Annual Cherry Blossom Festival at the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park in San Diego on March 7 & 8. Thousands came out to the garden…
March 9, 2015
by John Power, EJ Japan Correspondent Korea Makes Good Start In Women’s Tournament: The first round of the 5th Huanglong Shuangdeng Cup World Women’s Team Championship was held in the city of Meiyan in Jiangsu Province. It is run along…
March 8, 2015
by John Power, EJ Japan Correspondent Tuo Wins New Year’s Cup: The CCTV New Year’s Cup is a TV tournament held to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Last year it was upgraded to an international tournament, with a player each being invited…
March 7, 2015
China Wins Nongshim Cup : Lian Xiao (left) defeated Kim Jiseok in the final round of the 16th Nongshim Cup on March 5. With this victory, Team China takes the Cup back home for another year. Captain Iyama Yuta, who was the last man…
March 6, 2015
There is still time to sign up for two of the major youth events of the year: the Redmond Cup and the School Teams Tournament. Registration for the Redmond is due by March 15th, School Teams by March 20th.In the Redmond, preliminary…
March 5, 2015
The second European Pro Qualification tournament will be held this weekend in Pisa, Italy. Two games each round will be broadcast on KGS starting March 6 and running through March 8; look for EGFPro1 and EGFPro2. Top European players…