American Go E-Journal
January 31, 2017
Northwestern University in Illinois offered a new course on go last semester. The course was designed to help students build number sense, understand math concepts, and practice mathematical thinking, and was offered through the Center…
January 30, 2017
Montreal Winter Cup - Saturday February 18th. Brock Tournament (St. Catherine's Ontario) February 25/26th weekend. One day event, details to be settled soon and posted to the CGA site University of Toronto Winter Tournament - Sunday…
January 30, 2017
"Reddit on their app download has a picture of the AlphaGo news," reports Barry Physics.
January 29, 2017
Kiseido's recent website tech issues have been resolved, reports Richard Bozulich. Click here to go to Kiseido's new secure URL. "In the meantime, until February 6, Kiseido is having a sale of all its books with with discounts of up to…
January 28, 2017
The National Go Center has found a home in Washington DC with the signing of a 5-year lease on a space on Wisconsin Avenue, just two blocks from the Tenley Metro stop. "We are very pleased to have found a great location to meet the…
January 28, 2017
The second split of the Collegiate Go League (CGL) begins today. The CGL is a competitive league for college go clubs, now running for its sixth season. Fifteen universities from across the US and Canada are competing in the CGL's…
January 25, 2017
"Just keep it coming" pretty much sums up most of the comments thus far in response to our annual Reader Survey . "Thank you so much for having the E-Journal, the best Go publication in English, this is my main source of information for…
January 25, 2017
Slate & Shell , one of the main publishers and distributors of English-language go books, is having a winter sale from now until the 12th of February . New Moves by Alexander Dinerchtein, Patterns of the Sanrensei by Michael Redmond,…
January 25, 2017
Registration for the 2017 North American Kyu Championship (NAKC) closes on January 29th. Kyu players that are under the age of 18 and members of either the AGA, CGA, Gimnasio de Go, or MGA are eligible to compete across 5 divisions down…
January 24, 2017
A record 47 players turned out for the 6th Annual San Diego Go Championship, held at UCSD on Saturday, January 14. The field ranged from 35-kyu beginners to 7-dan amateurs and from 6-year-olds to 70+ senior citizens. There were ten…
January 24, 2017
A new book by Richard Bozulich has just been added the SmartGo's Go Books app. "This one is aimed at beginners and is free for a limited time," says SmartGo's Anders Kierulf. "I think it covers the basics really well." “How to Play…
January 16, 2017
Revival of our annual Reader Survey was sparked by a longtime reader's suggestion that we drop the "E" from the E-Journal's title. Since we're usually focused on more substantive content and design issues, this seemed like a cosmetic…
January 15, 2017
Peter Nelson 5d beat Edward Kim 7d, the dean of Northwest go players, to win the Open Section of the Jin Chen Memorial Tournament at the Seattle Go Center on Jan. 8. The players agreed that Kim played one slack move in the middle of…
January 15, 2017
David Cho 4D, Mark Nahabedian 12K and Shawn Moore 13K topped the January Massachusetts Go Association’s Roland Crowl Memorial Handicap Tournament, with perfect 4-win results. They split the $100 prize pool. Twenty three players…
January 15, 2017
This year, the Portland (OR) Go Club will play its club championship tournament over a period of two months. Each participant plays a minimum of four games against four different opponents, but only one game per day. All games are…
January 14, 2017
Tony Tang 7d won the Open Division in the Young Lions Tourney with a perfect 4-0 record in a field of 6 high dan players. Held by the American Go Honor Society, the Young Lions is open to North American youth in high school, or…
January 6, 2017
The seventh annual Jin Chen Memorial Tournament will be this Sunday, Jan. 8. at the Seattle Go Center. Registration is on the day of the tournament from 1 0 - 10:45 am. This is their biggest tournament of the year, a fun challenge for…
January 5, 2017
"Now there are two elementary schools in México City where go is part of the curriculum," reports Siddhartha Avila, Mexican Youth Go Coordinator. " Pipiolo elementary has had an active go program since 2008 when Principal Marcela…
January 4, 2017
DeepMind on Thursday afternoon confirmed that a "new prototype version" of AlphaGo has been the mystery player playing as Master and Magister on the Tygem and FoxGo servers, defeating more than 50 of the top go players in the…
January 4, 2017
Is AlphaGo the Master? A mysterious online player has been making huge waves by defeating dozens of top professionals on go sites in Asia in recent days. "Master" first appeared on December 30, 2016 (Beijing time), registering from…
January 3, 2017
by David Bogie "The Tengu's Game of Go" is the last in a four-volume fantasy by Lian Hearn , set in medieval Japan. Magic beasts with enchanted weapons, convoluted plots with betrayals and double-crosses galore. Go? Not so much. The…
January 3, 2017
The third annual North American Kyu Championships (NAKC) will be held on February 4 th this year on KGS. This one-day, 4-round tournament is open to all kyu-level players under the age of 18 from the United States, Canada, or Mexico.…
January 1, 2017
Once again this year, many go fans were reunited on the two weekends of November 26-27 and December 3-4, as for the fifteenth time the Paris Ouest Go Club hosted the 34th Paris Meijin tournament. Regular supporters Canon France, the…
January 1, 2017
The American Go Yearbook 2016 Member’s Edition Collection was released on New Year's Day, January 1, 2017. One of the benefits of membership in the American Go Association is the Member’s Edition of the American Go E-Journal, the…