American Go E-Journal
April 23, 2019
Elwyn Berlekamp, a UC Berkeley mathematician and game theorist whose error-correcting codes allowed spacecraft from Voyager to the Hubble Space Telescope to send accurate, detailed and beautiful images back to Earth, died April 9 at his…
April 21, 2019
Mateusz Surma seems unstoppable. In the third round of the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship , played on April 21 on KGS, Surma defeated AGA pro William Shi, extending his winning streak to three games. Surma defeated…
April 21, 2019
Saturday, April 13 “was a beautiful day on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC for the annual Sakuri Matsuri festival.” reports National Go Center Executive Director Gurujeet Khalsa. The 15 volunteers from the NGC were busy from the…
April 19, 2019
University students can apply for a $200 AGF scholarship to the 35th US Go Congress in Wisconsin, Madison held July 13-20. Applicants must be aged 26 or younger and actively enrolled in college (rising students starting in Fall 2019 and…
April 18, 2019
Nominations for the American Go Foundation’s Teacher of the Year award are due by May 7th. Presented each year at the U.S. Go Congress, the award recognizes an outstanding American teacher. The winner will receive an all expenses paid…
April 13, 2019
by John Power, Japan Correspondent of the E-Journal Murakawa wins second Judan game: Game Two of the 57th Judan title match was held in the special playing room, Yugen, at the Tokyo headquarters of the Nihon Ki-in on March 29. The time…
April 12, 2019
Will Calvin Sun manage to stop Mateusz Surma ’s winning streak and save the AGA team? Find out this Sunday starting at 14:00 EDT when the second round of the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship will be played on KGS and live…
April 12, 2019
by John Power, Japan Correspondent of the E-Journal Takemiya and Kikuchi receive awards: Every year awards are presented by the Agency for Cultural Affairs honoring persons and bodies who have made significant contributions to Japanese…
April 11, 2019
The second game in the play-offs to decide the challenger to Honinbo Monyu, otherwise known as Iyama Yuta, for the 74 th Honinbo title was held at the Nihon Ki-in in Tokyo on April 10. Kono Rin (W) beat Shibano Toramaru by 1.5 points…
April 11, 2019
After a nearly 1-month hiatus, Michael Redmond 9p and the AGA E-Journal's Chris Garlock returned last Friday with the latest in their series of video commentaries on the AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo selfplay games. "This is the one game in this…
April 9, 2019
by John Power, Japan Correspondent Honinbo League ends in three-way tie; playoff April 10: The big news is that there's a three-way tie in the Honinbo League and the deciding game will be played on April 10; I'll report the result as…
April 7, 2019
Mateusz Surma 2P from the European Go Federation (EGF) defeated Andy Liu 1P in the first round of the 2019 Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship on Sunday, April 7. The game was played live and broadcast by the AGA on Twitch…
April 7, 2019
The National Go Center held its first ever two-day tournament on March 30-31. Forty two players turned out including contingents from Stonybrook University and the Feng Yun Go School. First place at 5-0 -- and still undefeated in NGC…
April 5, 2019
Third graders at Sedgwick Elementary School, in Cupertino, CA, learned how to play go at their school's annual Discovery Day on March 26th. As in previous years, the school invited many presenters to teach various kinds of fun…
April 2, 2019
Members of the National Go Center will provide a go demonstration at this Thursday's screening of "AlphaGo" at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD. The demo starts at 6:15p, and the screening begins at 7:15p. If you're…
April 2, 2019
The AGA is regularly asked for new chapters around the country. These are the newly registered chapters from March 2019: Amarillo Go Club - Amarillo, TX, Meets at GameQuest on 6th Street on Saturdays from 2-4 Sharing Go Miami - Miami,…
April 1, 2019
by Bob Bacon Raleigh, North Carolina is often called the southern part of heaven. We’re blessed with a comfortable climate, beautiful natural scenery, honest hard-working natives, outstanding universities, progressive businesses, lots…
April 1, 2019
The Seattle Go Center is pivoting to teaching the science of playing Go, instead of the art of Go playing, according to Program Manager Mike Malveaux. "Our latest class, held on Wednesdays, is on programming computers in Python with…