American Go E-Journal
May 31, 2020
"There’s an amusing Go reference in the latest Order of the Stick, a Dungeons and Dragons style strip I’ve followed for years," reports Mark Gilston. The storyline involves one of the characters finding a Go stone, whereupon another…
May 31, 2020
The twelfth annual North Carolina workshop with Yuan Zhou was moved online this year and successfully held Sunday, May 24th. Zhou's lecture included a pro game review discussion the influence of AI on professional play, as well as…
May 30, 2020
by Keith L. Arnold, hka, with Patrick Bannister May was dominated by Rin Kaiho's defense of the Honinbo Title against challenger Sakata Eio. Already down a game, Sakata lost a bitter half pointer in the second game (top right) on May…
May 30, 2020
Ichiriki For this Sunday’s live game commentary on Twitch (8p EDT; note new time!), Michael Redmond 9P – hosted by E-Journal Managing Editor Chris Garlock -- will review Pandanet’s "Golden Panda Cup" final-round game between Ichiriki…
May 29, 2020
Michael Redmond 9p, hosted by the AGA E-Journal’s Chris Garlock, reviews the 41st game of the amazing AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo selfplay games. The 50-game series was published by Deepmind after AlphaGo's victory over world champion Ke Jie 9p…
May 29, 2020
Nominations have been coming in for the upcoming AGA Board of Directors election, reports Arnold Eudell. Lisa Scott in the Central region and Christopher Saenz in the West are running to retain their seats, while Ted Terpstra and…
May 28, 2020
by John Power, Japan correspondent for the E-Journal Professional go to resume When the Japanese government declared an emergency on April 7, the Nihon Ki-in and the Kansai Ki-in fell in line and cancelled face-to-face go activity. The…
May 26, 2020
Nominations for the American Go Foundation’s Teacher of the Year award are due by June 15th. The award is usually presented each year at the U.S. Go Congress. Although congress has unfortunately been canceled due to Covid-19, the AGF…
May 25, 2020
After being alerted to payment issues within the AGA Membership Manager the tech team consulted and patched the issue. The payments are now working again. If you have had an issue in the last month with using the membership manager to…
May 24, 2020
By Mike LePore Former AGA board member Gordon Castanza passed away on May 24, after a battle with cancer. Gordon’s life was anything but boring and conventional. At the age of 20, he received a draft notice, and left college to serve in…
May 24, 2020
Tune in to the AGA’s Twitch channel tonight at 7p EDT to catch the live commentary by Michael Redmond 9P and Chris Garlock on AlphaGo vs AlphaGo Game 42. Viewers will be able to ask Redmond and Garlock questions during the live…
May 24, 2020
While we all continue to take precautions for the health and safety of ourselves and our communities, the AGA wants to encourage people to continue to play Go and to socialize virtually with other people in the Go community. The AGA is…
May 23, 2020
The KGS Go Server just got easier to join and use. The Java client for KGS has been an ongoing problem for some computers and blocked by many schools. The KGS Home Page features a new link to sign up for a free account . Using ShinKGS ,…
May 22, 2020
In the latest Redmond Review , Michael Redmond 9P and Chris Garlock take a break from their AlphaGo vs AlphaGo series to take a look at another classic game, Honinbo Shusaku's first castle game, against the 9th Yasui Sanchi (Shuntetsu).…
May 22, 2020
BadukPop has added several improvements in its latest update, including the ability to play against artificial intelligence. The popular go problem app, developed by Hajin Lee 4P and Dan Maas, works on both Android and iOS. The…
May 18, 2020
The Austin Go Club has continued to meet twice per week online on Tuesday evenings from 6-12PM and Saturday afternoons from 1-5PM. Players meet up on KGS in the Austin Go Club room where a Google Hangout link is posted, so that players…
May 17, 2020
Tune in to the AGA’s Twitch channel tonight at 7p EDT to catch the live commentary by Michael Redmond 9P and Chris Garlock on AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol Game 2. As they write in their book AlphaGo to Zero: The Complete Games , "AlphaGo’s move…
May 15, 2020
Michael Redmond 9p, hosted by the AGA E-Journal’s Chris Garlock, reviews the 40th game of the amazing AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo selfplay games. The 50-game series was published by Deepmind after AlphaGo's victory over world champion Ke Jie 9p…
May 14, 2020
The AGA Board is meeting on Sunday, May 17th at 8pm EDT. Topics of discussion include: Financials, Investment Report, Budget, International Affairs, Update on Teaching, Update on Congress, a Privacy Policy, Online Ratings, and topics…
May 11, 2020
"The one minute trailer for the 2018 Chinese historical drama The Rise of the Phoenixes: Season 1 references Go four times," reports Joel Sanet. "The first time shows a beautiful woman looking downward then cuts to a single black stone…
May 9, 2020
Brian Allen, Operations Manager, Seattle Go Center Nick Sibicky in Cyberspace The Seattle Go Center has been closed due to coronavirus precautions for almost two months now. I still go there to check on the building, and to do office…
May 2, 2020
Dave Weimer reports that the April 25 th to May 1 st issue of The Economist includes an obituary for mathematician John Horton Conway on page 82, who died at age 82. He taught at Cambridge and Princeton, and was famous for inventing the…
May 1, 2020
Michael Redmond 9p, hosted by the AGA E-Journal’s Chris Garlock, reviews the 39th game of the AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo selfplay games. The 50-game series was published by Deepmind after AlphaGo's victory over world champion Ke Jie 9p in May…