American Go E-Journal
July 30, 2019
Longtime EJ contributor Janice Kim recently sent along this screenshot "from my favorite anime, Hunter x Hunter . In this longer scene, the King of the Chimera Ants learns Go from books, and takes on the national champion, winning…
June 10, 2018
by Janice Kim 3p Bill Cobb’s Philosophical Reflections on Go #6 reminded me of the time I asked my teacher Jeong Soo-hyun 9 dan, "Is this move good?" "If you thought about it, it's good," was the reply. Despite his chuckle, this…
April 9, 2018
by Janice Kim 3P When I was a student at the Korean Baduk Academy, I was firmly ensconced in the "B League" at 6 "gup", or "kyu". The way the ranking system worked is that a 6 kyu would give a 5 kyu only three points of komi for White,…
August 25, 2016
"Congratulations to Aaron Ye on the WYGC ( EJ 8-13 )" writes eagle-eyed reader Keith Arnold, "he may be the first to finish third, but he is not the first to finish in the top three. Janice Kim took second place in the World Youth…
June 24, 2016
by Janice Kim 3P Andrew Feenberg has made illuminating and interesting points comparing and contrasting the recent match between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol, and the novelized match between Shusai and Kitani in the book The Master of Go .…
March 3, 2016
by Janice Kim 3P The world is surely converging...years ago after reading about David Lee Roth's "Brown M&M" strategy for finding an indicator in a complex system, it seemed like the best tool I had ever heard of for approaching the…
September 14, 2015
by Janice Kim 3P Despite my well-known penchant for pompous, florid, and illiterate writing for comedic effect, it is literally true that I declared email bankruptcy several years ago. For the most part I let the bulk of all…
August 18, 2015
by Janice Kim 3P Let me start off by alienating the half of the audience that may not be alienated after reading this, by giving away the title of my next installment, Why Go Is Better Than Chess, Really (From the Non-Chess-Playing…
July 13, 2015
(or what I learned during my two-year vacation from playing games) by Janice Kim 3P For me go and poker are the same. As they are like two sides of my same coin, I find the optimal strategy in go is to know everything, and in poker, to…
July 2, 2015
A special E-J Column by Janice Kim 3P When I was young I liked to read, and to watch TV, and didn't go out much, except alone to explore arroyos, watch movies, or go jogging very early in the morning, when the light was still…