American Go E-Journal
January 22, 2020
by Steve Colburn It's hard to imagine in these days of 24/7 global online go, but back in the late 1970s, if you were one of the few non-Asian Americans interested in go, your playing options were limited to a handful of clubs in places…
October 9, 2017
The go club in Walla Walla, Washington is small, says Steve Tanner, "but dedicated." The club, an AGA chapter, has been in continuous existence for several years and local go players gather in a local pizza shop every Wednesday evening.…
September 18, 2016
Location: Cairo, New York Date: Labor Day 9/5/16 Photographer: Felice Simon felicesimon.com Felice Simon's Instagram: @goldenfelice Go players: Micah Feldman and Alexandra Patz
August 18, 2016
China painter Marlene Shankar, of Adirondack NY, sent the EJ this picture of her latest piece. "The design was a snippet from a painting done by Hua Sanchuan ," says Shankar, "my painting teacher Audrey McCullough went to China and in…
July 28, 2016
Ed Lee sent in this great shot of "Me playing go with my friend Blake Haber. The place is Third Window Brewery in Santa Barbara, CA, where they brew and serve their own beers. I drink only root beer but today I tried a latte from a new…
July 20, 2016
John Zombro, a life time Track and Field athlete and coach recently attended the Track and Field Olympic Trials in Eugene, OR and wrote up some of the things he learned from the character, philosophies and performance of the athletes.…
May 17, 2016
The Brooklyn Go Club hosted its annual event at the Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom) Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on April 30 and May 1. "A fair amount of interest was sparked by Alphago," reports Barbara Calhoun. photo by Calhoun
May 16, 2016
"We had a great turnout last Thursday night for the Western Massachusetts Go Club at 'The Roost' in Northampton," reports Eric Osman. photo by Osman
August 14, 2015
2015 Congress Ratings Update: As of Friday, August 14th, the results of four Congress tournaments have been submitted, reports Jonathan Bresler. “The four tournaments are the U.S. Open, the U.S. Open Masters, the DieHard and the Girls…
August 7, 2015
Friday Night "Big Broadcast" Set: Top-board US Open Masters games will be broadcast live with professional commentary on KGS and streamed on YouTube; Congress attendees can watch in person in the main playing area. The broadcast starts…
July 3, 2015
"I went to New York for a vacation, and when I went to the American Museum of Natural History, at the Japanese Hall, I saw a board of go and stones. I was surprised of the size, because I had never seen a Goban for real," writes Mateo…
January 29, 2015
Peter Freedman (at far right), Hikaru Saito, Glenn Peters, Jessie Jenkins and Jessie's friend, Austin, taught at least 50 people to play go at Portland's Mochitsuki Festival on Sunday January 25th. Held at Portland…
May 7, 2014
Photographer (and former AGA president) Phil Straus has just posted an album of 28 high-resolution photos from the April 27-28 Washington Open Baduk Championships, which includes portraits of many of the players and dignitaries in…
March 13, 2014
The third annual Jingdezhen exhibition match finished on March 9 with Choi Cheolhan 9p finally victorious over long-time rival Chen Yaoye 9p. Establishing territory was tedious but the game remained relatively even up to move 134.…
January 8, 2014
Maojie "Jeff" Xia, who’s visiting Santa Barbara during his winter break from the University of Montana, arrived at the Santa Barbara airport on New Year's Day and went straight to the Santa Barbara Go Club at the Coffee Bean, where he…
November 30, 2013
"Someone was listening to Roger Schrag's comments in his article on " Go Spotting: Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland " (9/3 EJ)" writes Bob Joyce. Schrag wondered "Is the position on the go board (at left) viable?" and Joyce says "I…
November 29, 2013
The dates for the much-anticipated match between Lee Sedol 9p ( top left ) and Gu Li 9p ( bottom left ) have finally been announced. The jubango, or ten-game match, will begin on January 26, 2014 in Beijing. Sponsor MLily will award the…
September 26, 2013
Every other year since 2003, a top Chinese and top Korean player play an exhibition match in Fenghuang City, China. The grand prize is 400,000 RMB (approximately $65,000 USD) and the runner up receives 280,000 RMB. What makes the…
August 14, 2013
Although the MLily Cup final won't be played until later this year it's already clear that a Chinese player will be champion. That's because China claimed all eight quarterfinal places at the first MLily Cup on August 9. Only two Korean…
August 5, 2013
Sunday's snapshots: top right: Yilun Yang 7P lectures (by Phil Straus) ; middle & bottom right: strong players review their games (Chris Garlock) ; bottom left: Cathy Li 1P plays in a simul (Peter Mooyman) ; top left: the main playing…
July 25, 2013
The Central London Go Club took advantage of the current UK heatwave to call a go picnic on Sunday, July 21. It was held in Royal St James's Park in the heart of the capital, adjourning later to the Captain's Cabin pub in…
June 5, 2013
Preliminaries for the 10th Changqi Cup finished May 31 after three days of fierce matches. When the smoke cleared, Tan Xiao 7P, Liu Xing 7P, Shi Yue 9P, and Lian Xio 4P stood above the rest, including last year’s defending champions…
March 6, 2013
Former AGA President Phil Straus (l) recently dropped by the Santa Monica Go Club where he played a game with go author, translator -- and Santa Monica Go Club member -- Richard Dolen. - photo by Jeffrey Tsao
January 31, 2013
Our friends at Go Game Guru have just posted their 2012 album of favorite go photos , which are great fun to look at – the captions are amusing too -- and many of which would make terrific screensavers or wallpaper. Click here for the…
November 18, 2012
Wayne B. Nelson didn’t even need komi to win our photo caption contest. His entry – “I should've started learning this game when I was little” – topped the runner-up, Solomon Smilack’s “Cross cut? I think I’ll try crawling instead”…
November 15, 2012
“I recently went to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego to see Allegiance , a musical about the Japanese internment camps in the US,” writes San Diego Go Club President Ted Terpstra. “Powerful stuff. They had an accompanying exhibit of…
October 28, 2012
Two of the American Go Association's younger members, Brady (#20162) and Maddie (# 18087) Terpstra battling for ratings. The two are San Diego Go Club President Ted Terpstra (#754)’s grandchildren. Photo courtesy Ted Terpstra
October 8, 2012
Go seems to make an appearance in the "Gangnam Style" video, which has racked up over 28 million hits on YouTube since its release last summer, inspiring parody clips from all corners of the globe. At .52 in the video there’s a 2-second…
October 1, 2012
San Diego Go Club President Ted Terpstra sent along this photo "found by one our my club's members, Fredd Broccard from a theme park north of Boston." If anyone has more info on the photo, please send it to us at journal@usgo.org
October 1, 2012
Wayne Nelson has just sent us a translation of Jorge Luis Borges’ wonderful poem about go. We’ve run it before but it’s so lovely that, like all great poetry, it bears repetition. Other than this poem, we don’t know anything about…