AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL
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March 23, 2009; Volume 10, #12
CHO U EVENS UP JUDAN: Cho U 9P (l) won the second game in the Judan to even up the score at 1-1 in the best-of-five-games match. Cho is challenging Takao Shinji 9P for Takao's Judan title. Cho, who won the March 18th game by 4.5 points, is the dominant player in Japan currently, holding six titles, including four of the top seven. The Judan and the Kisei are the only two of the top seven Cho has never held. Takao took this title for the first time last year, defeating Cho Chikun 9P who had held it for the previous three years.
5 TOURNEYS THIS WEEKEND! Among the five coast-to-coast tournaments this weekend (see Go Calendar, below) are a youth event in Fort Myers, FL and the Jin Chen Memorial Tournament in Ann Arbor, MI, where top boards will be broadcast live on KGS with commentary by Guo Juan 5P and Jennie Shen 2P; prizes include Audio Go Lectures from Guo Juan. Photo: Jin Chen - who died earlier this year - at the 2008 US Go Congress; photo by Steve Colburn.
TAKEMIYA WINS SPOT IN OZA CHALLENGER TOURNEY: Takemiya Masaki 9P (l) defeated Ko Iso 7P, who is more than thirty years younger than Takemiya, on March 19th to win a place in the final tournament to determine the challenger for the Oza title, currently held by Cho U 9P. Well into his fifties, Takemiya shows no sign of dropping out of top level competition. Takemiya challenged for this title back in 1988, but lost to Kato Masao 9P, who held the title for eleven years altogether. Takemiya plans to attend this summer's US Go Congress in Washington, DC. Photo: Takemiya at the 2008 U.S. Go Congress; photo by Steve Colburn
IYAMA YUTA WINS ANOTHER TITLE: Iyama Yuta 7P (r), the most impressive of the younger generation among Japanese pros, has added another title to his meteoric career, repeating as Daiwa Cup Grand Champion Iyama beat Shuto Shun 6P by a half point in the March 21 final of this fast-play event held on the Internet.
LEE CHANGHO HOLDS ON TO KBS CUP: Lee Changho 9P (l) defeated Lee Sedol 9P 2-1 to retain his hold on the KBS Cup, which he has now won ten times altogether. Lee Sedol has won this one only once, in 2006. The two Lees now hold just two current national titles apiece, a sign of the rising tide of the younger Korean pros. The KBS Cup is a fast-play event shown on TV.
RELUCTANT EIJKHOUT WINS "KEIZER KAREL" AGAIN: Michiel Eijkhout 6D of Leyden -- who has won the "Keizer Karel" (Charlemagne) tournament many times and announced that he didn't want to win again this year -- nevertheless won it again in Nijmegen, The Netherlands last weekend. Bernd Radmacher 5D from Germany finished second. None of the 58 participants won all five games. Nijmegen is an old university town, founded by the Romans as Noviomagus Batavorum over 2000 years ago.
- reported by Peter Dijkema, European correspondent for the E-Journal. photo by Paul van Galen; click here for his online album
FENG YUN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER GO WORKSHOP: This summer go players of all ages will have an opportunity to combine studying go with a vacation in China at the Feng Yun International Summer Go Workshop. In addition to Feng Yun 9P (r), who lives in the United States and is fluent in both English and Chinese, other teachers include her former Henan Province coach Huang Jin Xian 6P, her colleague Liao Gui Yong 9P, and Cai Jian Peng 6d and other instructors from the Shantou Weiqi Association. In Hong Kong, workshop students will visit the school of another colleague, Ao Li Xian 4P. Local Chinese students will also participate in the workshop. In Shantou, students will stay at the China National Table Tennis Team Training Base, where the athletic facilities provide a chance to have fun and get physically stronger. The workshop will also have Chinese language and culture classes, and sightseeing trips in Hong Kong and Shantou. Registration is limited, and airfares to China are low right now; see the Feng Yun Go School website for more details. Photos: Feng Yun (above right) at the 2008 G Congress; photo by Brian Allen; Shantou's gymnasium for table tennis and badminton (l); photo by Paul Matthews.
COUNTDOWN TO ING SEASON BEGINS: Four weeks remain until qualifying tournaments begin for the North American Ing Masters championship. The tournament season kicks off on April 18-19 with events on both coasts. Baltimore's UMBC Go Club will host their event in a venue overlooking Ericson Field and featuring complimentary pizza. "Strong players are coming for the Ing points and weaker ones are playing for go equipment," reports organizer Todd Blatt. Click here to pre-register. On the other side of the country, the Santa Monica Go Club will host a qualifier of their own that weekend, held in tandem with the Orange Country Go Club's monthly rating tournament. The two-day qualifier features extended time limits of 80 minutes per side for the top division. Contact Joe Cepiel (joecepiel_go@yahoo.com) for more details.
- Phil Waldron, AGA Tournaments Coordinator
ROMANIA HOSTS SHUSAKU CUP: The second Shusaku Cup, one of the biggest spring European tournaments, will take place this weekend in Romania at Tg Mures. Among the nearly 300 players expected to compete for prizes are top European players, including Youth European Champion Ali Jabarin from Israel, professionals Mok Jinseok 9P, Kim Seung Jun 9P and a number of young players from Ukraina, Russia, Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Czehia, Israel and Romania. Top boards will be broadcast live online on EurogoTv, IGS and KGS.
- Marilena Bara, Romanian Correspondent for the E-Journal
NEW IMPORTER OFFERS DISCOUNT: Saying that "I never would have learned to play go without the AGA," Shodan Imports owner Chuck Thomas is offering a discount to AGA members at his brand-new go imports business. "Shodan Imports is the culmination of a dream many years in the making," says Thomas, "to import the finest traditional go equipment from Japan and make it available to North America." Shodan Imports has been awarded exclusive status as the North American reseller for Keiji Miwa, whose family has been making go equipment by hand in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, since the beginning of the 1900s. Shodan Imports also offers go stones and bowls. "I hope (the discount) will encourage people to join the AGA and keep their membership current," adds Thomas.
GO SPOTTING: Arresting Go
"In the epilogue of the final episode of Arrested Development's first season, ‘Let 'Em Eat Cake,' there's a very brief shot of Maeby and Annyong playing go on a travel-sized board (pretty sure I have the same model)," reports Chris Sira.
FREE GO WORLD OFFER: Here's a deal too good to pass up: 5 free copies of Go World and the 2008 American Go Yearbook! That's right, for a limited time, when you join the American Go Association - or renew your membership - you get five action-packed copies of the oldest English-language go magazine in the world, plus the latest edition of the Yearbook, the annual "best of" collection of material from the American Go E-Journal. That's a more than $70 value for just $30: click here now to take advantage of this special offer!
GO CALENDAR: Davis, CA, Washington, DC, Fort Myers, FL & Pittsburgh, PA
- March 28: Davis, CA: Davis/Sacramento Go Club Spring Quarterly
Yolo County Library, 315 East 14th St., Davis. Registration at 9 am, first round at 10 am.
Willard Haynes 916.929.6112 willard@saclink.csus.edu
- March 28: Washington, DC: NOVA Cherry Blossom Go tournament
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Allan Abramson 703.684.7676 allango@igc.org
- March 28: Fort Myers, FL: USYGC QUALIFIER
Registration at 8:30A; 18-and-under-only event
Joshua Frye 239.357.8811 joshua1frye@comcast.net
- March 28: Ann Arbor, MI: Jin Chen Memorial Tournament
Jonathan Hop 7346862678 hopj@umich.edu
- March 28: Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Spring Tournament 2009
Kim Salamony 412.653.7736 gophantom@gmail.com
GO QUIZ: A Large Gap, Anyway
After correctly surmising that last week's Quiz question about a match between 89-year-old Sugiuchi Masao and 20-year-old Xie Yimin was inspired by another Go World piece, Phil commented "Its worth noting that Go World isn't 100% sure it sets the record for largest age difference between two pros in an official game." Indeed, Brian Kirby suggests there is a bigger gap between Sugiuchi Masao and Ito Masashi in another recent game, so his answer said this was the largest margin between a male and female player. Although I was unable to confirm this on an English-language source, I did find a foreign-language source that appeared to confirm this. In any event, 6 of 12 of you recognized that the age difference was noteworthy, congrats to Grant Kerr, this week's winner, selected at random from those answering correctly.
MARCH MADNESS: Hopefully this does not refer to Pittsburgh's Kim Salamony, for a rare miss last week, particularly since top-ranked Pitt continues to move on in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tourney. For this week's lame but hopefully non-controversial quiz, What is the only team in the 65-team field where a go player can root for the team and say "GO (insert official school name)"! and have your exclamation begin with "Go Go"? Nothing tricky here, just looking for the first two letters in the school name. Click here to send your "bracket" pick.
- Keith Arnold
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STUDENTS WANTED: Yuan Zhou 7d is currently accepting new students. He
offers private lessons, group lessons in person or on the internet. If you are interested in becoming Yuan Zhou's student and/or taking lessons from him - especially if your rank is 9k and above - and if you are a serious go player who wants to learn, improve and enjoy go, contact him at yuan.zhou@zhouyuan.com (3/16)
YOUNG PLAYERS WANTED: San Diego, CA: Hoping to start a go club in San Diego for young people. We would need a teacher and students! inlandisle@gmail.com (3/9)
PLAYERS WANTED: China: Beijing Go Club; info at http://www.beijinggoclub.com (3/2)
PLAYERS & STUDENTS WANTED: Englewood, NJ: Donghwa Cultural Foundation looking for go players who can volunteer to help students out and also seeking more students for the Korean Style of Go class in all levels at Donghwa. (2/23)
PLAYERS WANTED: Comox Valley, B.C.: Contact George Beck,
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PLAYERS WANTED: Warminster, PA. E-mail jstarr75@gmail.com (2/23)
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Managing Editor: Chris Garlock
Assistant Editor: Bill Cobb
Professionals: Yilun Yang 7P; Alexandr Dinerchtein 3P; Fan Hui 2P
Contributors: Paul Barchilon (Youth Editor); Lawrence Ku (U.S. West Coast Reporter); Brian Allen (U.S. West Coast Photographer); Keith Arnold (Go Quiz); Peter Dijkema (Dutch/European Correspondent); Marilena Bara (Romania/European Correspondent); Ian Davis (Ireland Correspondent); Jens Henker (Korea Correspondent)
Columnists: James Kerwin 1P; Kazunari Furuyama; Rob van Zeijst; Roy Laird; Peter Shotwell
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