News from the American Go Association
February 28, 2005
In This Issue:
U.S. GO NEWS: Zhaonian Chen Wins NJO; Team Go Update; Double The Fun At Youth Camps; On The Rise; Reviewers Wanted
WORLD GO NEWS: Sedol Wins Maxim Cup; Lee Changho Sweeps 5 To Take Nongshim Cup For Korea; Yuki Closing In On Kisei; Yun He Wins LSE In London; Gu Li In Int'l Internet Championship Finals
YOUR MOVE: Readers Write
ONLINE GO: 5x5 Go Updated, EJ Archived & On CD
GO CLASSIFIED
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
U.S. GO NEWS
ZHAONIAN CHEN WINS NJO: Zhaonian Chen 7d won the 2005 New Jersey State Championship yesterday, ending Ke Huang's 4-year streak (he won in 2004, tied with I-Han Lui in 2003, won in 2002 and tied with Yuan Zhou and Eric Lui in 2001). Seventy-eight players turned out for the 46th annual New Jersey Open, held in Princeton February 26-27 and organized by the Princeton Go Society. Rick Mott and Paul Matthews directed the event. Longtime player Charles French, making his first appearance at a go event since suffering a stroke three years ago, showed that he's still got game. Full winners report:
Open Section: 1st: Zhaonian Chen 7d; 2nd: Ke Huang 8d; 3rd: Weiyuan Yang 7d; 4th: Zhiyuan (Andy) Liu 6d.
4-out-of-5 game winners: Peng Liu 5d; Wenjie Xu 4d; Jack Yang 4d; Saul Lapidus 1k; Jiangtao Gu 2k; Jared Beck 2k; Larry Bartels 4k; Ed Hsu 7k; Chris Roudiez 8k; Nicholas Trieu 13k.
TE AM GO UPDATE: The Chapter Team league is swinging into high gear, with ten teams beginning to schedule matches, there will be a lot of prizewinners in this event when it concludes in June. There's still time to sign up your chapter's team! Go to http://www.usgo.org/usa/teamleague.asp for more information, including the current roster, matches, standings and statistics. Preliminary results of ongoing matches: Tacoma Rainiers vs Penn Go Otaku 0-1; Triangle Go Group B vs Team Awesome 1-1; Tacoma Rainiers vs Triangle Go Group B: 1-0; Tacoma Rainiers vs Triangle Go Group A: 0-1.
- reported by Terry Benson
DOUBLE THE FUN AT YOUTH CAMPS: Go-playing youngsters who haven't signed up for this year's Youth Go Camps will want to start making plans now, reports Jon Boley. "This year we are extremely fortunate to offer Camps on both the East Coast and West Coast," says Boley, who's returning as Director for the West Coast camp at Mills College in Oakland California. "On the East Coast we will have Feng Yun, 9P, teaching alongside Bruce Wilcox," says Boley. "Feng Yun has taught some of the strongest youth in the United States and teaches go at her school in New Jersey." On the West Coast, Mingjiu Jiang 9P and Jin Chen 6d are returning this year. The East Coast Camp runs July 2-9 and the West Coast July 16-23. Check out photos, a video and download application forms (scholarships are available!) at http://www.usgo.org/gocamp/index.asp
ON THE RISE: As of the end of January, the following player's ratings had improved by 1.0 or more (ratings are being recalculated all the time as new data arrive, so check http://www.usgo.org/ratings/ for the very latest ratings): Bai, Yuchen 6.27; Lim, Nengli 5.78; Zh ong, Sichen 5.55; Lu, Jing 5.05; Austin, Michael 4.59; Smith, Ryan 4.47; Yang, Jack 3.85; Sun, Calvin 3.50; Baldridge, Ethan 2.29; Sellon, Tyler 1.77; Gonzalez, Javier 1.21; Li, Tao -1.44; Capwell, Daniel -1.57; Feng, Yuchen -2.23; Wilks, Stuart -3.54; Morse, Evan -4.05; Won, Jason -5.00; Chiu, Linden -5.08; Wells, George -6.86; Parreiras, Sergio -8.48; Tsai, Ariana -8.91; Bliss, Chris -8.93; Man, Wai Cheung -9.74; Shamblin, Adam -9.86; Brown, Frank -9.95; Carrington, Dylan -10.88; Miller, Paul -10.90; Kaplan, Michael -11.74; Wheeler, Dennis -11.89; Barth, Douglas -12.01; Xia, Daniel -12.17; Clark, Calvin -12.29; Bacon, Bob -12.36; Messenger, Josh -13.44; Mack, Michael -13.54; Young, Bruce -14.39; Tao, Albert -18.31; Schooley, Benjamin -18.97; McNelis, Nick -19.05; Kwan, Isabelle -19.83; Ku, David -20.09; Medina, Fernando -20.42; Shen, Jerry -21.78; Wheeler, Lydia -21.94; Liu, Howard -23.16; Klock, Gordon -23.63; Steed, Daniel -24.42; Carmical, Justin -25.17; Sailing, Amara -34.47.
REVIEWERS WANTED: Earn a $25 go vendor gift certificate by reviewing any of the following go books! "Basic Techniques of Go," by Haruyama and Nagahara, Kiseido; "The Chinese Opening," by Kato Masao, Kiseido; "Dictionary of Basic Tesuji, Volume 1," by Fujisawa Shuko, Slate & Shell; "Mastering the Basics of Go," by Lim and Dicky, Slate & Shell; "Whole Board Living Tesujis", by Chatterjee and Yang, Yutopian; "Dictionary of Basic Fuseki, Volume 1, by Rin Kaiho, Yutopian. Reviews should describe the book's content, focus on its effectiveness and usefulness and be no more than 300 words. Send reviews to us at journal@usgo.org
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WORLD GO NEWS
SEDOL WINS MAXIM CUP: Lee Sedol 9P came back from an 0-1 deficit to win the title match for the 6th Maxim Cup in Korea, defeating Yang Jaeho 9P by a score of 2-1. All three games were won by resignation. . This was the first time Lee Sedol had participated in this event, which Rui Naiwei 9P won last year and was defeated by her husband, Jujo Jiang 9P, in the title match the previous year. This time she was defeated by Yang Jaeho in the second round. Download the game records at http://www.go4go.net/english/bytournament2.jsp?id=36
LEE CHANGHO SWEEPS 5 TO TAKE NONGSHIM CUP FOR KOREA: The Nongshim Cup international team competition came to a dramatic conclusion last Saturday in Shanghai, as Lee Changho 9P saved the day for the Korean team with a string of five consecutive victories, finishing off all the remaining members of the Chinese and Japanese teams. Lee has never been beaten in the Nongshim Cup and now has a run of fourteen victories to his credit. His last opponent this time was Wang Xi 5P of the Chinese team. The last Japanese was O Meien 9P. Lee won all five games this year by resignation. You can download the game records at http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ns2.html
YUKI CLOS ING IN ON KISEI: The Kansai Kiin's great hope, Yuki Satoshi 9P defeated the current Kisei in Japan, Hane Naoki 9P, in only 151 moves, forcing a resignation and gaining a 3 to 2 lead in the best of seven match. Yuki managed to establish a group inside Hane's large right side moyo with a series of clever sacrifices. Download the game record at http://www.go4go.net/english/bytournament2.jsp?id=13
YUN HE WINS LSE IN LONDON: Local star Yun He 7d of the London School of Economics won the first LSE tournament at the London School of Economics last Saturday. There were 41 participants. The time system for the tournament was quite unusual: twenty minutes basic time with an overtime of thirty moves in five minutes, but it was handled very professionally by the students. Yun He was undefeated. Runner up was Matthew Woodcraft 1d of Cambridge. Zaid Waqi 1 dan of Imperial College and Andrew Grant 3d of Milton Keynes als o won three of four games. Photos at http://societies.lse.ac.uk/lsego/Gallery/20050226.htm
- reported by the BGA News
GU LI IN INT'L INTERNET CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS: Gu Li 7P of China has defeated Zhou Junxun 9P of Taiwan by resignation to join Kobayashi Koichi 9P of Japan in the finals in the first international internet championship. Feng Yun 9P of the US played in the first round, losing to Cho Hunhyun 9P of Korea, who was in turn defeated by Kobayashi. Gu Li eliminated the European representative, Alexandre Dinerchtein 1P in the first round. Download the game records at http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/in.html
YOUR MOVE: Readers Write
ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE: "You guys are just not having any luck with math!," writes Roy Schmidt. "Hot on the heels of the 3+2 = 6 apology, you run Roy Laird's news about solving 5x5 go. He says 'At about a quarter of the full-board version, 5x5 go is miniscule...' 5/19 might be close to 1/4, but when we square it, it's closer to 1/16: that is, 25/361 = about 1/14." Adds Kirk Martinez, "5x5 go has on the order of 25 (factorial) possible game paths, whereas 19x19 go has on the order of 361, which is unfathomably more complex - 'orders of magnitude' does not even do it justice. The two games are in different universes." Martinez goes on to say that "It would be very interesting to hear more details from (Dr. van der Werf) about recent progress on solving 6x6 and 7x7 go, (as well as) any communication he might have with Mr. Maasaki."
ONLINE GO: 5x5 Go Updated, EJ Archived & On CD
by Roy Laird
Our sharp-eyed readers (see above) are of course quite correct (I was inexplicably thinking of a 9x9 board). Fortunately, my column provoked some interesting follow-ups, including inspiring Myron Souris, the man behind the "problem of the Week" series on the AGA's home page, to discuss the unexpected complexity he's found on boards as small as 2x2. To download this analysis, go to http://www.usgo.org/resources/downloads/smallboard-souris.pdf.
Dr. van der Werf successfully defended his dissertation on "AI Techniques in the game of Go" in January. He has written extensively on the subject and you can visit his home page at http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/~vanderwerf/ for a link to a bibliography which includes the full text of many publications. When I asked how MIGOS has done against human opponents, van der Werf told the E-Journal: "A while ago Migos played two gam es for a radio interview against Robert Rehm a former Dutch champion, 5 dan, 2508 EGF. The first game Migos started with c3 and, not surprisingly, won by 25 points. For the second game I manually played MIGOS' first move on c2 so that Robert would have a chance and both players could make a living group. This game ended with the optimal result of a 3 point win for black (much like the example shown on my website). Robert did not make any mistakes. So far Migos has not faced a human opponent for the b2 opening (except for myself, ~1k). The main reason is that it takes quite long to play a game (which is annoying for a radio interview). However, I expect that strong human players should also be able to play that opening without mistakes (although they will not be as sure as my program :-))."
Did you know that you can look up any issue of The American Go E-Journal? At http://www.usgo.org /EJournal/archive/EJarchive.asp, you will find a link to hilltopgo.com, which maintained an archive from the EJ's inception in 2001 to match 2004, and a list that picks up from that issue onward.
Another way to view the EJ's contents is on the CD-ROM in the AGA Yearbook. Go to http://www.usgo.org/CD2003/articles.htm to see the complete contents of last year's CD -- except the games and problems of course! This year's edition is in the mail now and it's free to full members of the AGA.
(See Dr. Laird at work in this week's Home Page photo at http://www.usgo.org)
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
March 4: Bethesda, MD
Yuan Zhou 7d Monthly Lesson
8:30P; Cedar La ne Unitarian Church, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda.
Haskell Small haskellsmall@starpower.net
March 5: Sacramento, CA
Davis-Sacramento Go Club Quarterly Tournament
Fred Hopkins 916-548-8068 cfredhop@msn.com
March 6: Chicago, IL
Remember the Alamo!
Bob Barber 773-467-0423 komoku@earthlink.net
March 6: Seattle, WA
Monthly Ratings Tournament
Jon Boley 206-545-1424 jon@seattlegocenter.org
http://www.seattlegocenter.org/
March 6: Boston, MA
Even Game Tournament (2 kyu and stronger)
Zack Grossbart 617-497-1232 zack@grossbart.com
March 19: Raleigh, NC
Spring Fuseki
Troy Hurteau 919-515-3318 jthurtea@ncsu.edu
http://clubs.ncsu.edu/go/springtournament/
March 19: Ann Arbor, MI
Spring To urnament
Eric Jankowski 734-417-5547 erjank@umich.edu
www.umich.edu/~goclub
March 20: Sunnyvale, CA
9th. Jujo Jiang Cup Youth Goe Tournament
Mingjiu Jiang 650-969-2857 mingjiu7p@hotmail.com
http://www.usgo.org/usa/jujoyouth.asp
March 26: Baltimore, MD
3rd Annual Hopkins GO Tournament
Robert Ferguson robert.ferguson@gmail.com
http://www.jhu.edu/~hopkins/3rdannual.html
March 26: Denton, TX
Yet Another Go Tournament
Paisa Seeluangsawat 940-367-2537 paisa@unt.edu
http://orgs.unt.edu/go/tournament.html
April 2: Arlington, VA
Cherry Blossom
Allan Abramson 703-684-7676 mediate8@worldnet.att.net
April 2:& nbsp; Syracuse, NY
Syracuse Spring Ratings Tournament
Anton Ninno 315-479-9073 antonninno@yahoo.com
June 25-28: Hackensack, NJ
2005 NJ Yang Yi-lun 7p Go Workshop
John Stephenson 201-612-0852 jcs@wingsgoclub.org
https://www.wingsgoclub.org/YangWorkshop2005.asp
August 6-14: Tacoma, WA
21st US Go Congress
Steve Stringfellow 253-761-9466 congress@heffalumps.com
http://www.go2005.org
This is a digest of events for the next month only; for a complete listing see the Tournament Calendar on the AGA website: http://www.usgo.org/usa/tournaments.asp
For the European Go Calendar see http://www.european-go.org/TOURNAMENTS/TListbyDate.htm
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