World
Go News from the American Go Association
August 6, 2007; Volume 8, #60
2007 U.S. GO CONGRESS REPORT: Jiang & Ge Top Congress Tourneys;
Shen-Lui Win Pair Go Championships;
Self-Paired Results; Other Congress Tourney Winners;
2007 Shodan Challenge Wraps Up;
Covering Go; Congress E-Journal Team
WORLD GO NEWS: Teen
Reaches Tengen Final; British
Sponsor Sunjang Baduk Tournament On KGS
GO CLASSIFIED
TODAY’S GAME COMMENTARY: Ping Yu 6P reviews the
July 31 US Open Round 3 game between Mingjiu Jiang 7P and Yongfei Ge
8d.
JIANG
& GE TOP CONGRESS TOURNEYS: Mingjiu Jiang 7P
and Yongfei Ge 8d won the two major tournaments at the 2007 U.S. Go
Congress, which wrapped up in Lancaster, PA on Saturday. Jiang won the
2007 Ing Masters Tournament Friday night in a widely-watched
“Main Event” final round, defeating Feng Yun 9P by
3 points in an exciting 343-move 4th-round game broadcast live on KGS.
On Saturday morning, Ge wrapped up his perfect 6-0 sweep in the U.S.
Open, defeating Guangjiong Chen 7d in the final round to claim the 2007
Open title. Friday night’s historic event attracted nearly
400 observers online and several hundred Congress participants who
watched a simulcast in the Congress bar with live commentary by Myung
Wan Kim 8P. In a new record, 9 games were broadcast on KGS Friday
night, including almost all the Ing Masters games, a pro-am game and
the Redmond Cup final. A total of 63 top games were broadcast live
during the course of the Congress and – along with the
complete winner’s reports for all Congress tournaments
– are posted online
For round-by-round results you can click
here Top right photo:
Jonathan Bresler and his daughter at the Go Congress; photo by Kim
Salamony. Left: Champions Yongfei Ge 8d(l) and Minjiu Jiang 7P (r);
photo by Phil Straus.
SHEN-LUI
WIN PAIR GO CHAMPIONSHIPS: Cherry Shen 5d and Eric Lui
8d won this year’s Pair Go Championship Thursday night,
defeating Jasmine Yan 4d and Yuan Zhou 7d in the first round and Gina
Shi 5d and Matthew Burrall 7d in the final round. Shi and Burrall took
second. Shen and Lui will represent the US at the International Amateur
Pair Go Championship in Japanin November. Sixty pairs competed.
“I had at least three tables – all involving
double-digit kyu players -- report jigo results,” TD Todd
Heidenreich told the EJ.
SELF-PAIRED
RESULTS: Chris Cameron won the Champion (most wins over
losses) and the Hurricane (greatest number of wins); Wing Chuilai won
the Giant Killer (most wins against a dan player by a kyu player);
Solomon Choe won the Keith
Arnold (dan player with most wins against kyu players); Nicole Casanta
won the Straight Shooter (most wins against consecutive ranks); Martin
Lebl won the Sensei (most wins against weaker players) and the
Philanthropist (most losses); Leonard Baum won the Dedicated (most
games). Special 007 Prizes: Dave Warzinski won the Live & Let
Die prize (player with the largest kill; see diagram at left) and Joe Maia
& Nicholas Blake won the Dr. Ko (most dramatic ko). TD: Jon
Hilt.
OTHER
CONGRESS TOURNEY WINNERS: Gina Shi 4d won
the Women’s Tournament; Max Peterson took top honors in the
Midnight Madness, Ricky Zhao won the Hard Core, the Penn Go
Society won the Club Team Tournament, Will
Zhou 7d
won the 13x13, Saul Lapidus 1d won the 9x9, Cherry Shen & Eric
Lui won the Youth Pair Go, Jason Gu won the Youth Handicap. The East
Coast team won 2nd Annual East – West (Youth All-Stars), and
in the Redmond Cup, Calvin Sun won the Junior section while
Landon Brownell won the Senior division. Curtis Tang won the Ing
Redmond. Click
here for the complete Winner’s Reports for all
Congress tournaments. photo:
Adult-Youth Pair Go: photo by Jian Zhang
2007
SHODAN CHALLENGE WRAPS UP: Fourteen Shodan
Challengers achieved their goals in the 2007 edition of the Shodan
Challenge, which w
rapped up
at this year's Go Congress, report organizers Lee Huynh and Laura Kolb.
“Designed to help motivate players to strive forward in their
go career, this year's activities included a study buddy program, book
review contests, simuls, and more,” says Huynh. “A
record 54 players took on the third annual Challenge,” added
Kolb. “Congratulations to everyone for challenging
themselves, and kudos to those who made it. We hope that next year the
program will be even more helpful to the Challengers.” This
year's successful Challengers are: 10k Goal: Anthony Postert 10k; Joe
Jordan 10k; Matt Inwood 10k; Nathan Schmitz 2k; Ramon Mercado 9k. 5k
Goal: Bob Nugmanov 5k; Jason Preuss 5k; Justin Urban 3k. 1d Goal:
Daniel Poore 1d; Jaime Kaszynski 1d; Jason Allen 1d; John Moore 2d;
Jonathan Sobieski 2d; Sudhir Vel 1d. photo:
kids review a game; photo by Jian Zhang
COVERING
GO: “I wandered, much like an Eskimo at a
nude beach, into a Go tournament this week,” wrote Jeff
Hawkes in Saturday’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal. "It's
the aesthetics that draw me to it," Barry Pasicznyk, 45, of
Philadelphia told Hawkes. “The patterns are very beautiful."
Sixteen-year-old Jack Yang of Bloomfield, N.J., said "When I lose, I
want to play again. I want to keep trying." Click
here to read the whole story.
2007
US GO CONGRESS E-JOURNAL TEAM: A 10-member E-Journal team
– augmented with another 9 volunteers -- worked long hours
every 
day to
create a “virtual Congress” with live game
broadcasts, as well as constant updates of photos, news and game
records on the AGA website and reports in the E-Journal to nearly
11,000 readers worldwide. The team included CHRIS GARLOCK, Managing
Editor; JOHN PINKERTON, Lead Game Recorder/photographer; STEVE COLBURN,
Lead Game Recorder/photographer, tech support; AKANE NEGISHI, KGS
administrative support & Lead Game Recorder; TODD HEIDENREICH,
Lead Game Recorder, reporter & graphic design; DENNIS WHEELER;
Lead Game Recorder & online crosstab reports for the US Open
and Ing Masters; LEE HUYNH: Reporter; LAURA KOLB, Reporter; PAUL
BARCHILON: Youth Editor; LAWRENCE KU: Youth Reporter; Game Recorders:
Mike Malveaux, Eric Lee, Calvin Lee, Saul & Carrie Lapidus,
Myron Souris, Huck Bennett, Todd Blatt & Solomon Cho. Special
thanks to Assistant Editor Bill Cobb and Congress Co-Directors Peter
Nassar and Chuck Robbins and a shout-out to EJ photographer PHIL
STRAUS, who missed the Congress due to a family emergency but drove out
just for the banquet Saturday night. EJ
staff portrait by Jian Zhang: standing, l-r: Heidenreich, Cobb,
Pinkerton, Garlock, Malveaux & Ku; seated, l-r: Colburn, Huynh,
Negishi, Barchilon & Wheeler.
TEEN
REACHES TENGEN FINAL: Iyama Yuta 7P (r) will play
Yamashita Keigo 9P in the finals of the tournament to decide the
challenger for Kono Rin 8P's Japanese Tengen title. Iyama is now
nineteen, but won the Japanese Agon Cup in 1995 when he was sixteen,
setting a record for youngest title winner. He has been doing well
since, but this is the closest he has come to one of the top seven
nation
al
Japanese titles. Yamashita is the current Kisei and also holds the Oza,
another of the top seven.
BRITISH
SPONSOR SUNJANG BADUK TOURNAMENT ON KGS: The British Go
Association sponsored an internet tournament using the ancient Korean
version of go (baduk) that uses a complex starting position. The
starting position is shown here; click
here for the rules and results. With twenty players
competing, Roy-Andre Kirkebo 2d of Norway was the winner with a perfect
5-0 score. Mark Nubbert 4k of Oxford was second.
GO
CLASSIFIED
NEW CLUB FORMING: Barnesville, Georgia: Go club starting in the Fall
'07 semester at Gordon College. If interested, please contact the club
main advisor at go_gordonga@yahoo.com. The club will teach new and old
players, and will have tournaments with other clubs either online or in
person. Also, Gordon College Club will be appearing at Anime Weekend
Atlanta for free go lessons on September 21-23 at the Renaissance
Waverly Hotel & Cobb Calleria Centre, Atlanta, Georgia. (8/2)
PLAYERS WANTED: Syracuse, NY: The Syracuse Go Club has set up a second
weekly go group on Thursday nights in a new location - the Recess
Coffee House at 110 Harvard Place in the Syracuse University
neighborhood. 7-10pm. This new alternate location is more convenient
for SU students and city residents. The Monday night meetings at Dewitt
Wegmans will continue as our home base. (8/2)
PLAYERS WANTED: New Port Richey, Florida: Looking for someone
to play with or maybe a go club I'm not aware of. I'm AGA 5k. Email
Queselk@gmail.com (8/1)
NEW GO WEBSITE: Relatively new website Ichi Ni San Go! is up, please
post feedback or suggestions on forums or e-mail
Nik.s@Telus.net (8/1)
PLAYERS WANTED: Detroit, MI: Players of all strengths & ages
and/or willing to do teaching games and teach others how to play.
Justinman949@yahoo.com (8/1)
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PLAYERS WANTED: Charleston, SC: beginning player looking for players in
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PLAYERS WANTED: Northern Illinois, Lake County. Player from
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