American Go E-Journal

Fourteen players competed in the September 18 Tacoma (WA) Go Club’s annual Back-To-School Tournament at the Seattle Go Center. “Players from as far away as Portland, Oregon, braved the I-5 slog to participate,” reports club organizer Gordon Castanza. For this tournament the Tacoma Go Club inaugurated its use of Go Clubs On-Line for pre-registrations, lunch orders, and beta testing of the GCOL pairings program. The Tacoma Go Club provided free lunch pizzas for all the players. Peter Mooyman 2k won three straight games to take first place. Tacoma’s favorite son, Solomon Choe 5d, and Portland’s Chen Yung-Pin 8k both won three games and even after SOS and SODOS tied for second place honors. Bert Hallonquist 6d and Portland’s Peter Drake 6k tied for third place. The Tacoma Go Club will host its annual Veterans’ Day Tournament on Saturday, November 12^th at the beautiful Tacoma Art Museum. The TGC will again use Go Clubs On-Line for pre-registration.