44th Amsterdam International Go Tournament Coming Up in May: Preparations for this year’s edition of the Amsterdam Go 
Tournament – coming up May 15-17 — are in full swing. For almost half a century this has been one of the main go tournaments in Europe, and with Roel van Kollem as the fresh and enthusiastic new chairman of the Amsterdam go club there’s promise of a new atmosphere to the tournament. A special addition to the tournament this year will be Guo Juan 5P, who has been living in Amsterdam for many years and who will be giving lessons and seminars onsite. As an extra bonus, each participant will receive one gift voucher for three lessons on Guo’s website. An added attraction for food lovers is that van Kollem, who’s also a chef (right), will be preparing some exciting food for the Rapid tournament which is held besides the main tournament on Friday.
New Go-shirts by Murugandi from BadukMovies: Kim Ouweleen, better known as ‘Murugandi’, is a Dutch 4-dan. He is mostly known for his go tutorials for EuroGoTV and BadukMovies, but in everyday life Murugandi is also an illustrator and graphic designer. Recently he has designed some go themed t-shirts, which can be found through the BadukMovies webshop and through Kim’s own webshop. You can also check out more of his artwork at murugandi.com.
Kiseido’s Latest Available at Het Paard’s Go Shop: New go books published by Kiseido are now
available in the Het Paard’s Go Shop, including the second volume of “The 2014 Ten-Game Match between Gu Li and Lee Sedol,” which features in-depth analysis of games 6-8 of the historic ‘Death Match’: the Jubango between two of the strongest go players of the modern era, Lee Sedol 9p from Korea and Gu Li 9p from China. Also avalailable is “The Basic Principles in the Opening and the Middle Game,” 20 principles that will lay the foundations for the study of opening theory in general as well as the currently popular opening systems, and “The Basics of Life and Death,” an introduction to life and death by Rob van Zeijst.
– Kim Ouweleen & Marianne Diederen
