The next tournament at the NGC will be on Saturday, September 9th. It will be a 4-round AGA rated tournament. Online pre-registration is available here at a 20% discount from registering at the tournament. The tournament memorializes Moon Cha, a key figure in popularizing go in the national capitol area. “That we are fortunate to have a National Go Center in DC today can be traced back in many ways to his efforts and those he inspired,” reported the NGC in its latest newsletter.
“Moon was amongst the first wave of strong Asian players who dominated an increasingly active tournament scene on the East Coast in the 1960s and ’70s,” wrote Keith Arnold in the EJ in September 2005 when the first Moon Cha Memorial Tournament was held, two years after Moon Cha’s death. “Along with Matsuda, Kwon, Horiguchi and Shen in New York, Ishikawa in Philadelphia and Kang in Baltimore, he was one of the stalwarts of the “pre Ing Cup” generation – challenging for the U.S. Championship in 1965 and 1966.”
