“These Yuan Zhou Workshops just keep getting better and better,” says Bob Bacon. The Eleventh North Carolina Workshop
with Yuan Zhou — a popular teacher and lecturer who continues to compete — was held December 8-10, 2017, in Raleigh, North Carolina. A highlight of this year’s workshop, hosted by the Triangle Go Group, was Zhou’s review of a game from this year’s CCTV Cup, between professional 9 dan Tang Weixing and 5 dan Peng Liyao. Many current professional games are already exhibiting moves favored by Go Seigen and popularized by AlphaGo, and Yuan Zhou explained the meaning and utility of these moves. Zhou also excels at explaining Chinese language phrases and meanings relating to go, and this year, in addition to sharing many new expressions, he shared some of the meaning of professional 9 dan Tang Weixing’s name (唐 韦星), tracing the surname Tang back to the seventh century A.D. Dynasty, and the meaning of xing as a celestial star. Read Bacon’s complete report here.
photo by Bob Bacon
