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Registration Open for 2021 Young Lions Tournament

Monday November 1, 2021

Image credit: Tina Li, AGHS Promotion Head

“Registration for the Young Lions Tournament is now open!” says AGHS Promotion Head Dylan Jian, “The Young Lions Tournament is the premier Go tournament for players under 18 in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Organized by the AGHS, the Young Lions Tournament will be held online on November 21st and 28th for players of all strengths. Division winners will have prizes awarded to them.”

The registration deadline is November 15, 2021 at 11:59 pm PST. If you have any questions, feel free to email aghsregister@gmail.com.

Click here to register 

Click here for rules and regulations

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Upcoming AGA Board meeting Sunday November 7

Monday November 1, 2021

The AGA board will hold its annual “Strategy Retreat” this Sunday, November 7, at 8pm EST – the first day of standard time after the end of daylight savings time that morning.  An agenda is available on the AGA website here. AGA members interested in attending the meeting should email Board Chair Lisa Scott at lisa.scott@usgo.org for meeting information.

The AGA Board last met on Sunday, September 19. Minutes will be posted after they are approved this weekend, but the Board has released the following summary: “In the September meeting, the AGA Board of Directors discussed a new organization chart, including confirming Chris Kirschner as the Executive Vice President of the AGA and Lisa Scott as VP of Events. Other staff changes included the appointment of Justin Teng as an At-Large Representative, following the resignation of Ted Terpstra. The board also heard a report on the Fair Play Policy, which is ready to be implemented for City League online play, as well as status updates on ongoing projects and committee work.”

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KGS and OGS partner for AI review

Monday November 1, 2021

KGS is launching a new client with built in AI analysis. The effort is a partnership with OGS and will give both servers access to greatly expanded capacity for AI analysis. OGS users have had AI review available for the past couple years, but as demand increased, their cloud servers needed more capacity. Lead programmer Akita Noek wrote the code and implemented AI services for KGS in consultation with the AGF.

KGS, as always, will be free, and all users will now get a brief AI analysis after their games, with the top three mistakes highlighted and variations shown. Users who would like a full interactive analysis for the game can choose from a $5 monthly plan with 5 million deep reading operations or a $10 plan with 15 million operations. The service only works in the full Java version of the KGS client (cgoban) and is not available on ShinKGS or GoUniverse.

To download the new client visit the KGS AI page here or download from the KGS home page here.

A user guide for the service is here.

-Paul Barchilon, AGF Vice President

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Best of three Virginia Open final November 6 and 17

Monday November 1, 2021

The 3rd Virginia State Go Championship has adopted a best-of-three format for the final rounds. After a strong Open Elite division competed at the 10th Virginia Open in October, finalists from five cities will gather at the Korean American Baduk Association in Annandale on Saturday November 6th. The final will be held at the National Go Center on Wednesday 11/17 and 12/1 if necessary. Game records and results will be updated promptly on the Capital Go Club site.

Seeds:

  1. Qingbo Zhang (from Fairfax)
  2. Zhiyuan Zhang (Vienna)
  3. Yaming Wang (McLean)
  4. Ruoshi Sun (Charlottesville)
  5. Irvin Pajarillo (Fredericksburg)

Semi-final games: 11am and 3:30pm ET on 11/6
Final: 5pm and 8:30pm ET on 11/17

-report and photo by Capital Go Club

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SDGC participates in a Japanese Friendship Garden pop-up event in National City

Monday November 1, 2021


The San Diego Go Club – in an effort to increase its diversity – is participating in the San Diego Japanese Friendship Garden’s eight week Pop-up exhibit in National City, California. Hosted in the National City Chamber of Commerce building, JFG is exhibiting art and providing free cultural and educational programming including demonstration games and teaching of Go by SDGC volunteers.

National City is a city of 61,000, ten minutes south of downtown San Diego, with sizable Mexican, Filipino, and Chinese descendant populations. The SDGC is hoping to increase its membership of under-represented populations in the AGA.

-report and photos by Ted Terpstra

  • SDGC volunteer Jiaying Wei & Ted Terpstra playing an exhibition game
  • SDGC member Jiaying Wiei looking at part of the Japanese Pop-up exhibit


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King Bi 4d wins first Dapu Cup North America Go Open

Monday November 1, 2021

Thirty-six go players trekked to Temecula in Southern California to contest the 3-round first Dapu Cup North America Go Open. The tournament was organized by Kevin Yang and directed by the San Diego Go Club.

In a strong Open section – which included two 7 dans and two 6 dans – King Bi 4d topped the field with a perfect record. Open players who tied for second with 2-1 records were Kevin Yang, Seth Cardew, Xingshou Liu, and Yixian Zhou.

In the handicap section, Tommy Liu 1d went 3-0 to top the strongest band (all dan players). Roxin Cao 1k, Nick Liddington 11k, and Donavan Chen 26k were all 3-0 in the other handicap bands.

-report by Ted Terpstra

      

  • Trophy winners at the Dapu Cup
  • King Bi (middle) accepting Dapu Cup from Kevin Yang (left) and his father Yimeng Liu
  • Youngster viewing first board competition between Kevin Yang (rt) and Yixian Zhou
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