MASTERS FINALS SET: The Masters Tournament
finals have been scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, December 18, 19 in Seattle,
WA, reports AGA Executive VP Chris Kirschner. Jie Li 9d will defend his 2005
title against Feng Yun 9P in two rounds on the 18th and a third round - if
necessary - on the 19th. The games will be broadcast on both IGS and KGS, as
well as perhaps a Korean server with Korean pro commentary. Stay tuned for
further updates.
JIE LI LECTURES IN DC FRIDAY: Jie
Li 9d will lecture on one of his recent Master's games at the regular meeting of
the Greater Washington Go Club this Friday, December 8. The free event begins at
8P sharp at the Cedar Lane Unitarian Church, 9601 Cedar Lane in Bethesda MD. For
more details on the DC lecture, email Small at haskellsmall@starpower.net
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LEE & CHANG WIN IN
SAMSUNG SEMIS FIRST ROUND: Lee Changho 9P of Korea and Chang Hao 9P
of China have defeated Paek Hongsuk 5P of Korea and Seo Bongsoo 9P of Korea
respectively in the best-of-three-game semifinals of the international Samsung
Cup now underway. Details Monday.
KNELLER WINS IN WEST SURREY: Ken
Kneller 11k came out on top in the West Surrey Tournament in Britain, which was
fully handicapped, in a departure from the norm for European tournaments.
Details Monday.
CHO SEOK-BIN HAS COMMANDING
LEAD IN EURO TOUR: With only four of the twelve events in the
year-long Toyota-IGS-PandaNet European Go Tour left, Cho Seok-Bin 7d, the Korean
living in Germany, has more than double his nearest competitor's points. Details
Monday.
WEEKEND
ACTION: Sacramento, Chicago, Middlebury & Philadelphia -
December 9: Sacramento, CA D/SGC Winter
Tournament Willard Haynes willard@saclink.csus.edu 916.929.6112 -
December 9: Chicago , IL Brer Foxx
Memorial Bob Barber komoku@earthlink.net 773.467.0423 - December 9:
Middlebury, VT Suberi in
Vermont Peter Schumer schumer@middlebury.edu 802.388.3934 -
December 10: Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia
Fall Open http://chapters.usgo.org/penngo/tournaments.html Peter
Nassar pnassar@vet.upenn.edu 215.898.6271 Matthew Bengtson
mattbengtson@earthlink.net 215.704.4600
IMPERFECT COMMUNICATION: "I'm not a native Japanese speaker but
maybe I can shed some light on the terms of resignation question, ("Terms Of
Resignation 12/1 EJ)" writes longtime translator Bob McGuigan. "First, chuu oshi
(not naka oshi) is used, say in a game record or by a commentator, to describe
the result of the game, for example kuro chuu oshi kachi (Black wins by
resignation). It is not an expression a player would use to resign. It does not
depend on the difference in score at the time of resignation. Makemashita (I
have lost) is an expression commonly used by a player in order to resign."
EDITOR'S
NOTE: The original Go Quiz question concerned the literal translation of the
Japanese term for resignation, as printed in Japanese go materials; the letters
last week refer to what players say when they resign. There can often be
significant differences between the written and spoken use of words, and, as
this example makes clear, there can also be significant - though often quite
subtle - differences in attempts at translating an accurate sense of those uses.
Although language is an imperfect method of communication - like go itself -
it's ultimately the effort to communicate that's most important. We apologize
for any confusion we've unwittingly sown and thank our thoughtful correspondents
for their insights.
THIS WEEK'S GO QUIZ: From Honinbo To
Meijin Congrats to Peter Weinberg
of Schenectady, NY, whose name was selected at random from those who correctly
selected 10 as the number of Cho Chikun's successful Honinbo title defenses.
Your quizmaster was hoping to trick some of you - Cho has won the title 12
times, but he has only won - IN DEFENSE - 10 times, but you all (4/4) were too
smart for me! This week's challenge
is to tell us who was the 14th and 1st Meijin title holder - in that order? Was
it Kobayashi Koichi, Otake Hideo, Rin Kaiho, or Ishida Yoshio? Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=330212370809
and enter your choice, and please offer us a comment or a question idea as
well. - Go Quiz Editor: Keith L. Arnold,
hka
GAME
COMMENTARY: Winning a Won Game Plus Yang &
Haruyama The theme for today's game
commentary is converting a winning game into an actual win. In this game between
two 5 kyus, Black, who was ahead for most of the game, lost his lead at the end.
Joey Hung 8d, one of the strongest amateurs in the US - and the 2006 US
representative to the World Amateur Go Championship in Japan -- shows just how
it happened. Our first bonus file
is Yilun Yang 7P's "December" life and death problem in his original E-Journal
series of life and death problems based on the months of the year. Be sure to
turn off the "next move" function before opening the file. The second bonus file
is # 24 Haruyama Isamu 9P's Questions from Actual Play series, translated by
Robert McGuigan. To view the attached .sgf file(s), simply save the
file(s) to your computer and then open using an .sgf reader such as Many Faces
of Go or SmartGo. Readers who need .sgf readers can get them for most platforms
at Jan van der Steen's http://gobase.org/sgfeditors.html
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