World
Go News from the American Go Association
April 23, 2007
Volume 8, #34
MISSION SAN JOSE HIGH
3-PEATS AT 4TH CA HIGH SCHOOL GO TOURNEY
REDMOND CUP EARLY RESULTS
WORLD YOUTH COMES TO U.S.
CHINA SUMMER GO CAMP UPDATE
EIGHT TOURNAMENTS ARE NOT ENOUGH
GO WORLD 1: GW ARCHIVE ARRIVES
JAPANESE FALLING BEHIND IN FUJITSU
IYAMA YUTA GAINS THIRD ROUND OF TENGEN
GU LI WINS CHINESE TIANYUAN
YAMASHITA EVENS IT UP IN JUDAN
DRAGOS BAJENARU WINS SCHMIDT CUP IN
ROMANIA
GO WORLD 2: DEAL OF A LIFETIME
NYC SAKURA MATSURI VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT
2010 ASIAN GAMES TO INCLUDE GO
GO PHOTOS
GO CALENDAR
GO CLASSIFIED
MISSION
SAN JOSE HIGH 3-PEATS AT 4TH CA HIGH SCHOOL GO TOURNEY:
Mission San Jose High School from Fremont, California, won 1st place
for the third straight year in the CA High School Go Tournament. Nine
Bay Area high school go teams competed in a 4-round tournament on April
22 at the ING's Goe Foundation Center in Menlo Park, CA. Click
here for full story & Winner's Report. Photo, above right: Lawrence
Ku 6d vs. Michael Cheng 6d
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reported by Lawrence Ku, EJ West Coast Correspondent
REDMOND
CUP EARLY RESULTS: Twelve top youth players are
competing in the Redmond Cup, the oldest internet go tournament in
North America. Players include Andy Liu, the 2006 US Open Champion, 3
WYGC Qualifiers, and several WYGC runners-up, who are competing in 6
rounds of tournament play on the IGS. Click
here for full story & Winner's Report
WORLD
YOUTH COMES TO U.S.: The 24th World
Youth Go Championships will come to the United States for the
first time this year, scheduled for August 6-12 in Boston, MA. 
Sponsored
by the Ing Foundation, the tournament features top youth players from
around the world.
CHINA
SUMMER GO CAMP UPDATE: Nearly 20 have already registered
for this year's Feng Yun Summer Go Camp in China. "We still have seats
available," Feng Yun 9P tells the EJ. The camp "offers a great
experience of study both go and Chinese culture," says Feng Yun. Click
here for full story. Photo,
left: world champion XiHe Lou plays a teaching game with 2006 campers.
EIGHT
TOURNAMENTS ARE NOT ENOUGH: In addition to the US Open
, each US
Go Congress - July 28-August 4 this year -- features a slew of side and
self-paired tournaments. "This year, keep an eye out for a
new-and-improved version of the Chuck Robbins Challenge," reports
Congress Co-Director Peter Nassar, "as well as an even bigger East-West
tournament, a revamped North American Masters/Ing tournament, and a new
Women's Tournament, aimed exclusively to women go players." Click
here for full story; info
and registration
GO
WORLD 1: GW ARCHIVE ARRIVES: The much-anticipated Go
World Archive is now available, Kiseido Digital's Bob Myers tells the
EJ. "This product contains an unprecedented wealth of go information,"
says Myers. "Lovingly scanned to maintain the exact look and feel of
the original," the archive includes an extensive index and full-text
search across the entire archive of nearly 7000 pages and can be used
on any computer with a DVD drive and Adobe Reader software. Click
here for full story & a special EJ reader discount!
JAPANESE
FALLING BEHIND IN FUJITSU: Three Koreans and three
Chinese players but only two Japanese have made it to the third round
of the international Fujitsu. Click
here for full story
IYAMA
YUTA GAINS THIRD ROUND OF TENGEN: Japanese teen phenom
Iyama Yuta 7P has reached the third round of the Tengen tournament. Click
here for full story.
GU
LI WINS CHINESE TIANYUAN: Gu Li 9P (right) defeated Liu
Shizhen 6P 2-1 in the defense of Gu's Tianyuan title. Click
here for full story.
YAMASHITA
EVENS IT UP IN JUDAN: Yamashita Keigo 9P needed only
106 moves to force a resignation from Cho Chikun 9P and bring the score
in the best-of-five-game title match to 2-2. Click
here for full story.
DRAGOS
BAJENARU WINS SCHMIDT CUP IN ROMANIA: Dragos Bajenaru 6d
has won the Walter Schmidt Cup in Romania. Click
here for full report from EJ European Correspondent Marilena
Bara
GO
WORLD 2: DEAL OF A LIFETIME: If you missed the January
offer, here's another 
chance to purchase 24 hard-copy
issues of Go World magazine for just $60. That's just $2.50 for each
copy of the superb chronicle of contemporary go featuring commented
games and a wealth of instructional material in every issue. Click
here for details; offer ends April 30!
NYC
SAKURA MATSURI VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT: The New York Go
Center Outreach Team is looking for volunteers at to teach at Sakura
Matsuri on April 28 or 29. Click
here for details.
2010
ASIAN GAMES TO INCLUDE GO: Go will be one of the
competitive games in the 2010 Asian Games, reports Thomas Hsiang. Click
here for full story.
CORRECTION: This month's victory by the
Rockville (MD) club over the Greater Washington Go Club (ROCKVILLE
EDGES DC CLUB AGAIN 4/16 EJ) was Rockville first win; last
month the two clubs tied and GWGC has prevailed in all previous
matches.
GO
PHOTOS:
At the April 14 DC Sakura Matsuri Festival. Volunteers Kaname
Yunokawa in foreground, John Goon in background.
GO
CALENDAR
Click
here for complete listing
April 28-29: Houston, TX
Houston
Spring Go Tournament 2007
Preregistration is required via our web site by end of day April 26.
Box Lunches will be provided.
Robert Cordingley rcordingley@houston.rr.com 281.333.1614
April 28: Hartford, CT
CCC Spring Tournament
Bill Fung cccgoclub@yahoo.com 860.906.7398
April 29: Rochester, NY
Empty
Sky Spring Tournament
Nick Blake emptyskygo@gmail.com 339.364.0933
GO
CLASSIFIED
Locate
go clubs worldwide
PLAYERS WANTED: South Jersey: Looking for strong players in the South
Jersey area. Contact bart_simpson9181994@hotmail.com (4/23)
BOOKS FOR SALE: Best offer for ALL the following books before May 1.
Please include shipping in your offer. Attack and Defense, Akira Ishida
and James Davies, New Condition, First Printing January 1980; The
Direction of Play, Takeo Kajiwara, good condition, First Printing March
1979; Strategic Concepts of GO, Nagahara, very good condition, Fifth
Printing, January 1989; Opening Theory Made Easy, Otake Hideo, good
condition, First Printing, October 1992; Graded GO Problems for
Beginners Volume Three Intermediate Problems, Kano Yoshinori, very good
condition, First Printing, March 1987; The Breakthrough to Shodan,
Naoki Miyamoto translated by James Davis, very good condition, Second
Printing, December 1985. Email bids to: stewart.kane@gmail.com (4/23)
PLAYERS WANTED: Springfield, OR: I would like to try and start up
another go club here; Kurschun Finch kurschun.finch@mindspring.com
(4/23)
WANTED: Floor go board new or used, no preference. Email
Dragonfx14@yahoo.com 4/23
PLAYERS WANTED: Anyone in the southern Salt Lake, Utah area that wants
to set up a club, middle-schoolers wanted most. E-mail me at
thewriteheart@gmail.com (4/16)
PLAYERS WANTED: Ft. Myers, FL area. Seeking players to form go club for
regular play and/or starting school go clubs with regular classes and
tournaments. If interested call Kent at 239-222-3625. email address
kent1956_go@yahoo.com. I presently play with the Sarasota Go club, but
would like to advance the game in my own area. (4/2)
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