World
Go News from the American Go Association
October 29, 2007; Volume 8, #72
U.S. GO NEWS: U.S.
Leading In Online Team Tourney; Morris
Wins Undampened Pumpkin; Dae-Hyuk
Ko Blazes In Socal Wildfire Tourney; Jackson
Tops Lefler Memorial; U.S
To Send Team To '08 World Mind Sports Games; Go In The News
WORLD GO NEWS: Yamashita
Takes First Game In Oza Title Defense; Feng
Yun Loses In Yuanyang Cup; Catalin
Taranu 5P Tours Ireland; French
Smartgo Available
YOUR MOVE: Of
Euro Ratings & Ranks
GO QUIZ:
Polling Time
GO CLASSIFIED
MEMBER’S EDITION BONUS CONTENT: Two game
commentaries for you today, featuring some of the biggest names in
North American amateur go. Jie Li 9d provides sharp commentary on
Saturday’s US - Canada Team Tournament game between Jing Yang
8d (Canada) and Andy Liu 8d (US), while Yuan Zhou 8d reviews a recent
workshop game between anonymous amateur dan level players. Non-members:
all this great content is just a click
away! photo at the Triangle (NH) Go Club by Jeremy M. Lange, INDY
U.S.
LEADING IN ONLINE TEAM TOURNEY: While the U.S. leads
Canada 5-4 in the online team event held last weekend, with the final
two rounds scheduled for tonight (8P EDT), the final result is far from
certain, reports organizer Ke Lu. The results thus far (U.S. player
listed first): Andy Liu 8d (B) lost to Jing Yang 8d by resignation;
Zhaonian Chen 8d d. Zhiqi Yu B (W+R); Jie Liang 8d lost to Xiandong
Zhang (B+R); Minshan Shou 8d d. Dewu Zhang (B+R); Thomas Hsiang 7d d.
Sarah Yu (W+R); I-han Lui 7d lost to Hank Xie (W+R); Xiliang Liu
7d d. William Shi (W+5.5); Young Kwon 7d lost to J
effrey
Fung (W+10.5); Changlong Wu 6d d. Liang Yu (W+R). Game records are
posted online
MORRIS
WINS UNDAMPENED PUMPKIN: Trevor Morris 6d (r, in blue
shirt) topped a field of three dozen players who braved a morning
downpour in Northern Virginia to play in the 2007 NOVA Pumpkin Classic
tournament on Saturday, October 27. “Winners of the Great
Pumpkin for perfect records of 4-0 were Keiju Takehara 5k and Joey
Phoon 29k,” reports organizer Allan Abramson. Winner’s
Report (each of whom also took home a
pumpkin): First Place: Trevor Morris 6d, 3-1; Craig Nelson 2d, 3-1;
Todd Blatt 1k, 3-1; Keiju Takehara 5k, 4-0; Kabe Chin 7k, 3-1, and Joey
Phoon 29k, 4-0. Second Place: Daniel Chou 7d, 2-2; Patrick Allen 1d and
Ben Armitage 1d, tied at 2-2; Nathan Schmitz 2k and Stephen Tung 3k,
tied at 3-1; C.S. Chin 5k, 3-1; Kelsey Dyer 7k and Yukino Takehara 10k,
tied at 2-2; and Melody Chao 30k, 3-1.
DAE-HYUK
KO BLAZES IN SOCAL WILDFIRE TOURNEY: Orange County Go
Club president Kevin Chao hosted the Southern California Wildfire
Invitational at his home in Laguna Hills, CA on October 21. The
tournament was a Baltimore Eight knockout among many of the strongest
players in California. “As fires blazed from San Diego to
Newhall, Dae-hyuk Ko 8d burned a path of his own en route to a 3-0
record,” reports Steve Burrall, who directed the three-round
competition. Winner’s Report:
1st: Dae-hyuk Ko 8d; 2nd: Robert Mateescu 8d; 3rd: Yixian Zhou 6d.
JACKSON
TOPS LEFLER MEMORIAL: Andrew Jackson 4d topped the 3rd
Annual Greg Lefler Memorial Tournament in Rochester, NY October 20-21.
A highlig
ht of the
event was the presentation of an AGA
Lifetime Membership to longtime local go teacher Bill Hewitt (l). Winner’s
Report: Dan Division: 1st: Andrew Jackson 4d,
4-1; 2nd: Phil Waldron 6d, 3-2; 3rd: James Sedgwick 6d, 3-2. High Kyu:
1st: Carrie Lapidus 6k, 4-1; 2nd: Thomas Wolf 6k, 4-1; 3rd: Will Wood
6k, 4-1. Low Kyu: 1st: Elliot Stern 13k, 4-1; 2nd: Tom Smith 14k, 4-1;
3rd: Will Boer 11k, 3-2. photos
courtesy Steve Colburn
U.S
TO SEND TEAM TO '08 WORLD MIND SPORTS GAMES: More
details are emerging about the First
World Mind Sport Games in Beijing next year, a part of the
Olympic movement under the auspices of the General Association of
International Sports Federations (GAISF).
Thomas Hsiang – the American Go Association’s
representative on the International Go Federation -- reports that the
Games will be organized by China Card and Board Game Centre and the
International Mind Sports Association (IMSA), which was formed in 2005
by the international federations of four mind sports, go, chess, bridge
and draughts. The International
Go Federation announced on October 22 that the competition
will include professionals as well as amateur players, and medals will
be awarded in six categories -- Men's Individuals, Women's Individuals,
Men's Teams, Women's Teams, Pair Go, and a special "Open" section for
amateurs only. The AGA intends to send a team of up to twenty players,
and is now developing a “fair, open, inclusive
procedure” to select the US team. The AGA has initiated a
fund drive to cover travel and incidental costs for the team; other
expenses will be borne by the event organizers. The American
Go Foundation will participate by providing a tax-exempt
vehicle for individual and foundation donors. Write to agf@usgo.org if
you can help. Corporate donors please contact president@usgo.org or
igf@usgo.org.
GO
IN THE NEWS: Roanoke, VA:
“A Chinese war lasting more than 4,000 years has migrated to
the Pop's Ice Cream Shop and Soda Bar in Grandin Village," 
reported
Marvin T. Anderson in the October 5 Roanoke (VA) Times. "It's kind of
like a dance," said Jim Payette, who travels from Lexington to
challenge Roanoke residents. "You defend and then you attack. You
defend and then you attack." Click
here to read the full report on the Roanoke Go Club. Durham.
NC: “My nemesis is a 12-year-old
named Adam,” wrote Gerry Canavan in the October 10 INDY.
“When I first played Go with Adam Plesser over the summer at
Francesca's coffeehouse in Durham, I entered the game with what I
thought was a healthy mix of generosity and arrogance. Go easy on him,
I thought to myself, he's just a kid. Wrong. He crushed me, and midway
through the game I mumbled something about being tired and resigned in
disgrace.” Canavan ran into Plesser in the second round of
the recent Triangle Memorial Go Tournament; click
here to read his report on the encounter and on go in the
Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. Photo
of 10-year-old Michael Plesser by Jeremy M. Lange, INDY
YAMASHITA
TAKES FIRST GAME IN OZA TITLE DEFENSE: Yamashita
Keigo 9P defeated challenger Imamura
Toshiya 9P by resignation on October 26th to take the first
game in the defense of his Oza.
The Oza is one of the top seven Japanese national titles and has a
best-of-five-game title match. Yamashita took this title from Cho
U 9P last year, after challenging unsuccessfully the previous
two years. Imamura is in his forties and a member of the Kansai
Kiin. He won a couple of minor national titles back in 1984
and also was the challenger for the Gosei
title in 1989. Yamashita also holds the Kisei,
the number one Japanese title, and is the challenger for the current
Tengen. The title match for the latter, currently held by Kono
Rin 9P, starts next week, so Yamashita will be playing in
two top-seven title matches at the same time.
FENG
YUN LOSES IN YUANYANG CUP: Playing as the North American
representative in
the new
international women's tournament, the Yuanyang
Cup, on October 29th, Feng
Yun 9P (l) of the USA lost in the first round to Kim
Eunsun 3P of Korea. The European representative, 6d amateur
Cho Bae, also lost, playing Aoki
Kikuyo 8P of Japan. Besides the two Western reps, the event
included six Japanese, six Koreans, and ten Chinese. The tournament is
sponsored by a Chinese company, Yuanyang. Counting those who were
seeded into the second round, there will be three Japanese
representatives, three Koreans, and eight Chinese. A number of players
well known to E-Journal readers will be in the second round, such as Rui
Naiwei 9P and Park
Jieun 8P for Korea, along with Kato
Keiko 5P and teenager Xie
Yimin 3P for Japan.
CATALIN
TARANU 5P TOURS IRELAND: In what’s believed
to be the first time a professional go player has visited the northern
reaches of the Emerald Isle, Romanian Catalin Taranu 5P toured Ireland
earlier this month. “He played simultaneous games and gave a
lecture at the 2nd Belfast Go Tournament,” reports Ian Davis
1d, who won the tournament. “He also played simultaneous
games at the Dublin Go Club.” Click
here for photos and a complete tournament report.
FRENCH
SMARTGO AVAILABLE: SmartGo is now available en
Français, in addition to German, Japanese, Korean, Polish,
and Russian, reports Anders Kierulf. “Just go to www.smartgo.com,
download the newest version, and choose Help >
Français to switch the user interface to French,”
says Kierulf. “Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Avy for translating
SmartGo.”
GO
CALENDAR: Yang, Yuan & More
November 1-4: Lancaster, PA: 11th
Lancaster Yang Workshop
Sam Zimmerman szimmerman@ctipc.com 717.892.1249
November 2: Bethesda, MD:
Yuan Zhou monthly lesson
$12 to have a game reviewed (observers free); GWGC, basement (room 15),
Cedar Lane Unitarian Church, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda. Starting time
8:30P
Haskell Small; haskellsmall@starpower.net
November 3-4: Portland, OR: Portland
Go Tournament
Peter
Drake drake@lclark.edu 503.245.1239
November 3: Ft. Myers, FL: Ft.
Myers Go Club Turkey Tournament
Kent Secor kent1956_go@yahoo.com 239.222.3625
YOUR
MOVE: Readers Write
OF EURO RATINGS & RANKS: “The E-Journal actually had
it right the first time, Fan Hui is the highest rated player in
Europe,” (“Top Euro 10/22 EJ) writes Ian Davis from
Ireland – one of a number of European readers who wrote in.
“Guo Juan and Catalin
Taranu are the highest ranked. (You can check the EGF
Official ratings for confirmation) It’s the old
ranks and ratings definition difference.” EGF
ratings put Fan Hui (FR) 3P at #1 with 2827; next is Cho Seok-bin (DE)
7D with 2776; 3rd: Dinerstein Alexandr (RU) 1P at 2759; 4th: Hwang
In-seong (DE) 7D with 2757; 5th: Taranu Catalin (RO) 5P at 2747.
GO
PHOTOS
The Upper Valley's Go Club (NH) “had a great summer, playing
outdoors a few times,” reports the club’s Karen
Plomp. “Our locations ranged from Quechee Gorge to Mt
Ascutney (all in Vermont) as well as at Silver Lake, where we played go
in a rowboat (r). Click
here for more photos from the UVGC’s go summer.
GO
QUIZ: Polling Time
“No multiple choice! Too hard!" complained Trevor Morris as
he got the answer to last week’s Quiz right. Despite the lack
of help, a whopping 40 of you knew that was Cho Chikun pictured, and
most even got the second part right as well! Quoting quiz stalwart Phil
Waldron; "Cho 
Chikun
has won the most big seven titles in history and is the only person to
complete a ‘grand slam’ winning each title at least
once in his career." In fact, two of the wrong answers were almo
st right,
but stretched too far by claiming he held them simultaneously. And your
quizmaster learned something: I did not know that Cho had held them all
at least twice! Of course, Peter St. John does point out one hole in
Cho's resume: "His success will not be complete until he earns the
prestigious ‘Keith Arnold’ title." Congrats to
Steve Fawthrop, this week's winner, selected at random from those
answering correctly.
THIS WEEK’S QUIZ:
Planning for the upcoming Toyota-OZA in Baltimore (and LA) has got me
thinking about time. Specifically go clocks and overtime: do you prefer
electronic or analog clocks? Japanese byo yomi or Canadian overtime? Click
here to take our poll!
- Keith Arnold, HKA, Quizmaster
GO
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