AMERICAN GO THE WORLD'S OLDEST BOARD GAME

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THE WORLD’S OLDEST BOARD GAME

R E V I E W & I N S T R U C T I O N

I N S I D E : T O U R N A M E N T R E P O R T S , C L I C K A B L E L I N K S T O G A M E S , I N S T R U C T I O N , G O P L A Y E R S G U I D E T O T H E

W O R L D , C O L O R P H O T O S , G O R E V I E W & M O R E !

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Guide to Go

Where to play Go in America — AGA CHAPTERS

http://www.usgo.org for a full listing of both chapters and clubs

AL: MontgomeryMontgomery Go AssociationThomas [email protected]

AR: Little RockThe Little Rock Go ClubCassandra [email protected]

AZ: FlagstaffMountain Go Clubhttp://mountaingoclub.webs.com/Liz [email protected]

AZ: TempeArizona Go Clubhttp://azgoclub.org/William [email protected] H480-429-0300 W

CA: ArcataHumboldt County Go ClubCarl [email protected]

CA: DavisDavis/Sacramento Go Clubhttp://www.davissacramentogoclub.org/Willard [email protected] [email protected]

CA: IrvineOrange County Go Clubhttp://www.ocgoclub.com/Kevin [email protected]

CA: La MiradaBiola University Go ClubTimothy [email protected]

CA: OaklandBay Area Go Players Assoc.http://www.bayareago.org/510-501-2701

CA: PasadenaYu Go ClubJoe [email protected]

CA: San DiegoSan Diego Go ClubTed [email protected]

CA: San Luis ObispoSan Luis Obispo Go ClubBob Metz805-546-9050

CA: Santa MonicaSanta Monica Go Clubhttp://www.santamonicago.org/Christopher [email protected]

CA: SunnyvaleSunnyvale Go Clubhttp://www.sunnyvalegoclub.org/Jean G. [email protected]

CA: VenturaVentura County Go Clubhttp://chapters.usgo.org/ventura/David [email protected]

CA: Woodland HillsWoodland Hills Go ClubBarry [email protected]

CO: BoulderBoulder Kids and Teens Go Clubhttp://boulderlibrary.org/youth/events/go.htmlPaul [email protected]

CO: Colorado SpringsSprings Go Clubhttp://csgo.org/Jim [email protected] [email protected]

CO: DenverColorado Go Centerhttp://www.coloradogocenter.com/Site/Home_Page.htmlEric [email protected] [email protected]

CO: LongmontLongmont Go ClubAref [email protected]

CT: MiddletownCentral Connecticut Go Clubhttp://chapters.usgo.org/ccgc/Michael [email protected]

DC:19 Square Points Go Clubhttp://deepsojourner.net/Thomas Allen [email protected]

DC: BethesdaGreater Washington Go Clubhttp://users.erols.com/jgoon/gw-gcmain.htmHaskell Small202-244-4764John [email protected]

FL: OrlandoGo Orlandohttp://ww.pompomsteahouse.com/Paul [email protected] [email protected]

FL: TampaTampa Go Clubhttp://tampabay-online.org/go/John [email protected]

GA: AtlantaAtlanta Go ClubJeffery J [email protected]

HI: HonoluluHonolulu Go ClubSid [email protected]

HI: KaneoheOahu Go Clubhttp://meetup.com/oahugoclubFrank H. [email protected]

IA: AmesCyclone Go Clubhttp://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/cygoKirk [email protected]

IA: DavenportQuad Cities Go Clubhttp://www.qcago.orgMichael [email protected]

IL: CharlestonCharleston Go ClubJonathan [email protected]

IL: EvanstonEvanston Go Clubhttp://evanstongoclub.orgRubenstein, [email protected]

IL: PeoriaBradley Go Associationhttp://www.bradley.edu/campu-sorg/bgaRoy [email protected]

IL: Prospect HeightsNorthwest Chicago Go ClubKyung Han847-296-2510

IL: RockfordRockford Go ClubMichael [email protected]

IL: SchaumburgSchaumburg Go Clubhttp://schaumburggoclub.org/Daniel [email protected]

IN: IndianapolisIndianapolis Go SalonVicki [email protected]

LA: ShreveportShreveport-Bossier Go ClubPeter [email protected]

MA:Athenahealth Go ClubColin [email protected]

MA: AmherstWestern Mass. Go Clubhttp://www.cookwood.com/personal/goBill [email protected]

MA: BostonNortheastern University Go ClubJoshua [email protected]

MA: NewtonGBCCA Go Clubhttp://www.bostongo.org/Ke [email protected]

MA: SomervilleMassachusetts Go AssociationDavid [email protected]

MD: BaltimoreBaltimore Go Clubhttp://baltimoregoclub.orgKeith [email protected]

MD: College ParkUniv. of Maryland Go Clubhttp://usgo.org/AGAChapters/UMD/Stephen M. [email protected]

MD: RockvilleRockville Chess and Go Grouphttp://www.erols.com/jgoon/links-go.htmTodd [email protected] [email protected]

MD: WheatonArthur Lewis Go Clubhttp://www.erols.com/jgoon/[email protected] [email protected]

MI: Ann ArborAnn Arbor Go Clubhttp://www.umich.edu/%7EgoclubEric [email protected]

MI: Grand RapidsGrand Rapids Go ClubDavid J. [email protected]

MN: MinneapolisTwin Cities Go Clubhttp://tcgo.orgAaron [email protected]

MO:Southwest Missouri Go ClubTyler [email protected]

MO: RollaGo Miners S&TDonald [email protected]

MO: St. LouisSt. Louis Go ClubJason [email protected]

NC: CaryCary Go Clubhttp://www.carygo.orgOwen [email protected]

NC: Durham/Chapel HillTriangle Go Grouphttp://www.trianglegoclub.orgPaul [email protected]

NH: Hanover, LebanonUpper Valley Go Clubhttp://www.feustel.us/GO/Karen [email protected]

NH: NashuaMilford Go ClubPeter [email protected]

NJ: CaldwellFeng Yun Go Schoolhttp://mywebpages.comcast.net/fengyun/FY_Go_Center/FYGC.htmFeng [email protected]

MY MOVE/EDITOR’S NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

AGA OFFICERS & COORDINATORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

AMERICA’S TEACHING PROFESSIONALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

US TITLEHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

U.S. GO: THE YEAR IN HEADLINES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

MAJOR 2010 TOURNAMENTS & EVENTS

US GO CONGRESS

MYUNG-WAN KIM 9P 3-PEATS AS U.S. OPEN CHAMP . . . . .13

WALL-TO-WALL CONGRESS TOURNEY COVERAGE . . . . . . .13

HUIREN YANG 1P WINS 2010 NORTH AMERICAN ING . . . .14

CHEN/TANG WIN U.S. PAIR GO CHAMPIONSHIPS . . . . . . . . .14

2010 U.S. GO CONGRESS OPENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

WOLFRAM DONATES TO GO CONGRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

PHOTO ALBUM/SUNDAY, 8/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

U.S. OPEN ROUND 1, BOARD 1:

JENNIE SHEN 2P ON WHY “I HATE THIS OPENING” . . . . . . .16

U.S. GO CONGRESS BIDS NAKAYAMA JOYFUL FAREWELL 17

YASUMASA HANE 9P ON AMERICAN GO, STUDYING

AND CHASING THE DREAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

PHOTO ALBUM/MONDAY, 8/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19


RYO MAEDA 6P’ “MYSTERIOUS & INTERESTING MOVES” . . .19

PHOTO ALBUM/TUESDAY, 8/3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

ONLINE SOFTWARE FOR MANAGING YOUR CLUB . . . . . . . .20

PHOTO ALBUM/WEDNESDAY, 8/4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

TANG WINS REDMOND CUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

PHOTO ALBUM/THURSDAY, 8/5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22


CHENG XIAOLIU 6P’S “COST OF UNUSUAL JOSEKIS” . . . . . .22

PHOTO ALBUM/FRIDAY, 8/6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23


CATHY LI 1P ON UNAVOIDABLE FIGHTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 23

RYO MAEDA 6P ON ATTACK AND CAPTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

CONGRESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

LIFE AND DEATH WITH RYO MAEDA 6P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

HANDLING 3-3 INVASIONS THE MAEDA WAY . . . . . . . . . . . .26

GETTING ATTACHED WITH RYO MAEDA 6P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

BONUS ROUND WITH RYO MAEDA 6P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

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CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

U.S. OPEN/ING GAMES & COMMENTARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

WOLF WINS REDMOND CUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

TANG NAMED REDMOND MEIJIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

MYUNG-WAN KIM 9P’S THREE-PEAT AGF DONATION . . . . .31

KIDS SCORE BIG IN GO CONGRESS YOUTH ROOM . . . . . . . 32

5 MINUTES WITH: THE HARWIT TWINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

NORTH AMERICAN ING MASTERS:

YASUMASA HANE 9P’S FINAL ROUND COMMENTARY . . . .33

AGF TEACHER OF THE YEAR’S SECRETS OF TEACHING GO 34

SHOTWELL PREVIEWS “GO! MORE THAN A GAME” . . . . . . . .35

RUDE, CRUDE AND INCREDIBLY ENTERTAINING . . . . . . . . . .36

PHOTO ALBUM/PAIR GO TOURNAMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

CHEN/TANG WIN U.S. PAIR GO CHAMPIONSHIPS . . . . . . . . .37

SHIGEKO HANE 1P ON “EXPECTATIONS, MENTAL

TOUGHNESS AND ENJOYING GO” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

NORTH AMERICAN ING MASTERS PLAYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

PHOTO ALBUM/THE KGS TATTOO GALLERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

RECORD E-JOURNAL TEAM COVERS 2010 GO CONGRESS .41

TOURNAMENT WINNERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

WORLD AMATEUR GO CHAMPIONSHIP

KOREA WINS 2010 WORLD AMATEURS;

U.S. MOVES UP TO 12TH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

E-JOURNAL/RANKA TEAM AGAIN PROVIDES

FULL WAGC COVERAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

WAGC GAME COMMENTARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

PRESIDENTIAL GO: THE VIEW FROM THE TOP . . . . . . . . . . . .46

5 MINUTES WITH: JOHN GIBSON 2K, IRELAND . . . . . . . . . . . .46

U.S. MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN WORLD GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

5 MINUTES WITH: CARLOS JOELS 1K, PERU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: KICKING IT WITH THE KIDS. . . . . . . .48

5 MINUTES WITH: DAVID ORMEROD 5D, AUSTRALIA . . . . . .48

PLAYER PORTRAITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

5 MINUTES WITH: VESA LAATIKAINEN 5D, FINLAND . . . . . .49

WAGC GAME COMMENTARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

5 MINUTES WITH: FRANCESCA MAURI 5K, ITALY . . . . . . . . . .51

PICTURES OF CONCENTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

THE “IMPOSSIBLE” TIAN YUAN TOWER PROBLEM . . . . . . . . .52

5 MINUTES WITH: T MARK HALL 4D, UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

HANGZHOU’S TOWER OF GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

AT 20, PAIR GO LOOKS BACK AND AHEAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

CHINA TO LEAD IGF INTO NEW ERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

THE GO PLAYERS GUIDE TO THE WORLD: CHINA

CHICKEN FEET, NEW FRIENDS, THE MYSTERIES OF GO

AND PINT-SIZED PLAYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

AT THE BLUE ELEPHANT GO SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

DRINKING GO & COFFEE SHOP LESSONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

COUNTING LIBERTIES AT THE TONGZHOU GO SCHOOL . .58

WAGC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

COTSEN OPEN

DAE HYUK KO 7D WINS 2010 COTSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

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PRO-PRO GAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

COTSEN OPEN RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

PHOTO ALBUM: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

ROUND 1, BOARD 1: JENNIE SHEN 2P

ON RUI WANG 7D – JUYONG KOH 7D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

PHOTO ALBUM: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

ROUND 5 GAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

ROUND 2, BOARD 3: THE DAME DISPUTE GAME . . . . . . . . . .64

PHOTO ALBUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

INSTRUCTION

MEMBER’S EDITION COLLECTION OF GAMES,

COMMENTARIES & MORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

MICHAEL REDMOND 9P’S PRO COMMENTARIES . . . . . . . . . .66

YILUN YANG 7P’S LIFE & DEATH (TSUME-GO) PUZZLES . . .67

YUAN ZHOU 7D’S AMATEUR GAMES/WEIQI WORLD . . . . . .68

HARUYAMA ISAMU 9P’S “QUESTIONS”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

ALEX DINERCHTEIN 3P’S COMMENTARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

KAZUNARI FURUYAMA’S “LESSONS WITH KAZ” . . . . . . . . . . .71

COMMENTARIES FROM GO WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

GO TOOLS: BOOKS, SOFTWARE & HARDWARE

SMARTGO KIFU RELEASED FOR IPAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

DIGITIZED “GO REVIEW” TROVE NOW AVAILABLE . . . . . . . . .74

DAILY E-JOURNAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

THE GO CONSULTANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

IGOWIN BRINGS “MANY FACES” TO IPHONE, IPOD & IPAD .75

SLATE & SHELL ISSUES SPANISH TRANSLATION

OF YUAN ZHOU’S “HOW NOT TO PLAY GO” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

BRITISH GO JOURNAL BACK ISSUES ON-LINE . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

IGOLOCAL: NEW WAY TO FIND GO PLAYERS DEBUTS . . . . .78

ONLINE SOFTWARE FOR MANAGING YOUR CLUB . . . . . . . .78

KISEIDO OFFERS VOLUMES OF PROBLEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

THE RETURN OF BADUKBOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

NEW IN PRINT 2010 (PART 1) CLASSIC GAMES . . . . . . . . . . . .79

NEW IN PRINT 2010 (PART II) A BEGINNER’S BONANZA . . .79

NEW IN PRINT 2010 (PART III) 6 NEW WORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . .80

NEW GO GAME VIEWER DEVELOPED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81

TUTTLE PUBLISHES BOZULICH’S “WINNING GO” . . . . . . . . . .81

MANY FACES RELEASES IPAD APP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

GOGRINDER FOR IPHONE RELEASED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

GO SPOTTING

TV: CRIMINAL MINDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

BOOK: A THOUSAND PLATEAUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

FILM: THE TASTE OF TEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

FILM: THE WARLORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

NOVEL: THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

BLOG: EYES OF WOOD, HANDS OF STONE, HEART OF . . . .85

THE GO PLAYERS GUIDE TO THE WORLD

COLORADO: GO BEHIND BARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

COLORADO: A FLOWER BLOOMS IN THE JAIL YARD . . . . . .87


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NEW YORK CITY: THE CHESS AND CHECKERS HOUSE . . . . .88

CHINA: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55-58

YOUTH GO

OC GO CLUB WINS SCHOOL TOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

MISSION SAN JOSE ACES SCHOOL TOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

CANADA DOMINATES REDMOND CUP QUALIFIERS . . . . . .90

TIGER’S MOUTH DEFEATS INSEI EMPIRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

SIX WIN IN U.S. YOUTH GO CHAMPIONSHIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

BUDDHIST NUN MARJORIE “SU CO” HEY NAMED

TEACHER OF THE YEAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92

TANG WINS REDMOND CUP SENIOR DIVISION . . . . . . . . . . .93

WOLF WINS REDMOND CUP JUNIOR DIVISION . . . . . . . . . . .93

TANG NAMED REDMOND MEIJIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

KIDS SCORE BIG IN GO CONGRESS YOUTH ROOM . . . . . . . .94

5 MINUTES WITH: THE HARWIT TWINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

13-YEAR-OLD SUN PLACES FOURTH IN WORLD YOUTH . .95

CANADA WINS 3RD YOUTH FRIENDSHIP MATCH . . . . . . . . .95

SHEN AND SU WIN AGF COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS. . . . . . . .96

ZHUANG TOPS YOUNG LIONS TOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

GO PLAYING TEEN WINS SIEMEN’S PRIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97

PASSAGES/IN MEMORIAM

NAKAYAMA NORIYUKI 6P DIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

NAKAYAMA’S LAST LECTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

LETTER FROM JAPAN: GOODBYE, THE CONGRESS I LOVE .99

NAKAYAMA ON HOW TO IMPROVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

“AH, THE CLAM SHELLS ARE HEAVY” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

NAKAYAMA’S MONKEY LADDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

MILTON BRADLEY: “AN UNSTOPPAGE PASSION FOR GO” 100

EDMUND HAVENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

SCOREBOARD: LOCAL EVENT PHOTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

RATINGS: ALL CURRENT MEMBERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

MOST GAMES/EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111/112

WINNERS CIRCLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

GUIDE TO GO: WHERE TO PLAY GO IN AMERICA . . INSIDE COVERS

YEARBOOK ADVERTISERS

SMARTGO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 89

GOGAMEWORLD.COM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

GO WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67, 77

GO GAME GURU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

GUO JUAN’S INTERNET GO SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

SLATE & SHELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

YUTOPIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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Managing Editor Chris Garlock

Assistant EditorWilliam S. Cobb

Associate Editors Paul Barchilon Terry Benson

Roy Laird John Pinkerton

Contributing ProfessionalsMichael Redmond 9P

Yilun Yang 7PAlexander Dinerchtein 3P

ContributorsBrian Allen

Kazunari FuruyamaRobert McGuigan

Yuan Zhou 7d

Design/LayoutChris Garlock

Database Manager Sam Zimmerman

Websitewww.usgo.org

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My Move by Chris Garlock, Managing Editor

Th is 8th annual American Go Yearbook is in many ways our most ambitious yet.

As usual, the Yearbook includes a selection of the best material published in the American Go E-Journal (EJ). But now, as a PDF-only publication, we’re hot-linked to a staggering amount of great online content that we never had the space for as a print publication. And as fabulous as we think that Yearbook has always looked, it’s so much better now in full color. In 2010, the EJ underwent a transformation, instituting a signifi cant technol-ogy upgrade, moving to RSS feeds that update the AGA website as new reports, games and photos are posted, and then automatically compiling that material into both daily and weekly EJs. Th is development not only made the EJ and website more useful – and timely -- tools for go players worldwide, it enabled us to continue to build a broader team of contributors reporting from across the United States and around the globe. We’re very proud of that team, which has made the EJ the largest English-language go publication in the world, with over 14,000 readers. In June 2010 we published the Yearbook’s fi rst-ever World Amateur Go Cham-pionship Special Edition, an 18-page full-color PDF report on the 31st annual World Amateur Go Championship held May 24-31 in Hangzhou, China. Th e Special Edition compiled the coverage of the WAGC by the American Go E-Journal/Ranka Online team — suitable for online viewing or printing out — and included reports, photos and embedded clickable links to game commentaries by Michael Redmond 9P and the complete online coverage by both the E-Journal and Ranka. Th e Special Edition PDF proved immensely popular with our members and was quickly followed by our fi rst-ever U.S. Go Congress Special Edition -- a 31-page full-color PDF report covering the 21st annual U.S. Go Congress – and then the third Special Edition of the year, covering the September 19-20 Cotsen Open in Los Ange-les. We also compiled our online 2009 Game Commentary Collection, collecting all the 2009 EJ Member’s Edition material online for easy access anytime and replacing the CD that used to be published with the annual American Go Yearbook. Th e advantages of new electronic publishing platforms, which provided greater fl exibility, active links, and faster publishing times, coincided with a budget crunch at the American Go Association, which in October 2010 announced that, beginning with the 2010 edition, the American Go Yearbook would be published as a full-color PDF with clickable links, rather than the hard-copy edition as previously. “Th e AGA’s budget has been under severe strain because of the twin fi nancial impacts of declining membership and the loss of the longtime and generous Ing sup-port for go in the U.S.” said AGA President Allan Abramson. “Without the signifi cant budget savings realized by eliminating the Yearbook printing and postage costs – which constitute the majority of the $14,000 in annual Yearbook expenses, we would be faced with drastic – and unacceptable — cuts in support for key events at the annual Congress as well as a range of go activities across the country,” said Abramson. Th e Yearbook printing/postage savings has enabled the AGA not just to contin-ue fi nancing quality Yearbook and EJ content for members, but to expand it to include new features like game commentaries from top professionals like Michael Redmond, Feng Yun, Guo Juan and of course all the great material that you’ve seen in 2010 and 2011. We hope you enjoy and use this Yearbook for many years to come. We welcome your comments and suggestions at [email protected], especially since it’s now easy for us to correct the PDF. We look forward to continuing to bring you go news, photos and games from the global go community in the EJ, on our website, in our Special Reports and in the 2011 Yearbook. And yes, for those who prefer a hard copy of the Yearbook, we’re looking into a ‘print-on-demand’ option. See you on the goban!


AGA OFFICERS AND COORDINATORS

Th e AGA leadership is made up entirely of go-loving volunteers. Th ey wish to share their enjoyment of the game with others and put in a lot of time and eff ort; we appreciate their work. Here’s a list of contacts to fi nd the department and person to help you with any question about the AGA. To fi nd out how you can get involved, email [email protected]

AGA BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Chair: Andrew Okun (Western Region) Paul Celmer (Eastern Region) Chuck Robbins (Eastern Region) Laura Kolb (Central Region) Lisa Scott (Central) Gordon Castanza (Western Region)Jie Li (At Large)

AGA OFFICERS:

President: Allan Abramson [email protected]: Pauline Pohl [email protected]: Adam Bridges [email protected] – Communications: Chris Garlock [email protected] – International: Th omas Hsiang (with Fritz Balwit) [email protected] – Planning: Chris Kirschner [email protected] – Ratings: Jonathan Bresler [email protected] – Operations: Andrew Jackson [email protected]

SERVICES COORDINATORSChapter Services: Arnold Eudell [email protected] Outreach: John Goon [email protected]: Mark Rubenstein [email protected] Go: Allan Abramson Summer Go Camps: VacancyTournament Coordination: Edward (Zhiyuan) Zhang (with Oren Laskin [email protected] Coordination: Paul Barchilon [email protected]

OPERATIONS COORDINATORS Archivist: David Doshay [email protected] Database: Sam Zimmerman [email protected] Database: Jonathan Bresler [email protected] Offi cer: Arnold Eudell [email protected] & Governance: VacancyRank Certifi cation: VacancyRules: Terry Benson [email protected] Coordinator: Nick Jhirad [email protected] Editor: Chris Garlock [email protected]: [email protected]

Additional ContributorsMaintenance/Support: CTI PCProblem of the Week Editor: Myron Souris

Go is… an ancient board game which takes simple elements—line and circle, Black and White, stone and wood—combines them with simple rules and generates subtleties which have enthralled players for millennia. Go’s appeal resides not only in its Asian elegance, but also in practical and stimulating features in the design of the game. Go’s few rules can be demonstrated quickly and grasped easily. It isenjoyably played over a wide range of skills. Each level of play has its charms, rewards and discoveries. A unique and reliable handicappingsystem leads to equal contests between players of widely disparate strengths. Go is uniquely fl exible and rewards patience and balance over aggression and greed. An early mistake can be made up, used to advantage or reversed as the game proceeds. Th ere is no simple procedure to turn a clear lead into a victory. Go thinking seems to be more lateral than linear, less dependent on logical deduction, and more reliant on a “feel” for the game, a “sense” of form, a gestalt perception of signifi cant patterns. Beyond being merely a game, go can take on other meanings to enthusiasts: an analogy with life, an intense meditation, a mirror of one’s personality, an exercise in abstract reasoning, or, when played well, a beautiful art in which Black and White dance across the board in delicate balance. But most important for all who play, go is challenging and fun.


FENG YUN [email protected]

Feng Yun, a former women’s world champion and China national women’s champion, teaches weekly go classes to over 100 students at various New Jersey locations, and holds winter and summer workshops in New Jersey and a summer workshop in China. Intermediate and advanced students also can schedule one-on-one online lessons. Students of all ages are welcome. Feng Yun was the American team coach for the World Mind Sports Games, a North American Ing Masters champion, and has represented the United States in the Toyota & Denso Cup World Go Oza and in various women’s international championships.

MYUNGWAN KIM [email protected] Kim teaches go in Los Angeles area, where he runs a Go Academy in the

Korean Go Club. He made the Final 8 in the 2005 Samsung World Championship, was a member of Bohae team in the 2004 Korean league of 2004, a 3-time runner-up in the BC Card Cup for rookies in 1998, 1999 and 2002, won the US Go Congress Open in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was the fi rst pro sent to the U.S. by the Korean Baduk Association.

MINGJIU JIANG [email protected] Jiang 7P has been teaching go for more than 25

years to both children and adults. Recent accomplishments include winning the 2007 North America Ing Masters Championship and in 2008, he was the North America representative to the Fujitsu Cup, the Toyota/Oza Cup and the Ing World Cup. He teaches go on and off line.

YILUN YANG [email protected] instructor of the American Go Institute since 1986. Author of “Fundamental Principles of

Go”; “Whole Board Th inking In Joseki”; “Ingenious Life And Death Puzzles”. Yang has taught hundreds of students worldwide via the internet and has annual workshops across the country.

GUO JUAN 5P [email protected] Well-known to American go players through her regular

workshops and lectures at the annual U.S. Go Congress, Guo Juan has lived in the Netherlands since 1990 and established Guo Juan’s Go School there in 1996. She regularly competes in top European tournaments and also teaches online, where she pioneered audio teaching systems.

JANICE KIM 3P www.samarkand.net [email protected] Author of the award-winning, best-selling go series Learn to Play Go. 1984 Fuji

Women’s Champion, 1985 World Youth Championship 2nd place, 1994 EBS Cup 3rd place. Teaches privately; all ages.

JAMES KERWIN 1PMinneapolis, MN [email protected]

JENNIE SHEN [email protected] A Chinese 2-dan professional living in Santa Barbara, California, Jennie Shen has

been teaching go to children and adults since 2001, and welcomes new students of all levels. She off ers both private and group lessons on KGS and is a frequent lecturer for KGS Plus, where you can fi nd her lectures at http://internetgoschool.com/ She has conducted go workshops throughout the United States.

AMERICA’S TEACHING PROFESSIONALS


Major 2010 Tournaments & Events

US TITLEHOLDERS 2010

US Pair Go: Wan Yu Chen 4D - Curtis Tang 7D

US Youth Go Championship Senior Division Calvin Sun 7d

Redmond Cup Junior DivisionOliver Wolf 2d

US Youth Go Championship Junior Division Kevin Fang 1k

Redmond Cup Senior Division

Hon. Redmond MeijinCurtis Tang 7d

Cotsen OpenDae Hyuk Ko 7d

Jujo Jiang TournamentMingjiu Jiang 7P

N. A. Fujitsu Qualifi erMaryland Open

Jie Li 7d

N. A. Ing Masters Huiren Yang 1P

US OpenMyungwan Kim 8P

WAGC Rep Th omas Hsiang 7d


U.S. Go 2010: The Year in Headlines

JANUARY U.S. Go Congress Dates & Location Set; Maiden U.S.-Canada Women’s Team Tourney Launched; Portland Yang Workshop Set For March; Redmond Cup Registration Opens; Peng Wins MGA Winter Tourney; Jujo Games Broadcast Live; AGHS School Teams Tourney; U.S. Congress site launched; Seattle Go Center Now Tax-Deductible; AGF Drive Nets Funds For Go Projects; Hu Wins Chi Tourney; Go Behind Bars (see Th e Traveling Board, p 86 for story)

graphic by Mike Samuels

FEBRUARY AGA Board Waives U.S. Youth Go Championship Requirement; Matthews To Retire As AGA Ratings Coordinator (below right); Feng Yun/Jie Li Win N.A. Pair Go 1st Round; USYGC Season Opens; Big

Tourney Weekend Coming Up; Nakayama Noriyuki 6p Dies: Special Nakayama Edition (see pp xx); Feng Yun-Jie Li Win Pair Go Qualifi er As Pair Go Celebrates 20 Years; Kirschner Hopes To Stage “Honinbo” At Go Congress; Chen & Yuan Win NJ Open (above left); Mingjiu Jiang 7P To Rep N.A. At Chunlan Cup; Rueckriemen Wins VT Tourney; First-Timer Shin Wins Gold At Groesch Memorial; Seattle Hosts Pro Workshop For Kyu Players; Myungwan Kim 9p Workshop Set For Berkeley; Orlando Hosts Guo Juan 5p Workshop; New Go Club In Chiphotos by John Pinkerton

MARCH Sun Wins SoCal Tourney & USYGC Qualifi er; Yi-Jin Chen Tops Nova Chinese Lunar Tourney; USYGC Qualifi ers Set; School Team Tourney Sets New Record; Seattle Hosts Two Pros (l); Milling, Boehem & Haddad Top Austin Wildfl ower Classic;

Zhang Wins Montreal Winter Tourney; AGA Board Approves Continuation Of Fujitsu Cup & NAIM, Seeks 2010 Hosts; World Youth Qualifi er Moved Up To April 3; School Team Tourney Setting New Records; AGF Accepting Apps For College Scholarships; AGA Ratings Updated, New AGA Database Feature Links Players; Why Host A Pro Workshop?; Lockhart & Xiong Win Boston Youth; Myungwan Kim 9P Workshop Gives NorCal Players A Boost; N.A. & Europe Out In Chunlan Cup; Guy Wins All-Iowa Go Cup; Meadowdale HS Wins

Iwamoto School Team Tourney In Seattle (below); School Team Tourney Heats Up; New N.A. Online Tourney To Use Skype; “Slow Go” Tourney Seeks Players

photos by Brian Allen (bottom left and above)

APRIL Zhang Tops Carolina Spring Tourney; Edward Zhang Wins DC Cherry Blossom; Redmond Into Tengen 3rd Round; Smartgo Kifu Released For iPad; Top Youth Set For 2nd Transatlantic Match; AGA Go Camp Updates; Bay Area Schools Compete; Guo Juan Workshop Prepares Florida Go

Community For Spring Tournament; Americas, Europe Out In Fujitsu 1st Round; Myungwan Kim To Play In U.S.-Based Online Tourney; Top 10 AGA Tourney/Game Players List Debuts; Sun And Fang Win World Youth Slots; Morris Wins Mass. Spring Tourney; Tiebreak Win Gives North America Edge In Transatlantic Youth Match; Tang, Dolev & Qu Top NorCal Tourney (above); Price, Wynn, Young & Houston Top Syracuse Tourney; Strong Players Online Tourney Launches Tonight; Hal Small Hosts Sasaki 8P At DC Workshop; Spot1

photo (above left) by Roger Schrag

Selected from reports appearing in the American Go E-Journal in 2010; click here for our online archive, where you can search by category, month or keyword: http://www.usgo.org/news/



Down To Sweet Sixteen Players; Chong Tops Chi Tourney, Zhou & Yang Win Youth; Harwit And Zhang Top Boulder USYGC; Seattle Go Center Blossoms At Festival; Straus On Marriage, Music And Go; Jie Li To Comment Live On Spot1 Top Board

MAY OC Go Club Wins School Tourney; Nominations Open For 4 AGA Board Seats; Levenick Tops Corvallis Spring Tourney; Spot 1 “Elite 8” Game Records Posted; New Daily E-Journal Launches; Myungwan Kim 9P Cruises Into Final 4 To Rematch With 2009 U.S. Open Runner-Up Michael Chen 7d; 13-Year-Old Jianing Gan 6d To Play Myungwan Kim 9p In Spot1 Finals; Th rongs Come Out For Norcal Go Expo Day; Chiu Tops Morningstar Happy Cup Youth Tourney (above right); Ranka & E-Journal Team Up Again For WAGC; Evanston Go Club Teaches Hundreds At Chi Anime Convention (below); Trevor Morris Slips Ahead To Win In Amherst; Jianing Gan Looking To Stay Alive In Spot1 Tourney Saturday; New AGA Tournament Coordinators Appointed; Live From Th e World Amateurs!; Mission San Jose Aces School Tourney; Myungwan Kim 9P Wins First Strong Players Online Tourney; Nakayama’s Quiet Farewell; E-Journal’s WAGC Coverage Commences; WAGC UPDATES: Twice Th e Coverage (see pp 44-59 for WAGC reports)

photo by Mark Rubenstein

JUNE U.S. Youth Championship Finals Set; Jie Li 7d Wins Maryland

Open; Abramson Appointed To Second Term As AGA President, Pohl Re-Appointed Secretary; West Coast Janice Kim 3P Workshop Scheduled For July; AGA Website To Accept Advertising; Canada

Dominates Redmond Cup; Tigersmouth Team To Take On Insei Empire June 13 (below right); Michael Redmond On Studying, Improving Your Game And How Th e Pros Train; Qualifi ers set for 2010 N.A. Ing Cup; Tiger’s Mouth Defeats Insei Empire In Online Youth Tourney; Six Win In U.S. Youth Go Championships; Tang Wenhua 6d Most Caff einated In Santa Monica Coff ee Cup (above right); Zipei Feng 7d Wins Rocky Mountain

Spring Go Tourney; Yasumasa Hane 9p & Go Family To Attend U.S. Go Congress; Races Heat Up In AGA Board Elections; Michael Redmond Defeats Cho U In Agon Cup; U.S. Junior National Team To Compete In Brunei Friendship Games; Jian Liu 1d & Great Falls Go Club Win Nova Congress Tune-Up; Seventh-Grader On Quest For Go Credit; U.S. Pair Go Players Wantedphoto (top right): Andy Okun

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JULY Wanted: Memories Of Nakayama; AGA Board Elections Underway; AGA Issues New Membership Cards; Slate & Shell Issues Spanish Translation Of “How Not To Play Go”; Waldron Wins “Go For All” Game

Summit; Diverse Playing Field In NorCal; Jianping Wang Wins Ascheim Memorial; Our Youngest Member (l); Buddhist Nun Marjorie “Su Co” Hey Named Teacher Of Th e Year; Tang To Play In Redmond Cupphoto (left) by Ted Terpstra

AUGUST 2010 U.S. Go Congress Opens (see pp 13-42 for complete coverage); New Way To Find Go Players Debuts;

Online Software For Managing Your Club; U.S. Go Congress Bids Nakayama A Joyful Farewell; AGA Board Election Results Announced; 13-Year-Old Sun Places Fourth In World Youth; Wall-To-Wall Congress Tourney Coverage; Chen/Tang Win U.S. Pair Go Championships; Huiren Yang 1P Wins 2010 North American Ing; Myung-Wan Kim 9P Th ree-Peats As U.S. Open Champion (right); Wolf Wins Redmond Cup (below); Myung-Wan Kim 9P Makes Th ree-Peat Donation To AGF; Bresler Appointed AGA Ratings VP; Record E-Journal Team Covers 2010 Go Congress; Gross And Ye Top Norcal Monthly; Guochen

Xie Wins Boston Openphotos by Chris Garlock (above r) and Ling Shan (left)

SEPTEMBER AGA’S 10-Game Rule Assailed By Feng Yun 9P; Justin Teng Wins UMD Tourney; AGA Board To Review 10-Game Rule; Two Chances To Study With Guo Juan 5P; Cathy Li 1P Knocked Out Of Bingshen Cup; COTSEN OPEN Games, Photos & News (see pp for complete coverage); EJ Gets Seriously Social; 10-Game Rule Dropped; Lisa Scott’s Central Lessons;

Visitor From Paris Leads NorCal Monthly; IN MEMORIAM: Milton Bradley, “An unstoppage passion for go”; Gu, Hokies & Team Tourney Highlight Nova Tourney; Dae Hyuk Ko 7d Wins ’10 Cotsen; Carson Tu & Kevin Huang Tie For Tops In Hoboken; Tadashi Sasaki 8P Workshops Scheduled For San Francisco Area; Shen And Su Win 2010 AGF College Scholarship; Smith Snags Top Prize In Chi Fish Amnesty Tourney. Cotsen photo (above) by Chris Garlock

OCTOBER Moon Cha Memorial Tourney Planned; Wu, Kuang & Yang Top N.C. Triangle Tourney; Yearbook Goes All-Electronic; Schumer Tops Mass Fall Tourney; U.S. 15th In Int’l Pair Go Championships; NY Go Center Launches League; Miami Go Club Marks “End Of An Era”; U.S. Rep Jie Liang 7d Takes 4th In Korean P.M. Cup (above); Miami Go Club Migrates A Mile; Xu Wins In NY; “Stephanie” Ming-Ming Yin Is Go Center’s New “Club Pro”; Jhirad Tops Portland Tourney; Strain Tops In Austin. photo (above) by Allan Abramson

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NOVEMBER Kupon Reaps Victory In Heartland Harvest (right); Teng Tops In Nova Pumpkin Classic; Andrew Lu 6d Wins Ing’s Cup Youth Goe Tournament; Sasaki 8P To Give Two Teaching Events In L.A. Th is Week; 16 Top Players To Joust In N.A. BC Card Cup Qualie Th is Weekend; Meyer Tops Rocky Mountain Tourney; Zhuang Tops Young Lions Tourney; Sasaki Workshops A Hit In NorCal; Go Playing Teen Wins Siemen’s Prize; Ye And Qu Sweep

NorCal Monthly; Liu Wins N.A. BC Card Cup Qualifi er; Won Suk Suh 5d Wins Moon Cha Memorial; Why Did My Rating Change?; Syracuse Fall Ratings Tourney; Zhao Ju Tops Tacoma Tourney; NY Go

Center Faces Uncertain Futurephoto (above left) by Lisa Schrag

DECEMBER Feng Yun 9P Winter Workshop Set; 2011 Guo Juan School Enrollment Open; NY Go Center Closes Manhattan Site (below); Colburn Wins First Cornell Open; Matthew & Karoline Burrall Top Davis/Sacramento Tourney; Chit-Chatting About Go; Won Suh 6D Wins NOVA Slate and Shell Open; Tengxiao Yang 5D Tops Windy City Winter Tourney; U.S. Youth Take on Canadians Sunday on KGS; Andy Liu

7d Wins N.A. Fujitsu Qualifi er; Wheeler & Zhou Join AGA Tourney Team; Young Kwon National Online Tourney Off ers $3,000 in Prizes; Myung-Wan Kim 9P Added To EJ Roster; Yang And Chan Lead December’s Bay Area Monthly; Are You Smarter Th an a Jeopardy Contestant?; Canada Wins 3rd Youth Friendship Match; Th e Man Behind the YKNOT Tournament; Follow the E-Journal on Twitter!

2011 U.S. Go Congress

July 30 - August 7

Santa Barbara, CA

8 DAYS & NIGHTS

OF GO...

click here now!www.gocongress.org



Myung-Wan Kim 9P repeated as U.S. Open Champion at the 2010 U.S. Go Congress in Colorado Springs, CO, sweeping all six games and collecting his third straight Open title. He finished off his perfect run with a 161-move Round 6 win by resignation over Canadian James Sedgwick 6D. His toughest challenge was from Tianyu (Bill) Lin 7d, the Canadian 13-year-old who held a lead for 90 moves in the first round but fell behind after missing a tesuji. Jie Liang 7D and Francis Meyer 7D also gave him a run for the money but were behind on points, while both Yongfe Ge 7D and Eric Lui 7D lost by

resignation after Kim killed big groups.

The American Go E-Journal’s complete Congress tournament coverage online includes the US Open crosstab and results, including game records, the North American Ing crosstab and results as well as Redmond Cup game records and commented US Open and Ing games. See pages X-Y for winner’s reports for all Congress tournaments. - report/photo by Chris Garlock

MYUNG-WAN KIM 9P 3-PEATS AS U.S. OPEN CHAMPION

WALL-TO-WALL CONGRESS TOURNEY COVERAGE

Th e E-Journal’s complete Congress tournament coverage online includes the US Open crosstab and results, including game records, the North American Ing crosstab and results (also including game records) as well as Redmond Cup game records and commented US Open and Ing games: Round 1 – Myung Wan Kim (w) vs Tianyu (Bill) Lin (b), commented by Jennie Shen 2P; Round 2 – Curtis Tang (w) vs Eric Lui (b), commented by Maeda Ryo 6P and Round 4 – Eric Lui (w) vs Myung Wan Kim (b), commented by Cheng Xiaoliu 6P. Also included is a photo album of all 32 Ing players. See above for clickable links.- photo by Chris Garlock

ALL LINKS IN THIS PDF ARE CLICKABLE!E-Journal Congress Reports/Game Records

http://tiny.cc/09hj0

2010 US Go Congress Tournament Crosstabs, Results, Game Records, Commentaries & Player Photos

(U.S. Open, Ing & Redmond Cup)http://tiny.cc/h0uia

U.S. Open Crosstab (includes game records)http://tiny.cc/xe2th

N.A. Ing Crosstab (includes game records)http://tiny.cc/rkvot

N.A. Ing Player Photo Album

Major 2010 tournaments & Events

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HUIREN YANG 1P WINS 2010 NORTH AMERICAN INGHuiren Yang 1P won the 2010 North American Ing Masters tournament, defeat-ing Eric Lui 7D in a thrilling 3-point 4-hour marathon viewed by a rapt crowd of hundreds at the U.S. Go Congress as well as a worldwide audience that watched commentary by Yasumasa Hane 9P, Shigeko Hane 1P and Ryo Maeda 6P broad-cast live on KGS as well as a live video feed of both the Board 1 game and the game commentary. After the game, the board used by the two players – a brand-new 2-inch Korean hiba table board – was signed by the players and pros and was auctioned off at the Congress Banquet to benefi t the American Go Foundation. AGA Board member Laura Kolb’s $550 bid was the winner. Click here for com-plete NAIM results and game records, including the Board 1 fi nal:http://tiny.cc/h0uia- report by Chris Garlock, photo by Steve Colburn; poster by Todd Heidenreich

CHEN/TANG WIN U.S. PAIR GO CHAMPIONSHIPS: Wan Yu Chen 4D and Curtis Tang 7D are the 2010 U.S. Pair Go champions and will represent the U.S. at the World Pair Go Championships later this year. Yukino Takehara 4k and

Keiju Takehara 2d were second in the popular annual event, held Th ursday night at the U.S. Go Congress. Table winners: Table 1: Cathy Li 1P & Bill Tian Yu Lin 7d; Table 2: Yinli Wang 6d & Matt Burrall 7d; Table 3: Shigeko Hane 1P & Shoichi Sugita 1d; Table 4: Roxanne Tam 2d & Tom Xu 4d; Table 5: Rachel Small 8k & Ryo Maeda 6P; Table 6: April Ye 3k & Aaron Ye 2d; Table 7: Ranka Hane 1k & Takashi Hoshi 1k; Table 8: Eileen Hlavka 7k & Dave Weimer 3d; Table 9: Michiyo Yamamori 1k & David Rohde 5k; Table 10: Xiao-Feng Ha 3k & Sathya Anand 7k; Table 11: Chris Hlavka 14k & Jim Hlavka 2d; Table 12: Melanie Arnold 30k & Keith Arnold 4d. Todd Heidenreich took a break from his EJ Team duties to once again serve as Tournament Director. photo by Steve Colburn



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2010 U.S. GO CONGRESS OPENSTh e 2010 U.S. Go Congress formally launched on Satur-day, July 31 as hun-dreds of go players gathered from across the country and around the globe. As players checked in at the Univer-sity of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the main playing area fi lled up with go players engaged in friendly games and there was even an impromptu simul as Qiao Shiyao 1P played a 3-on-1. Later, there was a taiko drum performance, welcoming ceremonies – including the offi cial Go Congress Director plaque transfer from last year’s Congress Director Todd Heidenreich to this year’s Co-Directors Karen Jordan and Ken Koester.- report/photos by Chris Garlock

WOLFRAM DONATES 10 MATHEMATICA STUDENT EDITIONS TO GO CONGRESSWolfram Research, makers of the renowned Mathematica tech-nical and symbolic computing software, donated ten student editions of Mathematica to be used as US Open prizes at the 2010 U.S. Go Congress. “I am delighted that Wolfram, maker of about the coolest math software there is, has decided to back the US Open,” said AGA Board Member Andy Okun. “Th ey have a proud record of supporting math competitions and other educational activities and it is nice to be in such compa-ny.” Mathematica, created originally by physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram, is capable of a huge and complex array of numerical and symbolic calculations, but uses a coding method so general that the user can combine any of the exist-ing methods together or create new ones. It is widely used in science, industry, government, law, business and economics and its user base includes all of the Fortune 500.



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U.S. OPEN ROUND 1, BOARD 1 Jennie Shen 2P on why “I Hate This Opening”“This opening has been going on and on for over 15 years,” says Jennie Shen 2P (l) in her U.S. Open Round 1 game commentary, “I think they should do something else.” Youngster Tianyu (Bill) Lin 7d comes up with an unusual move in a common joseki and dukes it out with Myung Wan Kim 9P (l) in the Board 1 game from the fi rst round of the 2010 U.S. Open on Sunday morning. There are two versions of the game below: a partial game record with commentary by Shen and the complete game record including KGS kibitzes.

Click here for game record: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=26212August 1W: Kim, Myung Wan 9P; B: Lin, Tianyu (Bill) 7dCommentary by Jennie Shen; Game recorded by Solomon Smilack

PHOTO ALBUM/SUNDAY, 8/1 photos by Chris Garlock



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U.S. GO CONGRESS BIDS NAKAYAMA

A JOYFUL FAREWELLTh ere was a lot of laughter at the Nakayama Noriyuki 7P memorial service on the fi rst Sunday of the Congress. Just as sensei would have wanted. Nakayama, who was a a popular visitor at both the European and U.S. Go Congresses for over two decades, died on February 16. Th e service began with a solemn kenseki ceremony, in which Nakayama – whose portrait overlooked the gathering, a, took white and mourners each placed a black stone on the go board, slowly fi lling it up. Th en the mourners took turns remembering Nakayama and it quickly became clear that Nakayama’s legacy is as much in the hearts of the many go players he touched over the years as it was on the go board. Master of ceremonies Haskell Small 3D – the only other winner (besides Nakayama himself ) of the Nakayama Award (given for exceptional service to the Go Congress; he organized the fi rst U.S. Go Congress in 1985) – admired the “precise and defi nitive fashion with which Nakayama would place each move, pressing it fi rmly down into the board.” Yasumasa Hane 9P said he hoped “the memory of Mr Nakayama remains long in your hearts.” And, describing Nakayama’s many interests – from go to food, adventures and Japanese literature — Richard Dolen 5D celebrated Nakayama’s “wonderful curiosity,” adding “he was such a sweet man,” a sentiment shared by many of those present. AGA President Allan Abramson 3D took note of Nakayama’s “irrepressible delight”

in the game, while former AGA President Roy Laird 3k said that his greatest lesson was “to take go seriously but also to have fun with it.” Th ere were many tales of Nakayama’s jokes and gleeful approach to the game, including Ken Koester’s story about Nakayama’s “stone-color-changing tesuji.” Shunichi Hyodo 6D, who has led Japanese tour groups to the Go Congress for years, laughed about how he would only see Nakayama each year at the Congress. Former AGA Board Chair Dave Weimer 3D reminded attendees that Nakayama’s lectures “were always the highlight of the Congress for many of us.” Betsy Small 11k surely spoke for all when she said that, “Th e delight and joy that he took in go was infectious and inspiring. Goodbye and thank you.”

- report/photos by Chris Garlock



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YASUMASA HANE 9P ON AMERICAN GO, STUDYING AND CHASING THE DREAM

“Th e future of American go looks very bright,” Yasumasa Hane 9P told the E-Journal in an interview Sunday morning. “You have so many young serious players.” Hane is the Nihon Kiin’s offi cial representative to this year’s U.S. Go Congress, and he’s accompanied by his family, including wife Masami 1k, daughter Michiyo Yamamori 1k. daugh-ter-in-law Shigeko Hane 1P, and Shigeko’s daughters Ranka 1k, Rinka 4k and Ayaka 1k. Th e fa-ther of Naoki Hane 9P, former Hon-inbo, Kisei and Tengen title holder, Hane is also known as a major contrib-utor in the development of the Chinese fuseki. He studied with Toshihiro Shimamura 9P, and told the E-Journal that as a student, “We never played with Shimamura, only with each other, but that was old-style and today it’s better for the teacher to play with students.” Interestingly, Hane says that as teachers of amateur players, “Th e biggest mistake we make is to teach too much.” Th e best way to work with beginners, Hane said, is “just let them play and enjoy the game. When they fi nd that it’s fun, they will stay.” With both pros and amateurs, he added, “You can’t push too much too soon” or there’s a risk of burn-out. He loves go because “It’s an art” and says that the current focus on winning makes him “A bit sad; the games we play will always be there, and we must leave art that we can be proud of.” Th ese days, Hane said, “Th ere’s no value placed on the opinion of the loser; winning is all.” Like Takemiya Masaki 9P, he urges players to “play where you want and don’t be afraid. If you’re chasing the dream you must take the risk.” His advice to go students is to “play your best move and don’t be afraid to make a mistake; the pro will correct your mistake and you’ll learn.” He also strongly advises those looking to improve to record their games and review them with stronger players, and was “very impressed” with the number of players he saw recording their games at the Open on Sunday. “Th e U.S. Open is great,” Hane said, “you should do it twice a year!”- report/photos by Chris Garlock

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U.S. OPEN ROUND 2, BOARD 2: Ryo Maeda 6P on “Mysterious and interesting moves”“This is a really interesting and exciting game,” says Ryo Maeda 6P in his U.S. Open Round 2 game commentary, “with many mysterious and interesting moves.” The game features a non-joseki variation that winds up being an even trade and then a ladder plays a critical role in the fi ghting that follows, with an attack on Black’s central group, more ladders and fi nishing in a nailbiting semeai with just one period of overtime left.

August 2W: Curtis Tang 7D; B: Eric Lui 7DCommentary by Ryo Maeda 6PGame recorded by Chris Burg click here for game record: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=27052


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ONLINE SOFTWARE FOR MANAGING YOUR CLUB“Who wants to be spending time organizing your go club when you could be playing go?” asked Santa Fe go club organizer Robert Cordingley Monday evening. Cordingley conducted a presentation on his online software GoClubsOnline, which simplifi es the process of registering players for tournaments, sending email to club members, uploading data to the AGA, tracking a club library, and more. Clubs can register with GoClubsOnline for $95/year for up to 30 members, though Cordingley is offering a discount for the duration of the Congress to $80/year for attendees.- report by Jake Edge



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PHOTO ALBUM/WEDNESDAY, 8/4 photos by Chris Garlock

TANG WINS REDMOND CUPCurtis Tang 7d (r) won both Redmond Cup games, shutting out Jianing Gan 7d in the Senior Division. Gan had been favored to win, placing fi rst in the qualifi ers, while Tang placed third, and was only selected to play when second place fi nalist Gan-sheng Shi was unable to attend the Con-gress. Tang, now 17 years old, has a long history of success in the Redmond. He took the Junior Division championship in 2001, ‘03, and ‘04, and then again in 2006 in the Senior Division. Both fi nalists won a free trip to the US Go Congress to compete, and will receive cash prizes as well; and this year None Redmond herself presented the Redmond Cup at the awards banquet. Click here http://www.gocongress.org/news.php for both game records (under Redmond Cup Senior Division).- Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor



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PHOTO ALBUM/THURSDAY, 8/5 photos by Edward Zhang

U.S. OPEN ROUND 4, BOARD 1: Cheng Xiaoliu 6P on “The Cost of Unusual Josekis”Cheng Xiaoliu 6P (center) was born in 1949 and became a 6-dan pro in 1982. His achievements include 5th place in the 1977 National Individual Championship, 3rd place in the 1981 National Individual Championship, Challenger in the 4th New Sports Cup, Top 4 in the 1988 Meijin Tournament.

August 5, 2010W: Lui, Eric 7D; B: Kim, Myung Wan 9P

Commentary by Cheng Xiaoliu 6P, translated by I-han Lui, transcribed by Chris Garlock

Game recorded by Solomon Smilack on KGSClick here for game record: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=29072



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U.S. OPEN ROUND 5, BOARD 1: Cathy Li 1P on Unavoidable FightingYongfe Ge 7D unsuccessfully tries to avoid fi ghting with Myung-Wan Kim 9P in this U.S. Open Round 5 game. Cathy Li 1P (r) shows how two of Ge’s moves early on enable Kim to get a three-way attack going that determines the fl ow of the rest of this exciting game.

2010 US Open Round 5W: Myung-Wan Kim 9P; B: Yongfei Ge 7D

Commentary by Cathy Li 1P, broadcast on the KGS Go ServerGame recorded by Solomon Smilack; commentary transcribed by Chris GarlockClick here for game record: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=29662



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RYO MAEDA 6P ON ATTACK AND CAPTUREUnderstand the Maeda method and you’ll get very good at the middle game and won’t lose fi ghts, Ryo Maeda 6P (r) said in his Sunday afternoon lecture. He described four diff erent ways to attack and capture a third-line stone. Th e key is “how to make your stone more eff ec-tive than your opponent’s,” Maeda said. It’s important to protect weak stones: “If you have a weak stone, you protect it — that’s it.” In addition, “If you want to cap-ture your opponent’s stone, make your group stronger, then good things happen.” Use the normal move in most cases, Maeda advised, “and leave the best move to professionals.” Looking at contact fi ghts, Maeda pointed out that nearby friendly stones can be liabili-ties in such situations, as weak and strong positions can get reversed. Stones or groups with two liberties are considered weak, and with one liberty, “It’s too late.” However, “When you atari but can’t capture, it’s usually a bad move.” Yoshi Sawada 6D provided his usual animated translation of the Maeda method, which were detailed in three more lectures during the Congress. Maeda’s popular lectures have been a feature of the U.S. Go Congress for the last ten years.- report/photo by Jake Edge

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CONGRESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Organizing Go Congresses takes a huge amount of hard work by a lot of people who volunteer their time and energy to pull together the annual gathering of hundreds of go players, professionals, go club and AGA volunteers. Here’s a few of the folks who helped make this year’s Go Congress a reality: Karen Jordan, Director; Ken Koester, Co-Director; Deedee Eckles, Pro Coordinator; Paul Barchilon, Youth Coordinator, Redmond Cup & Youth Tournament TD; Jim Michali, Treasurer; Bob Sorenson, Site Manager & Vendor Liaison; Erin Jordan, Registrar; Hal Small, Nakayama Memorial: Steve Colburn, Webmaster; Jon Hilt, web program-

mer; Cate Harris, Go Congress Book; Carmen Sears, Great Deals Guru; Xingshou Liu, Chinese Translator; Jason Kim, Korean Translator; Yoshi Sawada, Japanese Translator; Sam Zimmerman, Chris Kirschner & Ken Koester, US Open/NAMT Directors; Greg Alexander, Self-Paired TD; Lisa Scott, Women’s Tournament TD; Haskell & Rachel Small, Club Team TDs; Mar-tin Lebl, Midnight Madness & 9×9 TD; Dave Weiss, 13×13 TD; Jim Hlavka, Lightning TD; Terry Benson, Crazy Go TD. Photo (l-r): Karen Jordan, Deedee Eckles, Stan Yamane (Karen’s dad) & Joyce Yamane (Karen’s mom). photo by Chris Garlock



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LIFE AND DEATH WITH RYO MAEDA 6PTh e key to making a living shape is “not two eyes, but six points,” Ryo Maeda 6P said in the second of his four-part U.S. Go Congress lecture series. He went through various sizes of eyes, saying that most players need to “reset” their thinking. For ex-ample a group with a three-space eye “is not dead, it just has one eye.” He showed the four-space “mountain” eye, as well as the four-space square eye, which he called “baka” (‘stupid’ in Japanese). He then went on to the bulky fi ve shape (stupid eye plus one) and the rectangular six, which is alive. Only the “fl ower six” (or rabbity six) is dead, but Maeda said not to worry about that shape as it has never come up in one of his games: “before you get in fl ower six, you do something else.” Someone from the audience sug-gested “stupid four plus two ears” for that shape, which was well received. Maeda also described how to avoid studying joseki by making the rectangular six shape in the corner. Sometimes that shape can “turn into ko, but you don’t die.” Instead of studying and remembering joseki, “which is complicated. You can make one mistake and mess it all up,” just remember the rectangular six.

If you are trying to kill a group, fi rst see if it can be turned into a fi ve-point shape, then look to reduce it from the outside. Playing from the outside is less risky, than playing the “fancy stuff ” on the inside that a professional might use, because if it fails “you can lose.” Most life and death problem books are geared toward a single answer, but in the Maeda method, “there are many right answers.” Players should “erase everything they know and start with the Maeda method — it’s not too late.” Translator Yoshi Sawada 6D said that the method is simple, “that’s why his book is only six pages” to much laughter. As he did in his fi rst lecture on Sunday, Maeda fi nished Monday’s lecture with two rounds of simul rock-paper-scissors with the audience, with a prize for the last one standing.- report/photos by Jake Edge

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HANDLING 3-3 INVASIONS THE MAEDA WAYMaking how to handle 3-3 invasions “clear for everyone” was the topic of Tuesday’s lecture by Ryo Maeda 6P, the third in his 4-part series at the U.S. Go Congress. As he explained in Monday’s edition, the key to living is to make six points of space: “if you try to make two eyes, chances are you may fail.” Th e invasion at the 3-3 point must be responded to by attaching on either side, but that’s not just true for 3-3 invasions, “you must do that, no matter where it happens on the board.” Maeda then went through the standard invasion pat-tern, showing how it corre-sponded to the Maeda method

for making six points of space in the corner. When there are other friendly stones in the area, choosing the proper direction for the attachment is a mat-ter of protecting the widest space, so that you force the opponent into the narrower space. But the 3-3 invasion should be “the last option,” don’t invade if you can do something else. On the other hand, taking the “star point does not mean territory — you think you have closed the front door, but the back door is wide open” to the 3-3 invasion. Maeda recommended using his method in a game fi rst, “then tell your friend.” In a display of real world application of his technique, Maeda put up a position from the morning’s U.S. Open game between his student Francis Meyer 7D and Myungwan Kim 8P. Meyer used one of the formations from Maeda’s Sunday lecture, though it was, unfortu-nately, not the best move in this case. But Maeda seemed quite proud of how his student was doing in the Open — 2-1 as of Tuesday — and planned to introduce him at the next lecture. As usual, the lecture concluded with Maeda’s trademark rock-paper-scissors simul.- report/photos by Jake Edge

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GETTING ATTACHED WITH RYO MAEDA 6PAn alternative to making an invasion at the 3-3 point — the subject of Tuesday’s lecture — is the attachment to the 4-4 stone, which was the topic for Th ursday’s U.S. Go Congress lecture by Ryo Maeda 6P (r in photo at left). He started out by sheepishly admitting that he had made an attachment to a 4-4 stone in a simul on Tuesday and the stone got killed. Maeda went on to demonstrate various positions where the attachment works, and how to use it ef-fectively. Th e positions all had black on the 4-4 and side star point, with a black stone in between, either a one-point jump from the 4-4 on the fourth line or the knight’s move on the third. In those cases, white can attach in line with the black stones and black will hane. Th e inside hane is “peaceful”, as black is trying to preserve the corner. In that case, white should just extend unless there are black stones near the star point in that direction. “You can’t make six points there (for eyespace), so you have to do something else,” he said. If you can’t do the normal extension, you must make a diagonal move to the 3-2 point. “If you have less than six points, you must work on two

eyes,” Maeda said, and diagonal moves have more eye potential than straight extensions. He showed how to use the four formations for capturing third line stones from Sunday’s lecture, and noted that invading is fairly risk-free, “as long as black answers, it costs nothing — good things may happen.” Th ere were several positions that required sacrifi cing stones and it is important to rec-ognize those, because if “you don’t want to sacrifi ce three stones, then you may lose the whole thing.” When a stone or group is captured, “you start fi ghting nearby — you may be able to live.” He also pointed out that if there are a lot of black stones on the outside that loosely surround the cor-ner, it may be better to invade at the 3-3 point, rather than attach, which is the mistake he made in the simul. In answer to audience questions, he also talked about the endgame. Once you start the endgame, “the second line is the most important line in the game,” Maeda said. Th at prompted a question about when to start the endgame, which Maeda said was an “easy question.” One of the principles of the “Maeda method” is “when you have a weak stone, protect it,” so don’t start the endgame until every group is protected. Th en either try to kill your opponent’s weak groups or invade. Once those opportunities are gone, you can start the endgame. Maeda and translator Yoshi Sawada 6D (l in photo above) continue looking at 4-4 attachments in a bonus fi fth round of the lecture series

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BONUS ROUND WITH RYO MAEDA 6P“Don’t try to fi ght too much, some people really like to fi ght, but go is a peaceful game,” Ryo Maeda 6P said in his lecture on Friday at the U.S. Go Congress. Due to popular demand, a fi fth lecture was added — four were originally scheduled — and Maeda picked up where he left off on Th ursday with techniques for attaching to the 4-4 point. “Th e simpler you play, the less mistakes you make, and your chances (of winning) increase — simple is better,” he said. When faced with an invasion from your opponent, he doesn’t recommend “trying to kill”, because “once they live in your territory, your loss is so large — let them live small instead.” But “you always want to punish someone who overplays.” One way to do that is to exploit the weakness of a group with only two liberties. “Two liberties is more danger-ous than you think,” Maeda said. A group with two liberties “makes normal moves for nearby groups dan-gerous.” He demonstrated several examples and joked

that “if you do this against a 5D player, they cry.” Translator Yoshi Sawada 6D pointed out several times that Maeda used English phrases: “see he speaks English — very soon I will be out

of a job,” he joked. Not only was it a bonus lecture, but it also went on for more than an hour and a half, and Maeda looked ready to keep on going, but — like the Congress itself — all good things must eventually come to an end. Fortunately, there’s always next year.

- report/photos by Jake Edge

The 2010 Japanese tour group led (as always) by Shunichi

Hyodo 6D (front row at far left)photo by Roy Laird


“Who played on the 1-1?”...“Illegal move!”...“That’s just weird”...“It’s very bizarre.”...“This is crazy.”...“How do you play this game?“...“Ladders are weird.”...“Do I even have eyes?”...

Player 1: “There’s two sets of stones”; Player 2: “Good, we’re going to need them.”

Quotes & snapshots from Tuesday night’s Crazy Go eventDirected by Terry Benson; photos by Chris Garlock


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U.S. OPEN/ING GAMES & COMMENTARIES

For all the U.S. Open and North American Ing top-board games -- many with commentaries -- see below:

U.S. Open Crosstabhttp://tiny.cc/xe2th

N.A. Ing Crosstabhttp://tiny.cc/rkvot

View the games & commentaries in an online viewer or download the sgf fi les to review later.



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TANG NAMED REDMOND MEIJINCurtis Tang 7d, was named Honorary Redmond Meijin at the fi nal awards banquet at the US Go Congress, Aug. 7th. Tang, now 17 years old, has a long history of success in the Redmond. He took the Junior Division championship in 2001, ‘03, and ‘04, and then again in 2006 in the Senior Division. Th is year marks his fi fth win in the Cup, and also the last year he is eligible to play in it. Th e only other person ever to win fi ve times is Eric Lui, 7d, who won his fi fth time in 2001, and was also named Redmond Meijin. Th e title is honorary, and for life, so both young men are now Honorary Meijin. None Redmond herself presented the Cup to Tang. His winning matches in the fi nals are available online. - Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor; photo by Curtis

WOLF WINS REDMOND CUPOliver Wolf 2d, age 11, won the Junior Division of the Redmond Cup at the recently concluded US Go Congress. His opponent, Henry Zhang 1d, also 11, took second place. Wolf won the fi rst round match, held Aug. 2, but Zhang rallied to come from behind in round 2, winning by 3.5 points. Th e decisive match was held on Aug. 5, with Wolf winning the game, and the title of Redmond Champion. Both boys received a special honor when None Redmond, founder of the Redmond Cup and tireless youth go advocate for decades, presented the trophies in person at the fi nal awards banquet at the Go Congress. Th e boys also won $350 for fi rst place and $250 for second, as well as a free trip to the Go Congress to compete. All three matches were broadcast live on KGS, and the sgf fi les are available online. - Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor; photo by Ling Shan; from left to right: Oliver Wolf , None Redmond, Henry Zhang

MYUNG-WAN KIM 9P MAKES THREE-PEAT DONATION TO AGFDuring the August 7 closing banquet at this year’s Go Congress in Colorado Springs, Myung-Wan Kim 9P (r) again donated $500 of his US Open prize winnings to the American Go Foundation (AGF). “Th e American go community is very fortunate to have Myung-Wan Kim living and teaching here,” said Paul Barchilon, AGF Vice President and Youth Coordinator for the American Go Association (AGA). “And his support of our youth activities is a testament to his commitment to the future of go in this country.” Th is is the third consecutive year Kim has donated to the AGF, which promotes scholastic and youth go programs in the U.S. “I always want to do something for the go community in the U.S.,” Kim said in 2008 when he made his fi rst contribution at the Go Congress in Portland OR. Th is year he has a new plan. “I think building the professional system is the most important thing the U.S. go community needs to do. I will work with Hankuk-kiwon (Korea Baduk/Go Association) to make that happen.”- by Zhiyuan ‘Edward’ Zhang; photo by Gen Zhang



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KIDS SCORE BIG

IN GO CONGRESS YOUTH ROOMCongress-going youth have had an exciting week in the Youth Room, with pro simuls, mini tournaments and prizes, prizes, and more prizes. Th anks to the generosity of Winston Jen, every kid at the Congress has won a free set of all seventeen volumes of the Hikaru no Go manga. DVD sets of popular series like Hunter x Hunter and Fruits Basket, piles of Hikaru no Go merchandise, Audio Go Lessons from Guo Juan, and donations from Art of Problem Solving.com and Wolfram Mathematica rounded out the prize pool as well. Seven-year-old Aaron Ye 2d (center, in photo at right) enjoyed his game review with Yilun Yang 7P, and so did the crowd that gathered round to watch. Youth also got to play six-on-1 and 8-on-1 simuls with top pros from Korea, China, and Japan. Mini tournaments were held most days, with prizes for 9×9 table winners, 13×13, and Lightning. Youth Adult

Pair Go remains one of the most popular events, with 44 youth and adults playing this year, paired as one youth and one adult of opposite genders, with a few same-gender pairs thrown in for good measure. Th e Youth Team Tournament, modeled after Hikaru no Go, was also popular, with nine teams competing. Top honors went to Keiju Takahara, Oliver Wolf and Takashi Hoshi in the dan division, and Anurag Varma, Albert Hu, and Alvin Hu in the kyu division. Both teams are playing in the photo at left, while Winston Jen (third from left, standing) observes the match. - Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor, photos by Paul Barchilon (top right & left) and Chris Garlock (bottom right).

5 MINUTES WITH: The Harwit TwinsTwin brothers Matthew (l) and Nathan Harwit (r) fi nish each other’s sentences, are virtually the same strength and are hardly ever seen apart but they’re quick to tell you that Matthew’s the older one. “Two minutes,” the twelve-year-olds say together. Matthew’s 4d and Nathan is 3d but they both agree they’re very close in strength and indeed Nathan won when the two were paired in Tuesday’s third round of the North American Ing Masters tournament. Th ey’ve only been playing a couple years, learning the game after seeing it played at a chess tournament at their elementary school in Boulder, Colorado. “We thought it was cool,” says Matthew, “and the go players were friends of our mother,” adds Nathan. Th e boys are regulars at the Boulder Kids and Teens Go Club, run by Paul Barchilon and David Weiss. Th e club boasts four dan-level children, all of whom are at the Congress. Th e fraternal twins are fi ercely competitive with each other, of course, and play at least one game every day, in addition to taking on other players on KGS. Th ey cheerfully admit to having been caught playing go by fl ashlight under the covers after bedtime, and are thrilled to be playing in the Ing this year. “It’s great to get your butt kicked by 8-dans,” says Nathan, “yeah, we learn a lot and it’s fun,” adds Matthew.- report/photo by Chris Garlock



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NORTH AMERICAN ING MASTERS: FINAL ROUND COMMENTARY BY YASUMASA HANE 9P (& FRIENDS)Th is game between Ing fi nalists Eric Lui 7d and Huiren Yang 1P — the fi rst Ing fi nal appearance for both — was projected on two large screens in the main playing area of the 2010 U.S. Go Congress to a crowd of several hundred attendees,while hundreds more watched on KGS. On one screen was the actual game and a cloned game with Hane’s commentary, on the other was a live video feed showing the players. Hane began the game commentary and eventually it was taken over by Maeda and Shigeko. All three — with the able assistance of translators Yoshi Sawada and Shoji Honsono — kept everyone entertained and engaged. At the three-hour mark, the two players were still battling it out but the crowd, the commentators and the translators were transfi xed, and the detailed commentary continued right through the end of the 4-hour, 3-point marathon game, which didn’t fi nish until after 11 p.m.- report/photo by Chris Garlock

All of the Congress commentaries -- 5 US Open & 6 Ing commentaries -- are available on the AGA’s website. Play through them online or download the sgf fi les: http://www.usgo.org/news/category/game-commentaries/



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AGF TEACHER OF THE YEAR

REVEALS SECRETS OF TEACHING

GO“It took begging on my knees to get into schools,” said Marjorie “Su Co” Hey 19k (l), the American Go Foundation’s Teacher of the Year, in a Monday afternoon presentation about her methods of teaching go. Once she did get into schools, though, teachers “found that the

kids that were playing go were behaving better in classes — suddenly I was very popular.” Double-digit kyus make better teachers, she said, because they don’t complicate things. “If you give the students too much information, they’ll get confused, and they probably won’t come back.” She is not a fan of “capture go” as a teaching method, because “by the time you get around to showing them all the rules, they’ve lost interest,” so she teaches the full rules of go. Hey said that she ensures that new players win their fi rst game, no matter what, because they won’t come back if they don’t enjoy it, and “worse yet they won’t tell anyone.” David Weiss 2d agreed that capture go is not a good tool because “kids in general only want to capture — it’s like throwing gasoline on a fi re.” But John Greiner 6k pointed out that the biggest advantage of capture go “is that they know when the game is over.” Hey doesn’t like 9×9 boards — they’re too crowded and players don’t get room to experiment — so she moves people up to 13×13 after two or three games. In addition to the traditional names for the fourth line (“infl uence line”) and third line (“territory line”), she added names for the second (“losing line”) and fi rst (“dead line”) to help her students avoid them. For new students, it’s important not to “let them leave empty-handed,” so she gives out Th e Way to Go, paper boards, and various other handouts so that they have something to read as well as a way to play before the next meeting. It is important to recognize that diff erent kinds of students have diff erent needs, Hey said. Adults “need to be assured that they are learning something worthwhile,” while kids want to start playing “before they know where the stones go.” Presenting some go history and the names of famous players is useful when introducing adults, but not for kids. In addition to her presentation, Hey also brought a lot of her teaching materials (r) to show to the other teachers.- report/photos by Jake Edge



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SHOTWELL PREVIEWS UPDATED “GO! MORE THAN A GAME”Peter Shotwell, author of Go! More Th an a Game, stopped by the U.S. Go Congress Friday evening to talk about some of the updates coming in a new revision of the book due in the next few months. In the seven years since the publication of the fi rst edition in 2003, Shotwell has done additional research in several areas that will appear in the new edition, including a re-examination of the attitude of Confucians toward go, advances in computer go, the combinatorics of go, and the possible spiritualization of Tibetan go. It was long presumed that the Confucians did not think very much of the game of go, said Shotwell, identifying it with gambling and laziness, but a better dating of some of the source documents has led him to see an evolution in their thinking — including seeing some value in the game by the time of the last mention. Th e Confucian writings were from the third century B.C. but the game was not explained at all, which implies that it was very well known and thus quite old at that time. Th e earliest go board that has been found was from 141 B.C.E. in the guardhouse of a Han emperor’s tomb and go was alternately praised and damned in the writings of the Han period. By the Th ree Kingdoms period in the third century, go was played by many and by 600 received getting high praise in poetry. An archeological fi nd combined with a game that Shotwell played in Tibet got him thinking about the connection between spirituality and go in Tibet. He played with a government offi cial while visiting Tibet and found out that there were some very diff erent rules including only being allowed to move up to one space or a knight’s move

from an existing stone, being awarded fi ve points for taking the center, and losing twenty points if you lose all of the corners. Th e starting position placed fi ve stones of each color in a pattern on the fourth line around the whole board, which made for a kind of “race to the center.” Shotwell thinks that these rules may have added a spiritual air to the game, which may have been done to “convince the early Buddhists that this new game from China was OK.” Two stone boards from the seventh century have been found in Tibet since the fi rst edition and interestingly, one of the boards had two depressions on each side, which may indicate that Japanese scoring with prisoners was used. Th ere have been huge advances in computer go since 2003 as well. At that time “any kid could beat the computer programs.” But, since the advent of Monte Carlo simulations and advances in the tree pruning algorithms in 2006 and 2007, “the top programs are at an amateur 1D level.” Once in a while, those programs can beat professionals when getting seven stones on the 19×19 board. On the 9×9 board, some programs are at a mid-level professional strength. Th ose programs use a lot of computer power, though, with up to 112 cores allowing them to do 100,000 simulations per second. Shotwell also pointed out some advances in go combinatorics, which is a branch of probability that studies the number of possible go games or positions. Two of the more interesting results

from studies by Dr. John Tromp compared possible chess “positions” with that of go: for go it is a 171-digit number whereas for chess it is only 46 digits. So the number of possible chess positions compared to the number of possible go positions is like comparing the size of the nucleus of an atom to the size of the universe. “You really have to let that sink in,” Tromp said. In addition, the lower bound of the total number of possible go games (not positions) is 10^(10^48) and there are more digits in that total than the total number of possible chess games. Much of that information will be refl ected in the new edition of his book, but Shotwell has also contributed numerous essays to AGA’s Bob High Memorial Library. - Report/photo by Jake Edge



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ENTERTAININGGo commentator Seong-Yong Kim 9P once got a very long and formal letter from a viewer admonishing him to “Be quiet!” Kim chuckled happily. For fi fteen years he’s been shaking up the go commentary world with his pungent – and entertaining – commentaries. “People call me rude and say ‘that guy’s too loud,’” Kim told the E-Journal Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Go Congress, where he’s one of the roster of visiting professionals. “Now,” he smiled broadly “they love it.” When Kim – who was Best Rookie of the Year in 1995, semi-fi nalist in the 1996 Samsung Cup, and won the 2004 Electronic Land Cup and the fi rst King of Kings tournament – fi rst began, “TV go commentaries used the Japanese style, very formal, and focused on technical details. Th ey would only talk about the good moves, to be polite.” But during a 1993 visit to the United States, Kim – an avid baseball fan — admired the lively style of American baseball commentators on television, and thought it could be applied to go, which was now being treated as a sport back home in Korea. “So if I thought a move was a mistake, I’d say so, bluntly.” Initial audience response was uniformly negative, so much so that Baduk TV had to shut down their website’s comment section to avoid crashing the server. But Kim kept at it, fi lling the long empty spaces between moves, not just with his pungent commentary, but detailed background on the players and the moves, “when a move was fi rst invented, and how trends have changed over the years.” Figuring that baseball’s fascination with stats would also translate well to go, he compiled over a thousand pages of statistics about

the game and players, “What kind of joseki a particular players uses, the openings he favors, how many times he’s played black or white.” All commentators use stats now, Kim said, and they can reveal fascinating insights. “Lee Changho 9P says he prefers to play black, but the stats show that he has a higher winning percentage as white.” Th ey also show that in a close game, Lee Changho – well-known for his strong endgame – “has a 90% chance of winning.” Kim is so popular that he’s done commentary for several Korean baseball games, which he says was much easier than go. “In baseball, it’s all about what’s already happened, while in go we’re trying to fi gure out what might happen.” Five years after receiving the “Be quiet” letter, Kim ran into the fan, who enthusiastically shook his hand, apologized for his letter and thanked him for helping generate interest in go with his “interesting, lively and frank” commentaries. “Hey, things change,” Kim – who also now does game commentaries on CyberOro and Tygem — shrugged with another broad smile.- report by Chris Garlock, photos by Todd Heidenreich. Special thanks to Jonathan Kim 1D for translation



U.S. GO CONGRESS

PHOTO ALBUM/Pair Go Tournamentphotos by Steve Colburn

CHEN/TANG WIN U.S. PAIR GO CHAMPIONSHIPS: Wan Yu Chen 4D and Curtis Tang 7D are the 2010 U.S. Pair Go champions and will represent the U.S. at the World Pair Go Championships later this year. Yukino Takehara 4k and Keiju Takehara 2d were second in the popular annual event, held Thursday night

at the U.S. Go Congress. Table winners: Table 1: Cathy Li 1P & Bill Tian Yu Lin 7d; Table 2: Yinli Wang 6d & Matt Burrall 7d; Table 3: Shigeko Hane 1P & Shoichi Sugita 1d; Table 4: Roxanne Tam 2d & Tom Xu 4d; Table 5: Rachel Small 8k & Ryo Maeda 6P; Table 6: April Ye 3k & Aaron Ye 2d; Table 7: Ranka Hane 1k & Takashi Hoshi 1k; Table 8: Eileen Hlavka 7k & Dave Weimer 3d; Table 9: Michiyo Yamamori 1k & David Rohde 5k; Table 10: Xiao-Feng Ha 3k & Sathya Anand 7k; Table 11: Chris Hlavka 14k & Jim Hlavka 2d; Table 12: Melanie Arnold 30k & Keith Arnold 4d. Todd Heidenreich took a break from his EJ Team duties to once again serve as Tourna-ment Director. photo by Steve Colburn


“Mental toughness

is very important to

getting stronger”


U.S. GO CONGRESS

SHIGEKO HANE 1P ON “EXPECTATIONS, MENTAL TOUGHNESS AND ENJOYING GO”Born into the famous Matsuoka go family, the pressure on Shigeko Hane 1P (r) to succeed as a professional from an early age – she learned when she was 6 years old – was intense. “Winning was the #1 priority,” Hane told the E-Journal in an interview Sunday afternoon in the E-Journal offi ce at the U.S. Go Congress. Now, as the wife of former Kisei, Honinbo and Tengen title holder Naoki Hane 9P and mother of four — Ranka 1k, Rinka 4k, Ayaka 1k and 3-year-old Kazuya, of whom great things are also expected – she says she just wants “to enjoy the game.” As a go teacher at an elementary school in Aichi Prefecture, she says she emphasizes the “positive aspects” of their play to encourage them. “Mental toughness is very important to getting stronger,” she says, “all the top professionals absolutely hated to lose as kids. Many of them are famous for breaking down in tears after losses as young players.” While a person’s true temperament can be diffi cult to determine in real life “it comes out right away in go,” Hane says, “Go reveals your real character immediately. Husband Naoki Hane 9P, for example, is calm and steady, like his father Yasumasa Hane 9P – whom she accompanied to the Go Congress – and when he came home after winning the Honinbo in 2008 and 2009, “he was the same as always, not jumping up and down, eating the same meals.” And when he lost the title this year, “he was just the same. So I think he really enjoys go for what it is, instead of worrying about winning and losing.” Hane says

she’s been “really impressed with how many players at the Congress are recording their games; in Japan very few people do this.” She was also startled that the roomful

of hundreds of players at the U.S. Open was “so quiet I could hear the whir of my video recorder; in Japan tournaments are much noisier.” One way she judges how eff ective lectures are is by the audience participation, and she noted that at the Congress, “Everyone’s really engaged. You must be doing everything right.”- report by Chris Garlock: photos: Shigeko Hane 1P watching her daughter Ayaka play in the U.S. Open (upper right, by Garlock); Yasumasa Hane 9P, Shigeko Hane 1P, translator Yoshi Sawada (l) and E-Journal Managing Editor Chris Garlock (r) (left, by Todd Heidenreich)



U.S. GO CONGRESS: NAIM PLAYERS

1: Jiang, Mingjiu 9P

2: Yang, Yilun 7P

3: Ge, Yongfei7D

4: Lui, Eric 7D

5: Ko, Juyong 7P

6: Yang, Huiren 1P

7: Tang, Curtis7D

8: Liang, Jie7D

10: Lin, Tianyu 7D

11: Zhang, Hugh7D

12: Chou, Daniel7D

9: Zhou, Yuan7D

14: Sedgwick, James 6D

13: Gan, Jianing7D

16: Wang, Yinli 6D

15: Sha, Irene6D

17: Chao, Kevin 6D

18: Shih, Jack5D

20: Lockhart, Will 5D

19:Lebl, Martin 6D

21: Burrall, Steve 5D

23: Sibicky, Nick 4D

22: Arnold, Keith 5D

24: Jackson, Andrew 4D

25: Harwit, Matthew 4D

27: Teng, Justin 3D

26: Lockhart, Ben 6D

28: Olsen, Andy 3D

30: Salantrie,

Frank 3D

29: Small, Haskell 3D

31: Harwit, Nathan 3D

32: Takehara. Keiju 2D

Th e North American Ing Masters (NAIM), the North American continental championship, matches

thirty-two of North America’s strongest amateurs and professionals in a 5-round Swiss tournament to determine a champion. Th is tournament is run

each year at the US Go Congress and is one of North America’s most heavily contested events.

Players are in seeded order.CLICK HERE for the 2010 Ing crosstab:

http://tiny.cc/rkvot



U.S. GO CONGRESS

PHOTO ALBUM/THE KGS TATTOO GALLERY photos by Chris Garlock & Steve Colburn

Offi cial E-Journal broadcasting partner KGS tattoos were ubiquitous at the 2010 U.S. Go Congress. The temporary tats showed up on the most unexpected people — including Cyberoro and Tygem commentator Seong-Yong Kim 9P and in the most unlikely places, including, according to some reports, some nether regions, but we were unable to get to the bottom of this story.

2011 US Go CongressSanta Barbara, CAJul 30 - Aug 7, 2011Play, Learn, Enjoy!Click here for details: http://www.usgo.org/congresses/2011/



U.S. GO CONGRESS

RECORD E-JOURNAL TEAM COVERS 2010 GO CONGRESSEarlier this week, Keith Arnold jokingly asked me if the E-Journal Congress Team was as big as the 32-player Ing fi eld yet. Actually, it’s larger, as it turns out (see below for the complete list; not all are pictured). Forty terrifi c volunteers contributed to 56 hours of broadcasts, 55 game records, 11 game commentaries and 38 reports published in the E-Journal and on the website. I’m honored to have had the opportunity to work with such a great group of people, from the main broadcasting team — the Todds, Steve, Akane, Matt, Sol, Chris B and Richard — to the game recorders, professionals, reporters and photographers, all of whom played a key role in bringing this year’s Go Congress to the world and I thank them on behalf of go players everywhere. Th anks also to Karen Jordan and the Congress team for bringing us all together for such a great event, especially the tournament directors – especially Chris Kirschner, Ken Koester and Sam Zimmerman — who worked so closely with us this week and to the AGA Board of Directors and President Allan Abramson for all their support of the E-Journal’s work. Finally – but always fi rst in my heart – thanks to my wife, Lisa, who has so generously shared me with the go community for the last 25 years. See you next year in Santa Barbara!- Chris Garlock, Managing Editor; photo by Roy Laird

2010 E-JOURNAL/WEBSITE/KGS REPORTING/BROADCASTING TEAM: TEAM COORDINATORS: Steve Colburn, Todd Heidenreich; KGS TEAM: Akane Negishi, Matt Heymering; VIDEO STREAMING/ING FINAL TRANSCRIBING: Todd Blatt; YOUTH EDITOR: Paul Barchilon; REPORTERS: Jake Edge, Lee Huynh, Laura Kolb; PHOTOGRAPHERS: Roy Laird, Gen Zhang, Edward Zhang, David Weiss; PROFESSIONALS: Yasumasa Hane 9P, Seong-Yong Kim 9P, Mingjiu Jiang 7P, Ryo Maeda 6P, Cheng Xiaoliu 6P, Jennie Shen 2P, Shigeko Hane 1P, Xuefen Lin 1P, Cathy Li 1P; TRANSLATORS: Yoshi Sawada, Shoji Hosono & Jonathan Kim; US OPEN/ING GAME RECORDERS: Solomon Smilack, Chris Burg & Richard Dolen; ING GAME RECORDERS: Gordon Castanza, David Weimer, Myron Souris, Ryan Bernstein, Jim Hlavka, Michael Huang, Mike LePore & Daniel Smith; REDMOND CUP GAME RECORDERS: Justin Teng, Ashish Varma & Hugh Zhang; PRO PAIR GO: Josh Larson.



U.S. GO CONGRESS

NORTH AMERICAN MASTERS TOURNAMENTTDs: Ken Koester/Sam Zimmer-man/Chris Kirschner•Winner: Hui Ren Yang 1P•Runner Up: Eric LuI 8D 3: Ming Jiu Jiang4: Juyong Koh5: Yongfei Ge6: Yilun Yang7: Curtis Tang8: Daniel Chou9: Jie Liang10: Tianyu (Bill) Lin11: Irene Sha12: Jianing Gan13: Yuan Zhou14: Hugh Zhang15: James Sedgwick16: Benjamin Lockhart17: William Lockhart18: Kevin Chao19: Justin Teng20: Keith L. Arnold21: Steven F. Burrall22: Yinli Wang23: Nathan Harwit24: Andy Olsen25: Andrew Jackson26: Nick Sibicky27: Martin Lebl28: Jack Shih29: Frank Salantrie30: Haskell Small31: Matthew Harwit32: Keiju Takehara

US OPEN WINNERS TDs: Ken Koester/Sam Zimmer-man/Chris KirschnerOpen Section 1st: Myung Wan Kim 9P 2nd: Francis Meyer 8D 3rd: Eric Lui 8D 4th: Juyong Koh 8D 5th: Jie Liang 8D 6th: Shiyao Qiao 1P 6D Section 1st: James Sedgwick 2nd: Rongrong Zhang 3rd: Ben Lockhart5D Section 1st: Jack Shih 2nd: Kevin Chao 3rd: Erwin Yu4D Section 1st: Shangyu Han 2nd: Mamoru Matsumoto 3rd: Ryan Smith3D Section 1st: Peter Zhang 2nd: Ashish Varma 3rd: Justin Teng

2D Section 1st: Albert Guo 2nd: Oliver Wolf 3rd: Aaron Ye1D Section 1st: Terry Benson 2nd: Jesse O’Brion 3rd: Shoichi Sugita1K Section 1st: Fujitaro Onoshita 2nd: Matthew Mallory 3rd: Michiyo Yamamori2K Section 1st: Andrew Shang 2nd: Xiaojing Du 3rd: Myron Souris3K Section 1st: April Ye 2nd: Steffen Kurz 3rd: Rick Rodgers 4K Section 1st: Larry Russ 2nd: Jason Preuss 3rd: Bart Jacob 5K Section 1st: Wenhua Niu 2nd: Darrel Speck 3rd: Alfred Mikula 6K Section 1st: Roger Schrag 2nd: Jeff Putney 3rd: Ken Crumpler 7K – 9K Section 1st: Joel Olson 7K 2nd: Dave Whiteside 8K 3rd: Sathya Anand 7K 4th: David Niu 8K 5th: Gurujeet Khalsa 9K

10K – 15K Section 1st: Tucker Burgin 11K 2nd: Garrett Smith 12K 3rd: Charles Polkiewicz 14K 4th: Gordon Castanza 12KNovice Section 1st: Alvin Hu 16K 2nd: Gary Smith 25K 3rd: Eric Sumner 17K

STRONG PLAYERS ONLINE TOURNAMENTTD: Edward Zhang•Myung Wan Kim•Jianing Gan•Eric Lui

SELF-PAIRED TOURNAMENTTD: Greg Alexander•Champion: William Philiips 1K•Hurricane: David Frankel 1K•Giant Killer: David Frankel 1K•Keith Arnold: Jeffrey Horn 1D•Grasshopper: Yokito Abe 3D•Straight Shooter: W. Phillips 1K•Dedicated: G. Castanza 12K•Sensei: Wayne Nelson 1D•Faithful: Gordon Castanza 12K•Philanthropist: G. Castanza 12K•Optimist: Winston Jen 14KDIE HARD TOURNAMENTTD: Martin Lebl•Section A 1st: Kory Stevens 5D 2nd: Hiroshi Yuyama 3D 3rd: Ryan Smith 4D•Section B 1st: Albert Guo 2D 2nd: Hildegard Puttkammer 1D 3rd: Colin Liu 2D•Section C 1st: Xiaojing Du 2K 2nd: Steffen Kurz 3K 3rd: Robert Sorenson 1K•Section D 1st: Bart Jacob 4K 2nd: Darrell Speck 5K 3rd: David Rohde 5K

TOURNAMENT WINNERS


Section E 1st: David Niu 8K 2nd: Jeff Putney 6K 3rd: Elliot Sterns 7K

REDMOND CUP (Youth)TD: Paul Barchilon•Senior PlayersChampion: Curtis Tang 7D Jianing Gan 7D•Junior PlayersChampion: Oliver Wolf 1D Henry Zhang 1D

CLUB TEAM TOURNAMENT•Dan Team Winner ~ Vancouver–Juyang Koh 7D, Bill Lin 7D & Cathy Li 1P•Kyu Team Winner Oklahoma Go Players Associa-tion–Jesse O’Brion 1D, Joel Olson 7K & Josh Morrison 8K

MIDNIGHT MADNESSTD: Martin Lebl•Division A 1st: Martin Lebl 5D 2nd: Kory Stevens 5D 3rd: Rick Rodgers 3K•Division B 1st: Bijan Saniee 5K 2nd: Yoko Ohashi 6K 3rd: Michael Shin 6K•Division C 1st: Sathya Anand 7K 2nd: Josh Morrison 8K 3rd: Charles Polkiewicz 14K

WOMEN’S TOURNAMENTTD: Lisa Scott•Section A 1st: Roxanne Tam 2D 2nd: Yoko Takahashi 2D 3rd: Fusayo Minematsu 4D•Section B 1st: Miyoko Miyama 2K 2nd: April Ye 3K

3rd: Masami Hane 1K•Section C 1st: Kozumi Gordon 14K 2nd: Wanda Metcalf 4K 3rd: Lee Anne Bowie 4K

UNRATED EVENTS

9X9 TOURNAMENTMartin Lebl•Dan Champion: Matt Burrall 7D•Kyu Champion: Albert Hu 2KTable winners: Matthew Burrall 7D, Josh Larson 3D, Scott Abrams 2K, Albert Hu 3K, Sathya Anand 7K, and Smith Garrett 12K.

13X13 TOURNAMENTTD: David Weiss•Dan Champion: Mark Gilston 1D•Kyu Champion: Sathya Anand 7K

LIGHTNINGTOURNAMENTTD: Jim Hlavka•Dan Champion: Aaron Ye 2D•Kyu Champion: Henry Zhang 2K

PAIR GO TOURNAMENTTD: Todd Heidenreich•Open Section ~ 1st Wan Yu Chen 4D Curtis Tang 7D

•Open Section ~ 2nd Yukino Takehara 4K Keiju Takehara 2D

Table Winners ~ •Cathy Li 1P/Tian Yu (Bill) Lin 7D•Yinli Wang 6D/Matt Burrall 7D•Shigeko Hane 1P/Shoichi Sugita 1D•Roxanne Tam 2D/Tom Xu 4D•Rachel Small 8K/Ryo Maeda 6P•April Ye 3K/Aaron Ye 2D•Ranka Hane 1K/Takashi Hoshi 1K•Eileen Hlavka 7K/Dave Weimer 3D

•Michiyo Yamamori 1K/David Rhode 5K•Xiao-Feng Ha 3K/Sathya Anand 7K•Chris Hlavka 14K/Jim Hlavka 2D•Melanie Arnold 30K/Keith Arnold 4D


U.S. GO CONGRESS

TOURNAMENT WINNERS




With a perfect 8-0 score, Hongsuk Song 7d of the Republic of Korea became the new World Amateur Go Champion on May 30 in Hangzhou, China. Thomas Hsiang of the U.S. placed 12th, improving on the U.S.’ 15th-place finish in 2009. As the final round began, on the top board, Korea’s undefeated Hongsuk Song faced Czechia’s Ondrej Silt. On the second board, China’s Chen Wang faced Hong Kong’s Naisan Chan. All four of these young players were virtually assured of finishing in the top eight, and one of them would be the new world champion. On the next few boards, Chinese Taipei’s Cheng-hsun Chen was playing Sweden’s Fredrik Blomback, Singapore’s Yuxiang Lou was playing Argentina’s Fernando Aguilar, Finland’s Vesa Laatikainen was playing Hungary’s Pal Balogh, Poland’s Leszek Soldan was playing Japan’s Yohei Sato, and DPR Korea’s Taewon Jo was playing Russia’s Alexei Lazarev. The winners of these games were assured of high finishes and probable awards, but the losers would be tenth at best. The championship was decided at 3:40 p.m. Song had dominated his game against Silt in the same way that he had dominated his other seven games. Silt played it out to the end, but Song was ahead by a wide margin. continued on next page

KOREA WINS 2010 WORLD AMATEURS;

U.S. MOVES UP TO 12th

E-JOURNAL/RANKA TEAM AGAIN

PROVIDES FULL WAGC COVERAGE

Th e American Go E-Journal and Ranka Online once again teamed up to provide wall-to-wall coverage of the World Amateur Go Championship games, with detailed commentaries by American-born pro Michael Redmond made possible by the IGF and Ranka. Both the AGA website and Ranka Online websites were updated throughout each day with photos, reports and game records, while a special daily edition of the E-Journal delivered hot-off -the-press reports with links back to both websites. photo: Ranka Online editor Ivan Vigano (white shirt) and EJ Managing Editor Chris Garlock (black shirt) work on a game commentary with Michael Redmond 9P. photo by John Pinkerton

E-Journal Reports/Game Records: http://www.usgo.org/news/RANKA Online Reports:http://ranka.intergofed.org/

Final Standings:http://tinyurl.com/28ckuws




KOREA WINS 2010 WORLD AMATEURS; U.S. MOVES UP TO 12th (continued from previous page)

Second place was known a minute later, when the game between Wang and Chan was counted. China’s Wang had scored his second half-point triumph of the day. ‘In this game I was unlucky,’ Hong Kong’s Chan said afterward. ‘I think I had many chances to win but I couldn’t capitalize on them.’ Before these two crucial games ended, 11-year-old Chen had already beaten 18-year-old Blomback, Jo had beaten Lazarev, Sato had beaten Soldan, and Balogh had beaten Laatikainen, assuring high finishes for Chinese Taipei, DPR Korea, Japan, and Hungary. The game between Lou and Aguilar, however, was still nowhere near over. After a while they were the only ones left still playing. Move by careful move the game proceeded; then the neutral points were filled in. When the score was counted, Lou had his sixth victory of the tournament, putting Singapore in contention for one of the awards. When the SOS points were tallied, however, Singapore and Japan were tied for eighth and ninth places. Their first-round results were subtracted, but they were still tied. The second-round results were subtracted: tied again. The third-round results were subtracted: tied once more. The tie finally broke when the fourth-round results were subtracted. Japan’s Yohei Sato had captured the eighth-place award, two truncated SOS points ahead of Singapore’s Yuxiang Lou. Chinese Taipei and Hungary finished in a similar tie for sixth and seventh places. This time it was only necessary to subtract the results of the first two rounds to find out that Chinese Taipei’s Cheng-hsun Chen had taken sixth place and Hungary’s Pal Balogh was seventh. Czechia’s Ondrej Silt had undisputed possession of fifth place. Hong Kong’s Naisan Chan took fourth, one place lower than his result last year. In third place, for a second consecutive time though with a three-year interim hiatus, was DPR Korea’s Taewon Jo.- based on James Davies’ report on Ranka Online; photo by John Pinkerton

WAGC GAME COMMENTARIESMichael Redmond 9P’s succinct and easy easy-to-under-stand commentaries on 19 World Amateur Go Championship games are must-read analyses, not just for those interested in the World Amateurs, but for players of any strength looking to improve their game.

CLICK BELOW to view the commen-taries in an online viewer or download the sgf fi les.

CLICKABLE LINK:http://www.usgo.org/news/category/game-commentaries/

Photo by John Pinkerton




PRESIDENTIAL GO: THE VIEW FROM THE TOP

Th e view of the famous Hangzhou lake district was obscured by haze, but all eyes in the 28th-fl oor suite at the Tian Yuan Tower were riveted on the go board inside. While preparations for the 31st annual World Amateur Go Champi-onship were underway twenty fl oors below on Monday afternoon, outgoing International Go Federation President Hideo Otake 9P (l) and incoming IGF President Zhenming Chang (r) were enjoying a quiet game before a busy schedule that included the IGF General meet-ing, a press conference and the WAGC’s open-ing ceremonies and banquet. Chang is Vice Chairman and President of the CITIC Group, a major Chinese fi rm dealing in fi nance, real estate, resource development, manufacturing and telecommunications. He’s been playing since he was 9 years old. His middle school team was coached by players like Yigang Hua and Runan Wang, and he won the third New Physical Education Cup in 1979, which had previously been won by Weiping Nie and Zude Chen. He’s a strong proponent of go because of “it’s great training for the mind, especially for children.” As a businessman, he appreciates the game’s strategic aspects. “You learn that you can lose the battle but win the war. Or in business terms, that you can lose money but still come out ahead. You also learn to adapt to diff erent situations, for example, to use diff erent joseki in diff erent positions.” After the game, the two men briefl y discussed a few key points of play, then shook hands and stood up. It was time to turn their attention to other, perhaps less fun, but no less important, aspects of world go.- includes reporting by James Davies and Chris Garlock; photo by John Pinkerton; for Michael Redmond 9P’s game commen-tary, go to http://www.usgo.org/news/category/game-commentaries/

5 MINUTES WITH: John Gibson 2k, IrelandDubliner John Gibson has an unusual claim to fame, even for a go player. He once played go with Ira Einhorn the infamous “Unicorn Killer” now serving a life sentence for the 1977 murder of Holly Maddux. In the early ‘80s, Gibson was introduced to “Ben Moore” – a pseudonym of Einhorn’s while he was on the run — by the Secretary of his Dublin chess club, “and we played a number of games,” says Gibson. “He was about 7 kyu.” Gibson has been playing go for 34 years and participated in the fi rst World Mind Sports Games in 2008. He attends one of the

two Dublin go clubs at least once a week and reports that there are ongoing serious efforts to teach go in Ireland.- None Redmond, special correspondent for the E-Journal; photo by John Pinkerton




U.S. MAKING A DIFFERENCE

IN WORLD GO“Th e U.S. is making a real diff erence in world go,” a visibly tired but happy-looking Th omas Hsiang (right, standing) told me Friday night after yet another long day doing double-duty as IGF Director and WAGC player for the U.S. Right after the day’s rounds wrapped up Friday afternoon – he lost to Korea and Hungary – Hsiang was off to help prep for the WAGC’s fi rst-ever drug tests of the top players at the conclusion of the tournament on Saturday. “We must do this from now on to maintain our membership in the International Mind Sports Association,” Hsiang said. He’s serving as the sole Western representative on the arbitration committee for the upcoming Asian Games, and also noted that the United States had been among those advocating for the new three-country support format for the WAGC, with Japan, China and Korea sharing fi nancial responsibility. “Th ere was quite a bit of resistance at fi rst,” Hsiang noted, “but when (main sponsor) JAL’s funding dried up, it became a more receptive environment and things worked out.” Hsiang, an IGF Director who serves as the U.S. representative to the International Go Federation, has also been the lead representative to the World Mind Sports Games. He also noted this year’s second annual collaboration between the IGF’s Ranka Online and the American Go E-Journal in teaming up to cover the WAGC. “Th ese are all important developments in world go, and it’s largely an unknown story, but the reality is that we are somebody now, and making real contributions to international go.”

- Chris Garlock; photo by John Pinkerton

5 MINUTES WITH: Carlos Joels 1k, PeruStuck at home sick a few years ago, Carlos Joels 1k of Peru was channel surfi ng when he came across a strangely fascinating game being played on Japanese TV. He had been a chess player, but was bored with it because of the constant repetition of the moves. Seeing the go board he realized that this offered more scope for innovative play and decided to learn the game. The 25-year-old — who has just graduated with a degree in economics — has now been playing go for a year and a half, playing every day and going to the go club in Lima every week where there are about 10 players. Next year, he plans to go to Taiwan to learn Chinese. “Of course,” he says with great excitement, “there is a go club there where I hope I will improve very fast.”- None Redmond, special correspondent to the E-Journalphoto by John Pinkerton



WORLD AMATEUR GO CHAMPIONSHIPS

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Kicking It With Th e Kids “I almost got beat by a 6-year-old!” exclaimed Mexico’s Emil Garcia Bustamente. None of the other players in the room responded: they were too busy battling with other pint-sized go-terrors. Friday’s 6th round had just concluded a few hours previously, but the

casual player’s room was jammed with WAGC play-ers taking on young dan students from the Hangzhou Go Associa-tion who were equally eager to take on the world’s best amateurs. Th e kids played with blazing speed as the older players – even 17-year-old Th omas Debarre of France was an oldster compared to the six- and seven-year-olds — muttered their disbelief – and appreciation — in a dozen languages. - Chris Garlock, photos by Garlock (l) & John Pinkerton (top right)

5 MINUTES WITH: David Ormerod 5d, AustraliaWhen David Ormerod (l) and a friend saw the fi lm “Pi” in 2002, they thought that go looked like an interesting game, so they found a go board and taught themselves to play, eventually hooking up with a go club in Melbourne. They started a small go club in the university and later on Ormerod began his own company selling chess and go equipment online. Although he had no diffi culty selling chess equipment to schools — for a while he worked teaching chess in school — selling go equipment and teaching go proved diffi cult because no one had ever heard of it. Ormerod met his wife Jing Ning Xue at university in Melbourne, and the two recently married and moved to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, where they both work for the Australian government. In addition to playing go together, the two enjoy biking and Latin dancing. While they were part of a community of several hundred go players in Melbourne, Canberra is a much smaller place. It’s a good thing it just takes two to play, as often Ormerod and Australian Go Association President Neville Smythe are the only attendees at the local go club.- None Redmond (r), special correspondent for the E-Journal; photo by John Pinkerton




5 MINUTES WITH: Vesa Laatikainen 5d, FinlandWhen Vesa Laatikainen was a high school student, he bought a book

about different games and decided to learn go because it looked

attractive. He enjoyed the different patterns the stones made on the

board. He’s now been making those patterns for 27 years. He studies every day — mostly professional

games — and when he is at home he goes to the go club in Helsinki twice

a week, where there are between 10 and 20 players of varying strengths. He’s also enjoying passing along his love for the game to his 10-year-old

daughter.- None Redmond, special

correspondent to the E-Journal

Sixty players from 60 countries and regions. Eight rounds over four days. For 31 years, the World Amateur Go Championships (WAGC) has assembled a global gathering of top amateurs to compete, meet and spread the game of go around the world. The 2010 WAGC was held May 24-31 in Hangzou, China, organized by the China Qiyuan, the Chinese agency responsible for board and card games, under the supervision of the International Go Federation, and co-orga-nized by the Hangzhou Branch of the China Qi-Yuan (Chinese Go Association).

PLAYER PORTRAITS photos by John Pinkerton




WAGC GAME COMMENTARIES

Don’t miss Michael Redmond 9P’s commentaries on 19 WAGC

games! CLICK HERE http://www.usgo.org/news/category/game-commentaries/

to view the commentaries in an online viewer or download the

sgf fi les to review later.




5 MINUTES WITH: Francesca Mauri 5k, ItalyFrancesca Mauri is surprised to be here. “I should learn to play this game,” the 5-kyu said as she emerged from her second-round game. Someone else was supposed to represent Italy at the WAGC, but when he became ill and wasn’t able to attend, she got the nod. Mauri learned go 20 years ago, discovering the game from reading Trevanian’s novel Shibumi. She found the go club in Milan and was so serious about learning to play that she insisted on using the full board. Then about a decade ago she stopped playing and says she “forgot everything.” Now she has started to play again and here at the WAGC she has become excited by her fellow players’ enthusiasm and she plans to return home and play more seriously. The organizer of the House of Games where many different mind games are played, Mauri attended the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing in 2008 and has been impressed by the tremendous determination for excellence she’s seen in Asia. On the other hand, she’s a bit less sanguine about Chinese taxi drivers, who she’s convinced are “crazy and rude, but have great refl exes.”

PICTURES OF CONCENTRATION photos by John Pinkerton




THE “IMPOSSIBLE” TIAN YUAN TOWER PROBLEM

Th is is the go problem on the lobby wall in the Hangzhou Tian Yuan Tower (see story on next page) where the 2010 31st annual World

Amateur Go Championship was held. According to our guide, “It’s impossible to solve this problem.” Give it a try yourself and then click

here for the solution: http://www.usgo.org/news/category/game-commentaries/

5 MINUTES WITH: T Mark Hall 4d, UKT Mark Hall (l, with correspondent None Redmond), the U.K.’s WAGC rep, lives in London, where he works with John Fairbairn to produce the encyclopedic Games of Go on Disk, better-known as GoGod. We interviewed Hall right after his second-round loss to Canada’s Yongfei Ge 7d and he was planning to use GoGod – “a large database of professional go games supported by an extensive fund of programs, data and articles to help existing players enjoy and benefi t from these games” – to analyze his game. Hall is a retiree from the British Foreign Offi ce; his fi rst assignment was in Tokyo, where he learned go and spent three years playing whenever he could. His travels have taken him to places around the world, including Milan, Nigeria, Greece, Burma and a 1992 stint in Seoul. Hall plans to take advantage of his WAGC trip to China to explore the country through mid-June. Through the EJ’s extensive network of sources, we have learned that T is Hall’s legal fi rst name, adopted after an employer insisted on using Hall’s fi rst name even though he preferred Mark.- None Redmond, special correspondent for the E-Journal; photo by John Pinkerton

ROUND-BY-ROUND HIGHLIGHTS Venezuela’s Maria Puerta 3k (l) took down the much stronger – and younger — Wan Kao Lou 5d of Macau in the third round of the World Amateur Go Championships Th ursday morning. Th e 54-year-old Puerta – who’s the President of the Venezuelan Go Association and a Director for the International Go Federation – won an enthusiastic round of applause from her fellow players during the lunch break.

CLICK HERE for complete round-by-round high-lights: http://www.usgo.org/news/category/world-amateur-go-championships-wagc/


The Go Players Guide to the World

HANGZHOU, CHINA

HANGZHOU’S TOWER OF GOBy Chris GarlockTh e Hangzhou Tian Yuan Tower (r) is a go player’s dream come true. Basically, once you step through the front door, you never have to leave again. Like upscale hotels around the world, the Tian Yuan contains well-appointed rooms and several diff erent restaurants featuring Chinese cuisine, but this special place also includes facilities for playing and studying go. To dispel any doubts about the building’s go theme, the fountain in front features a large go bowl and stones, a wall in the main lobby has a huge go problem (see photo on page 8) with the names of famous Chinese go players engraved on the stones, and the main restaurant is housed in a massive go bowl spinning slowly atop the building. Diners get dramatic – if hazy – views of the area’s famous lake district, as well as the rapidly burgeoning Qianjiang New City, a brand-new Central Business District that is planned to be the political, economic and cultural center of the Hangzhou city of the future. Completed just three years ago in 2007, the Tian Yuan is owned by the Hangzhou Go Association, which uses the fi rst ten of the building’s 37 fl oors for go-related activities and rents out the rest to the hotel and other tenants. Th e Association’s administrative offi ces and go classrooms – called “combat rooms” in English – are on the fourth fl oor, along with an extensive wood-paneled library of go books in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Th e Association has already hosted a number of professional tournaments since the Tian Yuan opened – the facility is designed and equipped to handle the special needs of go tournaments as well as hundreds of players, offi cials and media — and the fi nals take place in the Ling Long Hall (above), a well-carpeted room on the fourth fl oor with low tables and leather-cushioned chairs. Down the hall, in Room 406, the Hangzhou Go Team – comprised of 10 pros who live at the Tian Yuan — trains for their tournaments. Next door, in Room 405, local go students play and study in the evenings. Tucked away in

Room 410 is a go store (below, right) run by Yawei “Robert” Wu, who owns a factory in Hunan province that supplies a chain of nine such go shops across China. Here you’ll fi nd everything from an inexpensive paper board to gobans made of bright yellow new kaya and his top-of-the-line board, a traditionally-carved Chinese-style board made of glossy dark wood that’s been buried for thousands of years and sells for nearly $900 (though bargaining seems to be expected). A go museum is slated to open later this year, containing historic go boards and stones, pictures of famous Chinese players and more, including the

oversized world map signed by all the players at the 31st WAGC. Th ere are additional training rooms on the third fl oor and several fl oors of hotel-style rooms for the pros and resident students, as well as visiting groups like Feng Yun 9Ps annual summer school, which is set for July this year. It’s possible to arrange a visit as an individual, but guide Lang Qin Fang

says the cost would likely be prohibitive, and they encourage those interested to instead join or organize groups such as Feng

Yun’s. Although the area surrounding the Tian Yuan Tower is still very much a work in progress – restaurants and other cultural attractions are a cab ride away in the old downtown — the many attractions of Hangzhou’s West Lake District may prove irresistible for even the most dedicated go player.- photos by John Pinkerton

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AT 20, PAIR GO LOOKS BACK AND AHEADPair go is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and World Pair Go Association Vice President Hiroko Taki (l) looked back and ahead in an interview with Ranka on Tuesday. “When we started the pair go movement twenty years ago, we wrote a lot about the signifi cance of fostering pair go, communication in black and white, international goodwill, and so on,” said Mrs. Taki. “At the time, there was a need to attract more players to the game of go, both in Japan and in western countries. Th ere was a particular need to get more women into the game, and of course that would attract more men. We wanted to present pair go as a game played by ladies and gentlemen, to make it more accessible to women. Our no-smoking policy was a big change. Over these twenty years, I’d say that we have reached and exceeded our goals. In the future I hope to see pair go become an established part of every major go tournament.” Following on the success of the professional Pair Go World Cup held in Hangzhou last March, Mrs. Taki says “We’re hoping to hold more pair go world cups, not next year but perhaps once every four years, like the football world cup.” Th e next big international pair go tournament will be the Asia Games, where pair go will be one of the events. “Looking beyond that, the World Pair Go Association now has 64 member countries,” notes Mrs. Taki. “Our Chairman is Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, former Director-General of UNESCO, so we’re expecting to develop further under his leadership. We are also now participating in the International Go Federation, and will be working with them.” While the WPGA is developing pair go on the Internet, through Pandanet,

Mrs. Taki stresses that “in pair go it’s always important for people to meet face to face over the board.” - based on James Davies’ report on Ranka online; photo by Ivan Vigano

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CHINA TO LEAD IGF INTO NEW ERATh e election of Chang Zhenming of China as President of the International Go Federation (IGF) highlighted the International Go Federation’s General Meeting (r) on Monday as the 31st edition of the IGF’s fl agship event – the World Amateur Go Championship – formally launched in Hangzhou, China. “I will give my best eff ort to promote go to the whole world,” Chang promised, “Go is a benefi t for everyone.” Th e other major news was that while there have been setbacks in the attempt to achieve recognition for go as an Olympic sport, mind sports are making signifi cant progress. IGF Director Th omas Hsiang reported that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) includes mind sports as a category that has “no realistic chance of entering either the Summer or the Winter Olympics,” and so won’t be recognized. Th e good news is that SportAccord (formerly the General Association of International Sports Federation, or GAISF) is expanding its defi nition of sport to include mind sport and plans to sponsor a number of new events, including Mind Sport Games. Planning for a second World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) in August 2012 is now underway, with Manchester UK as the leading candidate to host. In even more exciting news, the International Federation of Poker has applied to become an IMSA and SA member, which has attracted interest from several major marketing fi rms, with which the IGF is now in discussions. Upcoming events either sponsored by the IGF or with major IGF involvement are the 21st International Pair Go Championships October 16-17 in Japan, the 16th Guangzhou Asian Games November 12-27 and the 32nd World Amateur Go Championship in Shimane, Japan. - Chris Garlock; photo by John Pinkerton

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SHANGHAI

Chicken Feet, New Friends,

the Mysteries of Go

and Pint-Sized PlayersBy Chris Garlock“How much you can drink is directly related to how strong you are,” proclaimed Sun Bo, brimming glasses of both wine and beer in front of the amateur 5-dan. E-Journal photographer John Pinkerton and I had landed in Shanghai a few short hours earlier and Jin Sheng Yu (far left) and his wife Dai Zijia (far right) had picked us up and whisked us off to dinner with fellow go players Quin Zhixuan 5d (2nd from left), Du Yufeng 3P (3rd from right) and Sun Bo (3rd from left), who goes by “Jacky.” We’re in China to cover the 31st annual World Amateur Go Championship, which start Monday in nearby Hangzhou and arrived a few days early to explore go in Shanghai. Feng Yun 9P had generously provided an introduction to Jin and though we had all just met, we were soon bonding over platters of Cantonese food, wine, beer and of course, go talk. Jin is a 4-dan pro in his early thirties who became a pro at 11 in 1990 who now works days at the Children’s Palace and runs a go school on weekends. His wife, who insisted we call her Diana, teaches English at a Shanghai high school. Jacky, who we immediately nicknamed “Tough Jacky” because he confi dently claimed to be strong at everything from go to ping pong, drinking and karaoke, is Jin’s student and colleague at the weekend

go school, which is so new — it just opened in March — that it hasn’t been named yet. As we downed one delicacy after another — you haven’t lived until you’ve sucked the fatty skin off chicken feet and slurped up glutinous rice balls in sweet red bean sauce — discussion ranged from the pros and cons of internet play (“anyone can get to 7-dan online”) to how best to study pro games (split between some who said it was necessary to try to understand the moves and others said “No, just play through the moves and try to get a feel for them.”). All agreed that at the top levels go is deeply mysterious and that questions of “good” and “bad”

moves largely come down more to a sense of the game and style, rather than absolute assessment. After dinner we adjourned to Jin’s club, near the famous Jingan Temple in downtown Shanghai, on the 6th fl oor of a nondescript offi ce building. We could hear the chatter of young voices as we came out of the elevator and soon a dozen young go players were crowding around us, practicing their English and excitedly shaking hands. A few minutes later I was playing a simul with 7-year-old Zhu Qiying (l) and 8-year-old Zhang Chi (r), two young kyu players whose seriousness and poise was impressive. Zhu took up the game just 10 months ago on a dare from her classmates in school, and her twice-a-week lessons compete for her attention with dance, piano, English, skating, mathematics and other classes. Zhang — a rosy-cheeked youngster who also studies Chinese chess, piano and calligraphy — would like to be a pro and has been playing for two years. Jin has fi fty young students already, and his instruction covers all aspects of go, “because you can’t understand go without understanding its culture, as well.” After the games and brief interviews and photos, the kids went home and we went into the teacher’s room to check out the gambling go game Jacky and Zhixuan were playing. But that’s another story. - photos by John Pinkerton

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SHANGHAI

At the Blue Elephant

Go SchoolBy Chris GarlockTh e Shanghai sky is falling in great wet sheets as our taxi careens down the freeway into town. None of the seatbelts work, not even the driver’s, who’s slaloming through an obstacle course of Saturday morning traffi c puttering along at 70 miles an hour. A few white-knuckled minutes later we stagger out of the cab and — after grabbing a quick steaming-hot pork dumpling at a street vendor — meet Du Yufeng 3P, who takes us to the Blue Elephant Go School, just around the corner from the famed Fudan University. Founded in 2002, the Blue Elephant is by far the biggest go school in Shanghai — of some 15 — with 400 students. Founder Lao Jian Qun meets us as we exit the elevator and proudly gives us the grand tour of the school’s nine classrooms. In one room several 4-year-old beginners wave their tiny hands frantically in the air for the chance to solve the go problem projected on the wall. In another, teacher Li Jun Liang deftly draws the crowd of 8-year-old kyu players into today’s lesson on sente with humor and a steely glint in his eyes. “Th is move kills two birds with one stone!” they all shout together, raising two fi ngers gleefully. And in a third classroom, half a dozen dan players break away from their lesson to beg us to play. E-Journal photographer John Pinkerton and I oblige as the rain draws a grey curtain over the Shanghai skyline outside. John manages to beat Lin Lin, his 9-year-old 1-dan opponent but my budding 4-dan, 12-year-old Xu Wen, proves to be too tough and I soon resign and thank him for the game. Classes meet daily — though the biggest concentration is on the weekend — taught by a 12-member faculty that is

half professionals and half strong amateurs. “Most have extensive teaching experience,” Lao tells me, “some as much as 20 years.” As at the school we went to Friday night, the emphasis is “not just on the mechanics of the game,” Lao says, “but on the traditions and

culture of go,” as well on the other three classical arts: drawing, music and calligraphy. One fl oor down is a separate but related school that off ers classes in dance and tae kwon do, while next door is an art school with one whole classroom devoted to calligraphy. “We believe that these arts help children’s focus in their other studies as well as in life,” adds Lao. Teacher Li explains that counting liberties is a way “to slip a little math into the go lesson.” As Lao sees us out, I ask him what inspired him to found the school. “Because go is so deep,” he says, “and has such huge possibilities.” Just like children.- photos by John Pinkerton

“We believe that these ar ts help children’s focus in their other studies as well as in life.”



SHANGHAI

Drinking Go

& Coff ee Shop LessonsBy Chris GarlockTh e way drinking go works, Jacky Sun (l in photo at right) explained at dinner Friday night, is that the loser of the game has to down a beer. “I played the former European go champion, I think he was from Finland, maybe, and I lost the game but I won the drinking,” Jacky boasted. He and Qin Zhixuan (at right in photo, and at left) were playing in the teacher’s room at Jin Sheng Yu’s go school Friday night while I played a simul with two students (see Chicken Feet, New Friends, the Mysteries of Go and Pint-Sized Players, p. 11). After the kids left, EJ photog John Pinkerton and I went in to check on the game. Qin was trying to activate some non-existent aji but Jacky was giving no quarter and soon Qin was paying for his loss by downing a giant bottle of Suntory in one long gulp. Go is thirsty work.After the Blue Elephant Go School visit Saturday morning (see At the Blue Elephant Go School, p 12), Du Yufeng 3P dropped us off at a coff ee shop where some of her friends (above) have been playing go every weekend for seven years. “Th ere aren’t really any go clubs in Shanghai,” Danny Wang (right) told us. “It’s easier just to play on the Internet, and it’s free.” Still, Danny and his friends — all very strong dan players — prefer to hang out at the coff eeshop on the weekends and they welcomed us to the gang, keeping our glasses fi lled with tea, showing us how to peel ripe lychee nuts and taking turns giving us games. “Go is a good way to make new friends,” Danny said. Th e afternoon slid by as rain pattered outside and stones clicked on the boards. We lost track of time and how many games

we played. After a few games with one player, another would take his place. Some smacked their stones down forcefully, some gently. All smoked and all played classically good shape patiently, never gambling on a quick win. At game’s end the stones would fl y around the board during Chinese counting and each time we’d come up short and the cycle would begin again. After a dinner break nearby — Chinese food family-style with beers and toasts each time our glasses were refi lled and a

discussion about favorite go professionals — the games continued into the night until fi nally it was time to say goodbye — until next time — to our new Shanghai go friends.- photos by John Pinkerton



SHANGHAI

Counting Liberties

at the Tongzhou

Go SchoolBy Chris GarlockIf you have any doubt about whether go is alive and well in the land where it was invented, show up on a Sunday night at the Tongzhou Middle School in Shanghai. Night has fallen and the streets are quiet, but the school is a beehive of activity. More than eighty kids are gathered in four classrooms, excitedly shouting out answers as their teachers lay out go problems on demonstration boards. Th e youngsters, ranging in age from four to twelve or so, sit — when they’re not leaping up to try their move — at special classroom desks stencilled with go boards; the plastic go bowls swing out from beneath the desktop. Th e school, which currently has more than 300 students, is run by the Tongzhou Go Association and was founded in 1998 by Qin You Min, a go-loving amateur 5-dan businessman who’s also on Shanghai’s team of strong amateurs. Most of the students at Tongzhou are from local primary schools, and indeed Qin learned to play when he himself was in primary school. “Go is an important part of traditional Chinese culture and once I learned, I just could not give it up,” he said with a smile and a shrug. When the principal of the Tongzhou Middle School

asked him to start up the go school there, “I could not say no.” Like many an American school, trophy cases — in this case for go championships — line the wall in Tongzhou’s front lobby. Unlike the privately-run Blue Elephant School, Tongzhou is part of the offi cial China go sports system and its team participates in national go tournaments. “A good teacher is the secret of good training,” Qin. Liu Yi Yi 2P is the team’s main coach, and other pros often come to teach as well as the three full-time teachers and seven part-timers. In just twelve years, the school has already generated four professionals, Qin tells me proudly. Th e team trains daily, with cultural lessons in the morning and then go lessons in the afternoon and evening. Tonight’s classes are levels 2 through 5. Th e Level 2 kids — who teacher Bai Yi Ping has to lift onto a chair to reach the demo board — are 8 kyu and are learning to count liberties. In adjoining rooms a Level 3 class of 7 kyus is reviewing capturing races, a Level 4 group of 4 kyus is reviewing their games and a Level 5 class of 1 kyus is studying life and death problems. Th e energy in the school is vibrant, with the kids both focussed and having fun. In the Level 4 class, for example, the kids are working intently together to replay and record their games, while in the next room the tiny Level 2 students are literally jumping up and down in their seats to be chosen to solve the problem on the board. “Play more games with Chinese players,” Qin says when I ask his advice for how American players can improve. - photos by John Pinkerton




ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We hope you enjoyed this year’s expanded coverage of the World Amateur Go Championship, as the E-Journal and Ranka Online teamed up again this year. It would not have been possible without the support and help of many dedicated people and organizations, fi rst and foremost the International Go Federation – which does so much to spread go around the world – and its tireless Secretary General Yuki Shigeno, one of the hardest-working (and nicest) go organizers we know. Th e China Qi-Yuan and it’s Hangzhou Branch hosted a terrifi c event this year and we look forward to returning in 2012 to explore more go in China. Michael Redmond 9P’s game commentaries were, as always, simply brilliant. His keen insights and ability to home in on the key points of each game this week should be required reading for go players of all strengths. He’s also just a lot of fun to work with and we’re very pleased to announce that he’s generously agreed to become a regular contributor to the E-Journal. We were also very fortunate to have Michael’s wife, Xianxian Niu 3P, contribute game commentaries, as well, working with IGF VP Eduardo Lopez Herrero to provide game commentaries in Spanish. It was once again a real pleasure to get to work side by side with the unfl appable Ranka online editor Ivan Vigano, who’s as committed to high-quality go journalism as we are and has a great sense of humor, which makes the long days together during the WAGC pass far too quickly. We cannot praise longtime go writer James Davies too highly: the legions of fans of his books already know he’s a great writer, but to see him in action this week as he quietly soaked up the details of each round, caught players for a quick quote and pulled it all together with a depth of knowledge of go’s rules, history and culture was like attending a weeklong master seminar in go writing. Photographer John Pinkerton’s evocative photos speak for themselves, and he continues to be a tried and true fellow go traveler, always up for one more adventure, one more shot. We always seem to pick up a few new team members and this year was no exception. Th e biggest – and nicest – surprise contributor was of course None Redmond, often referred to as “Michael’s mom” but now, we hope, thanks to her lovely series of player portraits this year, as our very own “Special Correspondent.” We look forward to working with her again in the future. Th anks also to Alain Cano, who put together the terrifi c standings chart for us, and Jing Ning Xue for translation help. Very special thanks to Th omas Hsiang, who always had time for our questions despite juggling his many roles and responsibilities. Th omas should be appointed the AGA’s permanent ambassador to the rest of the world, but he should also be cloned before we burn the poor man out. Our thanks and deep gratitude also to the American Go Association’s leadership and membership for your continued strong support for the E-Journal and AGA website, which have become such important resources for go players and organizers around the world. If we have forgotten anyone – and we probably have – we apologize in advance and are confi dent that you’ll let us know so that we can give credit where it’s due.- Chris Garlock, Managing Editor; photo by Yuki Shigeno. Front row (l-r): Xianxian Niu 3P, Michael Redmond 9P, None Redmond, Chris Garlock; Back row (l-r): John Pinkerton, James Davies, Eduardo Lopez Herrero, Ivan Vigano.



COTSEN OPEN

Dae Hyuk Ko 7d (l) won the 2010 Cotsen Open, held September 19-20 in Los Angeles, California, besting a very tough Open section in which a lot of hard-fought games were played over the course of the two-day tournament. More than 150 players turned out for the 20th annual competition, one of the biggest and richest on the annual American Go Association tournament calendar. The popular event, founded and run by longtime local go fan and entrepreneur Eric Cotsen, is also a unique tournament, the only one to feature free shoulder massages from roaming masseuses, a free catered lunch on both days, a club competition with a $1,500 prize pool and full refund of registration fees to players who attend both days of the tournament. Another highlight was the online pro-pro game Sunday morning between Yilun Yang 7P and Yigang Hua 8P in China, which Yang then commented on afterward. In addition to being available to review player games, Yang ran a competition to correctly solve life and death problems that had players clustered over boards throughout the playing area working on the

problems. This year’s tournament also hosted a planning meeting for the 2011 U.S. Go Congress, which will be held July 30-August 6 in nearby Santa Barbara, California and already has close to 100 pre-registered. The American Go E-Journal once again broadcast top-board games on KGS, some of which were commented by Jennie Shen 2P; EuroGoTV also hosted a live video feed of Board 1. photos by Tony Lau

COTSEN CREDITS: Eric Cotsen, Sponsor; Casie Rizer, Organizer; Chris Hayashida, TD; assisted by La Nida Cedeno, Lauren Madison-Jamar & Patricia Wang with special thanks to Alex Ledante; Friday set-up volunteers: Sue Gisser, AJ Laprix, Bobbie Rizer, Samantha Rizer, Sara Bergman. Photography by Tony Lau. E-Journal broadcasting team: Chris Garlock, Managing Editor & lead broadcaster; Chris Burg, Board 2 broadcaster & video stream manager; Nick McNelis, Board 3 broadcaster; Richard Dolen, Board 4 broadcaster; KGS, broadcasting host; EuroGoTV, video stream host. photo: reviewing the final round game between Dae Hyuk Ko 7d and Curtis Tang 7d; photos by Chris Garlock

DAE HYUK KO 7D WINS 2010 COTSEN

E-Journal Reports/Game Records: http://www.usgo.org/news/category/cotsen-open/

Special Cotsen 20-Game Collection http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=56912



COTSEN OPEN

Pro-Pro GameAn annual highlight of the Cot-sen is the online pro-pro game Sunday morning between Yilun Yang 7P and a top pro, this year Yigang Hua 8P in China, which Yang then commented on after-ward.

Th is commentary -- and all 20 Cotsen game fi les -- are avail-able for review in an online viewer or for download: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=56912

photo by Chris Garlock

COTSEN OPEN RESULTS

(Open Section): 1st: Dae Hyuk Ko 7d ($1,000); 2nd: Juyong Ko 7d ($500); 3rd: Deuk Je Chang 7d ($250); 4th: Curtis Tang 7d ($125); 5th: Seung Hyun (Kevin) Hong 7d ($75); 6th: Rui (Ray) Wang 7d ($50).

A 3d-5d: 1st Haibo Zhou $500; 2nd Brett Kelly $250; 3rd Jack Shih $125. B 1k-2d: 1st Aaron Ye $400; 2nd Ross Wolf $200; 3rd Sammy Zhang $100. C 2k-4k: 1st Clark Brooks $500; 2nd Alex Chau $250; 34d Jay Chan $125. D 5k-8k: 1st Roger Schrag $200; 2nd Alf Mikula $100; 3rd Ezana Ber-hane $60. E 9k-11k: 1st Daniel Davis Jr. $100; 2nd Jiayue Li $80; 3rd Reese Anschultz $50. F 12k-18k: 1st Gordon Castanza $80; 2nd Scott Nichols $60; 3rd Luis Armendariz $40. G 19k+: 1st Shuai Weng $60; 2nd Bryan Liu $40; 3rd Alex Ledante $30.

Club prize: 1st Santa Monica Go Club $1000; 2nd Orange County Go Club $300; 3rd Yu GO Go Club $20.



COTSEN OPEN

2010 COTSEN OPEN Photo Album: Saturday, September 18photos by Chris Garlock

Round 1, Board 1: Jennie Shen 2P on Rui Wang 7D – Juyong Koh 7DSeptember 18, 2010

Jennie Shen 2P provides in-depth com-mentary on this cliff hanger 1st-round “cold sweat” game between Rui Wang 7d and Juy-ong Koh 7d. Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride!

Th is commentary -- and all 20 Cotsen game fi les -- are available for review in an online viewer or for download: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=56912



COTSEN OPEN

2010 COTSEN OPEN Photo Album: Sunday, September 19photos by Chris Garlock

Round 5 Games:Curtis Tang 7d – Dae Hyuk Ko 7d (with Jennie Shen 2P commentary, at right)Matthew Burrall 7d – Juyong Koh 7dSeung Hyun Hong 7d – Deuk Je Chang 7d Jong In Jeong 7d – Guthrie Price 7dSeptember 19, 2010

Th is commentary -- and all 20 Cotsen game fi les -- are available for review in an online viewer or for download:http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=56912



COTSEN OPEN

2010 COTSEN OPEN Photo Album photos by Tony Lau

Round 2, Board 3: Th e Dame Dispute GameW: Deuk Je Chang 7d – B: Curtis Tang 7dSeptember 19, 2010 Th e result of this exciting game was the subject of fi erce dispute (eventually delaying Round 3 to Sun-day morning), due to White’s failure to play a dame at the end which would cost him 2 points — and the game — under Ing rules. See the note at the end of the game for details. Th is commentary -- and all 20 Cot-sen game fi les -- are available for review in an online viewer or for download: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=56912


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MEMBER’S EDITION COLLECTION OF GAMES, COMMENTARIES & MORE

Welcome to the American Go Yearbook 2010 Member’s Edition Collection!

All the game fi les previously published in our annual Yearbook CD are now available online! An impressive collection of 256 game records, commentaries and other great instructional go ma-terial are just a click away: see below for clickable links (links in graphic at right are NOT clickable). From fascinating game com-mentaries by Michael Redmond 9P to puzzling life and death problems from Yilun Yang 7P, Haruyama Isamu 9P’s “Questions From Actual Play,” Kazunari Furuyama’s “Lessons With Kaz” kyu game reviews by Yuan Zhou 7-dan, translations from Weiqi World, excerpts from Go World and so much more, we’ve compiled the weekly Member’s Edition material online for easy access to members of the American Go Association.

All this material can be accessed via the clickable links below to both the 2009 and 2010 collections: just let your cursor hover over a link below and then click to be taken to the appropriate page online: 2009 Member’s Edition Collection: http://tinyurl.com/4ptuok82010 Member’s Edition Collection: http://tinyurl.com/4tyr5waLast year we began making our Member’s Edition content easily accessible in the Member’s Edition of the E-Journal, with game commentaries just a click away online, as well as available in downloadable sgf fi les, as always. Now we’ve compiled all of our Member’s Edition content online so that you can quickly fi nd the material you’re looking for. Once selected, game records or PDFs open up quickly and easily for your review or download (look for “Download SGF” in the online game record, below the slider bar). Both the 2009 and 2010 Yearbook collections also include bonus fi les not originally included in the E-Journal. We hope that you will fi nd these collections valuable and useful resources; comments and suggestions are welcome at [email protected] Production Team: Chris Garlock, Managing Editor; Brian Kirby, Assistant Online Editor; Terry Benson, Editor These game records, commentaries and other material are distributed to you as a member of the Ameri-can Go Association as a benefi t of membership. You may download unlimited copies for your own use; please do not circulate them to non-members.


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MICHAEL REDMOND 9P’S PRO COMMENTARIES

Michael Redmond 9P, who’s been doing game commentaries at the World Amateur Go Championships for the E-Journal/Ranka team in recent years, became a regular contributor to the E-Journal in 2010, contributing insightful and current commentaries on his pro league games.

See below for a sample; you can fi nd more Redmond commentaries from the past two years here, just by click-ing on the links below:

2009 Member’s Edition Collection: http://tinyurl.com/4ptuok82010 Member’s Edition Collection: http://tinyurl.com/4tyr5wa


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YILUN YANG 7P’S LIFE & DEATH (TSUME-GO) PUZZLES

Life and death (tsume-go) puzzles -- one of the best ways to improve your strength -- by longtime contributor Yilun Yang 7P continued to be a regular monthly feature of the E-Journal in 2010.

Here are some samples; you can fi nd more Yang problems -- and solu-tions -- from the past two years, just by clicking on the links below::

2009 Member’s Edition Collection: http://tinyurl.com/4ptuok8

2010 Member’s Edition Collection: http://tinyurl.com/4tyr5wa

More than 2,600 professional go games, commented by professionals, including

top-notch Chinese professionals like Chang Hao 9P, Ma Xiaochun 9P and Wang Lei 8P.

$30/year gets you full access to game commentaries, plus personal profi les for

almost all active professional players and all worldwide tournament titles/statistics.

www.gogameworld.com

GO WORLD

A quarterly magazine coveringthe world tournament go scene

http://www.kiseido.com/go_world.htm


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YUAN ZHOU 7D’S AMATEUR GAMES/

WEIQI WORLD TRANSLATIONS

Yuan Zhou 7d regularly does game commentaries for the E-Journal on both kyu and dan amateur games, as well as translations of Weiqi World game commentaries.

See below for samples; you can fi nd more games and translations from the past two years here, just by click-ing on the links below:



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HARUYAMA ISAMU 9P’S “QUESTIONS FROM ACTUAL PLAY”

With the permission of the Nihon Kiin, Robert McGuigan has been translating a series of studies for the E-Journal from a book by Haruyama Isamu 9P, the author of Basic Techniques of Go, called 80 Questions for Geting Strong at Real Play. See below for a sample; you can fi nd all of these translations from the past two years here, just by clicking on the links below (hover over the links and then click to go online) and searching for “Questions From Actual Play” in the lists:



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ALEX DINERCHTEIN 3P’S COMMENTARIES

Russian pro Alexander Dinerchtein 3P presents commentaries on both pro and amateur games on his website Go4Go.net and has been a regular contributor to the E-Journal as well.

See below for a sample; you can fi nd more Dinerchtein commentaries from the past two years here, just by clicking on the links below:



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KAZUNARI FURUYAMA’S “LESSONS WITH KAZ”

Kazunari Furuyama is a former Japanese insei who’s been contributing a popular series of lessons to the E-Journal for a number of years now. Formerly called “Important, Fundamental Matters” and disributed in PDF format, Kaz switched to easy-to-review online sgfs -- now called “Lessons with Kaz” late in 2010.

See below for a sample; you can fi nd more Kaz from the past two years here, just by clicking on the links below:



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COMMENTARIES FROM GO WORLD

The E-Journal again featured excerpts in 2010 from Go World, the quarterly magazine covering the inter-national go scene. Each issue contains comprehensive news coverage of all major go events in the world, in

depth commentaries of games from recent international and national tournaments, and instructional articles. Click here for details on how to subscribe: http://www.kiseido.com/go_books.htm#goworld

See below for a sample; you can fi nd excerpts from the past two years here, just by clicking on the links below:


- Latest go news- Professional game commentaries- Interviews with go players- Strategy and analysis- Tips and tricks- Book and software reviews- Weekly newsletter- Go shop

Visit our dynamic new go site: http://gogameguru.com/


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BOOKS, SOFTWARE & HARDWARE

SMARTGO KIFU

RELEASED FOR

IPADApril 10, 2010Early adopters who have al-ready picked up their iPads can use SmartGo Kifu to transform the just-released iPad into a go board with 33,000 profes-sional gamerecords and 2,000 problems. “SmartGo Kifu also offers an innovative way to view and replay games using fi gures and diagrams like in go books,” says author Anders Kierulf. “Twenty games anno-tated by Alexandre Dinerch-tein are included to showcase this feature, and you can import your own games to view them the same way.” $19.99 http://www.smartgo.com/

Guo Juan’s Internet Go School

Complete training program 30k – 7dPre-recorded audio lectures for only 1 EuroGroup classes & private lessonsStudy Go in ChinaWorkshops www.InternetGoSchool.com


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DIGITIZED “GO REVIEW”

TROVE NOW AVAILABLEMay 14, 2010A digitized version of Go Review, one of the very fi rst English go publi-cations, is now available. Go Review was published monthly by the Nihon Ki-in from January 1961 to March 1973, then quarterly through Spring 1977. The 160 issues — compris-ing some 15,000 pages – are avail-able on three DVDs ($75 each) from Kunaki. The early issues on disks 1 and 2 — 60 issues each, from Janu-ary 1961 through December 1965 and January 1966 through Decem-ber 1970 — “represent the halting attempts of the Japanese go world in the early 60s to start spreading the game internationally,” reports Bob Myers of Kiseido Digital on GoDis-cussions. “The content is basic and written in poor English. However, it’s still very interesting. There are more handicap games (often with famous Japanese pros) than tournament games, apparently in the belief that pro-pro games might be too hard

for foreigners to understand. There’s lots of go news, including about foreigners we all know well now. There are great teaching series by big names. Even the ads from big Japanese companies (which are included in the PDFs) are interesting.” Disk 3, — 40 issues from January 1971 through Spring 1977 — contains the last few years of monthlies and then the “meatier quarterly issues,” which are roughly equivalent to Go World (which succeed-ed Go Review) in terms of quality and content. A sample

of the June 1963 issue of Go Review is available for download at Kiseido Digital. NOTE: Disc 1 is shown as “Go Review Archive”, and the DVD cover art could mistakenly imply that this item contains all three discs. It does not. This item is Disc 1, and contains only the fi rst 60 issues.- includes reporting by Sensei’s Libraryhttp://www.kiseidodigital.com/

DAILY E-JOURNAL NOW AVAILABLEMay 10, 2010Many of the stories in the weekly E-Journal originally appeared in our daily edition; if you’d like to get the latest world go news in brief click-able stories linked to complete reports on the AGA’s website, simply click on the “update my profi le” link at the bottom of the E-Journal and choose the daily edition (you can switch back and forth at any time). To receive the Member’s Edition – including members-only game commentaries, problems from Yilun Yang and more — join here:http://www.usgo.org/org/application.html


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GO REVIEW: The Go ConsultantsMay 25, 2010The Go Consultants documents a unique event in go history, Kitani Minoru and Go Seigen’s 1934-35 consultation game against their teachers Su-

zuki Tamejiro and Se-goe Kensaku. Authors John Fairbairn and T Mark Hall provide fl y-on-the-wall observations of what each side was thinking at every stage of the con-test, doing an excellent job of describing

the characters and putting their status into context for 21st-century readers. In fact the story is related so naturally that The Go Consultants reads like a hard-to-put-down novel, complete with amusing anecdotes as well as keen commentary on the ac-tual progress of the game. It’s like a show-within-a-show. On top of the pure entertainment value of the story, I found it insightful to learn how profes-sional players approach serious games and a relief to discover that even professionals can be taken by surprise. I have always appreciated tightly-decided games more than landslides, because they tend to exemplify the ideal of ‘balanced play’, and without giving away the ending, this game was very closely fought indeed. Whether you’re a novice historian or an obsessive student of go, you won’t fi nd a more thorough deconstruction of a professional game-in-progress. As a bonus, the book includes the players’ own post-mortem analyses. $18 from Slate & Shell http://www.slateandshell.com/- adapted from Tyler Reynolds’ Go For All blog

IGOWIN BRINGS “MANY FACES” TO IPHONE,

IPOD & IPADJune 5, 2010The new Igowin Pro brings the features of “The Many Faces of Go” to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Igowin’s apps include Igowin Tutor – a free introduction to go– Igowin — 9×9 play — Igowin 13×13 — 13×13 play — Igowin Life – solve life and death problems — and Igowin Joseki, a joseki dictionary and tutor. “The playing apps adjust to your rank and can play a good even game against anyone from 19 kyu to 1 dan,” says author David Fotland. “The knowledge-based engine allows the program to play human-like moves at the weaker settings, generally with good shape,” while the Monte Carlo engine from the latest Many Faces of Go “gives the program great strength.” $4.99. available in the iTunes App Store.


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SLATE & SHELL ISSUES SPANISH TRANSLATION

OF YUAN ZHOU’S “HOW NOT TO PLAY GO”

July 12, 2010“Uno de los atractivos de ser un jugador kyu es la facilidad con que puede mejorar su juego—algo mucho más difícil para jugadores dan,” says Yuan Zhou in Como No Jugar al Go, a just-issued Spanish trans-lation of Zhou’s popular How Not to Play Go in which he clarifi es the common kyu level misunderstandings of how to play which hold kyu players back from reaching dan level. Brian J. Olive of Orlando, Florida did the translation. Slate & Shell publisher Bill Cobb reports that “there are also plans to translate How Not to Play Go into other languages.” http://www.slateandshell.com/

BRITISH GO JOURNAL BACK ISSUES NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINEJune 10, 2010The British Go Association (BGA) has recently complet-ed a project to get all issues of the British Go Journal into an on-line archive. Each issue since 1967 is available as a PDF fi le, with many issues having some of their content translated into web pages. Making article web pages is an ongoing project, and issues will only become available to the general public once they become a year old. There are 148 issues currently available with games and instruc-tional articles for kyu through dan-level players.Early issues were produced on typewriters and used an algebraic notation to describe games and positions. Start-ing with issue number 4, pictures were added and the web page versions include SGF and GO format game records. News from the local, national, and international go scenes in the issues as well as 40+ years of “internal wranglings” of the BGA provide an amazing resource for anyone interested in go history, or just in improving their game. http://www.britgo.org/pubs.html- EuroGoTV; photo: Jon Diamond, creator of the fi rst BGA journal prototype in 1967; he was British Champion at the time and is the current BGA President


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NEW

WAY TO

FIND GO

PLAYERS

DEBUTSAugust 1, 2010IgoLocal is a new way to fi nd go players in your com-munity or when you’re travel-ing. Creator Chuck Thomas – who also runs Shodan Imports — calls IgoLocal “the fi rst physical go server and location service,” and the free online service — which just launched — makes it easy to fi nd local go players who match your rank, challenge them to games at a specifi c time and location and create open games for anybody in your area to accept. IgoLocal is

also designed to help go players fi nd and join lo-cal go clubs, create a go club that will be seen by the entire world and manage your local schedule of go-related activities. “Register now so that other go players in your area can fi nd you!” urges Thomas. http://igolocal.net/

GO WORLDThe quarterly magazine covering the world tournament go scene

Published continuously since 1977, Each issue is packed with 64 pages of information. You will fi nd

instructional articles on tactics and strategy for beginners and stronger players alike as well as articles on the

background and history of the game. Detailed analyses of the top international title matches, featuring Korean,

Chinese and Japanese players, appear in every issue.

http://www.kiseido.com/go_world.htm


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ONLINE SOFTWARE

FOR MANAGING YOUR CLUBAugust 1, 2010“Who wants to spend time organizing your go club when you could be playing go?” asked Santa Fe go club organizer Robert Cord-ingley. Cordingley conducted a presentation at the 2010 U.S. Go Congress on his online software GoClubsOnline, which simplifi es the process of registering players for tournaments, sending email to club members, uploading data to the AGA, tracking a club library, and more. Clubs can register with GoClubsOnline for $95/year for up to 30 members. http://www.goclubs.org/home.html - Jake Edge

KISEIDO OFFERS

VOLUMES OF

PROBLEMSAugust 23, 2010There’s theory and there’s practice. In go, practice means studying problems. Kiseido is fi ve volumes into an ambitious seven-volume series of problem books for dan-level players originally published in Japanese by the

Japan Go Association. Now available: Graded Go Prob-lems for Dan Players; 300 Life-and-Death Problems, 5-kyu to 3-dan; 300 Tesuji Problems, 5-kyu to 3-dan; 300 Joseki Problems, 1-dan to 3-dan; 256 Opening and Middle Game Problems, 1-dan to 7-dan. These problems are designed to develop your intuition and to provide ex-ercises for developing your ability to analyze positions deeply and accurately. “These are not problems that you can skim through in a couple of days,” Kiseido warns. “Each problem requires serious thought to obtain the maximum benefi t.” Click here for details and to order:http://www.kiseido.com/dan.htm

THE RETURN OF BADUKBOOKSSeptember 13, 2010Alexandra Urban’s Badukbooks is back in busi-ness. Badukbooks -- http://badukbooks.blogspot.com/ -- specializes in a veritable treasure trove of Ko-rean go books, many never seen – or very hard to fi nd – in the West. A wide range of material, from the Baduk Nara book series for beginners to life and death books – choose from the just-published Hye-Yeon’s Creative Life & Death I, the 4-vol-ume Sahwal series or the 20-volume Classic Life & Death collection – to Lee Chang-ho’s 2-vol-ume Brilliantly Beautiful Endgame, and the New Moves, New Shapes yearbooks from 1999 and 2000. Though many of the books are in Korean, some are in Eng-lish, and each are clearly marked on the site. After a year-long hia-tus, Urban says she’s back in Korea “this time at least for 3 years,” and is willing to try to track down any Korean go book Western players are interested in.


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NEW IN PRINT 2010 (PART 1)

Classic GamesAugust 28, 2010by Roy LairdStrolling through the vendor area at this year’s U.S. Go Congress, I realized that it’s time for some updates on what’s happening recently in the small but active world of go publishing. The fi rst thing I noticed was that it’s been a busy year for GoGoD co-author John Fairbairn, who has embarked on an ambitious project with his publisher, Slate and Shell: a series of books on the ten-game matches Go Seigen played when he was at the top of the go world. Drawing on multiple original sources, each book provides extensive historical material, and integrates game commen-tary from a variety of sources. Kamakura, cover-ing Go’s fi rst matchup during WW II with Kitani Minoru, came out last spring. It was followed by Final Summit, describing the last jubango, against

Takagawa Shukaku in 1955-56. Then came 9-Dan Showdown, fo-cusing on two ten-game matches and two shorter encounters with with Fuijisawa Kuranosuke (later Fujisawa Hosai), one of the great players of the 1940′s and 1950′s. In a change of pace, Fair-bairn also translated The Go Consultants, in which Kitani and Seigen team up against Segoe Kensaku

and Suzuki Tamjiro for a “consultation game.” In-spired by a similar practice among Western chess masters, in a “consultation game” the two-player teams discuss the game while it is in progress. Stay tuned — more exciting titles are on the way!http://www.slateandshell.com/

NEW IN PRINT 2010 (PART II)

A Beginner’s BonanzaSeptember 6, 2010The past year has produced a notable bumper crop of books for beginners and newer players — the so-called DDK (double-digit kyu) range. Jon-athan Hop, a 3D amateur, published So You Want To Play Go?, a three-volume series available on Amazon that aims to give the reader the knowl-edge to improve ten ranks per book; if it works, at the end you’ll be ready to aim at shodan. Click Volume One, Volume Two and Volume Three to learn more about each book. 21st Century Baduk for Beginners is the latest offering from Sung-rae Kim, the author of several other works in the growing number of English-language works from Korean publishers. Some of these early efforts suffered somewhat from clumsy English, but Diana Koszegi 3P helped with this translation,

suiting it more fully to the idioms of the English language. Finally, we note the publication of Go Made Easy by Sam Sloan. Sloan, better known as the last non-lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, and for suing the US Chess Federation, has also written beginner’s books and DVDs on chess, shogi, Chinese chess and poker, while also delving into more, um, unusual subjects. Visit his home page for more information. All the new beginner books are available from Yutopian.https://www.yutopian.com - Roy Laird


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NEW IN PRINT 2010 (PART III)

Six More Important

New WorksSeptember 20, 2010First off, Slate and Shell added three more important titles to their catalog this year. Magic On The First Line is a compendium of eponymous oddities that only the great Nakayama could have come up with. In Understanding Dan Level Play, Yuan Zhou 7d continues his popular “Under-standing . . . ” series by analyzing his own games as the U.S. repre-sentative in the 2009 Korea Prime Minister’s Cup. And with New Moves, Slate and Shell adds an important new author to its roster — Alexander Dinerchtein, a 3P in the Korean system, better known as “breakfast” on KGS. By “new moves”, the author seems to mean trick plays. Dinerchtein charges $3-$5 per trick on his hamete.net site — by that measure, 25 plays for $18 is quite a bargain. The burgeoning Korean English-language

publishing industry has produced a full thirty titles titles in the past few years, all of which are available from Yu-topian. Now comes the fi rst extended attempt to discuss haengma, a Korean construct that is diffi cult to translate, but has something to do with the natu-ral fl ow of the game.

Janice Kim called it “The Way of The Moving Horse.” This Is Haengma by Sung-rae Kim and

Sung Ki-Chang, and Master of Haengma Sung-ho Beck, try to explain this elusive way of un-derstanding the game. And the Korean titles keep on coming. I’m on Yutopian’s “send-me-everything-as-soon-as-the-ink-dries” list, so a few weeks after the Congress, I got my copy of 21st Century New Openings, Volume 2, also by Sung-rae Kim. It’s so new it’s not even listed on the Yutopian site yet, but it looks good. Kim continues his discussion of modern changes in opening strategy, with extensive discus-sion of the mini-Chinese open-ing and others. Now that komi is 7.5 points, some pros feel that Black has to play more aggres-sively, making many of the established openings obsolete.

This series is some of the fruit of that thinking. Possibly a must for the serious competitor. To see the AGA’s comprehensive annotated list of go books in English see Go In Print below.- Roy Laird

Magic On The First Linehttp://www.slateandshell.com/SSRM001.htmlUnderstanding Dan Level Playhttp://www.slateandshell.com/SSYZ012.htmlNew Moveshttp://www.slateandshell.com/SSAD001.htmlYutopianhttps://www.yutopian.com/yutop/cat?category=PAKThis Is Haengmahttp://tinyurl.com/3lkulwvMaster of Haengmahttp://tinyurl.com/3celz8zGo in Printhttp://www.usgo.org/resources/books.html


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NEW GO

GAME VIEWER

DEVELOPEDOctober 4, 2010Neil Moffatt reports that he’s developed an “HTML5 canvas based go game viewer and rudimentary editor.” Says Moffat, Secretary of the Cardiff Go Club in Wales, UK, “It embraces ideas such as access to key mo-ments in games via a list of clickable position de-scriptions, and a list of alternative move sequenc-es by description.” The site includes games for be-ginners, josekis, “guess the next move” and game commentaries. In most games, a list of key game positions is presented. Click on ‘Black has now created a large moyo’, for example, and you will be taken you to that exact board position. Moffatt adds that “The site as it stands is in essence a kind

of go blog, but it may develop beyond this” and notes that it does not work with Internet Explorer. “It may or may not be palatable to a large audi-ence,” he says, “The user testing to date seem to be relatively happy with it.” Click here http://www.learngo.co.uk/GoViewer/ListGames.php to check it out and let Moffatt know what you think at [email protected]

TUTTLE PUBLISHES

BOZULICH’S

“WINNING GO”October 9, 2010Tuttle, the mainstream pub-lisher of three books on go by Peter Shotwell, has added another title, but this time, he is only the co-author, while the principal author is none other than Richard Bozulich, the architect of the Kiseido cata-log. Winning Go, like his Kisedo publications, is a problem book. But whereas other problem books usually focus on a a single subject — joseki, tesu-

ji, life-and-death — Winning Go gives us a little of everything. Problems from all aspects of the game are organized into one book, designed to help kyu-level players discover their strengths and weaknesses, with suggestions for further study. Personally, I prefer the Kiseido format, where several problems appear on one page, and you turn the page to see the answers. Here the answers appear below the problems–cheat-ers beware! If you have made it solidly into the SDK range, you should easily solve most of the problems; but it’s a unique resource for advanced beginners. I’ve been playing a friend some nine-stone games, and I’m putting it on

his Christmas list. http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/— Roy Laird


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MANY FACES

RELEASES IPAD APPOctober 24, 2010The Many Faces of Go iPad app, “Igowin HD” is now available in the iTunes app store. The app plays with an adjustable AI strength rang-ing from 18 kyu to the full-strength Many Faces of Go engine of “about 1 dan on 9×9 and about 3 kyu on 19×19,” says author David Fotland. Users can set their strength, or have it adjusted automati-cally by the app, which plays on 9×9, 13×13, or 19×19 boards. Handicap and oppo-nent strength can be adjusted or chosen automatically. “It in-cludes an sgf editor that supports variations, com-ments, and marks, so you can analyze your games

when they are fi nished,” Fotland adds. You can try out a variation and con-tinue the game against the AI from a new position. Games can be saved and restored, or emailed as attachments. At any time you can ask for a score estimate or a hint. This is the seventh mobile app from Smart Games, all under the Igowin brand. Igowin Tutor is a free introduction to the game. Igowin 9×9, Igowin 13×13, and Igowin Pro let you play go against the AI. Igowin life is for practicing solving life and death problems, and

Igowin Joseki is for learning Joseki.

GOGRINDER FOR IPHONE RELEASEDOctober 24, 2010“As we all know, practicing your reading is one of the best ways to get stronger,” writes programmer Tim Kington. “To that end, the popular program GoGrinder has just been released for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now you can have thousands of go problems in your pocket and fi t a little practice in when-ever you have a few minutes to kill.” The iPhone and iPod Touch versions of GoGrinder are available in the iTunes store.


GO SPOTTING

TV: Criminal MindsA number of readers tipped us off to go showing up in the Criminal Minds television series. A police procedural drama focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself, Criminal Minds -- which premiered in 2005 -- featured go in the pilot. Screen grab from the “Extreme Aggressor” episode courtesy James G. McIlhargey.

BOOK: A Thousand Plateaus“In chapter 12 of their book A Thousand Plateaus - Capitalism and Schizophrenia,” Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari use go in opposition to chess as a model to begin describing their concept of ‘nomadology’ (pp.352-53),” writes Marc Willhite. “Not the lightest reading to be sure, but it certainly gave me a new appreciation for the qualities that make go the confounding and fascinating game that it is.”

Slate & Shell SupportsTeaching Programs

and Chapter Activities

For more information [email protected]

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GO SPOTTING

FILM: The Taste of TeaGo fi gures prominently in Katsuhito Ishii’s 2004 fi lm, The Taste of Tea (Cha no Aji). “Although go is not the only focus of the fi lm, it is one of its essential ingredients and appears more often than in other fi lms like Pi and A Beautiful Mind,” reports Pete Schumer. “It’s worth checking out!” According to Wikipedia, “The fi lm is concerned with the lives of the Haruno family, who live in rural Tochigi prefecture, the countryside north of Tokyo. Nobuo is a hypnotherapist who teaches his son, Hajime, to play go. Hajime becomes an excellent go player, but he has a rough time with

girls and puberty. Nobuo’s wife, Yoshiko refuses to be an average housewife, and works on animated fi lm projects at home. She uses assistance from Grandfather Akira, an eccentric old

man who is a former animator and occasional model. Uncle Ayano, a sound engineer and record producer, moves in with the family. He is looking to restart his life again after living in Tokyo for several years. Meanwhile, Yoshiko’s daughter Sa-chiko, believes that she is followed around every-where by a giant version of herself, and searches for ways to rid herself of it.” “Katsuhito also di-rected the fi lm Promises of August (1995) and The Shark Skin Man and the Peach Hip Girl (1999) as well as providing some animation in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill vol. I,” adds Schumer.

FILM: The Warlords“Recently I went to see the movie The Warlords at a local arts movie house,” writes Les Lanphear III in San Diego, CA. “It was shot in China and Hong Kong in 2007. Of course there are bat-tles and martial arts and a love triangle. Toward the end two of the Emperors’ offi cials are talking while playing go. They play a few moves but too quickly for me to get a layout of the position. The movie is set in the 1860s during the Taiping Rebellion.”


GO SPOTTING

NOVEL: The Elegance of the Hedgehog“In the recent best selling book The Elegance of the Hedgehog there is a mention of the game go as well as Hikaru No Go and The Girl Who Played Go,” writes None Redmond. Hal Small adds that the 2006 French novel “presents an overview and a very accurate description of the nature of our beloved game. It’s also a drop-dead funny book with scathing social commentary.” The mention is on pages 112-114 of Muriel Barberry’s captivating, lovely and philo-sophical novel, and includes this passage: “Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only the means to an end, to allow your terri-tory to survive. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the game of go is that it has been proven that in order to win, you must live, but you must also allow the other player to live. Players who are too greedy will lose; it’s a subtle game of equilibrium, where you have to get ahead without crushing the other player. In the end, life and death are only the consequences of how well or poorly you’ve made your construction. This is what one of Taniguchi’s characters says: you live, you die, these are consequences. It’s a proverb for playing go, and for life.”

BLOG: Eyes of Wood, Hands of

Stone, Heart of Paper“To play go,” writes programmer Reg Braith-waite, “one needs a huge amount of humility and patience. At fi rst I thought I lacked these quali-ties, but then a funny thing happened: I purchased my fi rst-ever mountain bike. In cycling, I receive regular positive feedback. I can measure my improvement with little things like occasion-ally feeling myself hit the balance point when working on a ‘1/2-1/4 to manual wheelie drop.’ Or popping the front wheel up onto a bench and driving the rear wheel up and under me. In go, I received no such affi rmation. I play, I lose, and

games are too long to be able to identify the specifi c mistakes without extensive personal coaching. I sim-ply don’t know whether I am succeeding or failing when I make a move unless it’s a spectacular blunder.” Click here -- http://tinyurl.com/4kzrcqh -- for the rest of Braithwaite’s thoughts on go, bikes and learning on his blog post Eyes of Wood, Hands of Stone, Heart of Paper, including Wood & Stones, his program to turn your iPad into a go board for playing face to face. - thanks to Steve Colburn for passing this along



COLORADO

Go Behind Bars

By Paul Barchilon(01/25/2010) “I am 14 years into a 25 year sentence, and I am interested in starting a go club at the prison,” read the letter from K, forwarded to me at the American Go Foundation (AGF) by Mark Rubenstein at AGA Member Services. Although our main work at the AGF focuses on children, we also off er full support for institutional settings as well. I sent K an information packet and an application for a class room starter set. Noticing the prison was here in Colorado, I also told him I would be willing to do a demonstration at the prison. Rubenstein also donated two playing sets, and a number of go magazines, but the package was refused by the prison, which had very specifi c guidelines about what they would accept. So began the fi rst of what would ultimately be six months worth of phone calls, letters, and requests to the Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood. I had given up on any chance of a program starting at the prison when I fi nally received a phone call from one of the education coordinators. He said he had a group of over 20 prisoners who kept asking him when the go teacher was going to come, so he fi nally decided to let me do a demonstration at the prison. I passed through multiple security screening points, with giant sliding metal grates, and went deep into the heart of the complex, where I was taken to an educational center in the prison and fi nally met K in

person, who thanked me profusely for arranging the demonstration. He and the other inmates were all polite, friendly, and very attentive. Th ree of the prisoners knew how to play already, and I was very pleased to see that they had a few volumes of Janice Kim’s Learn to Play series. None of them had ever played a game outside of the prison system though. Th e other 19 inmates were all fi rst-timers, so I taught them how to play and then had them all play each other on 9x9 boards. I think the Education Coordinator was pleased to see all of the inmates immediately engaged in the game, and laughing as they discovered new things. At the end of my three hours with the inmates, T surprised me by asking if it was possible to make a donation to the AGF <http://agfgo.org/donation.html>. I told him we were funded entirely by donations, and would welcome one if he had the ability to give. I wasn’t expecting the prisoners to have any money, but one of the guards explained that the inmates work in the prison, and receive wages for

it. I don’t know what crimes any of these men had committed, but I do know that a person doesn’t stop living once they are behind bars. I can think of no group that might better benefi t from the qualities that go brings to our lives than prisoners. Perhaps learning how to play go will give them a non-violent forum to express themselves in, and they will be able to better themselves by learning how to communicate in this way. I also know that whatever a man’s crime, he should be able to play go if he wants to. Th ey have chess and Scrabble in prison, they should have go too.- Barchilon is Vice President of the AGF; this is an excerpt of his original report in the E-Journal: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=89632Graphic by Mike Samuel



COLORADO

A Flower Blooms In The Jail Yard

by Paul Barchilon(11/26/2010) It has now been almost a year since I fi rst visited the Federal Correctional Institute in Englewood, CO, and I am pleased to report that they now have a weekly go club with regular attendance of 10 to 20 inmates. My fi rst article on this program sparked a tremendous outpouring of support from the go community: Slate and Shell donated over 20 books, Yellow Mountain Imports sent a treasure trove of nice playing sets and books, SmartGo donated free licenses for the full version of their program, Janice Kim sent more copies of the Learn to Play Go series, and of course the AGF provided free sets and matching funds as well. All of these resources have been put to good use by the inmates, who are making steady progress. I have been able to visit the prison every few months, and have had a warm reception every time. Perhaps the most signifi cant development has been the ability to e-mail with the inmates, which began in June. Almost as soon as the new system was up, we were playing go by exchanging board coordinates. After several inmates requested contact with the AGF, I paired them up with go players of similar ranks, and also began playing them myself. In the course of corresponding with them, I have had a chance to hear several of their stories, and have enjoyed getting to know some of the inmates a little better. “Lots of people in here do not have anybody on your side of the fence,” wrote inmate K in one of our exchanges, “playing with outsiders is an excellent way to help their loneliness and depression. For the people that do get involved with this on your side, it gives them a chance to realize that we are not all deviants and mad-dog killers, who have a little something to donate to society rather than just being takers. Both sides get the chance to see that we are all just people and maybe we can develop some real long term friendships. It also gives us some kind of a

connection to the outside, for when we are released back into the community one day,” said K. Another inmate, T, regaled me with one of the best “introduction to go” stories I have ever heard. “My cellmate was named Yoshimura, and he was straight from Japan,” wrote T. “Th e U.S. govt. caught him in a meth sting in Hawaii. He barely spoke English, and was a real yakuza straight out of the movies. He became my cellmate in like 1998 (when) I was in my Eric von Lustbader mode. In these books go was often mentioned, so I asked ‘Yoshi’ if he had ever heard of this game. He immediately became quite animated in explaining it to me and asked if I wanted to learn. I said yes, and he had Janice Kim’s 1st volume sent to me. I began to read it, and he began to teach me. Well, long story short, I was a poor student (maybe the poorest of all time). I didn’t get it. I understood placing the stones but couldn’t grasp the concept of territory (seems so simple now). Unfortunately, I never fi gured it out. Yoshi became bored, and maybe a little discouraged. I never grasped the game to any degree while he was here. He left thinking that I was the dumbest white dude he ever met. Maybe a year after he left, I hadn’t been playing at all, (but) my mind would sometimes go back to the game, and one day the light came on. Epiphany, I guess, but at any rate I got it, so I ordered more of

Janice Kim’s books and began working on it myself, teaching the few who showed interest.” I have been quite encouraged by the dedication the inmates have shown, and I believe that go is helping them

to better themselves. Just as go helps us to transcend international barriers, it can also help us transcend societal ones. In the end, we fi nd we are all connected through the goban, and that we can play the timeless dance of black and white with anyone, regardless of their circumstances.- this is an excerpt of Barchilon’s original report in the E-Journal: http://www.usgo.org/news/?p=65872 Drawing by Inmate K



CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY

The Chess and Checkers House

by Roy Laird(October 10, 2010) New York’s Central Park, the most-visited city park in the U.S., seems to have everything — meadows, ball fi elds, tennis courts, three theaters, two lakes, a reservoir, a skating rink, a carousel, a zoo, even a castle. Frederick Law Olmsted called his creation “a democratic development of the highest signifi cance” because it had something for everyone. As a longtime New Yorker, after decades of exploring the park, I thought I had seen everything. But recently I happened upon Th e Chess and Checkers House (http://tinyurl.com/65wrzlv), a gaming pavilion donated in 1952 by Bernard Baruch. It stands atop a rock outcropping known as the Kinderberg, near the southeast corner of the park. Walk north from 59th street or south from 72nd street along the eastern park drive and you will see signs. With indoor and outdoor seating and views of the rink, the carousel and the dairy, it’s an ideal place to while away a pleasant afternoon. I was disappointed to learn that only one go set was available, a small, poorly-made item that they kept in the store room. When I found that manager Catherine King is eager to promote any game, I returned with two full-sized sets, leftovers from early shipments of Ing equipment. King immediately set up a prominent

display in the main playing area, along with a handout I provided, directing interested players to Th e New York Go Center and various online go resources, as well as several copies of Th e Way To Go. Th e Chess and Checkers House is open Wed-Sun from 10a to 5p. Anyone can use the equipment inside, or take it outside by leaving a $20 deposit or form of ID. No permit is required. At this point, to be sure of a game, it’s BYOO (Bring Your Own Opponent), but it’s the perfect place to take a break while exploring, or to meet a friend for a lunchtime game.

WANT MORE TRAVELING GO BOARD?Check out these reports from China in the World Amateur Go Championship section of the Yearbook: • Chicken Feet, New Friends, the Mysteries of

Go and Pint-Sized Players (page 55)• At the Blue Elephant Go School (page 56)• Drinking Go & Coff ee Shop Lessons (page 57)• Counting Liberties at the Tongzhou Go School

(page 58)• Hangzhou’s Tower Of Go (page 53)

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OC GO CLUB WINS SCHOOL TOURNEY(May 2, 2010) Th e Orange County Go Club (CA) took top honors in the American Go Honor Society (AGHS) School Team Tournament, which concluded last week after two months of competition. Th e OC Go Club — featuring Curtis Tang 8d, Calvin Sun 7d, and Jerry Shen 4d, who were undefeated in the event — jumped up to fi rst place after having fi nished second last year. On the opposite coast, New Jersey’s East Meadow High fi elded four teams, and moved up from last year’s runner-up position to win the National Sweepstakes Championship, giving them the best overall performance of all teams entered. Nationwide, 92 schools or youth clubs entered the competition, each with 3-person teams, totaling 276 youth of all ages. Now in its 9th year, the event continues to be run primarily by high school students, with guidance from previous AGHS offi cers. Winners report: click here for full results: http://tinyurl.com/4jl6nt6- Paul Barchilon, E-Journal Youth Editor; photo: 3rd grader Natalia Loosli of the Fair Oaks Go Club, CA, playing her fi nal round. photo by Vincent Eisman

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AGHS SCHOOL TOURNAMENT


CANADA

DOMINATES

REDMOND CUP

QUALIFIERS

(June 7, 2010) Canadian youth all but shut the U.S. out of the Redmond Cup in 2010, with Jianing Gan 6d and Gansheng Shi 8d winning the Senior Division, and Oliver Wolf 2d and Henry Zhang 1d winning the Junior. Zhang was the only one of the three from the U.S., and is also the younger brother of former Redmond champ Hugh Zhang. All four youth won a free trip to the US Go Congress, where they played a best two-out-of-three match with their opponents, with the winners splitting a $1,000 prize pool courtesy of the American Go Foundation (see page 62 for report). Th e Senior Division, for youth 12-17 years old, had 27 youth competing and featured U.S. stars Curtis Tang 8d, Calvin Sun 7d, and Zhongxia Zhao 7d among the top players. Leading the pack was two-time Redmond Champion and current title holder Gansheng Shi 8d. Shi has a simple but eff ective strategy: he just wins, all the time. Tang or Sun were both favored in this

event, but it was fellow Canadian Jianing Gan who pulled out all the stops to place fi rst. He was the only player to beat Shi, each losing only one out of their seven games. Gan, just 13 years old, will be familiar to EJ readers as the challenger to Myungwan Kim in the

2010 SPOT1 fi nals. In the Redmond Cup Junior Division, nine kids, all under the age of 12, duked it out for top honors. Ten-year-old Oliver Wolf had the top record, with four wins in fi ve games. Four players had three wins, but Henry Zhang had the best SOS (Sum of Opponents Scores) record, and also was the only player to beat Wolf. Th e Redmond Cup, now in its 17th year, was directed by Michael Bull. - Paul Barchilon, EJ Youth Editor. Photo: Curtis Tang 7d (left) vs. Jianing Gan 7d (right). Redmond Cup fi nals, Senior Division, at the 2010 Go Congress .

MISSION SAN JOSE ACES SCHOOL TOURNEYMay 23, 2010: Mission San Jose won the Bay Area High School Go Tournament, held April 25th in Cupertino, CA, which attracted fi ve schools and 24 players. Organized as a team tourney, Saratoga High was favored to sweep the A division with a 3-dan and two 1-dans competing. However, Mission San Jose narrowly claimed victory when their 1st and 2nd boards slipped by with single digit margins of victory, in a heated Round 3 match against their Saratoga rivals. Th e tourney debuted this year as a collaborative eff ort of the AGF, the Bay Area Go Players Association (BAGPA), and several high school organizers. Th e tourney was organized by David Su, and directed by Steve Burrall. Winners Report: A Division: Mission San Jose; B Division: Monta Vista; C Division: Saratoga High. - Paul Barchilon; photo: Mission San Jose (left) defeats Saratoga (right) in the deciding match; photo by David Su

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BAY AREA HS TOURNAMENT/REDMOND QUALIFIERS


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ONLINE TOURNEY/YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS

TIGER’S MOUTH DEFEATS INSEI EMPIRE

IN ONLINE YOUTH TOURNEY(June 14, 2010) U.S. youth competing for Team Tiger’s Mouth eked out a narrow 9-8 victory over Alexandre Dinerchtein’s Insei League June 13 on KGS. Seventeen youth from the U.S. and Canada faced off against the Inseis, who were mainly European. Th e Insei League allows KGS players anywhere in the world to take part in a professional go school taught by Dinerchtein and other Korean Professionals. Th e Inseis had crushed the British Go League team 7-3 on May 22nd, followed by a 10-3 rout of the Russian National Female Team (in which 2 of the 3 winners were also members of the Insei League as well as Russian nationals) on May 30th. Poland fought back in style on June 5 though, fi nally stopping the Inseis 13-7. ”Your team will be the next one we beat,” said Dinerchtein, known as Breakfast on KGS, when he challenged the U.S. recently. ”Not so fast Breakfast,” responded the AGF’s youth go website Tiger’s Mouth, who put together a 20-member dream team to challenge the Inseis. Th e top board featured a close battle between 13-year-old U.S. champ Calvin Sun 7d and 17-year-old Ukranian KGS star Artem Kachanovskyj 7d, with Sun

prevailing. Canadian 13-year-old Jianing Gan 7d, lent a hand to his U.S. friends, scoring a win against a Russian 5 dan, while Yang Xu 5d, Justin Shieh 4d, Justin Teng 3d, Aaron Ye 1d, April Ye 3k, Gilbert Feng 3k, and Maher Qandil 5k, all notched up wins for Tiger’s Mouth as well. Th e top board, and full standings, are available here: http://tinyurl.com/46oc63l– Paul Barchilon, E-J. Youth Editor

SIX WIN IN U.S. YOUTH GO CHAMPIONSHIPS(June 14, 2010) Six young go players won national titles in the 2010 U.S. Youth Go Championships, which were held on KGS. Curtis Tang 7d led the High Dan (5-7d) division, narrowly defeating former champion — and current World

Youth Representative — Calvin Sun 7d. In the Low Dan (1-4d) division, which had both senior and junior sections, Justin Shieh 4d took top honors in the senior, while seven-year-old Aaron Ye 1d won the junior. Van Tran was the new Single Digit Kyu Champion in the 1-4k range, while Larry Qu won in the 5-9k range. Th e Double Digit Kyu Champion was Raymond Liu 10k. Th e new title holders received trophy plaques with their name and title, and partial scholarships to the 2010 Go Camp or Go Congress. Everyone who entered also received free audio go lessons, courtesy of Guo Juan’s Internet Go School. Click here for full standings in each division: http://tinyurl.com/4fs7d72- report/photo by Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor; photo: Boulder youth compete at the USYGC Qualifi er in April 2010


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TEACHER OF THE YEAR

BUDDHIST NUN MARJORIE “SU CO” HEY

NAMED TEACHER OF THE YEAR(July 22, 2010)Marjorie “Su Co” Hey was chosen as the AGF’s 2010 Teacher of the Year. An ordained Buddhist nun, she was in good company, joining Honinbo Sansa, the 16th century founder of the Honinbo House, among notable go playing Buddhists. Hey, who lives in Medford, MA, has been a dedicated go teacher for the past seven years, with go programs at elementary schools, libraries, and Boys and Girls Clubs, often running fi ve or six separate clubs each week. “For those people who are afraid I am teaching their kids Buddhism, I point out that go was being played at least a thousand years before Buddhism or Christianity were established,” Hey told the E-Journal, “go teaches us to do our best, treat our opponents with respect and to avoid being greedy (the surest way to lose).” Hey seems never to have been worried about the competitive aspects of the game, and instead delights

in teaching and helping beginners. She is not a strong player herself, with an AGA rank of 18 kyu, but she possesses a special gift – the ability to fascinate and

delight children. Her main interest is in helping her students, and she enjoys seeing their progress. “Ralph St. Louis (age 14) and I played to see if he would be eligible to play in the Massachusetts Go Association (MGA) tournament. Playing even, he won by a half point,’ said Hey. “Th e next morning I loaned him my 10 volume set of Level Up and he set to studying it before the Sunday tournament. I entered him as a 20 kyu.

He played me the fi rst game and mowed me down. He went on to play a 6 kyu and won and then lost to a 4 kyu. I only won two and lost two. Last night I checked the new ratings and I had gone from 19+ kyu to 18.9 kyu but Ralph went from 20 kyu to 16.6 kyu. WOW!!!! Ralph is more than 2 kyu stronger than me.” Tom Bahun, a teenaged 2 dan, tells a similar story: “the fi rst tournament I went to at the MGA was dull and boring, but the next one was run by Su Co, and we had tons

of fun. All the kids had huge smiles on their faces they were so happy, including me, even though I had lost. She is all around a great person and a great teacher of go to children.” Th e Teacher of the Year Award has become quite competitive in recent years, and many excellent teachers are fi nding themselves on a waiting list for the honor, which includes an all-expenses-paid trip the annual US Go Congress. Honorable mention went to Portland go teacher Fritz Balwit, and Colorado teacher David Weiss, who were also nominated for the award in 2010. Hey held a round-table discussion — for those who teach and those who would like to — at the U.S. Go Congress.- Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor. Photos: top right: Hey, at center, teaching children at Brooks Elementary School in Medford MA; bottom left: at the Go Congress


Youth

REDMOND CUP WINNERS/REDMOND MEIJIN

TANG WINS REDMOND CUP

SENIOR DIVISION(August 2, 2010) Curtis Tang 7d (r) won both Redmond Cup games, shutting out Jianing Gan 7d in the Senior Division. Gan had been favored to win, placing fi rst in the qualifi ers, while Tang placed third, and was only selected to play when second place fi nalist Gansheng Shi was unable to attend the Congress. Tang, 17 years old, has a long history of success in the Redmond. He took the Junior Division championship in 2001, 03, and 04, and then again in 2006 in the Senior Division. Both fi nalists won a free trip to the US Go Congress to compete, and will receive cash prizes as well, and this year None Redmond herself will present the Redmond Cup at the awards banquet. Click here for both game records (under Redmond Cup Senior Division): http://www.gocongress.org/news.php

- Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor

WOLF WINS REDMOND CUP JUNIOR DIVISION(August 16, 2010) Oliver Wolf 2d, age 11, won the Junior Division of the Redmond Cup at the US Go Congress. His opponent, Henry Zhang 1d, also 11, took second place. Wolf won the fi rst round match, held Aug. 2, but Zhang rallied to come from behind in round 2, winning by 3.5 points. Th e decisive match was held on Aug. 5, with Wolf winning the game, and the title of Redmond Champion. Both boys received a special honor when None Redmond, founder of the Redmond Cup, and tireless youth go advocate for decades, presented the trophies in person at the fi nal awards banquet at the Go Congress. Th e boys also won $350 for fi rst place, and $250 for second, as well as a free trip to the Go Congress to compete. All three

matches were broadcast live on KGS, and the sgf fi les are available online. - Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor. Photo by Ling Shan; from left to right: Oliver Wolf , None Redmond, Henry Zhang.

TANG NAMED REDMOND MEIJIN(August 16, 2010) Curtis Tang 7d (r) was named Honorary Redmond Meijin at the fi nal awards banquet at the US Go Congress, Aug. 7th. Tang, 17, took the Junior Division championship in 2001, 03, and 04, and then again in 2006 in the Senior Division. His 2010 Redmond victory marked his fi fth win in the Cup, and also the last year he was eligible to play in it. Th e only other person ever to win fi ve times is Eric Lui 7d, who won his fi fth time in 2001, and was also named Redmond Meijin. Th e title is honorary, and for life, so both young men are now Honorary Meijin. None Redmond herself presented the Cup to Tang. His winning matches in the fi nals are available online: http://www.gocongress.org/news.php- Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor


Youth

U.S. GO CONGRESS

KIDS SCORE BIG

IN GO CONGRESS YOUTH ROOM(August 6, 2010) Congress-going youth had an exciting week in the 2010 U.S. Go Congress Youth Room, with pro simuls, mini tournaments and prizes, prizes, and more prizes. Th anks to the generosity of Winston Jen, every kid at the Congress won a free set of all seventeen volumes of the Hikaru no Go manga. DVD sets of popular series like Hunter x Hunter and Fruits Basket, piles of Hikaru no Go merchandise, Audio Go Lessons from Guo Juan, and donations from Art of Problem Solving.com and Wolfram Mathematica rounded out the prize pool as well. Seven-year-old Aaron Ye 2d (center, in photo at left) enjoyed his game review with Yilun Yang 7P, and so did the crowd that gathered round to watch. Youth also got to play six-on-1 and 8-on-1 simuls with top pros from Korea, China, and Japan. Mini tournaments

were held most days, with prizes for 9×9 table winners, 13×13, and Lightning. Youth Adult Pair Go remained one of the most popular events, with 44 youth and adults playing, paired as one youth and one adult of opposite genders, with a few same-gender pairs thrown in for good measure. Th e Youth Team Tournament, modeled after Hikaru no Go, was also popular, with nine teams competing. Top honors went to Keiju Takahara, Oliver Wolf and Takashi Hoshi in the dan division, and Anurag Varma, Albert Hu, and Alvin Hu in the Kyu division. Both teams are playing in the photo at left, while Winston Jen (third from left, standing) observed the match. - Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor, photos by Paul Barchilon (top right) and Chris Garlock (bottom left).

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5 MINUTES WITH: The Harwit Twins(August 5, 2010) Twin brothers Matthew and Nathan Harwit fi nish each other’s sentences, are virtually the same strength and are hardly ever seen apart but they’re quick to tell you that Matthew’s the older one. “Two minutes,” the twelve-year-olds say together. Matthew is 4-dan and Nathan is 3-dan, but they both agree they’re very close in strength and indeed Nathan won when the two were paired in Tuesday’s third round of the North American Ing Masters tournament. Th ey’ve only been playing a couple years, learning the game after seeing it played at a chess tournament at their elementary school in Boulder, Colorado. “We thought it was cool,” says Matthew, “and the go players were friends of our mother,” adds Nathan. Th e boys are regulars at the Boulder Kids and Teens Go Club, run by Paul Barchilon and David Weiss. Th e club boasts four dan-level children, all of whom are at the Congress. Th e fraternal twins are fi ercely competitive with each other, of course, and play at least one game every day, in addition to taking on other players on KGS. Th ey cheerfully admit to having been caught playing go by fl ashlight under the covers after bedtime, and are thrilled to be playing in the Ing this year. “It’s great to get your butt kicked by 8-dans,” says Nathan, “yeah, we learn a lot and it’s fun,” adds Matthew. - report/photo by Chris Garlock


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WORLD YOUTH/YOUTH FRIENDSHIP MATCH

CANADA WINS 3rd YOUTH FRIENDSHIP MATCH (December 20, 2010) Over 300 go fans showed up on KGS to watch the future of North American go display their talent at the 3rd US-Canada Youth Friendship Match. Neither team disappointed, with many exciting games featuring intense fi ghting. Th e 7-player Canadian team won all but the last two boards, repeating their dominance of the U.S. in last year’s edition of the friendship match. On the top board, Calvin Sun, the U.S. WYGC representative, battled Ryan Li, the runner-up in the 2010 Canadian Open. Li gained an early edge, claiming a lot of territory, but a weak group during the midgame gave Sun a chance. However, Li squeaked out life, and Sun could not gain any advantage while attacking the group, giving Li the victory. Th e Canadians asserted their dominance in the next few boards as well, with Gansheng Shi, Tianyu (Bill) Lin, Jianing Gan, and Andrew Huang all claiming commanding victories, leaving Ben Lockhart and Vincent Zhuang as the only victorious members of the U.S. team. With such a strong showing from both teams, the North American team will defi nitely make for an exciting matchup against European youth in the 3rd Transatlantic Youth Go Match in Spring 2011. Full results are here:http://tinyurl.com/64geg7d - Lawrence Ku

13-YEAR-OLD SUN PLACES

FOURTH IN WORLD YOUTH(August 5, 2010) Th irteen-year-old 7 dan Calvin Sun (at right in his match against Korea) placed fourth in the 2010 World Youth Go Championships, representing the U.S. Nine-year-old Kevin Fang 1d was the Junior Representative, placing eighth. ”I am happy to have this opportunity to be in the exciting WYGC tournament,” Fang told the E-Journal, ”I got to play with the top junior players in the world. I did not reach my goal this time, and ended up with the youngest player award. I hope I will do better next time.” Th e boys won a free trip to Penghu, Taiwan, to compete at the fi nals, July 22 – 28, 2010. Mingjiu Jiang 7p went as team coach (click here for his commentary on Sun’s critical Round 4 match against Czechia: http://tinyurl.com/4kdfxcc). ”Th is was my sixth time representing USA in the WYGC,” writes Sun, “I placed fourth in the senior division this year and Kevin tied for eighth in the junior division–

which is a very good outcome considering he was the youngest player participating in the competition. He also got the award for ‘Youngest Player’. Other than the players from China, Korea, Japan and Taipei, the European Go players were also very strong. My most important game was the fourth

round against Czech Republic’s representative, Lukas Podpera, 15. Th e winner would advance to the fi nals. Before the game, Mingjiu Jiang 7P helped me study all of Podpera’s games, and I played a fuseki he was not used to, thus leading throughout the game and winning by 17 points. In the Senior Division, Korea’s Insei Han Seung Joo placed fi rst, China’s Baolong Zhao 2P placed second, Chinese Taipei’s Jiayuan Xu 6d placed third, and I placed fourth. In the Junior Division, China Qicheng Li 1P placed fi rst, Korea’s Insei Min-Jun Shin placed second, Chinese Taipei’s Zhengxun Cheng placed third, and Singapore’s Yifei Yue placed fourth. Penghu is an archipelago made up of 64 small islands west of Taiwan. Th e tournament took place on Penghu’s largest island, Magog. Th e last day we went to another small island and went swimming and crab catching . Unfortunately, it was raining that day so many activities such as snorkeling and fi shing were canceled. For dinner, we ate the crabs we caught that afternoon,” said Sun.- Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor; photos by Yanchen Sun. From left, at left, Mingjiu Jiang 7p, Kevin Fang 1d, Calvin Sun 7d.

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AGF SCHOLARSHIPS/YOUNG LIONS TOURNEY

SHEN AND SU WIN

AGF COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS(September 27, 2010) Cherry Shen 6d, and David Su 1d, won the 2010 AGF College Scholarships. Th e $1,000 awards are presented each year to outstanding youth who have been active go organizers or teachers. “Although I enjoy the competitiveness of go,” said Shen (left), “there are other aspects of the game that I enjoy just as much: volunteering, teaching kids, and meeting a diverse group of people bridged by one game.” Su, an active high school organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area, told the E-Journal “I started playing go in 7th grade and then joined my school’s go club in freshmen year, but I did not foresee that I would be leading the club two years later.” Shen taught go to elementary school children in the LA area. In her application essay, she recounts some of her experiences: “amongst the young faces stood out a very special character, a young boy named Shin. It was obvious that he was extremely clever; however, he was born handicapped: loss of vocal chords and poor motor skills. At fi rst I thought I would have to pay extra attention to him, but when I began to teach everyone, Shin caught on just fi ne and was even very interested in go. Because he usually had special treatment, I felt successful in that through go, he could have the same playing fi eld as his peers. Th at in itself felt like an accomplishment, showing him a game where he was not at a disadvantage; even though communication may be a problem, words can be spoken through the movement of stones.”

Further north in California, Su (right) was hard at work at Saratoga High School. “ I eagerly inherited a meager club my junior year and took the reins,” said Su, “that year, the club designed and produced its fi rst t-shirt, hosted its own intra-club tournament, represented Saratoga High School in three tournaments, and published its own newsletter.” Th e

following year, with the collapse of the stock market, the Ing Foundation cut all funding to the US go community. Among the losses was the annual California High School Team Tournament. Su was undeterred however: “I entered a whole new platform of leadership when I enlisted a group of local high school go

presidents, and found multiple fi nancial sponsors, to host the debut Bay Area High School Go Tournament, fi elding a competition with 24 high school players in three brackets. I have been able to keep in contact with most of the go clubs via Facebook and my hope is that with help from the Bay Area Go Player’s Association, and future high school leaders, the high school community will strengthen and the games popularity will trickle down through middle and elementary schools. My drive to popularize and legitimize go among youth in America stems from my belief that it is not your everyday board game, it is a marvelous mental exercise.” – Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor. Photos by David Su and Cherry Shen

ZHUANG TOPS YOUNG LIONS TOURNEY(November 15, 2010) Vincent Zhuang 5d took top honors in the 2010 Young Lions Tournament on Saturday, November 6. Organized by the American Go Honor Society (AGHS), the tournament was held on KGS. More than sixty youth go players signed up for the tourney. Th ere were four divisions: Dans, Low Kyus, Middle Kyus, and High Kyus. One of the participants described the tournament as “a hectic but fun experience” and another described it as the “highlight of my week.” More AGHS tournaments, including the annual School Teams Tournament, are in the works. AGHS Presidents Jack Ye and Jasmine Yan directed the tournament, and were assisted by Rebecca Cheng, Eric Chen, Tommy Liu, and Viral Kotecha. - Eric Chen and Jasmine YanWinner’s Report: click here for full report: http://tinyurl.com/4otkh68


Youth

SIEMEN’S PRIZE

GO PLAYING TEEN

WINS SIEMEN’S PRIZE

(November 15, 2010) A striking advance in mathematical game theory earned top honors for the team of James Pinkerton 1d (l), and Rafael Setra (r) in the recent Region Five Finals of the 2010-11 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, a premier science research competition for high school students. Pinkerton, an avid go player, and Setra are seniors at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Th eir win in the team category has scored them a $6,000 scholarship for their mathematics project, Th e Duplicator-Spoiler Game for an Ordinal Number of Turns. Th eir math research might be analogized to mirror go–the players, a spoiler and a duplicator alternate turns, choosing elements from two sets until the duplicator is unable to mirror the spoiler’s move. In the math, the number of turns for the spoiler to win tells you about the complexity of statements in mathematical logic needed to diff erentiate the sets. Traditionally the games have a fi nite number of turns and their research extended the games to arbitrary lengths over various infi nite structures. “Th is team has made a striking extension of a game-theoretic interpretation of descriptive logic that dates back to the 1960s. Using it, they can distinguish between mathematical structures not separable by simple queries,” said competition judge Haynes Miller, Professor of Mathematics at MIT. “Th eir work has potential applications to resource allocation in designing search algorithms. What impressed me about these students was their clarity of thought. It’s a very confusing subject to work in and they found their way through it to a new frontier.” Pinkerton is president of the Chess Club and a member of the National Honors Society and French Honors Society. Fluent in French, he single sculls on the Potomac and plays chess and go competitively. Pinkerton teaches chess as a volunteer in several programs in his county and in inner-city Washington, DC. He also teaches mathematics to underclassmen. He credits his father (E-J staff photographer John Pinkerton) who

taught him “fun mathematics, not the dreary algebra of secondary school,” with nurturing his love for the subject. Pinkerton would like to study mathematics in college and to become a university professor. Setra was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and moved to the US when he was eight years old. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish and is part of Operation Fly, National Honors Society and the Martial Arts Club. A volunteer at Viers Mill Elementary School, Setra plays Starcraft 2, non-competitive football and has just learned how to play go from Pinkerton. He would like to study mathematics, engineering and computer science and to become a college professor. “Each year, the Siemens Foundation invites America’s high school students to make their mark in the world of science,” said Jeniff er Harper-Taylor, President of the Siemens Foundation. “We commend these students on rising to the challenge and pushing the envelope of scientifi c thought.” Th e students presented their research to a panel of judges from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), host of the Region Five Finals, on November 6th. Pinkerton and Setra will also be invited to compete at the National Finals in Washington, DC, December 3–6, 2010, where the winners of six regional competitions will vie for the $100,000 Grand Prize and national acclaim for extraordinary scientifi c achievement at the high school level.-EJ Youth Editor Paul Barchilon, photo: James Pinkerton (l) and Rafael Setra (r), courtesy of the Siemens Foundation


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IN MEMORIAM

NAKAYAMA NORIYUKI 6P DIESNAKAYAMA’S LAST LECTURELETTER FROM JAPAN: Goodbye, Th e Congress I Love PROFESSIONALLY SPEAKING: Nakayama on How To Improve“Ah, Th e Clam Shells Are Heavy”

NAKAYAMA NORIYUKI 6P DIES: Nakayama Noriyuki 6P died on February 16, 2010. Th e prolifi c

author, reporter and go writer was well-known to American go players who met him during his many trips to the United States over the last three decades. “Nakayama’s deep and abiding love for the game of go and his

irrepressible sense of humor endeared him to everyone who was fortunate enough to cross his path over the years,” said American Go Association President Allan Abramson. “He’ll be missed by his many friends around the world.” Said Ji Li 7D, one of the top American amateur players, “Nakayama made signifi cant impacts and contributions to the American go community.” One of Nakayama’s most popular books in the West, Th e Treasure Chest Enigma, was re-issued in 2005; he ghost wrote books for many top professionals and authored several for himself. Well known as one of the professionals who most toured the West to spread and teach go, Nakayama – born September 3, 1932 -- loved to play amateurs and – a twinkle in his eye – would respond to their questionable moves by saying, with a quizzically cocked head, “Ah! New Joseki, neh?!”, or “Oohh! Strong move! But maybe... this (playing his move...) better!!!” Although Nakayama never won a title, “He was funny and approachable,” said longtime fan Keith Arnold 5d. “Th ere was an unmistakable quiet dignity that did not ask for, yet clearly demanded respect. Respect for a dedication to the game, to teaching, and to spreading its joys, winning players with a smile.”- Chris Garlock, includes reporting on Sensei’s Library;

NAKAYAMA’S LAST LECTURE: Longtime Congress favorite Noriyuki Nakayama 6P announced at the 2006 US Go Congress that it would be the last year he’d be attending the U.S Go Congress. His wife had been ill recently and it was a great hardship for him to be away for the month it took to attend both the

U.S. and European Congresses. At a standing-room only lecture at the Congress, the irrepressible Nakayama said that “I’m afraid the answer might be ‘jigo’ if my wife asks me which is more important, my American go friends or her.” Much-loved for his cherubic delight in teaching go to players of all strengths, Nakayama said “Th e best thing about go is that you make many friends.” - Chris Garlock; photos by Brian Allane (top left); Phil Straus (top right) & Jian Zhang (center)

2010 U.S. GO CONGRESS BIDS NAKAYAMA A JOYFUL FAREWELLsee page 17


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IN MEMORIAM

LETTER FROM JAPAN: Goodbye, Th e Congress I Love By Noriyuki Nakayama 6P I participated in the US Go Congress this year (2006) as I have for last 21 years. Th e US Go Congress, which started in 1985, could just as well be described as “the US Open Go Festival.” Participants include players from European countries, Japan and many other countries who love this “Festival” as well as go enthusiasts and go maniacs from every corner of the United States. For many participants, these events are a vacation involving spouses and other members of the family. Many wives and children learn go and participate in events like Pair Go, the 9x9 tournament and Kid’s Go. I have been engaged in activities to introduce and popularize the game of go in the USA before the US Go Congress was organized, but unfortunately, this year’s visit will be the last one due to my wife’s health problems. I know that I will miss the Go Congress and my friends there very much since I started this journey when I was 49 and it has lasted a full quarter-century since then. On August 19, 2006, my last lecture started after all the Congress events were fi nished. It had become a kind of Congress custom for me to present a lecture as the fi nal event but this year’s -- literally “the last lecture” – attracted most of the approximately 250 people at the Congress. In the standing ovation which lasted long after I fi nished, overwhelmed by the emotion, I could not fi nd the words to say Goodbye Go Congress, Goodbye America, Goodbye my dear American go friends! - A longer version of this letter appeared in the October 9, 2006 edition of the Nihon Ki-in’s weekly Go magazine. Translated by Frank Fukuda and edited by Chris Garlock. Th is letter also appears in the 2006 American Go Yearbook.

As it turned out, Nakayama was able to attend one last U.S. Go Congress, in 2007…PROFESSIONALLY SPEAKING: Nakayama on How To Improve “Th ere are three steps to get better,” Noriyuki

Nakayama 6P said at a lecture at the 2007 U.S. Go Congress. “Step 1: buy a book. Step 2: read it! Step 3: practice!” As entertaining as always, Nakyama kept the attentive crowd laughing appreciatively as he mixed game analysis of Takemiya’s games with fascinating and amusing anecdotes from the go world. “Replay professional games,” Nakyama advised. “Eventually you will start playing better moves because your fi ngers will know where to play. Not your mind, your fi ngers.”

“Ah, Th e Clam Shells Are Heavy”Excerpted from Th e Treasure Chest Enigma; A Go Miscellany, by Nakayama NoriyukiA little before six in the evening, Kajiwara, who had been glaring at the board hard enough to bore a hole in it, suddenly raised his head and glanced at the scenery outside in the gathering dusk. Not surprisingly, he bore signs of considerable fatigue. Th e game recorder’s voice rang out. “Time is up. Kajiwara Sensei, please seal the next move.” Kajiwara gave a deep nod of assent, then shifted his gaze back to the board. Some fi ve minutes passed by. Suddenly he called out in a fl urried tone, “What? Th e next move’s the sealed move.” His

eyes were riveted on the board. With his whole being concentrated on the go board, Kajiwara had only half taken in the game recorder’s words when he fi rst spoke. “Yes. Th e next move – is – the sealed move.” Th e game recorder replied slowly and carefully, enunciating each syllable clearly. Kajiwara fi nally seemed to have grasped that the next move was the sealed move. He let out a long sigh. “Oh? Th e sealed move?” After a little while he sighed again. “I’m tired out,” he muttered. Preoccupied though he was with his own game, Tainaka happened to overhear these words. Glancing over at the neighboring board, he commented sarcastically: “Why? You’ve only played four stones.” Kajiwara’s reply to this was a masterpiece. Glaring at the board with a look of complete exhaustion on his face, he muttered: “Th e clam shells are heavy today.”Th e essays in Treasure Chest were translated from a collection titled Jitsuroku Igo Kodan. Gokyo Monogatari (Tales of a man crazy about go). photo by Phil Straus


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IN MEMORIAM

MILTON BRADLEY: “An unstoppage passion for go” Longtime go organizer, author and teacher Milton Bradley died in September after a long illness. “Milt’s passion for go was unstoppable,” said American Go Association President Allan Abramson, who had played a weekly game online with Bradley over the last year. “We hope that the enormous amount of energy he put into encouraging go players is inspiring to a whole new generation of teachers. Milt will be missed.” An avid chess player, Bradley’s interest in go was sparked “after I read the fi rst few issues of the American Go Journal at the Marshall Chess Club in 1950,” Bradley told the EJ earlier this year. “At that point I immediately — instinctively, it seems — grasped go’s depth and profundity, as well as its great superiority to chess, which until then had seemed to me to be the perfect game.” One of the AGA’s earliest members – he was AGA member 157 – Bradley’s 60-year go career highlights included playing

Edward Lasker in 1952, and Honinbo Kaoru Iwamoto 9P several times in his simuls at the NY Go Club in the late 1950’s. Bradley – a mechanical/industrial/quality control engineer – had “a passion to make go both more popular and accessible,” and his eff orts not only included teaching over 1,000 beginners, but unique promotional ventures like “playing go in the front window of the Takashimaya Department store on New York’s prestigious Fifth Avenue,” (he’s at left in the photo above) and several years penning a go column for the national Mensa Bulletin. He was also a prolifi c author, whose titles included Go For Kids, New Go Proverbs Illustrated and his free online Improve Fast In Go. Check out his website: http://users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/

EDMUND HAVENSEdmund Havens was killed in an automobile accident in Spain on May 28. Greater Washington Go Club (GWGC) organizer Haskell Small says Havens was a “kind, elderly gentleman who has come to the club several times in the past year or so. I knew him from way back in the GWGC’s early years, and I was happy to see him return. I will miss him.” Havens was a “Proud father, devoted husband, intrepid traveler, avid reader, movie buff , puzzle addict, veteran Marine, retired civil servant, arts patron, and Past Master,” according to Haven’s obituary in Th e Washington Post.

NAKAYAMA’S MONKEY LADDER: Noriyuki Nakayama 6P was famous for creating original ladder problems, including a series with the black stones in the shape of the oriental zodiac signs. Th is problem is for the sign of the monkey.

Th e problem is translated by Bob McGuigan from Nakayama's book Shicho no Sekai (Th e World of Ladders) published by the Nihon Ki-in in 1998. Th e problem is Black to play at A; can he capture the white stone at Q9 in a ladder? Th e solution is 119 moves long; the solution is in the online game collection.


scoreboard

2010 EVENTS

top left/bottom right: New Jersey Open Princeton by John Pinkerton

(2/20-21); bottom left: Middlebury, VT by Pete Schumer (2/22)

Local chapters and clubs organize dozens of go tournaments, workshops, lectures and other events each year. Tournament results are reported each week in the American Go E-Journal -- send your reports and photos to [email protected] -- and can be found on the AGA website: http://www.usgo.org/ Here’s a selection of photos from events held across the country in 2010.


scoreboard

2010 EVENTS

middle right: kids at SoCal tourney (3/1); bottom right: Austin Wildfl ower Classic (3/8)

right: Myungwan Kim at the Seattle pro workshop; bottom left: Jennie Shen

at the Seattle pro workshop; photos by Brian Allen (3/1)


scoreboard

2010 EVENTS

top: Iwamoto School Team Tourney in Seattle by Brian Allen (3/29)below left: Boston Youth Tournament (3/22); center: Myungwan Kim 9P Workshop (3/22); right: North Carolina Tournament (4/3)


SCOREBOARD

2010 EVENTS

Clockwise from top right: NorCal Tourney (4/20); Seattle Cherry Blossom Tournament by Brian Allen (4/26); Seattle Cherry Outreach (4/26); Boulder Youth Tourney (4/26); Chicago Tourney (4/25); Syracuse, NY (4/22)


SCOREBOARD

2010 EVENTS

Clockwise from top: NorCal Expo (5/06); Morningstar tourney

(5/10); Santa Barbara club (5/15)


SCOREBOARD

2010 EVENTS

Clockwise from top:

Sasaki simul (5/18);

Coff ee Cup tournament

(6/14); Chicago

Anime Convention

(5/18)


SCOREBOARD

2010 EVENTS

Clockwise from right: California Senate award (7/27); NorCal monthly tourney (8/19); Justin Teng wins

(which tourney?) (9/6); Boston tournament (8/30)


SCOREBOARD

2010 EVENTS

Clockwise from top: Chicago, IL (9/27); NorCal (11/15);

New York City (10/24); Austin, TX (11/1)


SCOREBOARD

2010 EVENTS

Top: Sasaki in Los Angeles, CA (11/15); bottom: Moon Cha tourney in Gaithersburg, MD (11/20)


SCOREBOARD

2010 EVENTS

Clockwise from right: Syracuse, NY (11/22); Bay Area, CA (12/20); Chicago,

IL (12/13/); New York Go Center closes (12/05); Cornell, NY (12/6)


Ratings

Kim, Myung Wan 10.25

Jiang, Ming Jiu 9.63

Li, Jie 9.49

Liu, Zhi Yuan [Andy] 9.37

Meyer, Francis 9.34

Yang, Yilun 9.12

Yang, Huiren 8.95

Jiang, Zhu-jiu [Jujo] 8.94

Ko, Dae Hyuk 8.80

Ge, Yongfei 8.77

Lui, Eric 8.70

Wang, Lu [Jeff rey] 8.61

Koh, Juyong 8.60

Rhee, Tae Young 8.55

Chen, ZhaoNian 8.52

Hung, Joey 8.51

Feng, Zipei 8.51

Tang, Curtis 8.49

Zhu, Qiyun 8.45

Shou, Minshan 8.44

Qiao, Shiyao 8.34

Huang, Kevin 8.28

Liang, Jie 8.27

Jeong, Jong In 8.23

Hsiang, Thomas Y. 8.19

Gong, Qucheng (Roger) 8.12

Zhang, Yunzhe 8.08

Xie, Guochen 7.98

Hong, Seung Hyun 7.93

Lee, Seung Jin 7.85

Chang, Deuk Je 7.82

Tu, Xinyu (Carson) 7.80

Zhou, Yuan 7.66

Liu, Hanyi 7.62

Sun, Calvin 7.62

Rhee, Young 7.61

Guo, Jing (J Creeks) 7.59

Yang, Tengxiao 7.59

Wu, Changlong 7.42

Lee, Jung Hoon 7.31

Zhao, Zhongxia (Ricky) 7.30

Burrall, Matthew 7.28

Wang, Rui 7.26

Hu, Thomas 7.25

Liu, Xiruo 7.24

Morris, Trevor 7.15

Luo, Feijun (Frank) 7.14

Kwon, Hyuk Zin 7.13

Zhou, William 7.13

Price, Guthrie 7.11

Xiang, Xuyu 7.09

Xie, Rui 7.08

Bai, Yuchen 7.04

Zhang, Hugh 7.03

Liu, Xingshuo 7.02

Sedgwick, James 7.01

Zhou, Yixian 7.00

Tang, Wenhua 6.99

Gan, Jianing 6.92

Lin, Tianyu (Bill) 6.91

Mizusawa, Shuma 6.90

Ha, Soo Ihl 6.87

Chou, Daniel 6.84

Zhang, Lionel 6.77

Czeranski, Jan 6.76

Kim, Jason 6.74

Kim, Jason 6.73

Li, Song 6.73

Sha, Irene 6.68

Hyodo, Shunichi 6.61

Suh, Won Suk 6.60

Xu, Renjie 6.59

Yi, Yun-Bo 6.58

Lin, Kuo-Chi 6.56

Zhang, Rongrong 6.54

Zhang, Mian 6.53

Stringfellow, Steve C. 6.52

Kaitschick, Stefan 6.52

Zhao, Ju 6.51

Zhang, Zhiyuan (Edward) 6.49

Lockhart, Benjamin 6.47

Verkhovsky, Simon 6.46

Zhuang, Guozhong 6.39

Jhirad, Nicholas 6.38

Wang, Jun 6.38

Peterson, Maxwell 6.35

Huang, Andrew 6.35

Lu, Andrew 6.34

Yang, Zhi Rui 6.34

Wang, Yinli 6.34

Chen, Yong 6.26

Han, Kuo-Ruey 6.26

Park, James 6.24

Zhou, Yao 6.23

Kelly, Brett 6.23

Shen, Cherry 6.20

Ma, Dong 6.19

Zheng, Mingquan 6.18

Feng, Wenyi 6.17

Shou, Guo Xiang 6.16

Wang, Eric 6.14

Zhao, Kevin W. 6.14

Park, SeJoon 6.13

Hamilton, Robert 6.13

Hallonquist, Bert 6.12

Emsenhuber, Anton 6.11

Imamura, Yasuko 6.10

Kim, Eric Byunghon 6.10

Zhuang, Vincent 6.06

Pelrine, Kellin 6.05

Zhang, Yanqi 6.00

Yang, Jimmy 5.96

Waldron, Philip 5.96

Wang, Ge (Johnny) 5.91

Bull, Michael 5.89

Boley, Jon 5.88

Zhou, Haibo 5.87

Liu, Chen-Chang 5.84

Yu, Erwin 5.82

Rerikh, Vladimir 5.80

Lee, Chong Dae 5.76

Gress, Brandon 5.74

Kawaguchi, Masahiro 5.70

Gurevich, Alex 5.69

Rosenblatt, Gregory 5.66

Chao, Kevin 5.66

Choe, Solomon 5.55

Chen, Yi Jin 5.55

Shangguan, Sean 5.55

Dobrescu, Bogdan 5.53

Shen, Gary 5.52

Wang, Fong Chain (Gary) 5.51

Zhou, Kevin 5.51

Zhang, Peigang 5.46

Horii, Daijiro 5.43

Lebl, Martin 5.43

Chen, Owen 5.42

Xu, Dazhi 5.42

Kim, Eddie 5.42

Wang, Bin Quan 5.41

Xu, Guoli 5.41

Lockhart, William 5.40

Huang, Michael 5.40

Stevens, Kory 5.39

Zhu, Paul 5.39

Huang, Xiaohan 5.38

Chen, Chi-Ming 5.34

Zhang, John 5.32

Zhang, Zheng (Eric) 5.31

Givens, John S. 5.30

Quizon, Juan Pablo 5.29

Shih, Jack 5.26

Zhang, Li 5.26

Fodera, Michael 5.21

Henckell, Karsten 5.20

Lu, Ke 5.20

Lim, Ducksoo 5.19

Sun, Chun 5.17

Xu, Yang 5.17

Zhang, Feng 5.17

Shieh, Justin 5.17

Zhang, Siteng 5.17

Kuang, Jeff 5.12

Wang, Kevin 5.12

Kim, HongKi 5.11

Yeo, Sung 5.10

Gu, Junfeng (Mark) 5.09

Gu, Zhenying 5.08

Chang, Huan-Min 5.04

Xu, Gang 5.00

Xiao, Neirong (Neil) 4.96

Shang, Kevin 4.96

Yamaguchi, Iwao 4.95

Ge, Qingwen (Sam) 4.93

You, Zhiping 4.91

London, Philip 4.86

Synn, Steve 4.82

Lee, Joshua 4.82

Han, Changyu 4.81

Tan, Mingdong 4.80

Burrall, Steven F. 4.80

Connelly, Robert 4.79

Yan, Jasmine 4.76

Sun, Ruoshi 4.76

Tan, Huan 4.75

Nguyen, Long 4.72

Chen, Mengmeng 4.72

Kim, Eric 4.68

Ye, Aaron 4.64

Shi, James 4.64

Waldron, Scott 4.63

He, Sean 4.62

Arnold, Keith L. 4.61

Chen, Wei 4.60

Feldman, Micah Y. 4.59

Hall, T Mark 4.57

Harwit, Nathan 4.54

Zhuang, Yongming 4.54

Stephenson, John C. 4.51

Shen, Jerry 4.51

Matsumoto, Mamoru 4.50

Furman, Erik 4.46

Lee, Eric 4.43

Blocher, Kyle David 4.43

Zhang, Yue 4.42

Wang, Yaofeng 4.41

Liu, Bing 4.39

Smith, Ryan 4.38

Wang, Jianping 4.36

Yoo, Bradley 4.36

Xiao, Jian 4.35

Tseng, Michael 4.34

Li, Xue Zhong 4.34

Kirschner, Christopher 4.33

Micsa, Dan 4.33

Xu, Tom 4.32

Sibicky, Nick 4.32

Kuo, Kuan Chu 4.32

Luo, Moulun 4.32

Cheng, Chin Jung 4.30

Smith, Lloyd 4.28

Jackson, Andrew 4.26

Dai, Nan 4.25

Lee, Chi Jen 4.23

Crews, Keith 4.22

Teng, Justin 4.21

Sawka, Greg 4.21

Kim, Anthony 4.20

Lu, Jing 4.18

Chen, Wan Yu 4.16

Cha, Tony 4.14

Wu, Ming Teh 4.12

All current members who played rated games as of 7/17/2011 Ratings are updated continuously: check your latest rating at http://www.usgo.org

MOST GAMES/EVENTS 2010 (TOP 50)

Name Games Events State

Castanza, Gordon 84 20 WA

Khalsa, Gurujeet 51 13 MD

Teng, Justin 49 12 MD

Schrag, Roger 48 14 CA

Ye, Aaron 47 10 CA

Miyake, Yuriko 45 15 WA

Rohde, David 44 8 IL

Rubenstein, Mark 44 8 IL

Mooyman, Peter J. 42 13 WA

Chan, Jay 41 12 CA

Zimmerman, Samuel 41 10 PA

Chiu, Linden 39 10 CA

Smith, Daniel 39 9 IL

Scott, Laura 39 8 IL

Lebl, Martin 38 8 AZ

Conyngham, Jim 38 7 TX

Horn, Jeff 38 6 CA

Burrall, Steven F. 37 12 CA

Ye, April 36 9 CA

Dyer, Kelsey 36 8 VA

Nelson, Wayne B. 36 5 NY

Brown, Frank 35 11 WA

Huynh, Lee 35 8 IL

Doughty, Herb 34 8 CA

Baum, Leonard 34 5 NJ

Sumner, Eric 33 10 CA

Eudell, Arnold 33 7 MD

Zhang, Zhiyuan 32 8 MD

Chou, Daniel 32 7 VA

Takehara, Yukino 32 7 VA

Betcher, Job 31 10 WA

Betcher, Jordan 31 10 WA

Takehara, Keiju 31 7 VA

Kurz, Steff en 31 6 MN

Qu, Larry 30 7 CA

Han, Changyu 30 7 IL

Smith, Garrett 29 8 VA

Chin, Kabe 29 8 VA

Top, Daniel 28 10 WA

Feiveson, Eric 28 9 WA

Chen, Alan 28 7 VA

Small, Haskell 28 6 DC

Lui, Eric 28 5 MD

Puzan, Daniel 28 4 IL

Chin, Kevin 27 8 VA

Harwit, Matthew 27 6 CO

Small, Elizabeth H. 27 6 DC

Zhou, Yixian 27 6 CA

Gundberg Jr., William 27 5 AZ

Norman, Matthew 27 5 IL


Kang, Jongman 4.09

Varma, Ashish 4.08

Zhou, Qi-Hao 4.08

Zhang, Yan (Tina) 4.07

Ye, Feng 4.07

Harwit, Matthew 4.06

Zhu, Guojun 4.06

Gan, Nianci (Neal 4.05

Arinkin, Dima 4.03

Buss, Jonathan 4.01

Nelson, Alexander 4.00

Shi, Ming 4.00

Guo, Zhi Qiang 4.00

Tang, Jicheng (Kevin) 3.95

Short, Daniel 3.93

Qu, Hongya 3.93

Minematsu, Fusayo 3.92

Wax, Seth 3.92

Rubenstein, Richard 3.91

Zhou, Gang 3.87

Xi, Yuanxin 3.83

Luo, Ming (Michael) 3.82

Katsu, Ikeda 3.81

Allen, Patrick 3.78

Kramer, Justin 3.77

Bennett, Huck 3.76

Zhang, Zhonggang 3.74

Hudnall, Christopher 3.74

Peng, Haijiang 3.73

Takehara, Keiju 3.72

Rohlfs, Jeff rey 3.71

LePore, Mike 3.70

Zhang, Peter 3.68

Kupon, Austin 3.67

Chen, Albert 3.66

Hershberger, Matthew 3.66

Abe, Yokito 3.66

Chen, Wenyong 3.65

Tang, Peiyu 3.62

Kim, Jung 3.62

Leahy, Brian 3.62

Su, Eric 3.60

Choi, Sang Il 3.56

Horowitz, Stuart 3.55

Olsen, Andy 3.53

Li, Min Yong 3.50

Dowell, Daniel 3.50

Li, Quan Bang 3.49

Weimer, David L. 3.49

Robbins, Charles G. 3.48

Sobieski, Jonathan E. 3.48

Wang, Jonathan 3.48

Mathisen, Ryan 3.47

Lin, Michael 3.46

Kierulf, Anders 3.45

Blake, Nicholas 3.43

Salantrie, Frank 3.43

Tirak, Robert 3.42

Dickopp, Tilo 3.42

Xu, Likang 3.41

Pierce, Franklin 3.40

Fu, Andrew 3.31

Park, Jason 3.31

Wang, Chang-Ding 3.30

Cushing, William 3.29

Small, Haskell 3.29

Liu, Lixian 3.28

Sun, Xiaodong 3.26

Wang, Ge 3.22

Ye, Ming Fang 3.21

Chen, Tony 3.21

Schumacher, Lee 3.21

Song, Forest 3.19

Wu, James 3.19

Guo, Albert 3.19

Wanek, Michael 3.17

Hop, Jonathan 3.16

Tam, Roxanne 3.15

Kim, Bryan 3.14

O’Brion, Jesse 3.11

Xie, James 3.09

Vel, Sudhir 3.09

Garlock, Chris 3.07

Schneefl ock, Fletcher 3.07

Kim, Yong 3.07

Baker, Lucas 3.06

Myers, John 3.05

Hoshi, Isamu 3.04

Hirose, Nobuaki 3.04

Larson, Josh 3.03

Yuyama, Hiroshi 3.01

Hoel, Timothy 2.99

Levenick, Jim 2.98

Wu, Wesley 2.96

Schattke, Robert 2.95

Wu, Steven 2.94

Malcolm, Richard 2.92

Bernstein, Ryan 2.92

Yep, Crystal 2.92

Luo, Xian Wu 2.91

Zhang, Sammy 2.90

Cao, Fengli 2.89

Kato, Kaoru 2.88

Tang, David 2.87

Smilack, Solomon 2.87

Beck, Jared 2.86

Hakala, Ben 2.83

Li, Yunxuan 2.81

Liao, Kai 2.79

Lee, Eric 2.78

Oyakawa, Tyler 2.75

Zhang, Tao 2.73

Osman, Eric 2.71

Whitlow, Jeff ery 2.71

Hauenstein, Andreas M. 2.71

Fang, Justin 2.69

Lin, Yuzhang 2.67

Zong, Xiang (Shawn) 2.67

Sears, Eric 2.67

Wolf, Oliver 2.66

Chamberlain, John 2.63

Chiang, Anthony 2.63

Xu, Robin 2.60

Ray, Shawn 2.59

Kuang, Yun 2.59

Tanaka, Yoshio 2.59

Tabata, Tom 2.55

Lapidus, Saul 2.55

Liu, Colin 2.54

Sanet, Joel S. 2.53

Andreasen, Michael 2.53

Brown, Jonathan 2.51

Suzuki, Fumio 2.49

Abramson, Allan 2.48

Zurow, Drew 2.47

Bates, Jason 2.47

Qiao, Ting 2.46

Xuan, Ping 2.46

Gu, Weigang (Steve) 2.44

Contarino, Joseph 2.43

Anderson, Paul 2.43

Takahashi, Yoko 2.41

Kang, Victor 2.40

Gillis, Edward 2.40

Burg, Chris 2.36

Liu, Kaiying 2.35

Shiotani, Katsunori 2.35

Straus, Phil 2.34

Chang, Anthony 2.32

Kim, Jonathan 2.30

Han, Guoxiang 2.28

Baldridge, Ethan 2.27

Yoon, Zin Seok 2.26

Alden, Charles J. 2.25

Liu, Hong Chun 2.25

Weiss, David 2.25

Moore, John 2.21

Hayashida, Christopher 2.20

Siemon, Debbie 2.17

Bibbs, Brian 2.17

Freedman, Peter 2.17

Simmons, Joshua 2.14

Yang, Xinlin 2.13

Yavich, Aleksandr 2.13

Gu, Brian 2.13

Benson, Terence G. 2.12

Hestnes, Odie 2.12

Liu, Kersam 2.12

Krafi ck, Dakota 2.10

Smith, Daniel 2.10

Hlavka, Jim 2.10

Wallstedt, Michael 2.10

Gong, Fu Ming 2.09

Garrett, Craig 2.09

Saxner, David 2.06

Zhao, Xiaohua (Harry) 2.06

Xing, Larry (Lei) 2.06

Tsukamoto, Masaya 2.03

King, Ray 2.03

Armitage, Benjaman 2.02

Liu, Jian 2.01

Puttkammer, Hildegard 1.98

Lam, Thomas 1.97

Hoak, Joshua 1.97

Chang, Kevin 1.96

Stevenson, Michael L. 1.94

Wainwright, Eric 1.94

Huynh, Lee 1.94

Jankowski, Eric 1.93

Ilseman, Michael 1.92

Gehrkin, Jonathan 1.92

Wong, Siang Kai (Mark) 1.89

Noonan, Matt 1.89

Sugita, Shoichi 1.88

Zhang, Hui 1.87

Chalmers, Richard M. 1.87

Wang, Zhijian 1.85

Alexander, Greg (Alan) 1.85

Chaubet, Jean-baptiste 1.84

Schmittberger, R. Wayne 1.83

Chen, Kaishuo 1.82

Palmer, Marc 1.82

Tellier, Shane 1.81

Aronson, Brian 1.79

Saunders, Aaron 1.78

Hartsell, Alex 1.76

Brown, Ernest 1.76

Nderitu, Gikuyu 1.75

Xu, Zhangcheng 1.73

Torrey, Rebecca 1.70

Pierre, Eric 1.70

Kington, Tim 1.69

Gross, Samuel 1.65

Wilkie, Clayton C. 1.65

Daniels, Brady 1.60

Kaszynski, Jaime 1.60

Searcy, Hughes L. 1.59

Lai, Wai Kin ( Sam) 1.56

Pinkerton, James 1.56

Gilston, Mark 1.56

Shainok, David 1.56

Kang, Alex 1.55

Hwang, Kevin 1.53

Li, Shi 1.53

Drange, Theodore M. 1.52

Dudzik, Andrew 1.52

Felcan, David 1.51

Horn, Jeff 1.51

Hosono, Shoji 1.51

Fu, Matthew 1.50

Li, Gary 1.50

Ogg, Karen 1.49

Bahun, Tom 1.47

Kwon, Chimyung 1.46

Hunley, Ray W. 1.46

Bird, Matthew 1.45

Hsu, Chung-Ti 1.44

LaBarbera, Michael 1.43

Ratings

MOST GAMES/EVENTS 1991-2010 (TOP 50)Name Games Events State

Robbins, Charles G. 1166 321 PA

Barberi, Steve 1031 137 PA

Sudhoff , Horst 843 32 GER

Lebl, Martin 833 75 AZ

Arnold, Keith L. 812 160 MD

Zimmerman, Samuel 762 160 PA

Kurz, Steff en 692 92 MN

Horn, Jeff 682 135 WA

Frankel, David M. 675 67 MI

Maia, Joseph 664 124 NJ

Small, Haskell 649 152 DC

Zhou, Yuan 627 141 MD

Conyngham, Jim 617 105 TX

Pickett, James M. 616 85 MD

Metcalf, Wanda 570 111 MA

Schmitten, George 568 103 WA

Lui, Eric 553 131 MD

French, Charles C. 531 110 PA

Ingram, C. Louise 528 90 NC

Palmer, Marc 515 108 NY

Osman, Eric 499 105 MA

Zawacki, Chester 497 43 IL

Burrall, Matthew 495 119 CA

Garlock, Chris 477 110 MD

Celmer, Paul 477 116 NC

Burrall, Steven F. 472 118 CA

Lui, I-Han 457 100 MD

Baum, Leonard 453 70 NJ

Schumer, Peter 440 89 VT

Mott, Rick 425 102 NJ

Eudell, Arnold 416 95 MD

Arrand, William 410 105 NH

Carter, James 404 56 TX

Blagrove, Anthony 403 101 VA

Straus, Phil 397 85 PA

Benthem, James A. 392 52 MI

Casey, Eva W. 392 91 MA

Zhou, Xin-Li 392 95 MD

Small, Elizabeth H. 387 87 DC

Henzel, H. Alexander 382 90 VT

Benthem, Adam 378 35 MI

Nelson, Wayne 377 43 NY

Williams, Russ 376 44 TX

Rohde, David 376 74 IL

Phipps, Joanne 373 64 CA

Burrall, Karoline 371 89 CA

Brown, Frank 369 106 WA

Schneider, Ira H. 365 43 TX

Pohl, Pauline 365 83 IL

Peterson, Lars D. 363 86



Ratings

Chen, Ronghao 1.42

Prairie, Alexander 1.42

Womack, Hal 1.40

Miller, Terry T. 1.39

Hsieh, Pao 1.38

Okun, Andrew 1.38

Hirama, Miki 1.38

Ching, Justin 1.37

Wu, Xiaoping 1.36

Haynes, Willard 1.35

Shen, Yun 1.33

Guarino, Josh 1.32

Ma, Xianzhe 1.30

Bergstrom, Kerstin 1.29

Wu, Victor 1.29

Yamamori, Michiyo 1.29

Robertson, Dalan 1.28

Zhou, Xin-Li 1.28

Salazar, Alexandros 1.28

Lee, Brian 1.28

Shin, Woo 1.27

Huang, James 1.26

Pluta, Dustin 1.26

Wilkins, Don 1.25

Byrne, David 1.25

Wuest, Christopher 1.24

Spector, Martin B. 1.23

Celmer, Paul 1.23

Samuel, Michael 1.23

Choi, Hyuntae 1.23

Downes, Edward R. 1.23

Grguric, Samuel 1.22

Lakis, Erik 1.21

Zalesak, Andrew 1.20

Chi, Tim 1.13

Branlund, Eric 1.13

Zhang, Luke 1.12

Stein, Bjorn 1.09

Char, Wai-to S. 1.09

Feldstein, Alex 1.09

Sollish, Robert 1.09

Nelson, Wayne B. 1.09

Lin, Eric 1.08

Wen, Hang 1.08

Ronan, Mark 1.08

Sawada, Yoshi 1.07

Wang, Andrew 1.07

Borggren, Nathan 1.07

Kohri, Yoshiko 1.06

Chiu, Linden 1.06

Arrand, William 1.04

Wu, Xiang 1.04

Mechtenberg, Dirk 1.02

Wolf, Ross 1.01

Liu, Daniel 1.01

Zhang, Henry -1.00

Luter, Adam -1.01

Chen, Kun -1.01

Dann, Michael -1.02

Sanders, Corey -1.04

Phillips, William W. -1.04

Chen, Yuankai -1.04

Jankowski, Scott -1.05

Yoon, Sangwon -1.06

Zhang, Zhini -1.08

Onoshita, Fujitaro -1.09

Lim, Bryan Christopher -1.10

Blake, Ken -1.11

Chou, Kevin -1.12

Goerss, Michael -1.13

Nelson, Tom -1.14

Wang, Huijun -1.16

Choi, Seong-Hwan -1.17

Park, Anthony -1.18

Schrader, Robert -1.18

Abell, John -1.20

Li, Henry -1.20

Blatt, Todd -1.21

Zhou, Afa -1.21

Yee, Karl -1.21

Barberi, Steve -1.22

Younger, Phillip -1.22

Tabaniag, Jay -1.22

Tung, Stephen -1.24

Burns, Zachary -1.24

Dyer, Kelsey -1.26

Hatch, Joshua -1.26

Allison, Donald -1.27

Penner, Mark M. -1.28

Wu, Jian -1.28

Smith, Ronald -1.30

Thacker, Andrew -1.30

One, Kunio -1.30

Atanasian, Chris -1.30

Nakajima, Hirosuke -1.31

Chang, Alice -1.31

Zhang, Xiaoyong -1.32

Yang, Weiyu -1.34

Johnson, David -1.34

Mallory, Matt -1.35

Bernadsky, Boris -1.37

Dombro, Quentin W. -1.37

Lee, Simon -1.37

Wu, Brian -1.37

Kim, Dong-Gyun -1.38

Ken, Kuroda -1.39

Evenson, Kent -1.41

Gundberg Jr., William -1.42

Frankel, David M. -1.43

Harris, David -1.43

Peters, Glenn -1.47

Wang, Xiquan -1.47

Dugu, Xin -1.49

Newmiller, Jeff -1.49

Ott, William -1.50

Kerlagon, Jeff -1.50

Uhl, Steve -1.51

Patel, Nick -1.53

Townsend, Damon -1.53

Ellis, John -1.54

Saltman, Bill -1.54

Li, Hunter -1.54

Moakley, Eric -1.55

Wei, Yun -1.57

Major, Matthew -1.57

Petrescu, Adrian -1.58

Souris, Myron P. -1.59

Chiu, Jeremy -1.59

Debel, Judith R. -1.59

Cai, Jack -1.61

Carlton, David -1.63

Lin, Hua -1.64

Shrewsberry, Eric -1.64

Langendorf, Walter -1.65

Baghboudarian, Jason -1.71

Su, Gabriella -1.71

Su, Amy -1.72

Schneider-Joseph, David -1.73

Barnes, Chris -1.73

Rivera Jr., Fernando -1.74

Barchilon, Paul -1.74

Fang, Alex -1.74

Lewellen, Jacob -1.74

Nakata, Yoshitomo -1.75

Rubin, Ben -1.75

Dows, David A. -1.75

Wu, Kevin -1.76

Zhao, Yunhuang -1.78

Salts, Jamie -1.78

Wu, Jinhong -1.80

Hamaguchi, Masaaki -1.81

Scott, Lisa -1.81

Foss, Bjorn -1.82

Sorenson, Robert -1.82

Lee, Donald -1.85

Dogan, Ahmed -1.85

Clark, Ken -1.86

Joldersma, Ben -1.87

Shieh, Alex -1.87

Tiberiu, Gociu -1.89

Zunick, Peter -1.89

Burzillo, Anthony -1.93

Yu, Zhong Chao -1.94

Brooks, Clark -1.94

Huang, Edric -1.95

Pohl, Pauline -1.96

Sakuraba, Mitsuko -1.99

Tran, Van -1.99

Hunter, Ryan -2.00

Gross, Jonathan -2.01

Yang, Haisong -2.03

Wang, Yiping -2.05

Cameron, Chris -2.06

Haler, Eric -2.10

Fang, Kevin -2.11

Yoo, Mike -2.11

O’Malley, Robert -2.15

Smith, David -2.17

Gao, Fan -2.24

McCawley, Matthew -2.25

Toister, Yigal -2.26

Shang, Andrew -2.28

Pruner, Matt -2.29

Pongracz, Gregory -2.32

Schenck, Louis -2.34

Kolb, Laura -2.36

Richards, Norman -2.36

Takehara, Yukino -2.36

Atlas, Greg -2.37

Wilks, Stuart -2.37

Kirby, Brian -2.37

Betcher, Job -2.37

Danaher, Henry -2.39

Cotsen, Lloyd Eric -2.39

Cooney, Steve -2.40

Yoon, James -2.40

Cordingley, Robert J. -2.41

Campbell, Vincent -2.41

DeVeyra, Aeones -2.41

Maia, Joe -2.43

Rueckriemen, Rolf -2.43

Dew, John -2.44

Qu, Larry -2.45

Wu, Eric -2.47

Pi, Keyu -2.47

Nell, Travis -2.48

Taff , Jason D. -2.49

Hane, Ranka -2.49

Michali, James -2.49

Baum, Leonard -2.50

Schumer, Peter -2.51

Chin, Kabe -2.52

Puzan, Daniel -2.52

Brandt, Theodore -2.53

Peterson, Max -2.53

Top, Daniel -2.53

Herman, Ezra -2.57

Chung, Jae Mo -2.57

Flamm, Matthew Harris -2.58

Hoshi, Takashi -2.58

Roberts, Drew -2.62

Martin, Chris -2.62

Yu, Patrick -2.63

Simon, Richard -2.63

Shu, Henry -2.63

Hoff man, Eric -2.64

Abrams, Scott -2.64

Tsay, Alex -2.67

Heck, Gus -2.69

Hutchins, Preston -2.70

Spencer, Carlton -2.70

Langley, Brandon -2.71

Hane, Masami -2.72

Scammon, Chris -2.73

Hendricks, Ryan -2.73

Rodgers, Rick -2.74

Du, Xiaoling -2.74

Chin, Kevin -2.76

Xu, Jie -2.76

Stark, Chester -2.77

Cartwright, Tony -2.78

Parson, Devante -2.81

Lee, Jung Gone -2.81

Bridges, Adam -2.83

Konada, Kazuya -2.83

Mooyman, Peter J. -2.84

Bao, Lin -2.85

Jeans, Timothy L. -2.85

Davila, Efrain -2.86

Johnson, Justin -2.87

Williamson, Glenn -2.87

Cain, Collin -2.87

Rogers, Steven -2.88

Rabinowitz, Larry -2.90

Komoda, Michie-O -2.90

Lu, Jingxiao -2.92

Miyama, Miyoko -2.93

Scudder, Michael -2.93

Bretherick, Steven -2.93

Luff , William -2.94

Hales, Jonathan -2.99

Martin, Peter -3.00

Fukuda, Frank K. -3.00

Brown, Richard L. -3.01

Sprang, Todd -3.01

Shin, Brian -3.01

Moore, D’mitri -3.02

Carr, Robert -3.02

Cavin, Kyle -3.03

Yuan, Yong -3.05

Liang, Jonathan -3.05

Chau, Alex -3.08

Solberg, Richard -3.08

Battisti, Charles -3.09

Wang, Amy -3.11

Mullins, Alex -3.12

Alexis, Philippe -3.14

Rowland, Evan -3.15

Hane, Ayaka -3.15

Fienup, James R. -3.18

Dyer, Landon -3.21

Rhodes, Dennis -3.23

Garrett, Zack -3.23

Inoue, Satoru -3.23

Li, Xinmin -3.24

Betcher, Jordan -3.26

Taylor, Abe -3.27

Friedman, Simon -3.28

Huang, Yue -3.30

Armenia, Peter -3.31

Chen, Shan -3.31

deCourcelle, Donald A. -3.33

Zhang, Jingjing -3.35

Hu, Albert -3.38

Varma, Anurag -3.38

Chan, Jay -3.39

Warzinski, David -3.40

Benyowitz, Joel -3.41

Chin, Ching-Sung -3.41

Jain-Sharma, Niraek -3.43

Aspinall, John -3.43

Qiu, Zongying (Kathy) -3.44

Guan, Raymond -3.49

Chan, Louisa -3.50

Ye, April -3.51

Huang, Sida -3.53

Chow, Matthew -3.53

Andrichack, John -3.54

Feiveson, Eric -3.54

LeJeune, Larry -3.55

Lee, Yunyen -3.55

Conyngham, Jim -3.55

Sagner, Christopher -3.55

Huang, Sam -3.56

Laird, Roy -3.57

Lee, Alex XM -3.57

Arakawa, Mitsuko-O -3.58

Traibush, Victor -3.59

Zaring, Alan -3.60

Kurz, Steff en -3.60

Karakurt, Cagri -3.63

Dolev, Kfi r -3.63

Kain, Morgan -3.66

Elliott, Kenneth -3.69

Lee, Ed -3.71

Key, Tyler -3.71

Chao, Jack -3.73

Bensen, Paul -3.74

Jacoby, Adam -3.74

Yang, RQ -3.74

Jain-Sharma, Vishank -3.74

Russ, Larry -3.75

Lanahan, Charles -3.76

Kessenich, John -3.80

Warzinski, Kim -3.82

Mizuno, Shigetami -3.82

Weber, Christopher M. -3.86

Ho, Peter -3.89

Huang, Corey -3.90

Gonnella, Ben -3.90



Ratings

McDaniel, Kenneth -3.91

Chen, Jerry -3.91

Moukarzel, Keenan -3.94

Parker, Masanari -3.95

Suson, Andrew -3.95

Lim, Yuan Kevin -3.96

Mount, Steve -3.98

Spohr, Chris -3.99

Panaccione, Alex -3.99

D’Andrea, G. Nicholas -4.00

Eudell, Arnold -4.01

Lear, Ryan A. -4.04

Glekel, David -4.04

Wiggins, Dylan -4.04

Le, Robert -4.06

Scibinico, Mark -4.07

Kim, Sung -4.09

Hogan, John M. -4.12

Tsen, Canh -4.12

Ha, Xiao Feng -4.12

Rosenblum, Steven -4.14

Milling, Chris -4.17

Craig, Joseph -4.18

Gum, Josh -4.19

Chen, Sile -4.23

Xiong, Kevin -4.25

Rubenstein, Mark -4.26

Bartels, Larry -4.27

Louderback, Allen -4.27

Malveaux, Mike -4.28

Aronson, Jon -4.28

Pearson, David -4.29

Kline, James -4.33

Heymering , Matt -4.34

Boehm, William -4.34

Backus, Eric -4.35

Doughty, Herb -4.37

Link, Luke -4.38

Wells, Chris -4.39

Zhao, John Q. -4.41

Reid, Eric -4.46

Zeng, Sicheng -4.47

Chang, Yu -4.48

Murphy, Jeff -4.48

Curtis, Robin -4.49

Park, Nathan -4.51

Connell, Adam -4.51

Jacob, Bart -4.52

Gigonzac, Guillaume -4.52

Plotz, Michael -4.53

Ban, Dong-Hun -4.53

Spitz, David -4.54

McNabb, Sean -4.54

Yang, Diana -4.54

Ravin, Lihu Ben-Ezri -4.54

Niu, Wenhua -4.55

Zhang, Jeff rey -4.56

Wu, Jinfa -4.57

McGibbon, Jason -4.58

Arnon, Yoram -4.59

Thompson, Carrie -4.60

Preuss, Jason -4.60

Aleshintsev, Andry -4.61

Lu, Xujun -4.62

Casey, Eva W. -4.63

Schrag, Roger -4.64

Zhu, Mengou -4.64

Norman, Matthew -4.65

Gold, Karen -4.65

Wall, Philip J. -4.68

Davidchuk, Matthew -4.70

Peters, James -4.71

O’Leary, Paul -4.72

Fede, Samantha -4.73

Feng, Gilbert -4.73

Launchbury, John -4.74

Daniels, David -4.75

Vanderveen, Douwe -4.76

Chan, George -4.76

Guo, Tiansheng -4.77

Shintani, Takeshi -4.77

Carter, James -4.78

Xu, Larkin -4.79

Wynn, Peter -4.79

Berlekamp, Elwyn R. -4.79

Jessen, Jared -4.80

Yo, Jung Sok -4.81

McLellan, Jeff rey J. -4.81

Metcalf, Wanda -4.83

Bowie, Lee Anne -4.83

Hong, Andrew -4.83

Cornaggia, Remi -4.84

Swift, Bruce -4.84

Liang, Victor -4.85

Colburn, Steve -4.87

Luc, Jonathan Q. -4.87

Henzel, H. Alexander -4.89

Liang, Guang Xiang -4.89

Heitmann, Ray -4.91

Lee, Kyu Ha -4.92

Yoo, Daniel -4.92

Su, Tracey -4.94

Pfaff , Jason -4.94

Mikula Jr., Alfred -4.94

Kane, Stewart -4.96

Marshall, Howard Z. -4.97

Anders, Joshua -4.97

Crumb, Matthew -4.98

Buckman, Richard -4.99

Gousios, Peter W. W. -5.01

Gallagher, Christopher -5.02

Joldersma, Tom -5.03

Garcia, Anthony -5.03

Blank, Justin -5.03

Toyoda, Hiroshi -5.04

Ross, Nicholas -5.04

Pelter, Ken R. -5.04

Burrall, Karoline -5.07

Swarzman, Danny -5.07

Speck, Darrell -5.07

Li, Baifu -5.08

Sarry, Jonathan -5.10

Huang, Vincent -5.10

Luo, Daisy -5.12

Rohde, David -5.13

Gelman, Noah -5.14

Tang, Kevin -5.15

Moseson, Richard -5.15

Ruiz, Jason -5.16

Armstrong, Harry -5.16

Mott, Rick -5.17

Zimmerman, Andy -5.18

Khripkov, Dmitriy -5.22

Cobb, William S. -5.23

Jones, Shannon -5.25

Zimmerman, Samuel E. -5.28

Wittmann, Brian -5.30

Harker, Wesley H. -5.31

McNelis, Nick -5.33

Berhane, Ezana -5.34

Ambrose, Dan -5.35

Greene, Kevin J. -5.35

Runyan, Christopher P. -5.36

Nagaiya, Asha -5.36

Schenthal, Kevin Justin -5.36

Tomak, Steven -5.39

Ma, Vincent -5.39

Mittman, Zachary -5.39

Russell, John Francis -5.41

Yeh, Oscar -5.42

Hardy, Richard -5.42

Gang, Joshua -5.42

Tracy Jr., Philip E. -5.43

Ehrlich, Robert -5.43

Inwood, Matt -5.45

Miller, Jeff rey -5.47

Koch, Lance -5.48

Pickett, James M. -5.48

Goldman, Neal -5.49

Towles, James -5.49

Kripkov, Dmitriy -5.50

Cheng, Andy -5.50

Pankratz, Mark -5.50

Heidenreich, Todd -5.51

Zoroglu, Demir -5.52

Colladay, Donald -5.52

Gu, Jie -5.53

McKee, Matthew -5.54

Gilman, Robert D. -5.59

Shen, Yuqiao -5.59

Wong, Sean -5.59

Klockow, Dennis -5.62

Chen, Daniel -5.62

Goldman, Jacob -5.62

Zhou, Brandon -5.63

Hogrefe, Jared -5.64

Terpstra, Theodore B. -5.64

McCann, H. Gilman -5.65

Jeong, Myung -5.66

Hast, David -5.67

Lapidus, Carrie -5.68

Jan, Joseph -5.70

Wu, George -5.71

Lee, Joseph -5.72

Herrmann, George -5.72

Tiu, Brian -5.73

Fraser, William E. -5.76

Wilson, George -5.77

Au, Tom -5.79

Gay, Joshua -5.80

Blue, Shawn -5.80

Pruitt, Cole -5.82

Okuma, Brad -5.84

Woehler, Rick -5.85

Xia, Sumin -5.89

Gipson, John -5.89

Clark, Calvin -5.89

Wu, Jeff -5.90

Huang, Willis -5.91

Alailima, Titi -5.92

Lau, Jeff rey -5.92

Greenberg, Gabe -5.92

Kovitz, Jordan -5.94

Chiles, Bill -5.95

Field, Martin -5.96

Cao, Yuan -5.97

Kokosenski, Michael -5.99

Benton, James -5.99

Sun, Michael -6.00

Liu, Howard -6.00

Moleda, Spencer -6.01

Allen, Stephen -6.01

Jang, Jadyn -6.01

Pham, Minh -6.04

Christensen, Peter S. -6.04

Zhou, Andy -6.04

Putney, Jeff -6.05

Ruder, John -6.06

Drake, Peter -6.08

Hartman, John David -6.09

Daniels, Kevin -6.10

Oh, Justin (Sung-Ho) -6.10

Lash, Michael -6.11

Idan, Elad -6.12

Hamers, Allen D. -6.13

Ginsburg, Daniel -6.18

Manning, Christopher -6.19

Hane, Rinka -6.21

Crumpler, Ken -6.23

Reed, David -6.24

Clark, Christopher -6.24

Gaines, Colin -6.27

Trees, Terry -6.27

Sato, Akira -6.28

Rike, Thomas A. -6.29

Lipofsky, Barton -6.30

Qandil, Maher -6.30

Patel-Schneider, Andrew -6.30

Burrall, Julie -6.31

McIntyre, Terry -6.35

Zhong, Guocheng -6.35

Teng, Chi-Hse -6.35

Saniee, Bijan -6.39

Barnes, Christopher -6.39

Park, Chui S. -6.41

Nishimura, Mark -6.41

Choung, Stephen -6.42

Higgins, Graham -6.42

Kim, Ilhee -6.43

Monahan, Daniel -6.43

Niu, David -6.43

Nguyen, Minh -6.44

Newshan, Adam -6.44

Bachman, Daniel -6.46

Phoon, Joey -6.48

Conley, Alex -6.48

Day, Peter -6.48

Anand, Sathya -6.51

Brix, Phillip -6.52

Ray, William -6.54

Luo, Robin -6.54

Greiner, John A. -6.58

Garcia, Bryant -6.63

Chang, Alan -6.63

Yeh, Raymond P. -6.63

Ohashi, Yoko -6.64

Tran, Eric -6.65

Nazif, Zaher A. -6.66

Van Gorder, Neil -6.68

Chimon, Jason -6.69

Gonnella, Jim -6.70

Filpus, David -6.73

McCarthy, Thomas -6.74

Kim, Junho -6.75

Gaty, Cynthia -6.79

Zhang, Songhua -6.79

Bacon, Bob -6.79

Brown, Frank -6.79

Wang, Victor -6.80

Sun, Geng -6.81

McKenry Jr., Charles -6.82

Takazawa, Tsutomu -6.82

Min, Seun Guy -6.85

Morrison, Michael -6.89

Laskin, Oren -6.89

Chan, Chi-Hung -6.90

Gow, Owen -6.91

Minyard, Chris -6.94

Lou, Jingbo -6.95

Yuan, Jonathan -6.98

Chaves, Joseph -6.99

Stewart, Ian -7.00

Forrest, Chris -7.02

Hast, Daniel -7.02

Wang, De -7.03

Berry, Joseph A. -7.04

Young, Corey -7.06

Furth, Caleb -7.08

Cingone, James -7.11

Jiang, Chifeng -7.12

Chisholm, Blair -7.14

Richards, John -7.14

Saqif Noor, Mohammed -7.15

Tsai, Alex -7.18

Shin, Michael -7.18

Meyer, Robert -7.19

Lee, Joseph -7.23

Hu, Xiaoting -7.25

Hambelton, Chris -7.26

Olson, Joel -7.26

Barber, Matthew -7.28

Fogie, Nathan -7.31

Shelley, Thomas -7.32

Parry-Hill, Jeremiah -7.34

Boonchuen, Suttiat -7.38

Skallan, Ole David -7.39

Ochoa, Jeff rey -7.40

Brown, Mark A. -7.41

Linz, Laurie -7.42

Sanderson, Nicholas -7.42

Trotter, Alex -7.46

Passolt, Gregor -7.49

Hummel Jr., Homer H. -7.50

Knauer, James -7.52

Strain, Roger -7.53

Fraser, Mark -7.54

Kitagawa, Taka -7.56

Takeshita, Oscar -7.56

Bernhardt, Russell -7.56

Martin, Peter -7.58

Alexander, Russell -7.59

Halderman, Nicholas -7.61

Yu, Austin -7.61

Barnard, Trenton -7.62

Pierson, Burton E. -7.63

Soley, Aaron -7.64

Caldeira, Edward -7.64

Enyeart, Peter -7.68

Kempenich, Jessica -7.70

Chan, Raymond -7.70



Ratings

Cheung, Roger -7.72

Richwine, Dustin -7.72

Hlavka, Eileen -7.74

Daigle, William -7.78

Choi, Sky -7.80

Redford, John -7.81

Wu, Hench -7.81

Vickers, Caleb -7.81

Bailey, Bruce W. -7.84

Neushan, Adam -7.84

Van, Eric -7.85

LeFevre, Peter -7.85

Crawford, Eric -7.86

Squitire, Kerianne -7.87

Walcutt, Thomas -7.87

Sumner, Doug -7.87

Stern, Elliot -7.87

Wiegand, Paul -7.89

Brochet, Art -7.91

Long, Anthony -7.93

Wong, Stephen -7.95

Dashkevich, Mike -7.95

Huber, Michael -7.97

McCants, Edward -7.98

Leung, Alan -8.00

Tsujimoto, Yoshinori -8.04

Heinich, Mike -8.05

Ward, Russell -8.06

Morrison, Josh -8.06

Xie, Jason -8.07

Wang, Andy -8.09

Casal, Andrew -8.09

Williams, Colin -8.14

Mason, Tommaso -8.15

Schaefer, James -8.19

Long, Jason Alonzo -8.23

Gao, Nolan -8.26

Liao, Andrew -8.26

Frank, Ethan -8.26

Meoz, Benjamin -8.27

Wenger, John -8.27

Zimmermann, Leo -8.27

Staadecker, Ben -8.28

Argenio, Fred -8.29

Hellum, Uff e -8.31

Huang, Barbara -8.32

Suslo, Dan -8.34

Rice, Joshua -8.35

Stevens, Andrew -8.35

Khalsa, Gurujeet -8.36

Taylor, Marlin -8.37

Johnson, Patrick -8.37

Davey, Andrew -8.37

Strohm, Jed -8.38

Huang, Rachel -8.38

Miller, Chris -8.39

Masumoto, Ken -8.40

Wu, Laura -8.42

Angelos, George -8.43

Wong, Albert -8.44

Petersen, Julie -8.46

Haq, Rasheeq -8.47

Lee, Christopher -8.50

Beitzel, Jeff -8.52

Fitzpatrick, Wilhelm -8.53

Bernhardt, John -8.53

Whiteside, David E. -8.55

Bhardwaj, Shanthanu -8.57

Schmitten, George -8.58

Muskovitz, David -8.58

Livieratos, Vin -8.62

Wormuth, Alex -8.62

Waggoner, Michael -8.62

Wiley, Micah -8.64

Dietze, Bill -8.64

Aiken, John -8.66

Imperiale, Larry -8.68

Osoba, Dammy -8.68

Boyland, Peter -8.72

Ingram, C. Louise -8.72

Miyoshi, Takemasa -8.72

Cho, Moon Ki -8.74

Zhang-Zheng, Vincent -8.74

Merritt, Robert -8.74

Reeves, Sean -8.76

Mabe, Steven -8.76

Clark, Steve -8.81

Schurter, Terri -8.83

Luo, Jeff rey -8.87

Shou, Yuan -8.87

Walters, Joseph -8.89

Hu, Jonathan -8.99

Kotler, Mitchell -9.00

Feldman, Teddy -9.01

O’Connell, Jeff rey -9.01

Feliccia, Jesy -9.02

Sargon, Cyris -9.04

Tong, Cliff ord -9.04

Hogarty, Dave -9.06

Dority, Mike -9.09

Nan, Su -9.09

Hyatt, Danielle -9.11

Kahn, David -9.12

Small, Rachel -9.12

Evans, Brad -9.13

Yu, Cameron -9.14

Chenault, Ray -9.15

Allen, Brian -9.17

Davis Jr., Daniel Allen -9.18

Knox, Warren -9.19

Martinez-Ortega, Jorge -9.20

Nazarenko, Sergiy -9.21

Baran, David -9.23

Kickbusch, Joel -9.24

Daley, Rachel -9.24

Lee, Wei -9.24

Jacobsen, Nathan -9.31

Anschultz, Reese -9.36

Hanson, Earl -9.36

Christensen, Kjarsten -9.36

Eclipse, Larry -9.37

Little, Alex -9.37

Kempenich, Julia -9.41

Pai, Daniel -9.43

Ellerman, Scott -9.43

Castanza, Gordon -9.43

Birger, Jamie -9.45

Johnson, James -9.45

Rofe, Amanda -9.46

Ogihara, Miles -9.46

Baldwin, Fred D. -9.49

Garza, Gilbert -9.53

Yen, Alex -9.53

Choi, Edwin -9.55

Beauchamp, Timothy -9.55

Fresquez, Gary -9.61

Miller, Amanda -9.62

Smith, Patrick -9.65

Daland, William C. -9.66

Chan, Chia -9.66

Cheng, Rebecca -9.71

Zhai, Jingxi -9.73

Li, Jiayue -9.73

Koh, David -9.74

Odhner, Josiah -9.75

Jenkins, Kenneth -9.76

Liu, Raymond -9.76

Wheeldon, Megan -9.81

Zemlin, Christian -9.81

Carrington, Julian -9.82

Chiang, Justin -9.82

Blagrove, Anthony -9.82

Eagle, Nathanael -9.82

Hong, Joyce -9.82

You, James -9.83

Cox, Ted -9.83

Prabhavalkar, Rohit -9.84

Jones, Stephen L. -9.86

Lock, David -9.89

Yang, Alex -9.91

Howar, Jordan -9.94

Young, Kyle -9.95

Chen, Jesse -9.95

Dela Cruz, Rhea -9.95

Nammari, Aref -9.98

Lebovitz, George -9.98

Lien, David -9.99

Hall, Joshua -10.00

Wu, Ann -10.06

Wang, Alex -10.11

DiMattia, Vincent -10.11

Wassmer, Marcus -10.16

Diehl, Austin -10.20

Goff , Matthew -10.20

Williams, Peter -10.20

Taylor, Travis -10.22

Rothschild, Seth -10.22

Daley, Dave -10.23

Weight, Josh -10.24

Liu, Howard -10.27

Fischler, Mark -10.29

Larson, Kevin -10.33

Vandenbergh, Orien -10.37

Tse, Jonathan -10.40

Zhang, Andrew -10.41

Gasner, Samuel -10.41

Huynh, Kenny -10.41

Ernest, Robert L. -10.46

Manning, Jane -10.51

Woodbury, William -10.51

Mathieu, Daniel -10.51

Alejandro, Frank -10.52

Garcia-Kwan, Julian -10.54

Basom, Edward -10.57

Huang, Kevin -10.58

Allis, Michael -10.58

Kayutkin, Henry -10.58

Goertzel, Zarathustra -10.59

Suzuki, Joe -10.59

Wong, Gary -10.60

Kallen, Josh -10.61

Jones, Noah T. -10.61

Edey, Marion -10.61

Wang, Matthew -10.62

Pedersen, Scott -10.62

Keeler, Robert E. -10.63

Zhao, Walter -10.63

Belarmino, Joseph -10.66

Giglio, Justin -10.66

Droege, Aimee M. -10.72

Erville, Julian -10.72

Altizer, Jake -10.75

Ogarrio, Juan Miguel -10.76

High, Daniel -10.79

Wilkinson, John -10.79

Xu, William -10.80

Cesere, Todd -10.82

Kinnear, Noel -10.86

Liao, Austen -10.89

Howell, Chris -10.90

Payton, Matt -10.93

Chi, Andrew -10.95

Jones, Luke -10.96

Lin, Iris -10.97

Steveson, Christopher -10.97

Smith, Thomas -10.98

Strommen, Alexander -10.98

Qu, Bing -11.00

Carlson, Tom -11.02

Smith, Tom -11.02

Plett, Timothy -11.04

Adams, John -11.04

Chiu, Samantha -11.04

Hong, Benjamin -11.05

Royce, Liam -11.05

Badger, Matthew -11.05

Dror, David -11.07

Hsu, Justin -11.10

Park, Charles -11.11

Chan, Chi Lam -11.14

Easop, Kathryn -11.22

St. Louis, Ralph -11.22

Kang, Min Soo -11.24

Burgin, Tucker -11.27

Dudzik, Michael -11.29

Walters, Joshua -11.29

Zhu, Zhaohai -11.30

Grandstaff , Andrew -11.32

Ferguson, Geoff -11.32

Naas, Sharif -11.33

Lee, Brian -11.34

Mueller, Matthew -11.35

Lee, Eugene -11.35

Knuttinen, William -11.38

Greene, Christopher -11.39

Kim, Hanjun -11.41

Hill, Gerald -11.41

Mills, Brandon -11.43

Rogers, Tim -11.44

Card, Scott -11.44

Boone, Thomas L. -11.49

Chen, Alan -11.49

Kaplan, Matthew -11.53

Parks, Ben -11.53

Dreher, Philip -11.54

Ji, Bennett -11.54

Winoker, Zack -11.57

Skilling, Quinton -11.58

Sandon, Colin -11.63

Toliver, Kyle -11.64

Swengros, Thomas -11.69

Myers, Drake -11.71

Brown, Duncan -11.73

Small, Elizabeth H. -11.74

Heckathorne, Jonathan -11.75

Smith, Garrett -11.76

Di Giacomo, Lional -11.79

Ong, Ze-Ching -11.83

King, Josh -11.84

Lin, Kaichen -11.85

Cole, Robert -11.86

Nichols, Scott -11.87

Manning, Steven -11.87

Huang, Zongli -11.88

Gray, Ian -11.88

Li, Daniel -11.91

Gould, Marcus -11.93

Davis, Samantha -11.96

Gao, Alan -11.97

Horner, Ryan -12.04

Lancaster, Larom -12.06

Wang, Patrick -12.09

Bennett, Rory -12.11

Kerr, Christie Danielle -12.13

Frantz, Doug -12.13

Langendorf, Samuel -12.14

Avakov, Alexei -12.20

Beheim, Bret -12.20

Lemmon, Jay -12.24

Ward, Jeff rey -12.25

Sundermeier, Brian -12.27

Den, Lenny -12.28

Bremer, William -12.30

Slonicker, Louis -12.33

Sluchak, Nikita -12.34

Dressel, Justin -12.37

Todd, Blackmon -12.38

Crowther, Molly -12.39

Hersey, April -12.53

Okazaki, Hinako -12.53

Wuttke, Jochen -12.56

Chang, Ting Chin -12.57

Magnoni, Scott -12.59

So, Brian -12.60

Jordan, Joseph -12.60

Kerr, Kelly -12.64

Armendariz, Luis -12.66

Pfeff er, Susanna -12.69

Nahabedian, Mark -12.74

Abbey, Ralph -12.78

Knickerbocker, Ellis -12.79

Anderson, Ivar -12.84

NG, Philip -12.86

Ward, Matthew -12.91

Sakanaka, Tsutomu -12.93

Shi, Yili -13.01

Demyanenko, Ilya -13.02

Romatka, Rainer -13.02

Richardson, David -13.07

Konada, Takuya -13.13

Tsimakuridze, Nikoloz -13.18

Chambers, Adam -13.20

Burton, Sean -13.26

Zilber, Steven A. -13.28

Sack, Milton -13.34

Zheng, Kevin -13.35

Morris, Steven -13.35

Raker, Riley -13.35

Zhou, Roy -13.38

Hoang, Dang -13.40



Ratings

Saunders, Allen -13.42

Dejean, Paul -13.43

Silver, Stan -13.46

Zhou, Henry -13.47

Golash, Deirdre -13.49

Pekar, Jason -13.57

Crites, Bob -13.58

Dawkins, Tom -13.61

Baker, Matthew -13.62

Nishida, Ryo -13.67

Nishikawa, Jared -13.67

Sun, Glenn -13.70

Edge, Jake -13.70

Komarek, Dan -13.74

Flake, Devin -13.74

He, Deguang -13.75

Tang, Ryan -13.77

Chen, Jessie -13.81

Newman, Richard -13.81

Danzy, Anthony -13.82

Seifrid, Alicia -13.83

Chau, Yuk Ki (Ricky) -13.84

Kirschner, Jessica -13.85

Haldeman, Kurt -13.87

Zhang, Tony -13.89

Hu, Alvin -13.93

Highful, Kyle -13.94

Giusto, Michael -13.96

Feng, Raymond -13.97

Yu, Erwen -14.05

Tolley, Christopher R. -14.11

Ehlers, Andrew -14.12

Polkiewicz, Charles -14.14

Gould, Eli -14.17

Lu, Zachary -14.21

Stefanik, Kevin -14.22

Skinner, Joe -14.24

Lee, Carey -14.27

Sheldon, Rob -14.34

Niedermeyer, Deborah -14.37

Wu, Charlie -14.38

Huntington, Galen -14.42

He, Bowen -14.42

Ink, Lawrence -14.42

Chen, Gary -14.46

Hlavka, Chris -14.52

Gleason, Wendy -14.53

Waggoner, Caleb -14.59

Isaac, Michael -14.68

Lombardi, Michael -14.68

Eckles, DeeDee Lee -14.72

Uckele, John -14.73

Crawford, Heather -14.79

Gross, Lawrence E. -14.82

Anderson, Nicole -14.86

Anderson, David -14.93

Haddad, Geoff rey -14.94

Hong, Jonathan -14.95

Soley, Sara -15.00

Zhang, Anthony -15.00

Yang, Austin -15.06

Kasper, David -15.10

Mulryan, Seamus -15.11

Lu, Jerry -15.12

Wardwell, Fred -15.13

Berger, Brandon -15.16

Stern, Jake -15.16

Horaites, Kosta -15.17

Gordon, Kazumi -15.19

Clark, Samuel -15.26

Chen, Alvin -15.28

Gritten, Cassie -15.29

Young, Dan -15.33

Jaquith, Nathan -15.34

Jen, Winston -15.34

Reilly, Michael -15.37

Ke, Felix -15.40

Numsin, Muse -15.44

Reeves, Richard -15.45

Topp, Danny -15.46

Meyer, Robert -15.47

Denley, Bryan -15.50

Crook, Griffi n -15.51

Du, Zeshi -15.51

Tran, Eric -15.51

Pommier, Joe -15.52

Blann, Dale -15.54

Powell, Tyler -15.64

Oakeson, Lehi -15.69

Margo, Ari -15.71

Savukynas, Valdas -15.74

Sin, Christopher -15.75

Phillips, James W. -15.75

Kaynor, Chris -15.76

Ayres, Robert W. -15.77

Provenzano, Vincent -15.78

Smith, Nick -15.83

Cho, John -15.86

Zhu, John -15.88

Chen, Kevin -15.90

Cihak, Joshua -16.02

O’Leary, Sanchez -16.02

Lee, Kevin -16.08

Huang, Joanne -16.11

Tran, Tristan -16.24

Bradshaw, R. Tristan -16.32

Wu, Eric -16.33

Hong, Brian -16.36

Steindler, Zach -16.37

Soto, Brandon -16.38

Moore, Barry -16.47

Cowsill, Jason -16.50

Henninger, Pete -16.52

Heuett, Jacob -16.55

Fu, Sybil -16.60

Koslow, Julian Anthony -16.61

Zhang, Wayne -16.67

Gomez, Mercedes -16.69

Laser, Charles -16.73

Bowers, James -16.75

Thompson, Bill -16.76

Khan, Tariq Kaff ey -16.76

Sylvester, Nick -16.77

Bales, Brian -16.78

Fisher, Adrian -16.81

Helm-Burger, Nathan -16.87

Ehrlich, Joseph -16.91

Wright, Antonio -16.96

Granger, Otis Keom -16.99

Shore, Richard -17.00

Suzuki, Yuga -17.05

Kasischke, Katherine -17.05

Hao, David -17.10

Wan, Andrew -17.17

Phoon, Marcus -17.18

Nelson, Jonathan -17.18

Solovay, Robert -17.20

Sumner, Eric -17.21

Swen, Donald -17.27

Liu, Kevin -17.27

Tsao, Jeff rey -17.31

Corbin, Jonathan -17.40

Hoff man, Damon -17.41

Mascari, Tom -17.50

Newell, Bob -17.51

Tanaka, Payam -17.53

Huang, Hsiang-Ping -17.54

Mates, Phillip -17.55

Federico, Jacob -17.58

Lewis, Warren -17.64

Lin, Crystal -17.66

Carrico, Michael -17.67

Boyd, Chelsea -17.67

Sites, Samuel -17.68

Song, Jilin -17.70

Ari, Margo -17.72

Bestor, Charles -17.74

Aracich, Jim -17.75

Skeldon, David -17.79

Burt, James -17.82

Chen, Benjamin -17.85

Tan, Bryan -17.95

Kramm, Matthias -17.97

Varjavand, Bijan -18.03

de los Reyes, Anthony -18.05

Kierulf, Ryan -18.20

Valvo, Joel -18.21

Brownewell, Eric -18.26

Shelton, Kody -18.34

Chang, Roman -18.43

Wang, Sophia -18.50

Botwin, Ben -18.62

Amanov, Akrom -18.70

Weng, Shuai -18.72

Burdsal, Robert -18.72

Hookway, Eric -18.73

Holzman, Emily -18.83

Fraser, Kalinda -18.89

Anggasastra, Kattelya -18.90

Ward, Kristin -18.92

Lamphere, Leslie -18.92

Cui, Sam -18.95

Bessenov, Daniel -19.06

Pixa, Morgan -19.07

Graves, Kevin -19.07

Everett, Irissa -19.17

Soto, Ben -19.18

Turin-Mead, David -19.19

Manning, Joel -19.19

Liu, Louie -19.25

Maher, Zack -19.26

Jung, Hannah -19.26

Liu, Bryan -19.34

Lloyd, Steven -19.39

Marcum, Jeremy -19.41

Howard, James -19.41

Hsu, Alan -19.46

Fitzgerald, Ciaran -19.46

Leach, Tegan -19.46

Brekken, Ted -19.49

Miyake, Yuriko -19.50

Dobbs, David -19.57

Bruning, Eric -19.67

Salby, Bryan -19.68

Hey, Marjorie E. -19.76

Tao, Kevin -19.81

Whitney, Lyndon -19.89

Sanh Perrier, Mael -19.91

Ramos, Jessica -19.96

Lopez, Alex -20.02

Saladino, Tony -20.02

Hall, Lynn -20.04

Zhang, Larry -20.15

Barreal, Anderson -20.16

Gagne, Justin -20.19

McNary, Brian -20.22

Rhyne, Fillard -20.23

Ortega, Oscar -20.26

Liang, Raylen -20.28

Perry, Robert -20.29

Moseley, Brian -20.30

Kerr, Brandy -20.49

Qi, Byron -20.50

Ju, William -20.50

Ruan, Simon -20.55

Blue, Sunny -20.57

Wu, Tyler -20.58

Vaida, Deanna -20.59

Wierda, Clark -20.60

Selzler, Richard -20.66

Ward, Richard -20.71

Houston, Meg -20.71

Zhang, Phoenix -20.84

Mitchel, Ruban -20.88

Greco, Anne Marie -20.88

Gazi, Kyle -20.91

Davis, Jasmine -20.91

Huang, Diana -20.93

Kipper, Chelsea -21.02

Henn, Kathryn -21.03

Lin, Johnathan -21.09

Pohl, Eric -21.13

Lin, Jeff rey -21.15

Damien, Devin -21.19

He, Steven -21.23

Manning, Joshua -21.23

Rodriguez, David -21.25

Burkholder, Max -21.25

Zhou, Alan -21.30

Champer, Quentin -21.39

Metley, Doron -21.41

Goldade, Dylan -21.43

Bensky, Daniel -21.48

McAlister, Johnathon -21.60

Herman Jr, L. Russell -21.67

Bodner, Matthew -21.88

Law, Phillip -21.89

Barbaro, Ron -21.95

Chi, Mitchell -22.00

Ju, William -22.05

Dinnan II, Raymond -22.09

Wilson, Andrew -22.23

Kerr, Alan -22.40

Schroeder, Erin -22.42

Huang, Jessica -22.43

Vardon, Gary -22.45

Fang, Bryan -22.49

Song, Andrew -22.52

Aklilu, Tinsae -22.53

Pellegrin, John -22.56

Sheng, William -22.57

Herrera, Andres -22.57

Longo, Mark -22.59

Xie, Calvin -22.68

Frank, Randall -22.72

Huang, Daren -22.81

Larson, Michael -22.81

Jung, Andrew -22.92

Wee, Wynn -22.98

Thompson, Andre -23.01

Boyer, David N. -23.01

Cook, Christopher R. -23.14

Li, Julian -23.17

Larson, Michael -23.26

Chao, Melody -23.40

Powers, Mary -23.40

Cahn, Matthew -23.43

Seko, Julia -24.01

Bradshaw, William -24.06

Lee, Chester -24.26

Kwong, Kevin -24.29

Wee, Sean -24.38

O’Leary, P.J. -24.41

Nieman, Mark -24.44

Chang, Timothy -24.52

Chiu, Antoine -25.03

Huang, Sophia -25.03

Fam, Bobby -25.05

Carr, Corbin -25.08

Smith, Gary -25.11

Kuang, Alex -25.12

Randall, Talia -25.24

Pan, Isabel -25.38

Stark, Alexander -25.43

Chen, Jamie -25.50

Hong, Eric -25.54

Lee, Jacinda -25.66

Warot, Emile -25.68

Beauchamp, Taylor -25.69

Lim, Guan -25.95

Chang, Matthew -26.03

Blue, Victoria -26.09

Tan, Carissa -26.11

Huang, Leo -26.13

Shapiro-Rieser, Rhonda -26.23

Ferdous, Sabrina -26.37

Lezenby, Noah -26.38

Taylor, Gabriel -26.38

Trang, Kathleen -26.53

McAlister, Sean -26.56

Huang, Sean -26.58

Pfenning, Alexander -26.59

Stein, Brad -26.67

Randolph, William -26.69

Tang, Yang -26.72

Zalesak, Rudy -26.81

Ledante, Alex -26.82

True, Kevin (Kenneth) -27.01

Gershon, Samuel -27.07

Lee, Randazzo -27.63

Feng, Ethan -27.65

Evans, Violet -27.86

Brohier, Natasha -27.92

Wu, Wenguang -28.17

Hergenrather, Jackson -28.22



Ratings

Wang, Wenjia -28.25

Venet, Ettiene -28.30

Babbin, Helen -28.36

Zhang, Christopher -28.44

Allgower, Ron -28.60

Chiang, Annie -28.62

Casson, Bill -28.66

Pan, Judy -28.67

Lu, William -28.73

Tang, Ru -28.73

Dennis, Jacob -28.86

Liu, Shirley -29.00

Chou, Pallas -29.01

Gershon, Adam -29.13

Besser-Gilbert, Irene -29.47

Mou, Wendy -29.48

Pace, Robert -29.70

Rein, Leo -29.78

Schum, Joshua -29.80

Houston, Kate -30.15

Barleta, Cole -30.18

Li, William -30.21

Niu, Yucheng -30.26

Yang, Daniel -30.36

Boyd, Chase -30.50

Steele, Colton -30.71

Fraser, Isabel -30.87

Jerge, Nick -30.98

Muriel, Damian -31.06

Lin, Sean -31.11

Bai, Michael -31.25

Wu, Wei-Lee -31.29

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