AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the American Go Association June 26, 2000 In This Edition: - CALENDAR OF EVENTS - GO NEWS: Summer Go Camp Meets Scholarship Goals; Go Therapy?; Third Annual Environmental Go Demonstration Scheduled; Go Journal Preview: "A Few Of Our Favorite Things" - CHAPTER NEWS: Go At The Chicago Botanic Gardens - SCOREBOARD: Games Galore Go Club "Spring" 2000; 22nd World Amateur - AGA OFFICER CONTACT LIST E-JOURNAL OFF NEXT WEEK The E-Journal will not be published next week, due to the July 4 holiday. We'll be back on Monday, July 10. CALENDAR OF EVENTS July 8-9: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA OPEN GOE TOURNAMENT (AGTC) University of San Francisco, McLaren Hall, 2130 Fulton St. Info: Mike Bull, bull@lanminds.com JULY 9: MGA SUMMER TOURNAMENT Boston, MA Don Wiener (617) 734-6316 donwiener@earthlink.net JULY 13-16: YANG YI-LUN PRO WORKSHOP Mahwah, NJ Instructor: Yang Yilun, 7-Dan Pro. John Stephenson; jcs@nngs.cosmic.org JULY 15: GUEULE DE BOIS Chicago, IL Bob Barber (773)467-0423 igo@uic.edu August 5-13: U.S. GO CONGRESS Denver, CO Stu Horowitz, Director; gocongress2000@uswest.net 303-258-3624 http://www.usgo.org/congress/index.html NOTE: this listing is not all-inclusive, featuring only upcoming tournaments in the next month or events which require early registration. For a complete listing, go to http://www.usgo.org/usa/tournaments.html GET LISTED & BOOST TURN-OUT! Got an upcoming event? Reach 1,300 readers coast-to-coast every week! List your Go event/news In the E-Journal: email details to us at journal@usgo.org GO NEWS SUMMER GO CAMP MEETS SCHOLARSHIP GOALS "I am very pleased to report that thanks to generous contributions, we have now met the scholarship needs for each child who has applied to attend Go camp this July," reports Camp Organizer Susan Weir. "This is the first year camp has completely filled, with 40 kids attending," says Weir. "We have participants coming from China, Japan, Korea, and Australia. As our Japanese camper said, 'There's nothing like this for kids anywhere else.'" Weir gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors for Go Camp 2000: Dave Weimer, Sam Zimmerman, Phil Straus, John and Susan Beckett, Charles Sade, Douglas Cable, Eric Osman (also sent a matching gift from his employer), Paul Bensen, Bill Cobb, Bob Barber, Santa Fe Club ( Willard Draisin), Ann Arbor Club (Yang workshop profits), Cleveland Club ( Harold Lloyd). GO THERAPY? Chapter Services Coordinator Bill Cobb just returned from two weeks in Japan where he participated in a symposium on the educational and therapeutic values of Go. The symposium was held during the World Amateur Championship in Sendai, and Cobb, a guest of the Nihon Kiin, accompanied Yasuda Yasutoshi 9 Dan to a number of schools and institutions for the handicapped. "There is strong interest in Japan in Go's potential to help people with mental handicaps," says Cobb, who reports that Yasuda is undertaking a carefully monitored, publically-funded program at three institutions dealing with both children and adults. "We visited a physician who has been studying how playing Go can reverse dementia," says Cobb, adding that "It's comforting to know that Go players need not fear senile dementia -- as long as they don't stop playing!" A book on this research will be published – in English -- this summer. Cobb traveled with Yuki Shigeno, 2 Dan, Frank Janssen from the Netherlands and Marc Gonzales from Spain. A longer report will be published in the Fall American Go Journal. THIRD ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL GO DEMONSTRATION SCHEDULED Professor Elwyn Berlekamp has raised $10,000 with which the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) will fund the third annual Environmental Go demonstration between Jujo Jiang and Naiwei Rui. The all-day demonstration is scheduled for Sunday, July 23, 2000 in Berkeley, California. During the two weeks prior to the July 23 event, MSRI is hosting a short course for mathematics graduate students on "combinatorial games". The co-chairmen of this short course are Elwyn Berlekamp and David Wolfe, coauthors of "Mathematical Go". During the week following the July 23 event, MSRI will host a "workshop" on combinatorial games. This will be attended by mathematics professors from around the world. Many will present original research results for later publication. The proceedings of a similar workshop held in 1994 was published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press as a book, "Games of No Chance." This workshop, as well as the Jiang-Rui demonstration on July 23, are both OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Info: Mike Bull bull@lanminds.com GO JOURNAL PREVIEW: "A Few of Our Favorite Things" "At the 1991 Go Congress in Rochester, NY I was only about a 10-kyu, and did not expect to play. When the U.S. Open started, I was right on time, standing in the wings waiting to watch the play. Some fellow walking by looked at my badge, and told me I had better get to my table; he was my opponent, and if I didn't get a move on, I would forfeit." Excerpted from "A Few of Our Favorite Things... What We Like about the U.S. Go Congress," in the upcoming Summer issue of the American Go Journal, due out in mid-July. CHAPTER NEWS GO AT THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDENS Go joined the array of offerings at the Japan Festival at the Chicago Botanic Gardens June 10-11. The annual event features many Japanese attractions, including flower arranging, Bonsai, and of course food. Local organizer Bob Barber spear-headed the local Go community's presence with a table at the Festival, while the Evanston Go Club, represented by membership chairman Mark Rubenstein, provided boards, stones, and literature. "We spent the weekend teaching people how to play Go and generating interest in the game," reports Rubenstein. "We spoke to hundreds of people, and played dozens of teaching games. Lots of people had Go sets at home that they had never used because they could not figure out how to play. They were delighted to finally learn the game." "We gave away a dozen Go Starter packs," continues Rubenstein. "One bright 8 year old demonstrated an uncanny ability to read ladders in his first game!" "We would like to thank everyone who visited our booth," says Rubenstein. "Special thanks to Jeff Pratt and Dave Rohde for helping out. Mark your calendars for next year!" SCOREBOARD Games Galore Go Club "Spring" 2000 June 24-25 Raleigh, NC TD: David Allen Section A (1K-6D): 1st: Chuck Robbins, 1D, 4-1 2nd" Suk-Jun Kim, 6D, 3-2 Section B (8K-3K) "A 5-way tie. Tiebreaker was SOS" 1st: James Payette, 3K, 3-2 2nd: Peter Armenia, 7K, 3-2 3rd: Olarn Nateharn, 8K, 3-2 4th: Joe Berry, 6K, 3-2 5th: Wayne Hansen, 8K, 3-2 Section C (28K-10K) 1st: Will Daland, 15K, 4-1 2nd: Erik Lindquist, 28K, 3-2 22nd World Amateur Sendai Japan 2000 1st: Japan - Sakai Hideyuki 8/8 2nd: DPR Korea - Ho Gi Pak 7/8 3rd: Korea - Mal-eun Saem Hong 4th: China - Zhen Yu Zhao 6/8 5th: Singapore - Say Boon Ng 6th: Netherlands - Geert Groenen 7th: Germany - David Schoffel 8th: Romania - Ion Florescu 14th: USA - Jong-Moon Lee 56 countries participated this year; Find full details and pictures at Nihon Kiin site: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp Picture #17 on this site is of Jong-Moon Lee losing to the representative from Austria. RATINGS UPDATE New ratings are out! Check the website (www.usgo.org) for the full list. GET YOUR TOURNAMENT RATED! 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