The American Go E-Journal

August 9, 2000

U.S. Congress Special Edition

The E-Journal is publishing daily this week from the 
annual U.S. Go Congress in Denver, Colorado.

NOTE; THE LAST TWO EDITIONS OF THE JOURNAL WERE DATED 8/8; 
THEY ARE SEPARATE EDITIONS, WITH UPDATES ON CONGRESS EVENTS. 
WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY CONFUSION. 



In This Issue:
- PROFESSIONALLY SPEAKING: Dr. Sung-Hwa Hong
- BY THE NUMBERS
- SCOREBOARD: Ing Cup; U.S. Open (Open Section; 1D & up); 9x9 
Tournament; Tag Team Go 



PROFESSIONALLY SPEAKING: Dr. Sung-Hwa Hong

"If you don't like ko, you should take up golf."

"Oho: You died in gote!" (After his opponent in a 3-on-1 simul 
added another stone to his dead Black group).

"You don't chew a corpse!" (After the same player killed a White 
group that was already dead). 



BY THE NUMBERS

- 229: games played in the Self-Paired Tournament
- 353: games played in the U.S. Open 



ING CUP

Undefeated after 3 rounds: Thomas HSIANG; Lianzhou YU.

Round 3 results: 
Thomas HSIANG (Jung Hoon LEE);   Lianzhou Yu (Jong Moon LEE); 
Ho Suk YI (Jonathan WANG);       Yuan Zhou (Dae Yol KIM); 
I-Han LUI (James Chien);         Edward KIM (Ted NING); 
Joseph KIM (James SEDGWICK);     Philip WALDRON (Howard PU). 


U.S. Open

Open Section: undefeated after 3 rounds: 
Thomas HSIANG, 7D; Edward KIM, 7D.

Undefeated, 1-Dan & Above: 
Jiangning LIU, 5D;   James SEDGWICK, 5D;     Piers SHEPPERSON, 4D; 
Eric LUI, 4D;        Frederick King, 3D;     John DAWSON, 3D; 
Evan JOHNSON, 2D;    David HERMAN, 2D;       Eric Osman, 2D; 
Jim HLAVKA, 2D;      Craig HUTCHINSON, 1D;   Jin CHEN, 1D 


SELF-PAIRED TOURNAMENT

While Martin Lebl continues to lead in five divisions (Champion, 
Sensei, Straight Shooter, Hurricane, & Dedicated), Jim Pickett has 
taken over the lead in The Philanthropist, Nathaniel Curran has 
taken the lead in The Grasshoppe, while David Frankel continues to 
hold the lead in the Giant Killer division.  Jeff Horn still leads 
in the Keith Arnold, Ian Umemota has taken the lead in the Faithful 
and George Schmitten has displaced Eva Casey in the Optimist. 


9x9 TOURNAMENT

Semi-finalists: 
Philip Waldron, 5D;   Nathaniel Curran, 9K;   Karoline Burrall, 19K.


TAG TEAM GO

An experimental variation first tried at last year's Go Congress, 
Tag Team Go features teams of 3-5 players, each of whom specialize 
in the various parts of that game: opening, middle, endgame, 
life & death and tesuji.

Coordinated by a captain (who has the option of being a playing or 
non-playing captain), the players "tag" in and out of the game 
depending on what's happening (i.e. if a life-and-death problem 
comes up in the middle of the opening, the life-and-death player 
is sent in).  Players may consult about whether it's time to "tag 
in" but not about the actual moves.

Two teams were captained again this year by Jeff Horn and Chris 
Garlock, with Garlock's team once more taking the World Tag Team 
Go Championship honors.  Horn's team consisted of Jeff, Barry Nolin 
and Mark Gilston, while non-playing team captain Garlock was joined 
by Phil Straus, Anders Kierulf and Jeff Shaevel.

Everyone had a great time and judging by the amount of interest 
from other Go players, this experiment may be expanded to more 
teams in an actual event next year.