AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the American Go Association
 
July 24, 2001

Special U.S. Go Congress Edition:
- Professionally Speaking: Janice Kim
- SCOREBOARD: Ing Invitational; Self-Paired; Lightning; Computer Go; Redmond Cup; 9x9 
-  Seen & Heard

 Professionally Speaking: Janice Kim
     "In a way, it's better to lose," professional go player Janice Kim said Monday. "When you win, you tend to think you should do everything the way you did, but when you lose you're more willing to try to figure out what went wrong."

Ing Cup 
     Undefeated after Round 2: Lianzhou Yu, Edward Kim, I-Han Lui, Ke Huang.

Self-Paired (Preliminary)
     Champion & Giant Killer: David Frankel; Sensei & Hurricane: Horst Sudhoff; Philanthropist & Dedicated: Martin Lebl; the Keith Arnold: Wilfred Hansen; Faithful: Elizabeth Small.  
 
Lightning Tournament (Round 1 winners)
     Dan: Jin Chen, Tristan  Cazenave, Jae Hyeon Lee, Frank Salantrie, Mykhalo Koslove, Ilia Chikchina, Harold Lloyd
     Kyu: Karoline Burrall, Eileen Hlavka, Marc Palmer, J.P. Rodman, Tina Zhang, Tony Blagrove, Stephen Sun, Kristen Burrall, Jonathan Fotland. 
     A record 97 players participated  in the Lightning Tournament, where the time limit is 10 minutes, with no overtime (i.e. sudden death); playing meaningless moves to run down your opponent's clock, while "not nice" (as TD Keith Arnold puts it), is perfectly legal. And while there are differing schools of thought on whether speed go helps your game in general, it's unquestionably a lot of fun, as the popularity of the event - and the accompanying laughter -- attest. 

Computer Go; 21st Century Championship Cup  (Final)
     1st: Go 4++, by Michael Reiss; 2nd: Haruka, by Ryuichi Kawa; 3rd: Wulu, by Xiuju Lei & team; 4th: Many Faces of Go, by David Fotland; 5th: Smart Go, by Anders Kierulf; 6th: Go Intellect, by Ken Chen; 7th: Go Star, by Jimmy Lu; 8th: GNU GO by Free Software Foundation.
     TD: David Allen; organized by Bob Myers
     There were a record 12 computer programs competing this year from  the US, Canada, Japan, China, France and England.

Redmond Cup (Youth) Update 
     In the Senior League, Richard Liang (13, 3D) beat Jin Chen in the playoff and will face Eric Lui (12, 5D) in the finals this week. 
     In the Junior League, Curtis Tang (8, 3D) won the second game Tuesday night in a best-of-three match against 10-year-old Matthew Burrall (10). Matthew won the first game Sunday night, so the next game will be for the match. 

9x9 Update
     The winner of the Kyu division is Joe Maia; the playoffs continue in  the Dan division.

Seen & Heard
     "Go Hard or Go Home"; "Never Give Up, Never Give In: Just Win"
-- motivational signs in the York College gym