AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the American Go Association March 25, 2002 In This Edition: - CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Latest listings - GAME COMMENTARY: Feng Yun, Mingjiu Jiang & A Black Dragon in Trouble - SCOREBOARD: San Francisco, CA - GO NEWS: Chapters Continue at Record Levels; Orlando Go Players Test Waters; Time Running Out for Summer Go Camp - GoReview: LiveOrDie Software - AGA OFFICER CONTACT LIST CALENDAR OF EVENTS (U.S.) April 6: Raleigh, NC Games Galore Go Club 2002 Spring Tournament Joe Berry 919-787-4358 gggc@nc.rr.com April 7: Seattle, WA Monthly Ratings Tournament Jon Boley 206-545-1424 go@seattlego.org April 13-14: Houston, TX 10th Anniversary Houston Go Tournament Robert Cordingley 281-228-4774 rcordingley@houston.rr.com April 14: Boston, MA MGA Spring Handicap Tournament Don Wiener 617-734-6316 donwiener@earthlink.net April 20-21: College Park, MD University of Maryland Spring tournament Steve Mount 301-405-6934 sm193@umail.umd.edu April 27-28: Los Angeles, CA 2002 Cotsen Go Tournament Lawrence Gross 310-235-7415 le144@earthlink.net NOTE: this listing is not all-inclusive, featuring only upcoming tournaments in the next month or events which require early registration. For a complete U.S. listings, go to http://www.usgo.org/usa/tournaments.html For the European Go Calendar see http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/go/tourn.html GAME COMMENTARY: Feng Yun, Mingjiu Jiang & a Black Dragon in Trouble "What an exciting fighting game!" says Feng Yun 9P in today's commented game. The game with Mingjiu Jiang, 7P features speedy development, dramatic attacks and a Black dragon in trouble. The North American Master's Tournament Challenge Round game was played March 10 on the Internet Go Server. To get the Member's Edition with attached game records, join the AGA at www.usgo.org SCOREBOARD: San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Go Club Spring Tournament March 23-24 41 players, inc. 14 kids, 5 rounds TD: Steve Burrall using WinTD 3d-6d 1st: Dong ZHANG, 6d; 2nd: Klaus FITTGES, 4d; 3rd: Lloyd GOWEN, 3d. 1d-2d 1st: Jim LEVENICK, 2d 2nd: Kristen BURRALL, 1d; 3rd: Matthew BURRALL, 1d. 7k-1k: 1st: Eric BRANLUND, 4k; 2nd: Louisa CHAN, 2k; 3rd: Jim CONYNGHAM, 7k. 10k-8k: 1st: Tommy SLATER, 8k; 2nd: Raymond CHAN, 10k; 3rd: Jason PAN, 9k. 14k-11k: 1st: Mark LENTCZNER, 12k; 2nd: Charles SLATER, 12k; 3rd: Kevin LIU, 12k. 30k-15k: 1st: John ANDERSON, 24k; 2nd: Jean HASSOUN, 15k; 3rd Symeon NOON, 25k. GO NEWS Chapters Continue at Record Levels The number of AGA chapters continues to hold at record levels, reports AGA Chapter Coordinator Bill Cobb. "This is partly due to the new matching grant chapters automatically receive of up to $250 to buy books and equipment," says Bill. "It's a good deal for any club that wants to build a library or acquire additional playing sets." For information about making your club an AGA chapter, send a message to chapters@usgo.org. Orlando Go Players Test Waters If you live in the Orlando, Florida area and are interested in helping start up a new club in the area, here's your chance. A local player is considering starting up a club in Orlando or Winter Park, probably at the Barnes & Noble on Colonial and Bumby, or the Borders in Winter Park Village. Contact Rob at go_orlando@ureach.com if you're interested. Time Running Out for Summer Go Camp Youngsters, don't miss this opportunity for a great summer Go experience! Organizers have assembled a magnificent staff -- James Kerwin, Jon Wang, Bruce Wilcox, and James Chien, along with Camp Director Mike Samuel -- along with numerous attractions and a great program that balances the study of Go with social and physical activities. For more information visit http://www.usgo.org/gocamp/index.html or write to Peter Rzepecki, the camp administrator: AGAGoCamp@aol.com For Camp pictures visit the site put up by Mr. Tetsuo Takeichi to market the Camp in Japan: http://www.igo-kids.com/cgi-bin/c-board/c-board.cgi?cmd=one;no=5;id=event GoReview: LiveOrDie Software By Lyu Shuzhi http://www.szsoftware.com Review by Bull Hudson I just received my first Go Journal, the Fall 2001/Winter 2002 issue and find it well put together, very much informative and enjoyable reading. Having recently started playing Go, anything and everything I can find to help my game is welcome. From the start, the term "Life and Death" stood out. Each Go book I read would stress the need to master Life and Death problems. In the first couple months at our local Go club the murmur through the onlookers was, "You need to learn Life and Death." Yes, I said, I will do that, and went on the search for solving this Life and Death situation. In the months that followed it seemed that solving this problem of making Life was eluding me. I was though making lots of Death, and it was mostly my own. Playing on the Internet I could feel the kibitzers running from their monitors screaming, "He doesn't know Life and Death!" At this point the best thing I thought I could do would be to travel to some remote place on this planet, dig a deep pit and bury my game. But now perhaps not all was lost, as in hand I had my new American Go Journal and I was off to read it poolside in hopes of finding some bits of wisdom. The front cover read, "PRO SLAYER" in bold red letters with a picture of Jie Li 7 dan. Wow, to be that good. Poolside I read, reclining in a lounge chair, basking in the Arizona sun. I thumbed through it looking at the game review with mouth-watering anticipation. Then I came to Go Review, Resources for Go players. Here I find DieOrLive software. I read the review and almost jumped out of my lounge chair to run inside to buy it. Had I finally found the solution to my Life and Death ailment? I was re-reading the review when I noticed the wasp. It's on my lounge chair with its angry-looking wasp eyes. It's big. It's yellow. And it's looking at me. Interesting how the small things in life can bring such fear. I think to myself, "I'll move and you can have the lounge chair." Bad escape move on my part. The wasp tries to attach. I do a knights move, Go Journal in hand extending. The swish of pages in the air. The wasp moves and gets good aji but I leap from my lounge chair with a tesuji and build a bigger moyo. "Swoosh, swoosh" the Go Journal cuts the air. The wasp hanes but the Go Journal cuts the air again. Then suddenly "Yose." The wasp now does a little zig-zag in front of me, really pissed, then goes for a kikashi. I answer, but with one of those plays that you think will be the end of you. "Swoosh" goes the Journal and it slips from my hand, 64 pages whirling through the air at high speed right at the wasp. What would happen now, with my only defense gone? Luckily, my move turned out to be the death-dealing tesuji. The Journal's journey through air and across the pool deck left it torn and tattered. Figuring this must be a Life and Death lesson, I went in to buy the DieOrLive software. It is everything Garlock promised, and I can feel I'm getting stronger at reading these problems. This is the solution to the aliment that I was having, and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn about Life and Death. Thanks, American Go Journal for your saving pages. In more ways than one. GET LISTED & BOOST TURN-OUT! Got an upcoming event? Reach over 3,000 readers every week! List your Go event/news In the E-Journal: email details to us at journal@usgo.org Ratings are on the web! Check the website ( www.usgo.org ) for the full list. GET YOUR TOURNAMENT RATED! 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