SPECIAL EDITION: 2003 Fujitsu Report
In This Edition:
Cha defeated Lianzhou Yu and Thomas Hsiang, while Lee beat both June Ki Beck and Hui Ren Yang. Hui Ren Yang is in third place after defeating Yuan Zhou and losing to Cha. Thomas Hsiang and Lianzhou Yu are tied for 4/5 places; Hsiang beat June Ki Beck and lost to Cha; Yu lost to Cha and then beat June Ki Beck. Yuan Zhou is in sixth place; he lost a squeaker to Hui Ren Yang and beat Eric Lui, who is in seventh place after losing to both John Lee and Yuan Zhou. In eighth place is June Ki Beck, who lost to Thomas Hsiang and Yuan Zhou.
This weekend's Fujitsu finals (the first round was played on the IGS) was organized by Keith Arnold; the Tournament Director is Chuck Robbins. Game recorders today were Keith Arnold, Ken Koester, Jeff Rohlfs and Chris Garlock.
The final round begins at 9A tomorrow at the Holiday Inn-BWI, 890 Elkridge Landing Road in Linthicum, MD. Observers will be able to follow the top game on a big board in a nearby room and it also may be broadcast live on the IGS for those who cannot attend in person.
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4-game winners: I-Han LUI, Joshua SIMMONS. 3-game winners: Gregory LEFLER, Juan Pablo QUIZON & Gregory ROSENBLATT. Special Long Distance Award to the indefatigable Rochester crew, which not only braved snow and cold to play in Baltimore but then turned around and headed north for the MGA tournament tomorrow in Boston.
Pietsch was shot by an armed robber in Guatemala, where he was visiting on a friendship go tour sponsored by the Nihon Kiin, according to the Daily Yomiuri. Yoshiaki Nagahara, 6P was with Pietsch at the time of the attack but was unharmed. "The shooting took place when the two men visited Amatitlan Lake, a scenic spot about 20 kilometers south of Guatemala City," reported the Daily Yomiuri. "When the men came down from the observatory on the lake, a robber threatened them and demanded money," and although they gave the robber money, Pietsch was shot and died before arriving at a nearby hospital.
Born in Bremen, Germany, Pietsch was fascinated with go and went to Japan to study in the early '90s, making 2P in 1997 and 4P in 2000. He and Nagahara were touring Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico from January 9-22, and Pietsch was scheduled to be the official recorder for the second match of the Kisei title tournament, which opens in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan on January 29.
"Go-players everywhere share the grief of our comrades in Guatemala, Japan and Germany today," said American Go Association President Chris Kirschner. "We are all diminished by this tragic and senseless loss."
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