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March 3, 2003
In This Edition:
March 9: Northampton, MA
Space-Crime Continuum Spring Go Tournament
Chris Aylott 413-584-0994 go@spacecrime.com
March 13-16: Germantown, MD
Greater Washington Go Club's Yang Workshop
Anand Modak 301-513-8233 amodak@mcps.k12.md.us
March 22: Arlington, VA
Cherry Blossom
Allan Abramson 703-684-7676 mediate8@worldnet.att.net
March 29: Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Tournament and Banquet
Phil Straus 215-568-0595 pstraus@post.harvard.edu
March 29: Tacoma, WA
Inaugural Tournament
Mike Malveaux, 253-297-6268, tacomagoclub@hilltopgo.com
http://www.hilltopgo.com/tacoma/mar29.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 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
"Re your article about Eric Cotsen (COTSEN TRAVELS, 2/19), I suspect that that the display is per Eric's father, Eric Cotsen," writes Larry Gross. "Eric Cotsen the go player is Eric Lloyd Cotsen and has no interest in baskets that I am aware. The father, Eric Cotsen has had a long term interest in art and architecture. His father gave a wing to the Santa Fe Folk Art Museum and has contributed to various other museums."
March 1-2: Princeton, NJ
New Jersey Open
85 registered players, including young players from the the Feng Yun go
school. Organized and directed by RICK MOTT and PAUL MATTHEWS
NEW JERSEY STATE CHAMPIONSHIP: co-champions: I-Han LUI (8d), Ke HUANG (8D); equal
3rd-4th: Yansong ZHOU (7d), Mozheng GUAN (7d).
OTHER WINNERS: 5 game winners: Jason GU (10k), Walter HO (22k);
4 game winners: Zhaonian CHEN (5D), Keith ARNOLD (5D), Xiaoying HUANG (3D),
Xiaogang MA (3D), Dayong YU (2D), Peng LI (1D), Michael HU (1K), Michael
VAN WIE (4K), Nathan CURTIS (6K), Zaher NAZIF (7K), Hochul LEE (12K),
Ken LIN (13K), Thomas WRZOSEK (15K)
3 of 4 game winners: Yongzhong WU (4K), Nelson HUA (26K).
EMPTY SKY GO CLUB GETS LITERARY:
Members of Rochester's Empty Sky Go
Club conducted a 1-hour introduction to go as part of the Rochester
Public Library's Tuesday Topics series on February 25. Twenty eight
hardy Rochesterians braved last week's snowy and icy weather to learn
about go. "One of the missions of the Friends of the Rochester Public
Library is to keep the library a cultural and resource center for the
community," said Bill Pontius, who chairs the Tuesday Topics series and
who praised the "interactive" presentations by Empty Skyers Bill Hewitt
and Jeremy Banzhaf. The Among the questions answered was the meaning of
the Rochester club's name ("Empty Sky" is taken from an old Japanese
song that refers to "clear thinking"). Club coordinators considering
such presentations will want to make sure they have handouts about the
basics of go, go sets for demonstration and participation, and flyers
about your club.
- reported by by Dave "Bippy" Boyer
GO CAMP DEADLINE LOOMS: Although many kids have signed up for this year's Go Camp in California, there's still some room left: sign up before 3/15 to avoid late fees! Visit http://www.usgo.org/gocamp/index.asp for the application forms.
FENG YUN OFFERS WEDNESDAY SIMULS: Feng Yun 9P will play simultaneous games in the New York Go Center every Wednesday afternoon from 5-8P. Contact the NYGC at: 212-223-0342 or email GoLesson@yahoo.com Nearly every Saturday Ms. Yun is also offering game analysis in Piscataway, NJ. Info at 973-618-1821 or http://mywebpages.comcast.net/fengyun/FY_Go_Center/FYGC.htm
DISCOUNTS OFFERED FOR AGA RENEWALS: Members of the American Go Association who renew their memberships can select from the following list of items available from Slate & Shell and get 10% off for one, 15% off for two, 20% off for three, or 25% off for four or more. See descriptions on the web site at www.slateandshell.com Choose from: MasterGo; 400 Years of Go in Japan by Andrew Grant; ABC's of Attack and Defense by Michael Redmond 9 dan; How to Play Handicap Go by Yuan Zhou; Understanding How to Play Go by Yuan Zhou; Monkey Jump Workshop by Richard Hunter; Life and Death: Intermediate Level Problems by Maeda Nobuaki; Come Up to Shodan by Rin Kaiho 9 dan; Learning from the Masters, volume 2. Discounts will be applied to orders after membership status has been verified. Orders can be made on the web site (www.slateandshell.com) via email (bcobb@slateandshell.com) or phone 1-800-653-7640.
REDMOND, NAIWEI OPPONENTS SETTLED: It's been settled that Michael Redmond 9 dan's opponent in the second round of the Gosei Tournament will be either Otake Hideo 9 dan or Cho Chikun 9 dan. Either of these strong contenders of the older generation will be a great opponent. Otake is 60 and Cho (a pro from the age of 11) is 46, while Redmond is 39. It's also been settled that Rui Naiwei 9 dan's opponent in the finals of the new international women's tournament, the Jeongganjang Cup, will be Zhang Xiang 8 dan of China. Zhang has won several titles in recent years and is married to one of China's strongest pros, Chang Hao 9 dan. A pair's match of these two with their husbands would be something to see. (Rui is married to Jiang Zhujiu "Jujo" 9 dan.)
149 MAGIC NUMBER IN LG CUP:
In a surprising coincidence, the first two
games of the current LG Cup title match between Yi Setol (Lee Sedol) 3P
and Yi Ch'angho (Lee Changho) 9P both were won by Black by resignation
in 149 moves. Setol is considered the greatest go prodigy since
Ch'angho. He will be 20 on March 2nd.
- reported by Bill Cobb
"White's corner has a lot of eye space, but it doesn't have two eyes yet," says Yilun Yang in the Intermediate tsume-go problem, one of Mr. Yang's set of three problems we're pleased to present for the second consecutive month in the E-Journal. We hope you enjoy working on these problems this week; look for the solutions in next week's E-Journal.
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LAS VEGAS, NV area go: contact Ray Kukol - rkukol@lvcm.com
Go players in the MILFORD, NH area who are interested in forming a local Go club should contact David Rysdam at david.rysdam@verizon.net.
Go players in SANTA BARBARA CA area can email rdoctors@cox.net
Go players in the WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA/PURDUE area; e-mail Chris Kubica at ckubica@insightbb.com
Did you know that game records cannot be copyrighted? The matter has seldom if ever been litigated, but prominent legal theorists in the area of intellectual property consider it analogous to a recording of a historical event. For example, the President cannot copyright the State of the Union address. Also, since game records are the product of two competing creators, neither of whom can claim exclusive authorship, no one can copyright them.
Commentary, analysis, and diagrams of variations can be copyrighted by the author, and collections of games are also considered proprietary, but the records themselves immediately enter the public domain. Those interested in the fine points can find further discussion at Jared Roach's home page at http://www.strategicgenomics.com/Jared/Go/.
Whatever the legality of the matter, the fact is that thousands of game records are available on the Internet. You should know that "bootleg" commented game records game collections may also appear on the Net, but to our knowledge none of the sites mentioned below contain illicit material. As far as we know, all the records noted below are in .sgf format.
Let's begin with a trip to Jon Van Rongen's "Friday Night Files" site at http://www.xs4all.nl/~rongen17/. Van Rongen's site appears to be a Cho Chikun freak -- you will find over 1400 of Cho's games here. He is also especially interested in the career of an up-and-coming young Japanese pro named Yamashita Keigo, who developed skills at the Ryokusei Igo Gakuen Go Academy, which is well-known for its students' successes in recent years, and for having been founded by an amateur player.
An especially interesting feature of Van Rongen's site is a collection of game records from actual professional games that are used in the Hikaru No Go anime series. (Sidebar to those who enjoy the HNG fansubs but haven't looked lately: There are 62 episodes available now!)
GoBase, Jan Van der Steen's massive resource at http://www.gobase.org/, is another good place to harvest records. You can't download 1000+ records at a crack as you can at Van Rongen's site, but some of the records are sorted in interesting ways at http://www.gobase.org/studying/gallery/?id=intro according to the type of game -- "Brilliant Moments" Big Kills" and so on. There are also about 100 commented games at http://www.gobase.org/studying/analysed/, and a searchable database at http://www.gobase.org/information/games/search/.
It is said that one of the best ways to learn is by studying professional games. For commented pro games, try Go Game World at http://www.gogameworld.com/. There are also about 500 records from the Honinbo, Meijin and Tengen tournaments at http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/3603/gameindex.html. (Of course some pro game records appear on more than one of the sites listed above.) If you're interested in game records from specific tournaments, you'll want to visit "Momoyama's Go Scene" at http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/momoyama/news/news.html. Momoyama has pages for all the major Japanese, Chinese, Korean and International tournaments, but you'll have to harvest the records one at a time.
Probably the ultimate resource for pro game records is MasterGo, the search-by-pattern program endorsed by Michael Redmond. The downloadable demo includes 800 pro games featuring the san-ren-sei (three star points) opening. Get it at http://www.slateandshell.com/libraryprod.asp?SSKey=SSMG001. The registered version containing 17,000 records and counting. Owners of the full version receive free upgrades as more games are added to the database.
I know some of you like to look at amateur games as well. I've never understood that way of thinking -- I'd rather see good moves than learn why bad moves are wrong. If I want to see stupid moves, I'll just play a game myself! But the Go teaching Ladder at http://gtl.jeudego.org/reviews/by_strength has many records from players of all strength, most with comments. Even better, if you want you can upload your own game records for review by a stronger player.
And last but not least -- in terms of price -- for those who believe that more is better, there is the BIGo Assistant. The authors claim a collection of 700,000 games records that fills an entire CD-ROM. Mostly amateur games, the cost is s whopping $200. Learn more at http://www.ufgo.kar.net/BIgo/Downloads0E.htm. Caveat emptor.
So now that you've got all these records, what can you do with them? I went to the TurboGo home page and downloaded the Go Screensaver. (Click on "Go Screensaver" at http://www.turbogo.com/) Put the records you like all in a directory and point the screen saver at that directory. When your computer is idle, your mind can be active as you watch each game progress, trying to guess the next move. It's the next best thing to studying while you sleep!
OOPS, I MISSED ONE: Readers who enjoyed looking at the Go art links in the "Go Online" column that appeared on 2/10 will also want to visit the Internet Go Server's extensive collection at http://igs.joyjoy.net/English/gallery.html.
WANTED: info on organizations dedicated to promoting go among business people. I need the info for a book I'm writing using go as a metaphor and practice for paradigm shifting in business; I'd appreciate any assistance. Gay Hendricks; gay_h@hendricks.com
WANTED: Jade bowls and stones in very good condition. Contact mattman30yrs@hotmail.com
WANTED: Vetters for my new book, tentatively entitled "Progress Fast In Go, From Beginner To Intermediate". Please email bradleym@villagenet.com for details.
FOR SALE: copy of the video of "The Go Masters". enchantedplace@earthlink.net,
WANTED: copy of First Kyu by Dr. Sung-Hwa Hong. d-barnes@pacbell.net.
FOR SALE: Sets of old "Go World" magazines: 1-48 and 1-15; 17-25; 50-56 and individual copies #22, #40, #43, and #51. Check them out at john.hartman17@verizon.net Or email dobe.doinat@verizon.net
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