March 31, 2003
In This Edition:
April 5-6: College Park, MD
University of Maryland Spring Tournament
Steve Mount 301-405-6934 smount@umd.edu
April 5-6: San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Go Club Spring Tournament
Steve Burrall 916-685-1504 sburrall@attbi.com
April 13: Boston, MA
MGA Spring Handicap Tournament
Don Wiener 617-734-6316 donwiener@earthlink.net
April 19: Middlebury, VT
George Sporzynski Memorial Go Tournament
Peter Schumer 388-3934 schumer@middlebury.edu
April 26: Houston, TX
2003 Houston Spring Tournament
University of Houston
George Wang 713-780-8282 imshy@wt.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
1st: LEFLER, Greg, 2k, 4-0 $60; 2nd: LU, Ke, 4d, 3-1, $20;
BERNSTEIN, Ben, 1k, 3-1, $20; BANZHAF, Jeremy, 3k, 3-1, $20;
WALKER, Mead, 5k, 3-1, $20; DOBBINS, Michael 6k, 3-1, $20;
WINTERS, Andrew 13k, 3-0, $20; ROFE, Amanda, 16k, 3-1, $20.
NOTE: Rochester's Empty Sky Go Club
fielded a whopping 7 players who drove down overnight and then headed home
(some with prizes!) after the traditional Saturday evening banquet.
GO IN THE AIR: "Has anyone heard of people playing go via amateur (ham) radio?," wonders Anton Ninno. "Hams have been playing chess for decades." Email him at aninno@cnyric.org
KOREAN RULES CORRECTION:
Last week's link for the Korea Baduk Association's official rules should have been
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~barryp/kiwigo.htm
And then select "Korean rules" from the menu on the left.
SEDOL DEFEATS CHANGHO:
Yi Setol (Lee Sedol) 3P has defeated Yi Ch'angho
(Lee Changho) 9P three to one to take the 7th LG Cup, his second
International title (he won the Fujitsu Cup last year, beating Lee
Changhao in the semifinal). This victory also earns Lee Sedol a
promotion to 6 dan in the Korean Baduk Association. The 20 year-old now
seems to pose the only real threat to Lee Changhao's iron grip on his
fistful of world titles. Download the LG Cup games at
http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/momoyama/news/5lg/7lg.html .
- reported by Yuan Zhou & Bill Cobb
SAYONARA OTEAI:
The new Japanese professional promotion rule that
replaces the oteai (promotion tournament) goes into effect on April 1st.
Three players who are among the first to benefit are: Yamashita Keigo
7P, who won the 27th Kisei title and will be promoted to 9P; Ryu Shikun
7P, who won the Tengen Title for the fourth time and will advance to 9P;
and Cho U 7P, who won the right to be the challenger for the 56th
Honinbo title and will become 8P.
- http://www.GoGameWorld.com
DARK HORSE WINS NHK:
The 50th NHK Cup was won by a dark horse: Mimura
Tomoyasu 9P, who defeated O Rissei 9P by resignation in a great fighting
game. Mimura took an early lead, but O Rissei managed to get back into
the game. In the end, it seemed likely there would be no result because
of a triple ko, but under time pressure O Rissei apparently suffered a
hallucination and connected one of the kos, which left him with an
unfavorable approach move ko and he resigned. Mimura is a solid,
orthodox player who favors thickness. This win is Mimura's biggest
achievement to date.
- reported by John Power on the Nihon Kiin's home page.
In this week's bonus file, Nakayama Noriyuki shows the best way to handle a pesky but common play. The problem is translated from Nakayama's book "Joseki Hazure" by Robert McGuigan.
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"Am I the only one who feels that people, children and adults alike, look tired?" So writes Yasuda Yasutoshi 9-dan in the preface to Go as Communication. Yasuda's attention had been caught by a news report of the suicide of a bullied school child, and he had become "obsessed by the notion that I had to do something about the social problem in addition to simply popularizing Go." The first part of Go as Communication describes Yasuda's visits to kindergartens, schools, homes for the mentally disabled, day care centres for the elderly and a school for the deaf. Almost all those he writes about have some kind of difficulty communicating with others. Many are, to a greater or lesser extent, socially excluded as a result. In the second part of the book, Yasuda gives advice on how to teach go to children of different ages in large groups, and how to teach it in the other kinds of institution he has visited. Part three gives a brief account of similar work that has been done in the Netherlands, Romania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and the USA. Yasuda is well known as the inventor of Capture Go, and what he says about it came as a bit of a surprise to me at first. I had always been led to believe that Yasuda's main aim was to popularise go, and that beginning with Capture Go was basically a technique to lead people to it gently. Nothing could be further from the truth. "Popularizing Go" is a phrase that is used occasionally in the book, but it isn't the objective. Yasuda states his objective in terms such as "help change society" and "do something about the social problem". He teaches Capture Go as a game in its own right. He recognizes that a few people will move on to regular go, but doesn't get excited about it. If most people stick with Capture Go and enjoy it, that's fine with him. Indeed, he explains that some of the mentally handicapped people he meets will probably never understand even the capture rule, but will anyway enjoy and benefit from the even simpler game of just placing go stones on intersections, and that's just fine too. Will this book do anything for you? Well, if you want to improve at tesuji or joseki, definitely not. It contains a basic explanation of the capture rule, but if you're any stronger than 36-kyu it will teach you nothing at all about the game. If you want to teach go to bright people who are able and willing to give you ten minutes of their attention, it may not help you much either. If you want to teach go to large groups of people with low or mixed abilities and/or motivation, then it will certainly give you food for thought and may even help you. But the people I'd really like to see reading this book aren't go players at all, but school teachers and care workers. If you can think of a person like that to whom you could give a copy of this book, I think you'd be doing them, and go, a huge service.
(A longer version of this review originally appeared in the British Go Journal, #129, Winter 2002)
WANTED: Go players in Boise, ID; email David Bogie (25-20k, former AGA member) at bogiesan@mac.com (posted 3/10)
FOR SALE: Goban from the Meiji period with beautiful lacquered sides. The bowls are decorated in similar style and include the original slate and shell stones. Price to be determined by interest. Email Geoffrey Gray at gray@hardnet.com.au (posted 3/10)
FOR SALE: Goban, 250 years old made of Yew wood. original black lacquer lines (lines are in perfect shape); Has large water stain on top and crack on side. Lance@KemperPainting.com (posted 3/10)
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 (posted 3/10)
WANTED: Jade bowls and stones in very good condition. Contact mattman30yrs@hotmail.com (posted 3/3)
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