January 19, 2004
In This Edition:
MINGJIU JIANG ON PUNISHING MISTAKES:
Mingjiu Jiang 7P's "Punishing and
Correcting Joseki Mistakes" has just been published by Slate & Shell.
"Punishing" is a study of joseki mistakes in amateur games. In the process
of identifying and explaining joseki mistakes, Jiang shows how to take
advantage of them and provides an excellent way to learn the correct
sequences in a number of common joseki, by understanding the purpose of the
correct moves. The book includes joseki starting with a stone on all the
usual points, from the 3-3, 3-4 and 3-5 to the 4-4, 4-5, and 4-6. 120 pages,
$15. http://www.slateandshell.com
2003 YEARBOOK PUBLISHED:
The 2003 Yearbook has just been published, and
includes the best of the 2003 E-Journal: games, reviews, columns, a CD with
all the content organized and much more! Member's free copies are being
mailed, but non-members can join now to be sure to get the 2004 edition, as
well as a discount on the 2003 edition.
Open Division: 1st: Feng Yun; 2nd: Huiren Yang; 3rd: Yansong Zhou; 4th: John J-S Lee; 5th: Ron Snyder; 6th: Ke Huang.
A Division: 1st: Yong Chen; 2nd: Wei Chen; 3rd: Siu-Kou Hui; 4th: Lingyu Zen; 5th: Sung Jin Cho
B Division: 1st: Peng Li; 2nd: Shi Feng; 3rd: Tak Cheng; 4th: Jia Yu
C Division: 1st: Jason Gu; 2nd: John Exeter; 3rd: Michael Samuel; 4th: Jiangtao Gu
D Division: 1st: David Choi; 2nd: Dmitri Lechtchinski; 3rd: Joe Carl; 4th: David Carper
E Division: 1st: Paul Chetrit; 2nd: Ethan Baldridge; 3rd: Yuchen Feng; 4th: Todd Heidenreich
F Division: 1st: Jeffrey Vogel; 2nd: Yang Xu; 3rd: Kevin Shang; 4th: Kevin Wang
G Division: 1st: Daniel Xia; 2nd: Justin Chang; 3rd: Dustin Wu; 4th: Eugenia Huang
H Division: 1st: Osman Kibar; 2nd: Neil Chen; 3rd: Matthew Tse; 4th: Dominic Gerard
Thanks to: Toyota and Denso Corps; The Nihon Kiin; the Nippon Club; the Hotel Pennsylvania; Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin and Allen Nyoshin Steir; Samarkand, Slate and Shell and Peter Shotwell for providing substantial discounts on prizes; Marc Palmer, Rick Mott, Joe Carl, Larry Russ, Feng Yun, Arnold Eudell, Todd Heidenreich, the NY Wei Chi Society and the Brooklyn Go Club for producing among them over 130 sets of stones, boards and clocks; Terry Benson for providing the PA system; Marilyn Campbell, Wanda Metcalf and Joanne Saltman for helping with registration and staffing the main table; Jim Mangold for helping with publicity; Matt Kennedy, Terry Assael, Ron Snyder and many others for helping with setup and strike. Special thanks to the more than 200 players who participated in the biggest go tournament in North American history, and a very special thanks to Mary Laird, without whom this event would not have been possible.
OZA: SEATTLE
TD: Jon Boley
Assistant Director: John Hogan
Referee: Frank Fukuda
Total participants: 105: 85 in the Oza; 28 (8 from Oza) in the Lightning Youth Tournament
Open Division: 1st: Mingjiu Jiang; 2nd: Jie Li; 3rd: Jung Hoon Lee; 4th: Charles Huh; 5th: Ned Phipps; 6th: Edward Kim
A Division: 1st: Mike Cai; 2nd: Chunlei Dong; 3rd: Cha Duk Lee; 4th: Christopher Kirschner
B Division: 1st: Hyon Cha; 2nd: Jim Huang; 3rd: James McKee; 4th: Barna Rubin
C Division: 1st: Alex Chang; 2nd: Lee Anne Bowie; 3rd: Alex Chin; 4th: Jason Baghboudarian
D Division: 1st: Ryan Dowling; 2nd: Gabriel Young; 3rd: Leila Baldwin; 4th: Joel Simpson
Lightning Tournament: 3-0 Players: Matthew Burrall, Ryan Dowling, Robert Oto
Thanks to: Toyota, Denso, Nihon Ki-in, Michael Redmond, Kudou Norio, NHK, the NHK video crew, Go weekly, Shimura Tomohiko, The North American Post, The Korean Times, John Hogan, Connie Hayashi-Smith, Deborah Niedermeyer, Brian Allen, Akira Sato, None Redmond, Aria Von Elbe, Scott Arnold, Chris Kirschner, Mike Malveaux, Andrew Cox, Andrew Gross, Peter Davidson, Frank Fukuda, Tacoma Go Club, Microsoft Go Club, Seattle Chinese Go Club, all the players that came from out of state.
KOBAYASHI IZUMI WINS FIRST WOMEN'S HAYAGO TOURNAMENT:
In the 1st Women's HayaGo tournament (sponsored by Japan Airlines)
Women's Honinbo Kobayashi Izumi 5p defeated Nakazawa Ayako 5p by 5.5 points.
Kobayashi, who is the daughter of veteran go professional Kobayashi Koichi 9p,
had a good 2003, winning the Women's Honinbo and becoming engaged to men's
Honinbo Cho U 9p. 2004 also appears to be starting out well. Veteran player
Nakazawa won the 9th and 10th Women's Honinbo titles in 1990 and 1991 at the
age of 19, and won Women's Kakusei titles in '95 and '96. Unfortunately, game
records were not available.
- reported by Dennis Hardman
YI CH'ANG-HO TOPS CH'OE IN KUKSU:
In Dali, China, this week, current title
holder Yi (Lee) Ch'ang-ho 9p defeated challenger Ch'oe Ch'eol-han 6p in game
one of the 47th Kuksu title match. Yi, who played Black and won this first
game by a close 1.5 points, is arguably the most successful international go
professional on the scene today and is also the current Myeongin title
holder -- a title he has held for six straight years and twelve years overall.
Eighteen year old Ch'oe is one of Korea's up-and-coming go stars, most
recently winning the 8th Chunwon against Weon Seong-chin 5p. Game records
can be found at HTTP://www.go4go.net.
- reported by Dennis Hardman
LI SHEN SHINES AT MAIDENHEAD:
For the second year in a row, the young
Chinese boy Li Shen (a 4 dan from London) won the Maidenhead Tournament,
held at the headquarters of HITACHI Europe Ltd on January 17th. There were
86 players altogether. Young Kim took second, and several players were 3 for
3: Chris Dawson (1 dan Maidenhead), James Aspden (1 dan Oxford), Matt
Piatkus (2 kyu Oxford), Xin Yi Lu (11 kyu Maidenhead) and Matt Griffiths (12
kyu Sindon). Mike Charles (2 dan St. Albans) with 2.5 wins and all those who
were 2 for 3, also got prizes, thanks to the generosity of HITACHI. Team
winners were Oxford (90 percent), and 9x9 winner was William Brooks (2 kyu
Cambridge) with a 9 and 0 record. A special prize went to young Matthew
Knight who played 12 9x9 games during the day.
- from BGA News
Today's bonus file is another PDF installment of Lessons from the Past, this one exploring how to handle a pesky cut.
Also included this week are the solutions to last week's life and death problems by Yilun Yang.
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"Well, welcome" were the first words I heard from someone who actually plays go. I'd read about the game, studied the rules, and downloaded "The Way to Go" from the AGA website, but this was the first time I'd been able to meet someone who was willing to teach me how to play. Then I looked around the small Border's cafe in Miami and realized I wasn't just the youngest one there; I was the only girl.
Welcome to the go world, populated mainly by men and with so few people under the age of 18 that, as I've learned the game over the last year, I've sometimes wondered what I've gotten myself into.
That doesn't mean I don't like it. Quite the contrary, in fact. For anyone who doesn't play go, it's hard to put into words how I feel, but for those who do, well, you understand. It's the feeling of the go stones in your hand, the sound of stone hitting wood, that makes it all worthwhile. All those hours of studying problems without avail, trying to analyze professional games and realizing just how horrible you are, playing on 9x9 boards for seemingly forever and then 13x13 before finally moving onto 19x19.
And just when you feel like you're never ever going to get better,
maybe because of school work and exams that keep you from practicing or
those people on IGS who keep beating you even with 9 stones, you show up at
that little café in Borders every Thursday night and see those people who
are helping you learn the game. And yes, they're all men, and yes, all at
least 20 years older than me but they're helping me slowly but surely get
there. Helping me get to the point where I feel confident enough about my
game not to be intimidated and not to care about whether I win or lose.
Happy to sit down, play a good game, lose by 40 points and be able to say,
honestly, "Yes, it is worth it."
- 15-year-old Aria von Elbe is a 10th-grader in Miami, Florida.
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January 31: Gainesville, FL
Team Tournament
Devin Casadey 617-497-1232 igoclubuf@yahoo.com
February 28-29: Princeton, NJ
New Jersey Open
Rick Mott 609-466-1602 rickmott@alumni.princeton.edu
February 28: Sacramento, CA
Davis/Sacramento Quarterly Tournament
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