"Wish We Were There"

Go Tournament in Tacoma, for those who couldn't attend the U.S. Go Congress in Houston

• What: 4-round AGA-rated Go Tournament. Self-paired if attendance is sparse; MacMahon pairings via AccelRat if we get half a dozen players or more. 40 minutes each, + overtime of 20 stones in 5 minutes.
• Where: University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
• When: Sunday, August 3, 2003. Registration opens at 10:45 a.m., to give our friends from Oregon and BC time to arrive. Rules discussion at 11:20 a.m. and first round starts at 11:30 a.m.
• Who: Brought to you by the Tacoma/University of Puget Sound Go Club; inviting all go players who can't make it to the Go Congress this year.
• How much: $10 entry fee from working-age adults or $5 from students and elders funds the prize pool. An additional $5 AGA rating fee applies if you're not a member of your national Go organization.
• Prizes:
  • one previously owned Sony Clié PDA, model PEG-S300, featuring monochrome LCD screen with backlight, thumbwheel, Palm OS, and internal charger. If I have time, I will reinstall PilotGOne go recording program; otherwise, I'm sure someone at the tournament can beam it to the winner;
  • small cash prizes for those who win more than half their games;
  • refund of entry fee for those who win half their games;
  • camaraderie and gratitude from the other participants for those who win less than half their games!

Results

Pairing was done with Paul Matthews' AccelRat software, which seems to prefer handicaps that seem too small; so some manual adjustments were made. (It turns out that there's a command to control this behavior. Too bad the TD hadn't understood the documentation! Oh well, next time.) Time control was by Ing digital clock, so instead of Canadian overtime of 20 stones in 5 minutes, we used Japanese-style byo-yomi of 5 periods of 15 seconds each. I thought that would correspond well to an average of 15 seconds per stone, but in actual practice it seemed a little too fast.

We held the first rounds outdoors, using the tables near the cafeteria, since the weather was nice. Unfortunately, we were smack in the middle of a summer camp for cheerleaders. Who knew that they would practice their cheers while waiting in line for food? Of course, it was only a distraction for the players who had finished their games; it takes more than a few hundred screaming, jumping cheerleaders to take a go player's attention from the board. Later, when the early evening chilled us, we moved inside to the classroom that Greg had reserved.

There are a few pictures shot during the second round.

Table of Results

Name			+ = win; - = loss; B held Black; W held White; Hn handicap stones; Kn komi points.				wins	Prize
Rating	MM seed	Club	r1	r2	r3	r4	MM pts.
Stringfellow, Steve			+ W H2 K0.5	+ W H0 K0.5	+ W H0 K6.5	drop	3/3	$20 (which he donated to Tacoma Go Club)
6.3	40	Tacoma	v. Hu	v. Huang	v. Cui		43
Hu, Richard			- B H2 K0.5	+ W H9 K0.5	+ W H8 K0.5	+ B H0 K0.5	3/4	$20 + Sony PDA
4.0	38	Fed. Way	v. Stringfellow	v. Hughes	v. Malveaux	v. Xiong	41
Xiong, Xing			+ W H9 K0.5	+ B H0 K6.5	+ W H0 K6.5	- W H0 K0.5	3/4	$20 (he donated $10 back to Tacoma Go Club)
5.7	40	Fed. Way	v. Malveaux	v. Cui	v. Huang	v. Hu	43
Hughes, Michael			+ W H0 K5.5	- B H9 K0.5	+ W H9 K0.5	+ B H7 K0.5	3/4	$20
-13.0	22	Tacoma	v. Hatayama	v. Hu	v. Castanza	v. Baghboudarian	25
Cui, Jinhe			+ W H7 K0.5	- W H0 K6.5	- B H0 K6.5	+ W H9 K0.5	2/4	$10
5.9	40	Fed. Way	v. Baghboudarian	v. Xiong	v. Stringfellow	v. Malveaux	42
Huang, Steve			+W H9 K0.5	- B H0 K0.5	- B H0 K6.5	+ W H9 K0.5	2/4	$10
4.2	38	Fed. Way	v. Castanza	v. Stringfellow	v. Xiong	v. Hatayama	40
Baghboudarain, Jason			- B H7 K0.5	+ W H9 K0.5	+ W H9 K0.5	- W H7 K0.5	2/4	$10
-5.0	30	Olympia	v. Cui	v. Castanza	v. Hatayama	v. Hughes	32
Malveaux, Mike			- B H9 K0.5	+ W H7 K0.5	- B H8 K0.5	- B H9 K0.5	1/4
-7.3	28	Tacoma	v. Xiong	v. Hatayama	v. Hu	v. Cui	29
Hatayama, Greg			- B H0 K6.5	- B H7 K0.5	- B H9 K0.5	- B H9 K0.5	0/4
-14.5	20	Tacoma	v. Hughes	v. Malveaux	v. Baghboudarian	v. Huang	20
Castanza, Gordon			- B H9 K0.5	- B H9 K0.5	- B H9 K0.5	drop	0/3
-28.6	6	Tacoma	v. Huang	v. Baghboudarian	v. Hughes		6

AccelRat Report: Individual Game Summary

The following data are shown for each game:

• win or loss (+ or -)
• color held (W or B)
• opposition (effective opponent strength, given handicap)
• expected winning percentage
• opponent's name
• handicap

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Begun 2003-07-19
Updated 2003-07-24
Added results 2003-08-06, 2003-08-07