AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the American Go Association
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February 24, 2003
In This Edition:
SCOREBOARD: Toronto, CANADA
GAME COMMENTARY: Catch a Rising Star
GO CLUBS: Milford, NH; Santa Barbara CA
THE GO PLAYER'S GUIDE TO CANADA: Toronto
THE EMPTY BOARD: Language Games
GO CLASSIFIED
AGA CONTACT LIST
CALENDAR OF EVENTS (U.S.)
March 1-2: Princeton, NJ
New Jersey Open
Rick Mott 609-466-1602 rickmott@alumni.princeton.edu
March 2: Sunnyvale, CA
7th Jujo Jiang Cup Youth Goe Tournament
Mingjiu Jiang 650-969-2857
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
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SCOREBOARD: Toronto, CANADA
Toronto, CANADA
Toronto Go Club Tournament
February 22, 2003
TD: Frank MONKS
32 players (including 2 carloads from Rochester, NY!)
Division A (5d-1k): 1st: Chris Garlock, 2d (Wash., DC); 2nd: Harry Weisbaum, 1d
(Tor). Division B (2k-6k): 1st: Ziya Kadioglu, 5k (Tor); 2nd: Jia Yu, 3k (Roch.,
NY) Division C (10k-17k): 1st: Justin Kramer, 11k (Roch., NY); 2nd: Timothy
Lillicrap, 12k (Tor). Division D (17k-25k): Milan Davidovic, 10k (Tor); 2nd:
Ryan Dadsun, 25k.
GAME COMMENTARY: Catch a Rising Star
Today's game commentary comes from the third game from the recent 46th Korean
Kuksu (National Champion) title match. Black is Cho Hanseung, 5P, and White is
Lee Changho, 9P. Cho has a terrible record against Lee, having lost every one of
their games. Lee won the first and second game of this title match and with this
third victory keeps the title. To reach the title match Cho Hanseung defeated
one of the greats of Korean go, Cho Hunhyun 9P (who had defeated Jiang Zhujiu
"Jujo" 9P as well as Rui Naiwei 9P earlier in the tournament). Only twenty years
old, Cho Hanseung 5P is clearly a rising star.
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GO CLUBS: Milford, NH; Santa Barbara CA
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
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THE GO PLAYER'S GUIDE TO CANADA: Toronto
By Chris Garlock
Spread out over a country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans
and all the way north to the Arctic Circle, Canadian go players are a rare but
hardy breed. Found in places as far-flung as Saskatoon, Canadian go players are
primarily concentrated in the major cities of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and
Vancouver. The later two cities, thanks to substantial asian populations,
support both Korean and Western go clubs.
Although undoubtedly played in the country for many years, organized go in
Canada has a relatively brief history. The Canadian Go Association was founded
in the mid 1970's and though there may be as many as 10,000 actual go players
across the country, CGA membership has hovered around 200, as the organization
has focused more on education and event organizing than membership-building,
according to CGA President Philip Waldron, a young 5-dan familiar to many U.S.
Go Congress attendees as a regular representative of his homeland at the Ing Cup
and other major competitions.
"Toronto has by far the largest concentration of players," Waldron told me
during a brief visit to Toronto last weekend. "There's a Chinese club, two or
three Korean clubs and a couple of clubs run by westerners." The CGA webpage,
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has contact and location information on these and all Canadian clubs, as well as
information on the Canadian go scene.
The Church Street go club, where Saturday's tournament was held, has been
meeting in the same location "going on fifteen years now," says Waldron, who
first learned the game in high school thanks to the legendary outreach efforts
of Toronto go organizer Pat Thompson, who brought the game to hundreds of
school-children. When I lived in Upstate New York, I used to drive up to Toronto
regularly for visits to the Church Street club, as well as a smoky Korean club
off of the famed Yonge Street that Waldron assures me still exists, though
exhaustion and ragged throat precluded a visit there last weekend.
Toronto regularly hosts the Canadian Open, traditionally held on Labor (or, as
the Canadians call it, Labour) Day weekend and the Toronto Open has been held,
off and on, for many years, almost always at the University of Toronto' s famed
Hart House, an impressive and imposing Victorian-era oak-paneled pile of ivied
granite that makes a cameo appearance in "Searching for Bobby Fischer."
Canadian go is known for a unique over-time system in which increasing numbers
of stones are added for each period ( i.e. 20 in the first 5 minutes, 30 in the
next, 40 in the next and so on); this ensures timely tournaments, though not
nearly as well as last Saturday's "sudden death" rule, which wrapped up the
tournament a full hour earlier than the scheduled 5 p.m. close.
THE EMPTY BOARD: Language Games
by William Cobb
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that the limits of your language
are the limits of your world. There is a lot of truth in this. It is very
difficult to have a clear grasp of things we lack the vocabulary to talk about.
Like almost any entertaining idea, this also applies to go.
At one time American players often tried to learn as many Japanese go terms as
possible. Some found it an effective way to intimidate other players, but it
also made it possible to talk about the game with a kind of precision that was
impossible otherwise. While a few Japanese terms have proved indispensable, such
as hane, ko, and atari, nowadays we use English translations for some Japanese
terms, such as "shortage of liberties" for "damezumari". Many other useful terms
have simply been dropped, however, and this has led to a problem.
Of course, we don't need Japanese terms, but we do need a fairly complex go
vocabulary. Take ko, for example. Without expressions that clearly distinguish
different kinds of ko we easily fall into muddled thinking and poor playing.
Many players don't have names for different kinds of kos at their disposal,
which easily leads them to look at all kos as though they were essentially
similar. This is a big mistake. There are kos where both players face the same
risk (even kos) and there are one-sided kos ("flower-viewing" kos), that is, kos
where one player has almost nothing at stake and the other faces a large loss.
Finding one of these can let you win a lost game. Then there are kos where you
will have to give the other player more than two moves elsewhere in order to
win, usually called "approach move" kos-a very expensive kind of ko if you must
win it to stay in the game. If these distinctions are clearly marked in our
vocabularies we are much more likely to notice the differ! ence in our games.
So sharpen up your vocabulary if you want to sharpen up your play.
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