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May 13, 2003

In This Edition:
U.S. GO NEWS: Free Mind Key To Creative Go; Book Of Go Flying High; MasterGo Hits 20k Mark WORLD GO NEWS: 62 Nations Vie In World Amateur; Yi Setol Promoted Again; Jujo Wins; Redmond Loses GAME COMMENTARY: YOUR MOVE: Readers Write THE EMPTY BOARD: What You Know Can Hurt You THE GO PLAYER'S GUIDE TO ROCHESTER, NY GO CLASSIFIED
SCOREBOARD: Los Angeles, California; Rochester, NY
CALENDAR OF EVENTS


U.S. GO NEWS

FREE MIND KEY TO CREATIVE GO: "I believe that keeping one's mind free is very important," says go professional Guo Juan. "This is the only way to play go more creatively." You can see Guo Juan's creative go in action in today's game commentary, or find out more about her thoughts on teaching go in her online paper "Teaching Go at Different Levels" or make plans now to attend her workshop coming up Memorial Day Weekend. "We still have room in the Guo Juan workshop being held at The Woodlands," reports organizer J.C. Chetrit. Check out the paper and details about the workshop, including who's attending by visiting the Brooklyn Go Club's web page at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664145&u=http://www.brooklyngoclub.org&g=0&f=84664154
Info and reservations: zorglub@brooklyngoclub.org

BOOK OF GO FLYING HIGH: In a sign of the burgeoning interest in go, American Go Journal Assistant Editor Bill Cobb's "The Book of Go" has been flying off the shelves of bookstores around the nation at an astounding 1,000 copies a month. Published by Sterling Publishing, "The Book of Go" starts beginners off with the First Capture version of go before moving on to regular go and includes basic strategy and tactics as well as 9X9 and 13X13 playing sets with plastic stones. Available at your local bookstore or online at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664149&u=http://www.slateandshell.com&g=0&f=84664154

MASTERGO HITS 20K MARK: MasterGo now has more than 20,000 professional games; 20,278, to be precise, as of the May release. The go software, which provides a powerful way to find and study joseki and fuseki, now includes the tournament games used to select a challenger for Honimbo Shusai in his retirement game, which was made famous in the book "The Master of Go." The demo version of MasterGo has 1,301 games. Both versions are available at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664144&u=http://www.MasterGo.com&g=0&f=84664154

WORLD GO NEWS

62 NATIONS VIE IN WORLD AMATEUR: The 25th World Amateur Go Championship will take place in Kurashiki, Japan, June 8th through the 12th. Sixty?two countries will be represented this year, including Nepal and Morocco. Ten games will be carried live on IGS each day. The US representative this year is Jung Hoon Lee of Aurora, Colorado.

YI SETOL PROMOTED AGAIN: Yi Setol (Lee Sedol) has been promoted to 7P as a result of taking second place in the KT Cup, losing to Yoo Changhyuk 9P. Yi was promoted to 6P from 3P barely a month ago, so he has advanced four ranks in forty days.

JUJO WINS: Jiang Zhujiu "Jujo" 9P won his second round game against Kim Mansu 4P in the Korean KBS Cup. Jujo was seeded into the second round in this tournament and won by resignation with Black. You can download the game at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664147&u=http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/momoyama/news/kr/kbs/kbs.html&g=0&f=84664154 .

REDMOND LOSES: After defeating Cho Chikun 9P in the quarter finals, Michael Redmond lost his semi-final game in the Gosei Tournament to Yoda Norimoto 9P and current Meijin. Redmond had black and lost by 8.5 points. Yoda will play Akiyama Jiro 8P to determine who will challenge the current title holder, Kobayashi Koichi 9P.

GAME COMMENTARY: Paris in the Spring

Today's game commentary was played just a few weeks ago in the Paris Open. Guo Juan, 7D takes White against Fan Hui, a 20-year-old 2 dan pro from China. "The Paris Open tournament is a big event in Europe," says Guo, "not only because it is a big tournament, but also because Paris itself is an attractive city. Since last year, the tournament has moved to a beautiful city hall, and it attracted even more players this year. I go every year, to play and also to meet friends, enjoy the nice food, and join parties every evening. We hardly have any time left to sleep, so every morning you see players whose eyes are still almost closed. This year there were almost 300 players, and many were very strong."

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YOUR MOVE: Readers Write

24/7 MGA: "In mentioning full-time go clubs you left out the Massachusetts Go Association," writes Roland Crowl, "which has maintained its own facilities accessible to members 24/7 for more than twenty years. The American Go Journal carried an article noting our twenty years in existence a few years ago."

LIVE CHAT 1: "There is already shareware called Roger Wilco that lets game players chat over the internet while playing," writes David Fotland in response to Roy Laird's recent Online Go column on the subject. "There is no need for a ham license, just a sound card and microphone. It even allows more than two people to join the chat so you could have a game with a teacher commenting." Get it at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664143&u=http://rogerwilco.gamespy.com/&g=0&f=84664154

LIVE CHAT II: "Seeing and speaking with your online go partner as you play is available now for a one-time charge of about $50, assuming you already have an IBM-compatible PC on the internet," writes Eric Osman. "To see the basic software, which is already on your computer, press your START menu and choose RUN and type in CONF, which will bring up netmeeting, which allows speaking with and seeing anyone else on the internet who chooses to also bring up netmeeting." The $50 one-time charge is Eric's estimate of the cost of a web camera and a microphone; he recommends a headset as well.

LINUX GO SOFTWARE: "I would be grateful to learn if anyone knows where I might locate a version of go software which runs on Linux 7.3 Valhalla," writes Edith Hughes, who adds that she has a 650 processor.

THE EMPTY BOARD: What You Know Can Hurt You
By William Cobb
"If you don't know ladders, you don't know go" is a familiar proverb, but now there's a corollary: "If you do know ladders, you still may not know go." Many go players were quite startled by Lee Sedol's gambit in his game in the Korean KAT Cup on April 23rd (attached to the May 5th E-Journal) when he ran out a ladder for which a ladder breaker was already in place. Every go player knows that when there's a ladder breaker in place you either take the stone or attack the ladder breaker. You certainly do not run out the ladder. So what are we to think when one of the very strongest players in the world does what even mediocre amateurs know should not be done, and wins the game by doing it? What we do is rejoice at the wonders of the world's greatest game. Maybe there really are no limits to this game's possibilities, no ironclad principles of correct play: just an inexhaustible and wondrous world of creative possibilities, and an endless challenge to our creative imaginations! . Buddhists insist that the world is open-ended in an unqualified sense. Nothing is fixed absolutely, so everything is possible. Lee Sedol has shown that is certainly true of go. So stay flexible, and enjoy the surprises. Past columns are archived at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664150&u=http://www.slateandshell.com/billcobb.asp&g=0&f=84664154

THE GO PLAYER'S GUIDE TO ROCHESTER, NY
by Chris Garlock
Of all the go clubs I've played in over the last 18 years, the Empty Sky Go Club holds a special place in my heart. Although I learned go at the Philadelphia Go Club in 1985, it was Rochester where I became a dan-level player, and where I began my work as a go journalist. So it was a special treat to visit the rejuvenated Empty Sky Go Club last weekend. The club, in a sign of its new health, was hosting its first tournament in nearly a decade. Host of the 1991 U.S. Go Congress, the ESGC had organized an annual tournament for several years thereafter, but had stopped when several key organizers (including, I must confess, myself) left town. The club formed in the mid-Seventies when a group of enthusiasts, including long-time stalwarts Bill Hewitt and Dave Weimer, began meeting in each other's homes. Bill, now the club's grise eminence, and retired from the Auto Club of America, dates the formal founding of the club to the arrival of a Dr. Kumazawa, a strong 2-dan amateur. The club began meeting regularly in Bill's apartment and soon moved to Dave's house where the Tuesday night gatherings became a fixture for the next two decades, and which only ended when Dave, a professor of political science left to teach in Ann Arbor, MI. Down to a few hardcore players, the club reverted to Bill's place for a few years until the arrival of an infusion of new blood arrived in the form of a veritable posse of young students from the Rochester Institute of Technology, who had learned about the game through the Hikaru No Go anime series. Led by Greg Lefler and Jeremy Banzhaf, the young beginners proved avid students of the game and their go education has now been taken over by Thomas Hsiang, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Rochester and one of the top amateurs in the United States today (I had the pleasure of a lesson from him on Board 1 in the final round of last weekend's tournament; even five stones was not enough!). The RIT gang has taken over the Empty Sky Go Club, whic! h now has status as an official club at the school (where the tournament was held) and meets three times a week at Java Wallys on the RIT Campus (in Building 6): Tues 7-12P, Thur 7-12P and Sat 7-12P. Check out the ESGC website (including a veritable Rogues Gallery of photos of club members) at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664148&u=http://www.rit.edu/~mtskywww/&g=0&f=84664154 or email gll6624@rit.edu

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GO CLASSIFIED

WANTED: Plans for building go boards. BardKile@cs.com
P Kile (posted 5/12)

FOR SALE: Must give up go for health reasons; huge lot of go books (50+) and equipment at bargain prices! Email ken schatten at schatten@alum.mit.edu for a complete list. (posted 5/6)

WANTED: Copy of "First Kyu" by Sung?Hwa Hong. Any condition. Will pay $25 plus shipping. Write Jonathan at glass@ctconnect.com or call 203-256-8162. (posted 4/28)

FOR SALE: Giant Go sets. Perfect for public, club, exhibition play. Measure 10 by 10, 14 by 14 and 20 by 20 feet. For more information contact Dr. Steven Cottingham at stevenc@onoacademy.co.uk or toll free at 888-838-1982 (posted 4/28)

WANTED: Information about the existence and location of giant go sets (NOT looking to buy or build; no queries please!), like the one in Milan, Italy, as seen in "Go Promotion in Piazza Duomo" Milano, 7th May 2000: http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664146&u=http://www.goclubmilano.org/foto/duomo2000/inglese.html&g=0&f=84664154

GO PLAYERS

Alaska: I have known about go for over 20 years but playing just the last four and am looking for players in Alaska, particularly the Anchorage area. Ed Sawyer, eddieballgame@yahoo.com (posted 5/12)

COLORADO: The Springs Go Club is looking for Go players in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area. All strengths welcome. (Currently we have players from about 20k to 3 dan.) Contact Jim Michali, jmichali@adelphia.net or Tom Obenchain tobenchain@pcisys.net (posted 4/28)

FLORIDA: "I have suddenly come across go and would love to get started," writes Harold. "I'm hoping someone out there would love a student now residing in Port St Lucie, FL; the brain needs a work out." Harrlin@juno.com or call 772-466-1212. (posted 4/7)

GERMANY: New American player living near Kaiserslautern, Germany looking for players. email myndreach98@hotmail.com (posted 4/28)

KENTUCKY: Players in central Kentucky: Frankfort near Lexington and Louisville. wlmacintire@msn.com (posted 4/28)

MAINE: New go player; IGo computer version not enough,. Would like to find a Maine player (Greater Augusta area) to play/learn from. Email Bill at wchellis@gwi.net (posted 5/6)

MISSOURI: "A friend and I are starting a new club in St. Louis City (there's already a good one in the suburbs but we're trying to get one closer to home)," writes Chris Cyr. "While we've got plenty of interest from beginners, we'd like to reach some experienced players too." chris@chriscyr.com (posted 4/7)

OHIO: players in the Toledo (Ohio) area. Contact David43515@hotmail.com (posted 4/28)

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SCOREBOARD: Los Angeles, California; Rochester, NY

Los Angeles, California
2003 Cotsen Open and Handicap Tournament
May 2/3
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OPEN (6 Dan and Up) (13 players): 1st: Lin, Xuefen 1P $1000; 2nd: Li, Jie 6d $500; 3rd: Jeong, Jong In 6d $250; 4th: Chang, Deuk Je 6d $125; 5th: Hung, Joey 6d $75; 6th: Kim, Yong Hyun 6d $50 1st DAN DIVISION (5d-4d) (18 players): 1st: Zhou, Yixian 5d $500; 2nd: Tang, Curtis 5d $250; 3rd: Pine, Steven 5d $125 2nd DAN DIVISION (3d-2d) (18 players): 1st: Lee, Elton 3d $400; 2nd: Ok, Kyung H 3d $200; 3rd: Kim, Nam Soo 2d $100; 3RD DAN DIVISION (1d) (16 players): 1st: Xu, Paul 1d $300; 2nd: Zhou, Qi-Hao 1d $150; 3rd: Huang, Jim 1d $75 1ST KYU DIVISION (1k-4k) (22 players): 1st: Tabata, Tom 1k $200; 2nd: Huang, Ming 2k $100; 3rd: Shen, Hao 3k $60 2ND KYU DIVISION (5k-10k) (18 players): 1st: Coo, Gus 5k $100; 2nd: Guo, Felix 5k $80; 3rd: McLellan, Jeffrey 5k $50 3RD KYU DIVISION (12k-19k) (16 players): 1st: Xu, Tom 18k $80; 2nd Hutchins, Preston 12k $60; 3rd: Chang, Alex 15k $40 4TH KYU DIVISION (20k+ ) (26 Players): 1st: Li, Thomas 20k $60; 2nd: Lin, Tom 25k $40; 3rd: Chiang, Fred 25k $30

Rochester, NY
Empty Sky Spring Tournament
May 10/11
Players: 37; Dan: 10; Kyu: 27
Sponsor: Ing Foundation
Organizer: Greg Lefler
Director: Chuck Robbins

HIGH DAN DIVISION 4-7d, 5 Players: 1st: HSIANG, Thomas 7D; 2nd: WALDRON, Phillip 5D
Low Dan Division 1-3d, 5 Players: 1st: CHEN, Ralph 2D; 2nd: ROBBINS, Chuck 3D Upper Kyu Division 1-5k, 8 Players: 1st: YU, Jia 1K; 2nd: LEFLER, Greg 1K Middle Kyu Division 6-11k, 8 Players: 1st: GOUSIOS, Peter 6K; 2nd: LEE, Young 11K Lower Kyu Division 12-25k, 11 Players: 1st: WELLS, Chris 15K; 2nd: GUSTAVSON, Carrie 17K

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

May 23-26: Round Top, NY
Memorial Day workshop with Guo Juan
Jean-Claude Chetrit 718-638-2266 zorglub@brooklyngoclub.org http://gm14.com/r.html?c=200478&r=200062&t=88498618&l=1&d=84664142&u=http://brooklyngoclub.org/generic_club/cgi-bin/disp_topic.iphtml%3f&g=0&f=84664154
topic_id=117

May 24-25: Baltimore, MD
30th MARYLAND OPEN
Keith L. Arnold 410-788-3520 hlime@earthlink.net

May 31: Davis, CA
Davis/Sacramento Go Club Tournament
Fred Hopkins 916-965-0478 fred.hopkins@mckesson.com

June 6: Bethesda, MD
Lessons with Yuan Zhou at GWGC
Haskell Small 202-244-4764 haskellsmall@starpower.net

June 14: Chicago, IL
One Nation Under Go
Bob Barber 773-467-0423 komoku@earthlink.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
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