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May 26, 2003

In This Edition:
U.S. GO NEWS: AGA Nominations Set; Journal Correction
WORLD GO NEWS: Favorites Emerge In Meijin League; Japanese Pro Census; LG Cup Rescheduled; Izumi Loses; Healey & Macfayden By A Hair GAME COMMENTARY: Pro v. Pro Demo in L.A.
THE EMPTY BOARD: Dealing with Losing
GO REVIEW: Learn to Play Go, Volume IV: Battle Strategies
GO CLASSIFIED
SCOREBOARD: Baltimore, MD
CALENDAR OF EVENTS

U.S. GO NEWS

AGA NOMINATIONS SET: Two of three seats coming open on the Board of the American Go Association are being contested in upcoming elections. John Stevenson and Allan Abramson have been nominated in the Eastern Region, while Harold Lloyd and Jeff Shaevel have been tapped to run in the Central Region. Robert O'Malley is the sole nominee in the Western Region. Nominations closed May 15; ballots will be mailed June 21 to representatives of all chapters that are entitled to vote. Chapter representatives must return the ballots by July 19, and the votes will be counted at the August Go Congress in Houston, where the results will be announced.

JOURNAL CORRECTION: In Yi-lun Yang's Historic Life & Death problems in the current issue of the American Go Journal (Spring, 2003, p. 18), it should read "White to Play" in the 1924 problem. Kudos to Joe Maia for catching the mistake; we apologize for the error.

WORLD GO NEWS

FAVORITES EMERGE IN MEIJIN LEAGUE: The tournament to determine the next challenger for the Meijin title in Japan is far enough along that clear favorites have emerged. Each player must play eight games in the nine round league, and with three rounds to go, there are two players with five wins: Yamashita Keigo 7P, who is in his twenties and has been having a lot of success lately, is 5-0, and Cho U 7P, who is three years younger and has also been impressive, is 5-1. Right on their heels is one of the established stalwarts, Rin Kaiho 9P, who is sixty-one and is 4-2.

JAPANESE PRO CENSUS: The numbers of pros currently active in Japan are as follows: of 9 dans there are 110, of 8 dan 60, of 7 dan 57, of 6 dan 62, of 5 dan 48, of 4 dan 28, of 3 dan 27, of 2 dan 22, and of 1 dan 22, for a total of 436 professional go players altogether. [from www.gogameworld.com]

LG CUP RESCHEDULED: The first round of the 8th LG Cup, in which Michael Redmond 9P is the North American representative, was postponed due to the SARS epidemic, but it has now been rescheduled to begin on June 15 in Korea. This international tournament includes many of the best known current pros and will be a good one to watch.

IZUMI LOSES: Kobayashi Izumi 5 dan, the first woman to play in the challengers round of the Judan Tournament, lost her game on May 22nd against O Meien 9 dan. However, she has another chance since this tournament has a losers' section. She will play the loser of the match between Cho Chikun 9 dan and Yamada Kimio 8 dan. The winner of the losers' section plays the winner of the winners' section to determine the challenger for the title, which is currently held by O Rissei 9 dan.

HEALEY & MACFAYDEN BY A HAIR: Kirsty Healey and Matthew Macfadyen retained the Pair Go Championship of the British Go Association for a third year. This year they beat Alison and Simon Bexfield in the final by half a point. Third were Natasha Regan and Matthew Cocke who lost to the winners in round 2. You can see photos at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=203897&r=203481&t=88498618&l=1&d=84681557&u=http://uk.geocities.com/ajaxgo/pair2003.htm&g=0&f=84681564 but you won't recognize Macfadyen.

GAME COMMENTARY: Pro v. Pro Demo in L.A.

Chen Zude 9D, one of the best known Chinese professional go players, was the first player in modern times to have a good result against Japanese pros, and has been a major figure on the Chinese go scene for many years. Today's game commentary is from a demonstration game between Chen Zude and Yilun Yang 7D, played at the Costen Open in Los Angeles, CA, on May 4. Mr. Yang provides his usual incisive commentary on this exciting game the features a complicated middle-game battle.

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THE EMPTY BOARD: Dealing with Losing
By William Cobb

So you don't like to lose? If you said something like that to a Zen master, he'd laugh himself off his meditation mat. Here's what he'd say: think about the whole situation, and the fact that we're all in everything together in an ultimately inseparable way, just like the stones on the board. When a game has ended, someone won and someone lost. So there's surely at least one happy element in this: the experience of winning. Now, if you weren't the one who won, the challenge is to figure out how to connect with the happy side of this situation. Focusing on yourself as an isolated individual won't help. From that perspective you're just a loser, like a go stone is just a piece of rock in isolation. Focusing on the fact that the game is over doesn't help either. After all, playing the game was a positive process, it's just the way it ended up that bothers you. If you can gain a whole-situation perspective, you'll be able to reconnect with the positive dimension of this experien! ce. The way to overcome seeing your self as isolated and being frustrated is to focus on the aspects of the whole situation that you're losing sight of. Force yourself to connect with the winner, offer congratulations, smile, think back on all the fascinating twists and turns and interactions of the game, anticipate exciting games yet to be played. The first thing you know, you'll be laughing when you lose, too. Ah, ha, ha, ha! Past columns are archived at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=203897&r=203481&t=88498618&l=1&d=84681560&u=http://www.slateandshell.com/billcobb.asp&g=0&f=84681564

GO REVIEW: Learn to Play Go, Volume IV: Battle Strategies
By Janice Kim and Soo-Hyun Jeong,
Published by Samarkand
Reviewed by Lawrence Ku, 11k

This was the first English go book my parents bought for me, so I have a special feeling for it. In comparison with other go books, "Learn to Play" uses large pictures to demonstrate many variations and provides explanations of many go terms that will be very useful for a beginner. When I received this book, I was 21 kyu and it gave me a systematic view of attacking techniques, helping me a lot in my own attacking skills even though I could not fully understand all of the material in part 1, which covers middle game techniques such as invasion and reduction, battle strategies, how to attack, and how to take care of your stones or how to make good shape. While the second part of the book, which covers life and death and ko fighting, was a bit too easy for me I recently re-read "Learn to Play" and found Part 1 still very useful.


GO CLASSIFIED

WANTED: Copy of "All about Thickness" by Ishida Yoshio and "The Power of the Star-Point" by Takagawa Shukaku in any condition.
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WANTED: Plans for building go boards. BardKile@cs.com
P Kile (posted 5/12)

WANTED: Students, 30k - 2d. IGS 5d offers online lessons.
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GO PLAYERS

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SCOREBOARD: Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD
30th Maryland Open
May 24-25
Organizer: Keith Arnold
Tournament Director: Sam Zimmerman
90 players (a new record!)

Open Section: 1st: Feng Yun 9p $1300; 2nd: Yupei Xiong 1p $400; 3rd: Kevin Lee 7d $100; 4th: Ke Huang 7d $100; 5th: Yuan Zhou 7d $100 A Section: 1st: Haiming Guo 5d; 2nd: Wei Chen 3d; 3rd: Zhaonian Chen 5 dan B Section: 1st: William Hewitt 2d; 2nd: Michael Basaman 2d C Section: 1st: Gregory Lefler 1k (Kyu Champion); 2nd: Ian McCown 3k; 3rd: Steve Barberi 1k D Section: 1st: Peter Straus 4k; 2nd: James Pickett 6k; 3rd: Nathan Curtis 5k E Section: 1st: John Greiner 10k; 2nd: Mark Irgang 11k F Section: 1st: Ed Caldiers 13k; 2nd: Benjamin Johnson 15k G Section: 1st: Christian Sachse 23k; 2nd: Jack Nosek 19k; 3rd: Keven Koo 20 k

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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

June 7: Lancaster, PA
Lancaster Self Paired
Sam Zimmerman 717-892-1249 szimmerman@wareunl.com

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

June 16: Hoboken, NJ
Feng Yun lecture, Hoboken Go Club
lruss@stevens tech.edu

June 28: Richmond, VA
VA Open
William Cobb 800-653-7640 wmscobb@attbi.com

August 2-10: Houston, TX
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