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AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the American Go Association

August 4, 2003

In This Edition:
U.S GO CONGRESS NEWS: Yang Upsets Yang in Ing Pro Cup;
CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS; Jie Li Defends Ing Amateur; SPECIAL EVENTS: 9x9 & 13x13 Tourneys PROFESSIONALLY SPEAKING: Guo Juan RATINGS UPDATE WORLD GO NEWS: Lee Changho Takes Two; Kobayashi Hangs in for Gosei; Seul Ki Hong Leads Euro Championship
SCOREBOARD: Arlington, VA; Orlando, FL

U.S GO CONGRESS NEWS

YANG UPSETS YANG IN ING PRO CUP: In an upset victory, Huiren Yang, 1P, took White and defeated Yilun Yang 7P in the first round of the 2003 AGA/ING Pro Cup Sunday morning. Feng Yun, 9P prevailed over Xiaoren He 5P and Mingjiu Jiang, 7P beat Xuefen Lin, 1P. In a lightning round playoff Sunday night
to determine the fourth slot for Round 2, Yang bounced back, defeating Xiaoren He. The 3-round match has $5,000 in cash prizes and will determine this year's North American Champion.
- reported by Bill Cobb

CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS: Over three hundred go players and fans gathered Saturday night at the University of Houston in Houston Texas for the 19th U.S. Go Congress. Players from as near as the sponsoring Houston Go Club and as far as away as Japan, England, Taiwan and Germany are in attendance for the weeklong annual event. After the usual round of announcements and welcomes,
concert pianist (and AGA 3d) Haskell Small provided a special treat to start the week off: a riveting performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations.

JIE LI DEFENDS ING AMATEUR: Defending champion Jie Li won his first round game Sunday night in the 13th North American Amateur Ing Cup. Sixteen top amateurs from the U.S. and Canada are vying to win the 4-round tournament. Li, 6d, defeated Lianzhou Yu, 6d. Also winning their first-round games were
Yuan Zhou, 6d (Jung Hoon Lee, 6d); Joey Hung, 6d (I-Han Lui, 6d); Ned Phipps, 6d (Thomas Hsiang, 6d); Michael Zeng, 6d (Jong Moon Lee, 6d); Ke Huang,
6d (Jon Boley, 6d); Moon Chong Kim, 6d (Eric Lui, 6d); Yongfei Ge, 6d (James Sedgwick, 5d). Round 2 will be held Monday night.
- reported by Bob Barber

SPECIAL EVENTS: 9x9 & 13x13 TOURNEYS
9x9: Anxious to dive right in, sixty players showed up for the 9x9 Small Board tournament Saturday night, directed by Craig Hutchinson. Playing round-robin in groups of six, each table yielded a winner who will play single-elimination matches during the course of the week. Round 1 winners were: DAN
SECTION: Richard Liang, 6d; Kory Stephens, 3d; Terry Fung, 3d; Tommy Slater 1d. KYU SECTION: Jan McCown; Russ Williams; Will Zhov; Stephen Sun; Mark Zuniga; Rachel Small; Stanley Sun.
13x13: fifty-one players competed in the 13x13 Tournament Sunday night. Table winners: DAN: Cory Stephens; Kohan Lin; Michael Kim. KYU: Michael Heinich; Chenang Shen; Senxiong Xie; Tom Xu; David Rohue; Gary Shen. Play-offs will take place during the week.
- reported by Mike Heinich

PROFESSIONALLY SPEAKING: Guo Juan
"Enough is enough," Guo Juan, 5P told a packed lecture room Sunday night. "If you're ahead by twenty do you really need to win by thirty? Is a four point win better than a 3 point win? A win is a win." Ms. Juan was emphasizing the importance of counting in determing correct strategy. In the game she was analyzing, Black didn't realize he was thirty points ahead and got entangled in a local fight that wound up costing him the game. "So often we get distracted by the fascinating local fights that we lose track of what's going on in the game overall," Ms. Juan warned.
- reported by Chris Garlock

RATINGS UPDATE: Updated tournaments through the end of July have been posted online at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=222834&r=222397&t=88498618&l=1&d=84772547&u=http://www.usgo.org/ratings.asp&g=0&f=-1
The following events are included in this update: Virginia Open, Richmond,
VA, June; July ratings Tournament, Seattle Go Center, Seattle, WA, July; MGA Summer Handicap Tournament, Boston, MA, July; Congress Tune-Up, Arlington, VA, July 2003; Song Mei Pavilion Self-Paired, Seattle, WA, July. NOTE: if you played in a tournament that you think should have been included but is not in this list, please contact the tournament organizers and ask them to send us their data. Tournament data for rating should be submitted to ratings@usgo.org
Look for the next Ratings Update September 1.
- Paul Matthews

WORLD GO NEWS

LEE CHANGHO TAKES TWO: In the 8th LG Cup in Korea, Yi (Lee) Changho 9P has
won his second-round game against Kim Yeonghwan 7P. Cho Hunhyun was eliminated in the first round but Yi (Lee) Sedol 7P is still in the contest and could be paired against Yi Changho in the finals. You can download the game at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=222834&r=222397&t=88498618&l=1&d=84772545&u=http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/momoyama/news/kr/lg/lg.html&g=0&f=-1

KOBAYASHI HANGS IN FOR GOSEI: After losing the first two games, Kobayashi Koichi 9P has won a game in his battle to hold onto the Gosei title in Japan. Kobayashi beat Yoda Norimoto 9P by 4.5 points so the score is now 2-1 in
Yoda's favor. You can see the game record at http://gm14.com/r.html?c=222834&r=222397&t=88498618&l=1&d=84772546&u=http://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/28gosei/igo/live28-3.html&g=0&f=-1

SEUL KI HONG LEADS EURO CHAMPIONSHIP: After 7 rounds, Seul Ki Hong 7d of Korea is still in the lead in the European Championship at the European Go Congress in St. Petersburg, Russia, though he lost his 7th-round game against Na Yeon Kang 6d, also of Korea, who also has 6 wins. The top Europeans are Dmitry Bogatsky 6d of Ukraine at 5/2 and Ilya Shiksin 5d of Korea, also at 5/2. Adam Miller 3d of the USA is maintaining a positive record at 4/3, while James Acres (US) is at 3-4 and Takeo Ueda (US) is 1/6. There are 307 players altogether.

SCOREBOARD: Arlington, VA; Orlando, FL

Arlington, VA
NoVa Congress Tune-Up
July 19, 2003
40 players, including a contingent from Rochester, NY.
1st: Wei Wang, 5d (4-0); Xinmu Tan, 2d, promoted to 3d (4-0); Alan Perrin,
3k (3-1); Gregory Rosenblatt, 6k, promoted to 5k (4-0); John Greiner, 9k (3-1); Horacio Blumenfeld, 17k (3-1); Matthew Kennedy, 25k (3-1).
2nd: Chuck Robbins, 3d (3-1); Gregory Leffler, 1d (2-2); David Takehashi, 3k (3-1); Raymond Yeh, 7k (3-1); Robert Lorentz, 13k (3-1); Jeremiah Parry-Hill, 16k (3-1); Keiju Takehara, 30k (3-1).
3rd: Matthew Penner, 14k (3-1); Kurt Haldeman, 22k (3-1).
- tournament reports edited by Jason Tellin

Orlando, FL
Florida State Go Championship
July 5/5, 2003
On July 5th & 6th, the Tesuji Go Club and the Go-Orlando organized the first annual Florida State Go Championship. Located at the University of Florida and hosted by the UCF Asian Student Association, organizers report that the tournament "was a great success." A representative of the Venezuelan Go
Association lent the tournament an international flavor. Dan Micsa, 3d won
the championship, while Gregory Geller, 2d came in second and Paul Benson,
4k was third. Ian VanSice was the top scholastic player.

E-JOURNAL GO CONGRESS EDITION STAFF: Chris Garlock, Bill Cobb, Bob Barber,
Joe Carl, Mike Heinich, Jeff Miller.

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