2009 American Go Yearbook

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Where to play Go in America — AGA CHAPTERS
http://www.usgo.org for a full club listing
AZ: Tempe
Arizona Go Club
William Gundberg
480-831-5567
president@azgoclub.org
CO: Denver
Fiery Rain of Go Stones
Jasmine Sailing
303-388-4666
jsailing@netonecom.net
HI: Honolulu
Honolulu Go Club
Sid Kobashigawa
833-2540
shk@hawaii.rr.com
MA: Boston
Northeastern Univ. Go Club
Joshua Warhurst
508-728-1351
northeasterngoclub@gmail.com
MT: Bozeman
Gallatin Valley Go Club
Pippin Wallace
406-582-8732
nippip@gmail.com
AZ: Tucson
Tucson Go Club
Martin Lebl
520-850-9213
martinlebl@gmail.com
CO: Longmont
Longmont Go Club
Aref Nammari
303-776-4200
arefnammari@yahoo.com
HI: Kaneohe
Oahu Go Club
Frank H. Alejandro
808-235-1567
frank713fha-go@yahoo.com
MA: Sharon
Sharon Go Club
David Hawkins
781-784-7782
davehawk@bellatlantic.net
NE: Omaha
Omaha go
Stuart Shell
402-216-1235
shelstu@iit.edu
CA: Davis
Davis/Sacramento Go Club
Willard Haynes
willard@saclink.csus.edu
DC: Washington
NI_ME
Thomas Giles
202-368-9955
beenthere@deepsojourner.info
IA: Ames
Cyclone go Club
Kirk Moloney
515-294-6415
kmoloney@iastate.edu
MA: Somerville
Massachusetts Go Association
Peter Martin
617-629-0110
outreach@massgo.org
NC: Cane Creek Middle School Go Club
Jeff Long
828-628-0824
jeff.long@bcsemail.org
Ca: Irvine
Orange County Go Club
Kevin Chao
949-466-1479
ocgoclub@ocgoclub.com
DC: Washington
Greater Washington Go Club
Haskell Small
202-244-4764
IA: Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Go Club
Jacob Uptain
319-329-5344
jacobuptain@yahoo.com
MD: Baltimore
Baltimore Go Club
Keith Arnold
410-788-3520
hlime81@comcast.net
CA: Livermore
LLNL Go Club
Karl Nelson
925-424-4183
nelson85@llnl.gov
DC: Washington
19 Squared Points Go Club
Thomas Allen Giles
202-338-8301
fat5old5ugly@aol.com
IA: Davenport
Quad Cities Go Club
Michael Dudzik
312-265-3061
info@qcago.org
MD: Baltimore
UMBC Go Club
443-392-6822
umbcgo@gmail.com
NC: Charlotte
Charlotte Go Club
Greg McCall
704-358-6297
bobbabbanatts@aol.com
CA: Oakland
Bay Area Go Players Assoc.
510-501-2701
FL: Fort Myers
Ft. Myers Go Club
Joshua Frye
239-357-8811
joshua1frye@comcast.net
MD: Baltimore
Hopkins Go Cllub
Lisa Scott
816-651-6347
jhu_go@yahoo.com
NC: Durhan/Chapel Hill
Triangle Go Group
Paul Celmer
919-779-7925
pcelmer@earthlink.net
MD: College Park
University of Maryland Go Club
Stephen M. Mount
301-405-6934
steve.mount@yahoo.com
NH: Nashua
Milford Go Club
Peter Gousios
603-882-0543
peteg@acm.org
IL: Prospect Heights
Northwest Chicago Go Club
Kyung Han
847-296-2510
MD: Germantown
XYZ Private Go Group
Yuan Zhou
301-528-7259
yuan.zhou@zhouyuan.com
NJ: Caldwell
Feng Yun go School
Feng Yun
973-992-5675
fengyun9p@yahoo.com
IL: Rockford
Rockford Go Club
Michael Hopkins
815-979-1148
michael.hopkins@gmail.com
MI: Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor Go Club
Eric Jankowski
734-663-1675
erjank@umich.edu
NJ: Freehold
Rutgers Go Club
Andrew Casal
732-740-7815
tenorfella@gmail.com
IL: Schaumburg
Schaumburg Go Club
Daniel Smith
847-274-9742
schaumburggoclub@gmail.com
MI: Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Go Club
Paul Miller
269-623-9981
gojettero@voltar-confed.org
NJ: Hoboken
Hoboken Go Club
Larry Russ
201-216-5379
lruss@stevens-tech.edu
KY: Louisville
Louisville Go Club
Asha Nagaiya
270-300-3418
fetalcryogenics@gmail.com
MN: Fairboult
Rice County Go Club
F. John Rowan
507-220-0825
goclub@geekcentral.us
NJ: Princeton
Princeton Go Club
Rick Mott
609-466-1602
rickmott@alumni.princeton.edu
LA: New Orleans
Crane’s Nest Go Club
Sean Moy
504-813-2804
seanlmoy@cox.net
MO: Go Miners S&T
Donald Wunsch
573-341-4521
dwunsch@mst.edu
NV: Las Vagas
Las Vegas Go Club
James Schaefer
702-824-2898
rubin427@panix.com
CA: San Diego
San Diego Go Club
Andrew Smith
619-669-8410
dracon_iss@hotmail.com
CA: San Francisco
Salesforce.com Go Club
Benjamin Tsai
415-8431688
me@benjamintsai.com
CA: San Francisco
San Francisco Go Club
415-386-9565
sfgoclub@dslextreme.com
CA: Santa Monica
Santa Monica Go Club
Christopher Hayashida
310-479-2892
chris.hayashida@prosum.com
CA: Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale Go Club
Jean G. DeMaiffe
408-720-0738
info@sunnyvalegoclub.org
CA: Ventura
Ventura County Go Club
David Whiteside
805-647-8803
dewhiteside@earthlink.net
CO: Boulder
Boulder Kid and Teens Go Club
Paul Barchilon
303-440-7124
shimari@comcast.net
CO: Colorado Springs
Springs Go Club
Jim Michali
719-487-8816
jimichali@gmail.com
CO: Denver
Colorado Go Center
Eric Wainwright
303-460-0885
cwainwright@mho.com
FL: Gainsville
Univ. of Florida Go Club
Michael Dyer
352-514-3723
hunter_777us@yahoo.com
FL: Melbourne
Space Coast Area Go Assoc.
George Lebovitz
rokkitsci@cfl.rr.com
FL: Miami
Miami Go Club
Joel Sanet
305-652-1137
sanetj@bellsouth.net
FL: Orlando
Go Orlando
Joshua Lee
305-308-6624
masterman535@gmail.com
FL: Sarasota
Sarasota Go Club
Larry Rabinowitz
941-922-1000
rabitz@verizon.net
FL: Tampa
Tampa Go Club
John Russell
813-385-1853
johnfrancisrussell@gmail.com
GA: Atlanta
Atlanta Go Club
Jeffery J Kerlagon
770-992-0308
kerlagon@bellsouth.net
GA: Reingold
Go Players’ Association
Greg Gibson
706-980-4924
ggibson@daltonstate.edu
IL: Evanston
Evanston Go Club
Mark Rubenstein
847-869-6020
mark@easyaspi.com
IL: Peoria
Bradley Go Association
Roy Schmidt
309-677-3718
roy@bumail.bradley.edu
LA: Shreveport
Shreveport-Bossier Go Club
Peter Haas
318-861-7829
haasfam@bellsouth.net
MA: Amherst
Western Massachusetts Go Club
Micah Feldman
413-587-3720
myfeldman@yahoo.com
NC: Cary
Cary Go Club
Owen Chen
919-468-2062
owenjchen@gmail.com
MO: Southwest Missouri Go Club
Tyler Keithley
NY: Brooklyn/Manhatten
417-399-4318
Brooklyn Go Club
tykkeithley@gmail.com
Jean-Claude Chetrit
718-638-2266
MS: Jackson/Ridgeland/Brandon jc@brooklyngoclub.org
Mississippi Go Society
Rez Johnson
NY: Buffalo
601-732-2392
Buffalo Go club
msgo@pureprovidence.com
David Daniels
760-468-4204
dmd987654@yahoo.com
TX: San Antonio
San Antonio Go Club
Levi Self
210-367-9759
levi.r.self@gmail.com
WA: Olympia
Olympia Go Club
Jason Baghoudarian
360-867-4086
olywago@gmail.com
WI: Madison
University of Wisconsin Go Club
Dan Kastenholtz
608-255-6539
dankaste@merr.com
UT: Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Go Club
Mike Wallstedt
801-558-4892
mikewallstedt@gmail.com
WA: Seattle
Seattle Go Center
Jon Boley
206-545-1424
jon@seattlegocenter.org
WI: Milawukee
Milwaukee Go Club
Richard Hayes
414-967-1057
rhayes@wi.rr.com
VA: Blacksburg
Blacksburg Go Club
John Greiner
540-884-7010
johnagreiner@gmail.com
WA: Tacoma
Tacoma Go Club
Gordon Castanza
253-853-4831
gcastanza@comcast.net
ISRAEL: Rosh Ha’Ayin
Mind Go Club
Shavit Fragman
+972 (0)54 500453
info@go-mind.com
DAF Go League
Latasha James
admin@delawareanimefans.com
2009 AMERICAN GO YEARBOOK
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contents
AGA OFFICERS & COORDINATORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
AMERICA’S TEACHING PROFESSIONALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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US TITLEHOLDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
U.S. GO: THE YEAR IN HEADLINES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
MAJOR 2009 TOURNAMENTS & EVENTS
US GO CONGRESS
Takemiya Returns To U.S. Go Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Doubling Up With Live Pro Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kim Sweeps U.S. Open To Retain Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Zhao Wins Congress Die Hard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A (Musical) Game Of Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
More Commentaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Learning From The Professionals: Yilun Yang 7P . . . . . . . . . .
New Player Database Launched . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Closer Look At Shusaku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Shi Repeats As Redmond Senior Champion . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Go is…
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an ancient board game which takes simple elements—line and circle,
Black and White, stone and wood—combines them with simple rules
and generates subtleties which have enthralled players for millennia. Go’s
appeal resides not only in its Asian elegance, but also in practical and
stimulating features in the design of the game.
Go’s few rules can be demonstrated quickly and grasped easily. It is
enjoyably played over a wide range of skills. Each level of play has its
charms, rewards and discoveries. A unique and reliable handicapping
system leads to equal contests between players of widely disparate
strengths. Go is uniquely flexible and rewards patience and balance over
aggression and greed. An early mistake can be made up, used to advantage
or reversed as the game proceeds. There is no simple procedure to turn a
clear lead into a victory.
Go thinking seems to be more lateral than linear, less dependent on
logical deduction, and more reliant on a “feel” for the game, a “sense” of
form, a gestalt perception of significant patterns.
Beyond being merely a game, go can take on other meanings to enthusiasts: an analogy with life, an intense meditation, a mirror of one’s personality, an exercise in abstract reasoning, or, when played well, a beautiful
art in which Black and White dance across the board in delicate balance.
But most important for all who play, go is challenging and fun.
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Cover photo: John Pinkerton
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Jerry Shen Wins Redmond Cup Junior Division . . . . . . . . . .
East Keeps Streak Alive Against West In Youth All-Stars . . . .
Why We Play: A Few Of Our Favorite Thing About The
Congress (And Go) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Why We Go: Interview With A Congress First-Timer . . . . . .
Kim Prevails Again In Man Vs Machine Rematch . . . . . . . . .
By The Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Burrall Wins NAIM Board Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Crazy Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Heard & Seen: Too Big To Die? Whose Move Is It, Anyway?
It Takes A Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pair Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Go Congress Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
US Go Congress Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
US Go Congress Photo Album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Record EJ Team Covers Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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NORTH AMERICAN ING MASTERS
Andy Liu Defeats 3 Pros To Win ’09 Ing Masters . . . . . . . . . 23
GAME HIGHLIGHTS: Ing Masters Final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
North American Ing Masters Tournament Players . . . . . . . . . 25
WORLD AMATEUR GO CHAMPIONSHIP
U.S. Slips To 15th In World Amateurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
On Emotions, Philosophy And The Will To Win . . . . . . . . .
5 MINUTES WITH: Nicholas Roussos, Cyprus . . . . . . . . . .
Michael Redmond Looks Ahead…And Back . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 MINUTES WITH: Edgardo Caceres Estrada, Guatemala. . . .
WAGC BRIEFS: Congress Tour Group, An Alaskan in Japan,
Franco-American Humor, Why to Play in Calcutta,
Luxembourg’s Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
IGF Making Big Moves In World Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GAME HIGHLIGHTS: Austria-U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
More WAGC Game Commentaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 MINUTES WITH: Csaba Mero, Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . .
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WORLD STUDENT OZA & N.A. FUJITSU QUALIFIER
Jie Li Runner-Up At World Student Oza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Jie Li Repeats At N.A. Fujitsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Jie Li Falls To Hane Naoki In First Round Of Fujitsu . . . . . . 35
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KOREA PRIME MINISTER CUP: LIVE FROM JEONJU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
COTSEN OPEN
Jing Yang 7d Wins Cotsen Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Cotsen Game Highlight: Curtis Tang 7d - Dae Hyuk Ko 7d . . . 38
Ah, Youth: A Cotsen Tournament Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
JUJO JIANG GO TOURNAMENT
Mingjiu Jiang Recaptures Jujo Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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NEW JERSEY & MARYLAND OPENS
Andy Liu Wins NJ Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Daniel Chou Wins Maryland Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
INSTRUCTION
Haruyama Isamu 9P on Questions From Actual Play . . . . . . .
Kazunari Furuyama on Important, Fundamental Matters . . . .
Yuan Zhou 7d on Amateur Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alexander Dinerchtein 3P on Piao Wenyao 5P - Gu Li 9P . . .
Yilun Yang 7P’s Tsume Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Go World: Yamashita Keigo 9P - Cho Chikun 9P . . . . . . . . .
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PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Barack Obama ‘s American-Made Go Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Allan Abramson: “A Lifetime Pastime” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
THE GO PLAYERS GUIDE TO THE WORLD
Tokyo: The Star Nine Go School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tokyo: The Shusaku Go Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tokyo: The Sunshine Go Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Japan: Pilgrimage to Honinbo Shuwa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Spain: Go In Madrid & Barcelona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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YOUTH GO
Sun Shines In U.S. Youth Championship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
U.S. Youth Place 5th At World Championship . . . . . . . . . . .
Matthew Burrall Wins Jujo Youth Tourney . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Zhang 3-Peats At Ing Youth Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
North America Prevails In Transatlantic Youth Match . . . . . .
Zhao And Song Top NJ USYGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Frye Named Teacher Of The Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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PASSAGES/IN MEMORIAM
Jin Chen 7d (60); “Way To Go” Author Karl Baker (60); Larry .
Sigmond 2d and Landon Brownell 7d (60-61); Tom Trilling 1d
(61); Jeff Boscole 2k (61)
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SCOREBOARD: LOCAL EVENT PHOTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62-67
RATINGS: ALL CURRENT MEMBERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
MOST GAMES/EVENTS: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-70
WINNERS CIRCLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
GUIDE TO GO: WHERE TO PLAY GO IN AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . .Inside covers
YEARBOOK ADVERTISERS
GoBase.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
gogameworld.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
GoGod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Guo Juan’s Go School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Kiseido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 68
Schaak en go winkel het Paard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Slate & Shell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11, 36, 48 & 54
SmartGo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 22, 40, & 57
US Go Congress 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 18, 78
Yellow Mountain Imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Yutopian Enterprises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
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My Move
Managing Editor
Chris Garlock
Assistant Editor
William S. Cobb
Associate Editors
Paul Barchilon
Terry Benson
Roy Laird
John Pinkerton
Contributing Professionals
Yilun Yang 7P
Alexander Dinerchtein 3P
Contributors
Brian Allen
Robert McGuigan
Yuan Zhou 7d
Design
Lincoln Steffens
Production
Doyle Printing
Landover, Maryland
Database Manager
Sam Zimmerman
Website
www.usgo.org
Email
journal@usgo.org
P.O. Box 397
Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10113-0397
by Chris Garlock, Managing Editor
What a year for American go! See pages 10-11 for a quick overview
of a month-by-month overview of the year. The big event of 2009,
of course, was the 25th annual U.S. Go Congress, and we’ve devoted a whopping 16
pages (pp 12-27) to our recap of the E-Journal’s wall-to-wall coverage of that exciting
event. Even with that much coverage, we still just scratched the surface of the year’s
largest and longest go event, which attracts hundreds of go fans and professionals from
around the world. Be sure to check out the fun and games at this year’s Congress,
scheduled for July 31 – August 8 in Colorado Spring, CO, where we’ll repeat one of
our popular innovations, live online pro commentary on the morning Congress top
board.
It may be overreaching a bit to claim Barack Obama as the first go-playing
President of the United States, but Obama certainly demonstrated a high-level awareness of the game when he presented an American-made go set to Chinese Premier Hu
Jintao during his November visit to China (page 50; catch up with our own President
Allan Abramson, in his interview on page 51).
American go continues to enjoy the fruits of a cadre of hard-working local
volunteers who organize the dozens of local tournaments both large and small, as well
as the various pro and other events throughout the year. We’re pleased to offer ongoing
promotion and coverage of these events in the E-Journal, and to feature them in the
Yearbook. Coverage of major events like the Cotsen and Jujo Jiang tournament begins
on page 39. And don’t miss our photo album of shots from these events, beginning on
page 64.
The E-Journal has been covering the World Amateur Go Championships for
several years now, and we were thrilled and honored to team up with our colleagues at
Ranka in 2009 to provide enhanced coverage of this major amateur event. Seven pages
of coverage – including game highlights -- begin on page 29.
In addition to the WAGC, the United States sends representatives to several
major world go events, and you’ll find reports on the World Student Oza, the Fujitsu
and the Korean Prime Minister Cup on pages 37-38.
Our wide range of instructional material continues to be a popular part of the
E-Journal’s Member’s Edition, and samples from Haruyama Isamu 9P’s Questions
From Actual Play, Kazunari Furuyama’s Important, Fundamental Matters, Yuan Zhou
7d on amateur kyu games, Alexander Dinerchtein 3P’s pro commentary, Yilun Yang
7P’s life and death tsumego puzzles, as well as commentaries from Go World all begin
on page 44.
Visit Tokyo’s Star Nine Go School, Shusaku and Sunshine go clubs in our Go
Players Guide To The World (beginning on page 52), as well as taking a Pilgrimage to
Honinbo Shuwa and exploring Go In Madrid and Barcelona.
Youth go continues to be a vibrant part of the American go scene and our coverage on pages 57-61 is just the tip of a growing iceberg of strong young players who
we’re sure will dominate our community for years to come.
The EJournal’s Passages reports – obituaries for go players who have passed away
-- are our hardest duty and 2009, and though we lost far too many good friends last
year, we’re proud to be able to honor and hold the memory of Jin Chen, Karl Baker,
Larry Sigmond, Landon Brownell, Tom Trilling and Jeff Boscole in these pages.
Thanks, as always, to stalwart Assistant Editor Bill Cobb and the entire worldwide E-Journal and Yearbook team (see page 6), as well as the AGA leadership and
volunteers (page 7) and our wonderful go vendors, who work so hard to help us enjoy
and improve at this fascinating game.
See you on the goban!
NOTE: Technical issues have delayed our production of this year’s Yearbook CD; watch the
E-Journal for updates on when it’ll be available.
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2010 US Go Congress
July 31 - August 8
Colorado Springs, CO
www.gocongress.org
AGA OFFICERS AND
COORDINATORS
The AGA leadership is made up
entirely of go-loving volunteers.
They wish to share their enjoyment
of the game with others and put
in a lot of time and effort; we
appreciate their work. Below is a list
of contacts to find the department
and person you are looking for. To
find out how you can get involved,
email president@usgo.org
AGA BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
NATIONAL COORDINATORS:
Roy Schmidt (Central) (Chair)
Paul Celmer (Eastern Region)
Chuck Robbins (Eastern Region)
Laura Kolb (Central Region)
Andrew Okun (Western Region)
Gordon Castanza (Western Region)
Jie Li (At Large)
Chapter Services: Arnold Eudell
Community Outreach: John Goon
Membership: Mark Rubenstein
Pair Go: Allan Abramson
Summer Go Camps: (open)
Tournament Coordination: (open)
Youth Coordination: Paul Barchilon
Archivist: David Doshay
Membership Database:
Sam Zimmerman
Tournament Database:
Jonathan Bresler
Elections Officer: Arnold Eudell
Policy & Governance: Keith Arnold
Rank Certification (open)
Rules: Terry Benson
EJournal Editor: Chris Garlock
Webmaster: Steve Colburn
AGA OFFICERS:
President: Allan Abramson
Secretary: Pauline Pohl
Treasurer: Adam Bridges
VP – Communications: C. Garlock
VP – International: Thomas Hsiang
VP – Planning: Chris Kirschner
VP – Ratings: Phil Waldron
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AMERICA’S TEACHING PROFESSIONALS
FENG YUN 9P
MINGJIU JIANG 7P
JANICE KIM 3P
www.fygc.com
golesson@yahoo.com
973-992-5675
Feng Yun, a former women’s world champion
and China national women’s champion,
teaches weekly go classes to over 100 students
at various New Jersey locations, and holds
winter and summer workshops in New
Jersey and a summer workshop in China.
Intermediate and advanced students also
can schedule one-on-one online lessons.
Students of all ages are welcome. Feng Yun
was the American team coach for the World
Mind Sports Games, a North American
Ing Masters champion, and has represented
the United States in the Toyota & Denso
Cup World Go Oza and in various women’s
international championships.
www.Gomasters.com
mingjiu7p@hotmail.com
Mingjiu Jiang 7P has been teaching go for
more than 25 years to both children and
adults. Recent accomplishments include
winning the 2007 North America Ing
Masters Championship and in 2008, he
was the North America representative to the
Fujitsu Cup, the Toyota/Oza Cup and the
Ing World Cup. He teaches go on and off
line.
www.samarkand.net
jkim@samarkand.net
Author of the award-winning, best-selling
go series Learn to Play Go. 1984 Fuji
Women’s Champion, 1985 World Youth
Championship 2nd place, 1994 EBS Cup
3rd place. Teaches privately; all ages.
MYUNGWAN KIM 9P
mwkim98@hanmail.net
213-210-1577
Myungwan Kim teaches go in Los Angeles
area, where he runs a Go Academy in the
Korean Go Club. He made the Final 8 in the
2005 Samsung World Championship, was a
member of Bohae team in the 2004 Korean
league of 2004, a 3-time runner-up in the
BC Card Cup for rookies in 1998, 1999
and 2002, won the US Go Congress Open in
2008 and 2009 and was the first pro sent to
the U.S. by the Korean Baduk Association.
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YILUN YANG 7P
yanggo@earthlink.net
Chief instructor of the American Go Institute
since 1986. Author of “Fundamental
Principles of Go”; “Whole Board Thinking In
Joseki”; “Ingenious Life And Death Puzzles”.
Yang has taught hundreds of students
worldwide via the internet and has annual
workshops across the country.
GUO JUAN 5P
www.internetgoschool.com
guojuangoschool@gmail.com
Well-known to American go players through
her regular workshops and lectures at the
annual U.S. Go Congress, Guo Juan has
lived in the Netherlands since 1990 and
established Guo Juan’s Go School there
in 1996. She regularly competes in top
European tournaments and also teaches
online, where she pioneered audio teaching
systems.
JAMES KERWIN 1P
Minneapolis, MN
612-823-0699
jimk@maroon.tc.umn.edu
JENNIE SHEN 2P
JennieJShen@hotmail.com
A Chinese 2-dan professional living in Santa
Barbara, California, Jennie Shen has been
teaching go to children and adults since 2001,
and welcomes new students of all levels. She
offers both private and group lessons on KGS
and is a frequent lecturer for KGS Plus,
where you can find her lectures at http://
internetgoschool.com/ She has conducted go
workshops throughout the United States.
Major 2009 Tournaments & Events
US TITLEHOLDERS 2009
N. A. Fujitsu Qualifier
N.A. Student Oza
Jie Li 7d
N. A. Ing Masters
New Jersey Open
Andy Liu 7d
Cotsen Open
Jing Yang 7d
Maryland Open
Daniel Chou 7d
US Youth Go
Championship
Senior Division
Calvin Sun 7d
US Youth Go
Championship
Junior Division
Andrew Lu 6d
WAGC Rep
Eric Lui 7d
US Open
Myungwan Kim 8P
US Pair Go:
Jujo Jiang Tournament
Hajin Lee 3P – Won
Mingjiu Jiang 7P
Jong Kim 5d
Redmond Cup
Senior Division
Gansheng Shi 7d
Redmond Cup
Junior Division
Jerry Shen 2d
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U.S. Go 2009: The Year in Headlines
Selected from reports appearing in the American Go E-Journal in 2009; details can be found elsewhere in the Yearbook or see the Yearbook CD
for the complete original stories.
JANUARY: USYGC
Kicks Off In Tacoma;
Ing School Teams
Tourney Returns;
U.S.-Canada Youth
Team Match; Mingjiu
Jiang Recaptures Jujo
Cup; U.S. Sweeps
Canada In Youth
Friendship Match;
Updated AGA Starter
CD 5.0 Available.
photo: Jujo Cup
FEBRUARY: Eric Lui To Play For U.S. At 30th World Amateurs;
Go Helps Bring In New Year In Hawaii; Philly To Host Yuan
Zhou Go Workshop; Jin Chen 7d Dead At 22; Kerwin To Play
Many Faces In Latest Computer-Pro Match; Outreach In Oakland;
Small’s “A Game
Of Go” Posted On
YouTube; AGF
Announces New Go
Scholarship; New
Studies Demonstrate
Power Of Practice;
NJ Open Online;
Ing School Team
Championship
Begins; Computers
Catching Up Faster;
Starter CD Available
For Browsing/
Download; Ing
Grant Suspended. photo (above): NJ Open, by John Pinkerton; (right):
Chicago Youth tourney by Mark Rubenstein
MARCH: Andy Liu
Wins NJ Open; “Way
To Go” Author Baker
Passes; Library Go
Programs Spike; Jie Li
Runner-Up At World
Student Oza; USYGC
Finals Moved Online;
Boris’ Adventures In
Baduk; Goclubsonline
Offers Discounts;
Go Congress Site To
Launch This Week;
Countdown To Ing Season Begins; New Importer Offers Discount;
Free Go World Offer; AGF Announces New Scholarship; IMSA
To Begin Planning 2nd World Mind Games; Go Foundation
Newsletter Reports Progress In Schools, Libraries
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APRIL: Princeton Trounces Rutgers In First-Ever InterCollegiate Match; Go Is Elementary At Sedgewick;
Boulder Kids Go Club Turns Five; Poll Finds Strong
Support For English Go Channel; Transatlantic Youth
Match Set; Iowa Tourney Features Virtual Kerwin; Penn
Go Participates In 2009 Philly Cherry Blossom Fest;
Competition Heats Up For 1st Inter-Collegiate Match;
Jie Li Falls To Hane Naoki In Fujitsu; Ing Masters
Double-Header In Baltimore & Santa Monica; North
America Prevails In Transatlantic Youth Match; Koszegi
And Kim Propose U.S. Tour; Lui Leading In Online
Ing Qualifier; Redmond Notches 500th Win, Mother
Celebrates 80; Sigmond And Brownell Die; Seattle Holds
Three Tourneys In Two Days; Youth Competition Heats Up
In Redmond
Cup;
Marathon
Outreach In
Seattle; AGA
Summer Go
Camps. photo:
Seattle Sakura
Con by Brian
Allen
MAY: Go
Featured On History Channel; Nominations Open For 3
AGA Board Seats; In The Mood For Go In Oakland; N.A.
Ing Masters Final Push; EJ Expands Staff, Seeks Editors; U.S.
Youth Field Set; Kerwin Workshops Set For Ohio & British
Columbia;
Bradley On
Chess; AGF
College
Scholarship;
USYGC Finals
Broadcast Live;
EJ In Japan;
Congress
Registration
Goes Online;
Frye Named
Teacher Of The Year; Summer Go Camps Set In U.S. &
Europe; AGF Offers Prints For Teachers; Honor Society To
Hold Brunei-USA Friendship Cup; KGS Day At The NYGC;
Janice Kim Go Workshop Set For July. photo: Joshua Frye
JUNE: ’08 Yearbook In Mail; Feng Yun To Teach At U.S.
Summer Camp; U.S. Go Congress Registration Tops 300;
U.S. Go 2009: The Year in Headlines
Smartgo Pro 1.3 Released; Ko Wins U.S. Samsung Cup Playoff;
AGA Fields Full Slate For Board Elections; Hosts Sought For
Chinese Foreign Exchange Students; American Lee Sweeps
Freiburg; Janice Kim 3P Coming To SF; Netflix Contest May
Turn On Go; Redmond Cup Finalists Set; Canada Leads U.S.
4-2 In Team Tourney.
JULY: U.S. Congress
Registration Passes
400; Ko To Represent
N.A. At Samsung; ’09
Ing Field Set; Taylor
Elected President Of
Go Honor Society;
Redmond On Computer
Go; 361 Stones In Laos;
San Diego Switches
to Tuesdays; YMI To
Release English Version
Of Kid’s Go Series; DC
Go Players Warm Up
For Congress; Pros Plan Bi-Coastal Workshops In October
AUGUST: Kim launches U.S. Open Defense; EJ Provides
More Commentaries At Congress; AGA Board Election
Results; Shi Repeats As Redmond Champion; Huiren Yang,
Young Kwon, Xiliang
Liu & Jianing Gang
Upset In Ing; Takemiya
Arrives At U.S. Go
Congress; Price Upsets
Zhou In U.S. Open
Round 3; Andy Liu
Beats Yilun Yang
In Ing 3rd Round;
New Player Database
Launched; A Closer
Look At Shusaku;
Andy Liu 7d Upsets
Feng Yun 9P, Heads
To Ing Final With
Mingjiu Jiang; Zhao
Sweeps Congress Die
Hard; Jerry Shen Wins
Redmond Cup; Doubling Up With Live Pro Commentary;
East Keeps Streak Alive Against West In Youth All-Stars; Andy
Liu Defeats 3rd Pro To Win ’09 Ing Masters; Burrall Wins
NAIM Board Auction; Kim Prevails Again In Man Vs Machine
Rematch; A Few Of Our Favorite Things About The Congress
(And Go); Kim Sweeps U.S. Open To Retain Title; Interview
With A Congress First-Timer; U.S. Youth Place 5th At World
Championship; Shen Evens Score In U.S.-Canada Team
Tournament; Feng
Yun To Teach
Go Workshop;
Chinese Pro Tours
DC-Area Clubs;
U.S. & Canada
Tied In Team
Go Tournament.
photo: Cotsen Open
by Chris Garlock
SEPTEMBER:
Hsiang To Rep
U.S. At 2010
WAGC; Boston-Area Players Attend Xue Lei Workshop; AGHS
Hosts Pair Go Tourney Online; Three Pros Hold West Coast
Workshop In October; Canada Wins U.S.-Canada Team Tourney;
$6,500 In Prizes Up For Grabs At Cotsen Tourney; Pros Offer
Workshops Coast To Coast; Registration Opens For N.A. Student
Oza Rep Tourney; Jing Yang 7d Wins Cotsen Open; Americans Join
Amsterdam Blitz; AGF Newsletter Features Free Hikaru Manga For
Library Programs
OCTOBER: Ah, Youth: A Cotsen Tournament Report; Student
Oza Qualies To Be Held Online; Pro Workshop A Big Hit In
NorCal; Jen Donates Anime For Youth Tournaments; Waldron
Steps Down As AGA Tournament Coordinator; Board Considering
AGA Membership Issues
NOVEMBER: U.S., Euro Player
Databases Linked; Go School
Updates; N.A. Fujitsu Field Set;
Culture Day In Seattle; The Game
Of Diplomacy Gets A New Board In
Obama Gift To Hu; Jie Li Repeats
At N.A. Fujitsu
DECEMBER: Canada Bests U.S.
In 2nd Youth Friendship Match;
Feng Yun
Holds Year-End
Workshop;
USYGC Calls
For Qualifier
Hosts; Write
Your Own Go
Grant. photos:
(center): U.S. Go
Congress by Chris
Garlock;
(left) Austin, TX
tournament
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Major 2009 tournaments & Events
US GO CONGRESS
TAKEMIYA RETURNS TO U.S. GO CONGRESS: The
legendary Takemiya Masaki 9P – originator of the famous
“Cosmic Go” style – arrived at the U.S. Go Congress Tuesday,
fresh from a major invitational match the previous week in
China with fellow go legends Nie Weiping, Ma Xiaochun
and Cho Hun Hyun. “It was a nice reunion of longtime go
competitors,” Takemiya told the E-Journal in an interview
Tuesday night translated by Yoshi Sawada. Takemiya said that
while go-playing styles have changed a lot over the years, he
doesn’t think the basics of the game have really changed from
the masters like Dosaku and Shusaku, who he said were “the
Beethoven and Bach” of the go world. “Their classical style
is timeless,” Takemiya said. While admiring of the brilliance
and power of modern go champions, Takemiya said “they
all play the same style and I don’t see the romance, the fun,
the excitement of the game.” As previously reported in the
E-Journal, Takemiya took up dancing a few years ago –
Wednesday night at the Congress he showed a video of him
at a dance exhibition -- and he said that “now I’m in great
shape physically and feel like my brain is getting younger.”
Perhaps not coincidentally, he says “I started winning a lot of
go matches recently,” and has begun to think about some new
ideas about go, though nothing developed enough yet to share
his thoughts on. As he did at last year’s Congress in Portland,
Takemiya provided live commentary on Friday night’s Ing
final match, which was also broadcast online on KGS.
- Chris Garlock; photo by John Pinkerton
DOUBLING UP WITH LIVE
PRO COMMENTARY: The EJ
Congress Team pulled off another
historic first on Thursday morning
when two professionals – Takemiya
Masaki 9P (2nd from right) and
Guo Juan 5P (right) – provided
simultaneous live commentaries
on two different top U.S. Open
games. In recent years pros have
commented on the evening Ing
games, but this was the first year
that they’ve done the U.S. Open
games, and the first time ever for
two at once.
Photo by John Pinkerton
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US GO CONGRESS
KIM SWEEPS U.S. OPEN TO RETAIN TITLE: Myung-Wan
Kim repeated as U.S. Open champion after winning the final round
Saturday against Yongfei Ge to complete his 6-0 clean sweep.
U.S. OPEN WINNER GENEROUS IN VICTORY: The AGF’s
Terry Benson reports that U.S. Open winner Myung-Wan Kim “once
again donated $500 of his winnings to the American Go Foundation.”
Photo by John Pinkerton
ZHAO WINS CONGRESS DIE HARD: An undefeated Ricky
Zhao 7d won Wednesday’s 4-round Die Hard tournament, topping
a field of 113 players. This was the second-largest field in the event’s
history; the largest field was 114 in 2005.
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US GO CONGRESS
A (MUSICAL) GAME OF GO: Pianist/composer
Haskell Small and pianist Matthew Bengtson performed
Small’s A Game of Go at Saturday night’s opening
ceremonies for the 25th annual U.S. Go Congress. The
original composition is a setting for two pianos and a
video of the famous sixth game, played on February
25, 1853, of the sanjubango between Ota Yuzo 7d
and Honinbo Shusaku 6d. The music accompanies the
development of the classic game, from opening through
middle game, a couple of ko fights and the endgame.
Small and Bengtson also performed a selection of
classical piano pieces.
- Chris Garlock; photo by John Pinkerton
MORE COMMENTARIES: The 2009 U.S. Go
Congress coverage included significantly more pro
commentaries, with professionals providing live
game commentaries during both the U.S. Open
every morning and the N.A. Ing Masters in the
evening. Online viewers tuned in daily on KGS
starting at 9A and 7P EST.
Photo: Myung-Wan Kim 8P comments on an Ing
game Sunday night at the U.S. Go Congress; photo
by Chris Garlock
LEARNING FROM THE PROFESSIONALS: Yilun Yang 7P ‘s Sunday pro lecture took the class through an analysis
of the fuseki – or opening game -- for three game styles: a territory
game, a moyo game, and a “weird” game where Black made some
very unusual moves. In each game he analyzed where the biggest
potential existed on the board on successive moves. Alternative
moves were discussed to illustrate which ones best realized that
potential. Participants had lots of fun with the “weird” moves where
Mr. Yang showed how to punish bad moves and not strengthen
them. Meanwhile, in her lecture later that afternoon, Feng Yung 9P
analyzed games that attendees recorded on the opening day of the
Go Congress. Rather than just pointing out which moves the players
should have made, Feng Yun asked about the intention behind the
moves and then analyzed possible sequences that could achieve that
intent. It was a great way to learn for dan and kyu players alike.
- report/photo by Gurujeet Khalsa
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US GO CONGRESS
NEW PLAYER DATABASE LAUNCHED: The
American Go Association launched its brandnew Player Database -- http://agagd.usgo.org/
EasyPHP1-8/www/AGAGD/index.php -- Monday
afternoon at the U.S. Go Congress. Programmer
Jonathan Bresler and Tournament Coordinator Phil
Waldron – who worked together to bring the project
online -- hovered around the computer kiosk outside
the main Congress playing room Monday night as
players looked up their tournament records going
back to 1991. “This is an exciting new historical tool
for American go players,” said AGA President Allan
Abramson. “Congratulations and thanks to Phil and
Jonathan for all their hard work getting this project
done.” Players can use the database “to see how
they’ve progressed over the years,” says Bresler, noting
that other features include showing who played – and
a reconstructed crosstab of how each player did -- in over 1,300 tournaments. The database uses an adapted version of
the code for the European Go Database, “which was generously shared by the Italian creators,” said Bresler. The database
is also useful for analyzing player participation, Bresler said, pointing out that while it shows that nearly half the AGA
members have never played a rated game and don’t identify with a local club, those members who do compete have
gotten much more active in recent years. “Just 200 members were active in tournaments in 1991 but last year 1,400 were.”
A CLOSER LOOK AT SHUSAKU: Monday
evening, Japanese professional Sasaki Tadashi 8P gave
an informative lecture on the famous Shusaku game
that inspired Haskell Small’s “A Game of Go,” the
composition for two pianos and video based on the
famous sixth game, played on February 25, 1853, as
reported on page 14. Mr. Sasaki is a scholar of the
games of Honinbo Shusaku and his deep knowledge
of the subject, as well as his humor, were evident in
the able translation by Richard Dolen. Ota Yuzo was
known as a fast player and rumors still persist that he
liked to finish in time to enjoy beer with the sponsors
of the sanjubango. At a couple of key junctures the
players chose exciting variations rather than more
solid, and possibly boring, lines. Apparently, even
in those days, players had to keep sponsors happy,
and this exciting game surely exceeded their patron’s
expectations.
- report/photo by Gurujeet Khalsa
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US GO CONGRESS
SHI REPEATS AS REDMOND SENIOR CHAMPION: Fifteen-year-old Canadian
Gansheng Shi 7d (l) solidly defeated America’s top
youth in the Redmond Cup Senior Division finals
to successfully defend his title as the 2009 Redmond
Champion. Shi lost only one game in the qualifying
rounds, played earlier online, and he and 14-yearold Zhongxia Zhao 7d both qualified for the finals,
winning a free trip to the U.S. Go Congress. Shi
played black in the first round on Sunday, where he
forced Zhao to resign, and remained unflappable
throughout the game. Hundreds of people watched
on KGS. “It was a good match up,” Shi told the
E-Journal, “but I stayed calm.” Shi took white in round two Monday, but again forced
Zhao to resign after killing a huge group in the center.
- Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor; photo by Brian Allen
JERRY SHEN WINS REDMOND
CUP JUNIOR DIVISION: Elevenyear-old Jerry Shen 2d (r) won the Junior
Division of the 16th annual Redmond
Cup Wednesday
evening at
the U.S. Go
Congress. Shen
and runner-up
Yunxuan Li
2d, 11, played
a 3-game final,
which was
broadcast live
on KGS, drawing hundreds of online
spectators for each match. “I was scared
going into the second match,” Shen, who
lost the first round, told the E-Journal,
EAST KEEPS STREAK ALIVE AGAINST WEST IN YOUTH ALL-STARS: On
“and it looked like Yunxuan was going to
Wednesday evening, while many U.S. Go Congress attendees were still enjoying their
win, but he left a cutting point for me in
day off, the top youth players in the nation squared off in the 4th annual Youth All-Star the endgame and then I won.” The final
Tournament. While the East grabbed an early lead, winning the first three decisions,
round was very close, but Shen held onto
the West started edging closer for a possible upset, with Vincent Zhuang’s half-point
a small lead throughout the endgame to
nail-biter victory over Yang Xu, and Gansheng Shi’s comfortable win against Lionel
close out the win. Shen is the younger
Zhang. That left the last game -- the Captains’ Match – as the key to victory, as a West
brother of two-time Redmond runner-up
victory would give the team a
Cherry Shen 6d, “She was very happy that
tiebreak win. In this exciting
I was successful this time,” a beaming Shen
game Ricky Zhao was able
told the E-Journal. Both contestants in the
to successfully destroy a
Junior and Senior Division received a free
large amount of Daniel
trip to this year’s Go Congress to play in
Gourdeau’s territory and
the finals, and will receive $300 for first
eventually started a ko that
and $200 for second as an additional prize
Gordeau could not handle,
from the American Go Foundation. The
giving the East their fourth
Redmond Cup, named after Americanconsecutive championship
born professional Michael Redmond
title and denying the West
9P, remains the most prestigious youth
its first taste of victory. The
tournament in North America.
tournament was organized
- report/photo by Paul Barchilon, Youth
and directed by Paul
Editor
Barchilon
Ku.
“Ricky” Zhao 7d (E)
B
hil and
d Lawrence
L
K Full
F ll results:
l Board
B d 1:
1 Zhongxia
Zh
defeated Daniel Gourdeau 6d (W); Board 2: Gansheng Shi 7d (W) defeated Lionel
Zhang 6d (E); Board 3: Vincent Zhuang 4d (W) defeated Yang Xu 5d (E); Board 4:
Jasmine Yan 5d (E) defeated Fong Chain “Gary” Wang 4d (W); Board 5: Michael
Huang 5d (E) defeated Matthew Harwit 3d (W); Board 6: Kevin Shang 4d (E) defeated
Nathan Harwit 2d (W).
- Lawrence Ku; photo by Yang Xu
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US GO CONGRESS
WHY WE PLAY:
A Few Of Our Favorite Thing About The Congress (And Go)
For 19-kyu Seth Bradley of Frederick, MD, it’s the Self-Paired Tournament. Andy
Olsen 3d of Austin, TX got to meet the pros he’s been getting online lessons from.
Debbie Siemon, who hails from Atlanta, GA, looks forward to catching up with old
friends. Random interviews of a cross-section of new and returning U.S. Go Congress
attendees revealed a range of favorite things about the 25th annual event. “To have
more than 400 go players in the same room is like finding the Garden of Eden,” said
Nick Sibicky 4d of Lynnwood, WA. He and Bradley were both Congress first-timers,
while Siemon was attending her 23rd. Although Siemon, an environmental engineer,
said she doesn’t get much of a chance to play go during the rest of the year, “It’s like
language; you think you’ve forgotten it and then when you’re around it for a couple
of days it all comes back.” New Yorker Marc Palmer, attending his 17th Congress,
liked “being able to get game reviews from stronger players.” Newbie Bradley,
mechanical engineer, says his favorite thing about the game of go is that, “The rules are
so simple, yet the game is so complex.” Palmer, a building engineer who’s been playing
for 35 years, says that the game is “an opportunity to test and maximize my mental
potential,” although he ruefully says that his potential “seems to be shodan, at least for
the past few years.” And Olsen finds the complexities of the opening fascinating, while
Sibicky is is interested in the “different styles of play.” Olsen adds that go “is the most
elegant game there is.”
- Chris Garlock; photos by John Pinkerton; collage by Phil Straus
a
WHY WE GO: Interview With A Congress First-Timer
Congress first-timer Larom Lancaster 13k sat down with me Sunday afternoon to
share his impressions of his first Go Congress. For years I’ve been cajoling Larom
to come to the biggest go
party of the year, and I was
very pleasantly surprised when he told me that he’d be coming. So I was
curious. Why had he decided to make this his first Congress; The pros? The
tournaments? The non-stop week of go? Nothing so exciting, he told me.
He’d been on the fence every year, but he’d always had difficulty justifying
the travel expenses and taking the time off. This year, though, the happy
combination of Congress’ convenient location -- he lives nearby in Maryland
-- and his recent redoubled efforts to improve, pushed him over the edge.
So, after just one day, does he think he chose wisely? “Absolutely!” he said,
with what looked to me like a definite tinge of regret for those wasted years.
What’s he most looking forward to? Everything; the lectures, the reviews,
the simuls, but mostly playing every morning in the strong US Open field.
And by playing a lot of games in the Self-Paired he says “I’m really hoping
to make single digit kyu.” I hope he makes it, and I’m looking forward to
checking back in and seeing what he’s made of his first Congress.
- Andrew Jackson 4d; photo by John Pinkerton
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US GO CONGRESS
KIM PREVAILS AGAIN
IN MAN VS MACHINE
REMATCH
The Man vs Machine rematch Friday afternoon was anti-climactic,
with Myeong-Wan Kim handily defeating Many Faces of Go,
playing with a 7-stone handicap and running a 32-core processor.
MoGo defeated Kim last year on 9 stones with an 800-core
processor. Kim beat Mogo – playing with 7 stones on a smaller
processor -- last fall at the Cotsen Open, narrowly defeating it at the
very end. “Many Faces was very different,” Kim told the audience
after the game. “It behaved more like a human, while MoGo was
pure computer and very unpredictable. It was easier to play Many
Faces -- though it may be the stronger program -- because I could
predict what it was going to do. Many Faces made better shape, but
MoGo had better reading. I’d really like to see both programs play each other and see what happens.”
BY THE NUMBERS: 654: the number of people on KGS watching the top board of the fourth round of the North
American Ing Masters tournament; 294: viewers watching live on EuroGoTV-US; 19: the number of EJ Team volunteers
it took to record and broadcast the nine top boards; 3: the margin of victory by pros Mingjiu Jiang 7P and Yilun Yang 7P
in their 4th-round games.
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US GO CONGRESS
BURRALL WINS
NAIM BOARD
AUCTION
Longtime go player and
organizer Steve Burrall (2nd
from left) won a fierce bidding
battle in the auction for the
board the North American
Ing Masters final was played
on, bidding a record $650 for
the 2-inch thick katsura board
donated by Shodan Imports.
The money goes to the American
Go Foundation, which provides
support for youth go education
in the United States, including scholarships to the annual go camps. The board was signed by both 2009 NAIM champion
Andy Liu 7d and Mingjiu Jiang 7P, as well as Takemiya Masaki 9P. Last year’s auction winner, Andy Okun credited his 5-0
record in this year’s U.S. Open with practicing on his 2008 NAIM board.
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US GO CONGRESS
Four Color Go
at Crazy Go Night
photo: John Pinkerton
HEARD & SEEN: Too Big To Die? “You can’t kill this group,” Keith
Arnold (l) told his opponent in an Ing tournament game, “it’s too big to
die.” Said a bystander, “What is it, a bank?”
Whose Move Is It, Anyway? “It’s my move.” “No, It’s MY move!” ”No,
really, it’s my move.” Argument overheard between two 6-dans at the
U.S. Open. It took two TDs two complete recounts of every stone played
to determine whose move it really was.
It Takes A Village: “The combined age of my last three – three! -opponents was 36 years,” lamented 50-something Debbie Siemon.
photo: John Pinkerton
REGISTER NOW
for the 2010 U.S. Go Congress!
July 31 - August 8, 2010
in Colorado Springs, CO
www.gocongress.org
8 days of go...tournaments...
...professionals...lectures...
...tours of area attractions
& much more!
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US GO CONGRESS
Takemiya Masaki 9P (r)
joined the fun at the annual
Pair Go Tournament;
double the concentration on
the top board (below)
photos by John Pinkerton
GO CONGRESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Congress Director: Todd Heidenreich; Congress Deputy
Director: Gary Smith; Registrar: Sam Zimmerman; Deputy Registrar: Lisa Scott; Check-In Registrars: Helga
Abramson, Samantha Fede, Minh Huynh, Peter Rogers, Ed Hsu; Treasurer: Ben Bernstein; Deputy Treasurer: Seth
Bradley; GMU Liaisons: Gary Smith/Bob Ehrlich; Information Technology: Steve Colburn; Vendor
Coordinator/Liaison: Todd Heidenreich; Merchandise Coordinator: Mike Samuel; Congress Handbook: Chris
Garlock; Wednesday Tour Coordinators: Gary Smith/Todd Heidenreich; Prizes/Plaques/Awards: Todd Heidenreich
/ Mike Samuel; Banquet MC: Keith Arnold; Congress Help Desk Team: Carolyn Dyer, Ed Hsu, Minh Huynh, ;
Transportation Manager: Todd Heidenreich / Gary Smith; Equipment
Manager: Mike Lash; Equipment Team: Francis Larscheid, Neil Bernardo,
Minh Huynh, Kuo Tan, Daniel Poore, Juan Pablo Quizon, David Reed;
PRO TEAM: Coordinators: Allan Abramson and I-Han Lui; Translators:
Neil Bernardo, Sung Chin, Daniel Chou, Matt Luce, I-Han Lui, Akane
Negishi, Yoshi Sawada, Shigeru Takehara, Kuo Tan; TOURNAMENT
DIRECTORS: Tournament Coordinator: Gary Smith; US Open: Chris Sira/
Jeff Shaevel; North American Ing Masters: Jeff Shaevel; Continuous SelfPaired: Max Peterson, Andrew Jackson; Die Hard: Juan Pablo Quizon/Neil
Bernardo; North American Pair Go: Peter Rogers; Redmond Cup: Michael
Bull and Paul Barchilon; Women’s Championship: Lisa Scott; Club Team
Championship: Hal Small; 9x9: Todd Blatt; 13x13: Kuo Tan; Lightning:
Ken Koester; Crazy Go: Terry Benson; EJOURNAL TEAM (see page 22);
Youth Room Coordinator: Paul Barchilon; Youth Room Assistants: Shigeru
Takehara, John Hogan
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US GO CONGRESS PROFESSIONALS
Clockwise from below: Maeda Ryo 6P (with
translator Yoshi Sawada, l); Yang Shuang 2P (with
EJ Editor Chris Garlock, and Matt Luce); Lee
Hajin 3P (with Phil Waldron 6D); Yilun Yang 7P;
Mingjiu Jiang 7P; Huiren Yang 1P; Feng Yun 9P;
James Kerwin 1P; Nakano Yasuhiro 9P; Yoshi,
Takemiya Masaki 9P, Guo Juan 5P & Jennie Shen
2P (center photo). photos by John Pinkerton
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US GO CONGRESS PHOTO ALBUM
photos by John Pinkerton & Chris Garlock
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US GO CONGRESS
RECORD EJ TEAM COVERS CONGRESS: A record 39-person EJ team helped cover the 25th annual
U.S. Go Congress this year, broadcasting top boards at the U.S. Open and the North American Ing Masters, including
simulcasts of live pro commentaries,
as well as daily E-Journal reports and
a
live video feed via EuroGoTV-US.
Between the local audience at the
Congress and the online audience,
viewership surpassed 1,000 for several
of the games. Special thanks to the
professionals who gave so generously
of their insights: Takemiya Masaki 9P,
Feng Yun 9P, Nakano Yasuhiro 9P,
Myeong-Wan Kim 8P, Sasaki Tadashi
8P, Maeda Ryo 6P, Guo Juan 5P, Lee
Haijin 3P, Yang Shuang 2P, James
Kerwin 1P, and translators Yoshi
Sawada and Richard Dolen. Our core
team worked incredible hours and overcame every glitch with aplomb and good humor: Akane Negishi (KGS admin),
Steve Colburn (IT support, crosstabs and spirit coordination), John Pinkerton (Team Coordinator/photographer), Chris
Burg (recorder, US Open/NAIM), Matt Luce (recorder, US Open/NAIM), Max Peterson (recorder, US Open/NAIM),
Solomon Smilack (recorder, US Open/NAIM), Todd Blatt (simulcasts). Paul Barchilon coordinated our youth coverage,
Phil Straus did photos and Photoshop magic, and our reporting team included Andrew Jackson, Laura Kolb and Lee
Hunyh, while Gurujeet Khalsa handled website updates. Game recorders were: Brady Daniels, Calvin Lee, Daniel
Poore, David Weimer, Frank Brown, Gordon Castanza, Huck Bennett, Jim Hlavka, Kenneth Elliott, Lawrence Ku, Matt
Bengtson, Stephen Allen, Tom Bahun. Thanks also to Congress Director Todd Heidenreich and his Congress team, who
gave the EJ Team their full support. This was an incredible group effort and I cannot thank these folks enough. It was an
honor and a real pleasure to work with them. I look forward to doing it again in 2010 in Colorado!
- Chris Garlock, Managing Editor; EJ Staff Team photo by Phil Straus. (L-R): Peterson, Daniels, Hunyh, Kolb, Burg, Ku, Lee,
Colburn, Allen, Smilack, Garlock, Negishi, Dolen, Weimer, Pinkerton, Poore, Castanza, Straus.
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ING MASTERS TOURNAMENT
ANDY LIU DEFEATS 3 PROS
TO WIN ’09 ING MASTERS
Mingjiu Jiang 7P was the third pro to go down to defeat at the hands
of Andy Liu 7d as the eighteen-year-old amateur won the 2009 North
American Ing Masters tournament. Liu’s 5-point win over Jiang in
the exciting final round capped his five-game sweep of the prestigious
tournament funded by the Ing Foundation. His other wins were against
Feng Yun 9P, Yilun Yang 7P, Eric Lui 7d and Xiao Han Huang 5d. Another
record crowd turned out in person and online to watch the NAIM final as
legendary go master Takemiya Masaki 9P provided running commentary,
with the irrepressible Yoshi Sawada translating. U.S. Go Congress attendees
crowded into the main playing hall as the E-Journal team simulcast the
Board 1 game – as well as other top boards – to a worldwide audience of
almost 700, as well as several hundred on EuroGo-TV-US.
Chris Garlock; photo by John Pinkerton
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N.A. ING MASTERS TOURNAMENT
GAME HIGHLIGHTS: North American Masters Final
White: Mingju Jiang 7P
Black: Andy Liu 7d
Commentary by Takemiya Masaki 9P
As a result of winning this game, Andy Liu 7d became the 2009 North American Ing Masters champion. The
complete game -- with comments by Takamiya Masaki 9P -- is on the Yearbook CD (2009_08_07 IngRd5Bd1MJiang-ALiu_Takemiya).
Who’s Got The Better Position?
Do you prefer the black or white position? See below
for Takemiya’s analysis.
Game Position 1
Overplay or Sharp Attack?
Is the marked black move an overplay or a well-timed
attack? See below for Takemiya’s view.
Game Position 2
Game Position 1 Answer: Black’s position feels better, according to Takemiya. “White is really settled in the corner,
but black gets lots of thickness so white feels not that good. ”
Game Position 2 Answer: Takemiya liked this move, which simultaneously attacks White’s group on the side and
strengthens Black’s group in the lower right.
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NORTH AMERICAN ING MASTERS TOURNAMENT PLAYERS
The North American Ing Masters (NAIM), the North
American continental championship, matches thirty-two
of North America’s strongest amateurs and professionals
in a 5-round Swiss tournament to determine a champion.
Sponsored by the Ing Foundation, this tournament is
run each year at the US Go Congress and is one of North
America’s most heavily contested events.
Players are in seeded order.
1: Feng, Yun
9P
2: Yang, Yilun
7P
5: Jiang, Ming
Jiu 7P
6: Li, Jie
7D
3: Koh, Juyong
7D
4: Chen,
ZhaoNian 7D
7: Liu, Andy 8: Yang, Huiren
7D
1P
12: Liang, Jie 13: Zhou, Yuan 14: Gan, Jianing 15: Liu, Xiliang
7D
7D
7D
7D
19: Price, Gus
7D
20: Zhou,
Xixiang 6D
21: Chao,
Daniel 6D
22: Sedgwick,
James 6D
26: Huang,
Xiaohan 5D
27: Xu, Yang
6D
28: Lu, Ke
5D
29: Arnold,
Keith 5D
9: Ge, Yongfei
7D
16: Liang,
Richard 7D
23: Ku,
Lawrence 6D
30: Lee, Eric
4D
10: Lui, Eric
7D
17: Kwong,
Young 6D
11: Li, Cathy
1P
18: Zhao,
Zhongxia 7D
24: Wang, Yinli
6D
25: Lebl,
Martin 6D
31: Gourdeau,
Daniel 4D
32: Jackson,
Andrew 4D
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U.S. SLIPS TO 15th IN WORLD AMATEURS
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the World Amateur Go Championships (WAGC)
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the win when you can,” Lui said. Japan won the
game – which was the last to finish, at 6 p.m. – by
just 2.5 points. China collected its 17th World
Amateur Go Championship (WAGC), when Yu
Qing Hu 8d completed his eight-game sweep of
the 30th annual tournament. The 27-year-old IT
company salesman confessed that he was “relieved
that the tournament is over. I was feeling a lot
of pressure from the fans in China and I’m very
happy not to disappoint them.” Born in Shanghai,
Hu learned to play at the age of 7 and said that
the most important key to improving is “to really
want to get stronger, to have the spirit and desire
to improve.” Laurent Heiser 6d of Luxembourg
was the highest-placing European, in 7th place,
adding a sixth top finish to his WAGC collection.
Canadian Juyong Koh 7d placed 10th, while Antii
Tormanen of Finland won the Asada Fighting Spirit
prize. The 2009 WAGC winners: 1st: Yu Qing Hu
8d (China); 2nd: Shin-Hwan Yoo 7d (Korea); 3rd:
Nai San Chan 6d (Hong Kong); 4th: Kang-Ting
Yeh 7d (Taipei); 5th: Moriei Kanazawa 6d (Japan);
6th: Jia Cheng Tan 6d (Singapore); 7th: Laurent
Heiser 6d (Luxembourg); 8th: Thomas Debarre
5d (France); 9th: Ondrej Silt 6d (Czechia); 10th:
Juyong Koh 7d (Canada).
- reported by Chris Garlock;
RESULTS: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/worldama/30/e/result.html
photo by John Pinkerton
GAME RECORDS: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/worldama/30/e/kifu.html
E-JOURNAL TEAMS UP WITH
RANKA
A first-ever collaborative effort between the
American Go E-Journal and Ranka Online
provided extensive coverage of the 2009
World Amateur Go Championship games,
with detailed commentaries by Americanborn pro Michael Redmond made
possible by the IGF and Ranka. The AGA
website http://www.usgo.org was updated
throughout each day with photos, reports
and game records. Ranka Online http://
ranka.intergofed.org/?p=2190 also provided
extensive online coverage.
Ranka Managing Editor Ivan Vigano (left), EJ Editor Chris Garlock and Ranka writer Pieter Mioch (right). photo by John Pinkerton
Ranka Managing Editor Ivan Vigano (left), EJ Editor
Chris Garlock and Ranka writer Pieter Mioch (right).
photo by John Pinkerton
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ON EMOTIONS,
PHILOSOPHY AND THE
WILL TO WIN
You must “put yourself on
the board,” yet “not bring
your emotions to the board,”
fourteen-year-old Matej
Zakanj of Croatia said during
traditional WAGC opening day
press conference with selected
players. “For me go has much
to do with philosophy,” added
China’s Yuging Hu. Asked how
to improve, Hu quoted Fujisawa
Shuko, who said that “To get
stronger at go you must have a
strong will to win.” Responding
to the same question, Edgardo
Caceres Estrada of Guatemala confided that while most of his students had not yet improved that much, “one of
them now beats me, and that is enough.”
5 MINUTES WITH: Nicholas Roussos, Cyprus
Nicholas Roussos and the Cyprus Go Association is living proof of the power of one. One night at the Rochester
Institute of Technology coffee shop in 2002 – where the Cypriot was attending on a Fulbright Scholarship – Empty
Sky Go Club member Jeremy Banzhaf (who now lives, works and plays go in Tokyo) invited him to drop by the go
club’s meeting later that week. “I wound up staying until nearly midnight,”
Roussos said, “I was hooked.” Legendary Rochester go organizer Greg
Lefler then encouraged the newbie to attend a club tournament and “things
really began to click into place” for Roussos. He returned to Cyprus “with a
burning desire to have people to play with” and when the International Go
Federation http://www.intergofed.org/ connected him with the sole other
go player in Cyprus they knew about, the two began hosting meetings,
using the AGA’s “Starting a Go Club From Scratch” http://www.usgo.org/
resources/startclub.html page, “An awesome resource that was a huge help
to us,” Roussos says enthusiastically. “Sometimes I was sitting there by
myself with my coffee and go book,” but as they taught new players and
word spread, the club – which meets in the Oktana café in Nicosia --began
to catch on, attracting European tourists who would drop in for a game. In
2003 the Cyprus Go Association http://www.cyprus-go.org/ was formed, in
2005 Cyprus joined the International Go Federation and in 2006 Cyprus
began participating in the World Amateur Go Championship. There are
now four clubs and about 30 members in the Association, with 15-20 active
players, and the CGA holds two tournaments a year. “It’s a game for a
lifetime,” Roussos says, “So I don’t worry, even when I get stuck.”
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MICHAEL REDMOND LOOKS AHEAD…
AND BACK
“Frankly, it came as a bit of a surprise to me,” Michael Redmond 9P
said of the flurry of media excitement over the American-born professional go player’s 500th win in April 2009. “I hadn’t really been
keeping track and when a photographer showed up at the Nihon
Kiin that day, I thought it was for another player.” Just 84 other
professionals have achieved this milestone. Redmond, who had celebrated his 46th birthday the week before, told the E-Journal in an
interview Wednesday at the WAGC that he’s just now “getting back
into pro mode and working on my game” after a year spent developing
and delivering a series of lessons for the NHK broadcasting network.
He’s been immersing himself in Edo-era games – including the famous
Castle Games studying games by his favorite players like Sanchi, the
head of the Yasui House. “I really just want to spend a lot of time alone
in front of the go board. There are a lot of interesting and high-quality
ouses lost their fi
financial
support ” Redmond
games from this period, which is the peak of the era, just before the go houses
nancial support,”
said. “Since they played without time limits, there was lots of time to study during adjournments, so there was a high
level of middle game play and perfect endgames.” So perfect, in fact, that when an error is discovered in a game record
from this period, “the first assumption is that it was a recording mistake.” Although the openings from this period are
now considered too slow for modern play, Redmond says
the strong middle and endgame are helpful because “those
have always been my weaknesses.” Of course, he added
with a smile, “It would have been ideal to do this kind of
study twenty years ago.” Like any pro, he’d studied the
games as an insei, “but I’m able to study them far more
deeply now.” Redmond, who’s working to get back into
the Nihon Kiin’s A League, said that “I think my style is
changing to a less direct approach. I’m trying to have more
patience, something I lacked in my earlier years. I try to
experiment more and I’ve come to realize that experimenting is not a mistake. I play a better game if I let myself go.
It was scary at first but now I’m getting used to it.”
- reported by Chris Garlock; photo by John Pinkerton
5 MINUTES WITH: Edgardo Caceres Estrada, Guatemala
“Go is a wonderful opportunity for creativity and variety,”
says Edgardo Caceres Estrada of Guatemala. “It has
endless possibilities.” Estrada, a doctor, is also fascinated
with languages and has been working on a project involving
the dozens of languages spoken by millions of Mayans living
in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize. He created this poster of
the phrase “Let’s Play Go” in 32 languages.
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WAGC BRIEFS: Congress Tour Group, An Alaskan in Japan,
Franco-American Humor, Why to Play in Calcutta, Luxembourg’s
Challenge
U.S. Go Congress regular Shunichi Hyodo 7d dropped by the WAGC
late in the week and reports that despite fears of the swine flu virus, his
tour group will return again this year, although it’ll be smaller than in
previous years...We bumped into Alaskan Brian Jones at lunch Friday:
he founded the now-defunct Fairbanks go club and has been teaching English in Japan for
the last two years…Because sixteen-year-old Thomas Debarre’s mother is American, some of
the European players jokingly say that “When he loses, he’s American and when he wins, he’s
French”…If you’re looking for go in India – where chess is hugely popular thanks to winning
several championships – you’re better off in Calcutta, where there are two clubs these days,
reports Mandish Singh 1d, India’s WAGC rep. Luxembourg’s Laurent Heiser had an amazing
5-year run at the WAGC from 1989-1993, placing 7th, 6th, 4th, 6th and 4th. Turns out a bet
is behind the story. After meeting Imamura Toshiya 9P in Beijing and getting some lessons,
Imamura “challenged me to do better the next time,” Heiser said, “so each year I’d arrive in
Japan a week or two early and get lessons from Imamura and his friends.”
Photo by Chris Garlock
lots of Go at
www.ymimports.com
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WORLD AMATEUR GO CHAMPIONSHIPS
IGF MAKING BIG MOVES IN WORLD GO
The International Go Federation elected a new President at its meeting during the 2009 WAGC, expanded the
organization’s financial support base and moved ahead on plans to hold the 2010 World Amateur Go Championships in
China. China and Korea have agreed to join Japan in financially supporting the IGF, “a major step that bodes well for
the Federation and for world go,” IGF Director – and newly-appointed Vice President -- Thomas Hsiang (3rd from r) of
the U.S. told the E-Journal. The IGF had a very successful year in
2008, adding the World Mind Sports Games to a roster of major
events that now includes the World Amateur Go Championships,
the Prime Minister’s Cup, and the Pair Go Championship. The
2010 WAGC will be held in Hangzhou, China, marking only the
second time the 30-year event has ever been held outside Japan.
While declining sponsorships will prevent the IGF from covering
WAGC player airfares in 2010, all other player expenses will
continue to be covered. The next WMSG is tentatively scheduled
for 2013, with several cities – including Dubai, Abu Dhabi,
Adelaide and Moscow -- expressing interest in hosting the event.
The IGF also announced that for the first time, go will be part
of the 2010 Asia Games, an important development as this is an
Olympic event. In a related report, Hsiang provided an update on the IGF’s work with the World Anti-Doping Agency,
noting that WADA has classified go as a sport with a “low-risk” of doping, which Hsiang says “greatly simplifies testing”
issues. In addition to admitting Macau as a member of the IGF, the Iberoamerican Go Federation and the World Pair
Go Association were welcomed as members at the IGF meeting, where Nihon Kiin President Hideo Otake was elected
to head up the federation, while Russia’s Victor Bogdanov was elected as a new Director, Maria Dolores Puerta was reelected as a Director, and Thomas Hsiang of the U.S. was appointed Vice President.
-- reported by Chris Garlock, with special thanks to James Davies for translation/interpretation; photo by John Pinkerton
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GAME HIGHLIGHTS: World Amateur Go Championship
White: Viktor Lin 5d, Austria
Black: Eric Lui 7d, US
Eric Lui 7d was the US representative to the WAGC in 2009. Eric ended up with five wins, placing fifteenth.
The complete game with commentary by Michael Redmond 9P is on the Yearbook CD (2009_06_01_WAGC
RD 7 US-Austria_Redmond.sgf). Michael Redmond 9P, originally from California, is the first Westerner to
achieve the rank of 9P.
Should Black Play at A or at B?
It is Black’s turn. Should he play at A or at B? See below
for Michael Redmond’s view.
A
B
Game Position 1
In the game, Black played at A, but is that better than B?
See below for Michael Redmond’s view.
A
B
Game Position 2
Game Position 1 Answer: Extending a fourth time at A, which was Black’s move, is unusual, but not necessarily bad.
It is usual in this situation for Black to push and cut starting at B.
Game Position 2 Answer: Turning at B is more usual here. The game move at A looks like Black is trying to be
fancy.
Eric won this game by resignation.
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Thanks to the collaboration between the American Go E-Journal and Ranka
Online, the E-Journal published a number of detailed commentaries on
WAGC games by American-born pro Michael Redmond, made possible by the
IGF and Ranka. All the game commentaries are available on the Yearbook
CD; here are a few highlights:
U.S.-MEXICO: TOO DEEP? Top Nihon Ki-in professionals Michael
Redmond and Wang Lih Chen take a look at the round two match
between Mexico’s Emil Garcia Bustamante and Eric Lui of the U.S. The
key point comes when Bustamente mishandles Lui’s deep invasion at A...
FINLAND-NORWAY: OFF THE RAILS: After a professional-level
opening, the 5th-round game between Antti Tormanen 5d of Finland
and Norway’s Jostein Flood 4d goes off the rails. Michael Redmond 9P’s
commentaryy explains
how Flood extends in the wrongg direction, giving
p
Tormanen a
chance to
invade, but
then the Fin then switches off with an incomprehensible move, which is
followed by another directional mistake by Flood...CANADA-ROMANIA:
CONJURING KO: The big question is this game is how a guy with no ko
threats winds up with five against Mr Koh. After Canada’s Juyong Koh 7d
creates a ko for life in Cornel Burzo 6d of Romania’s moyo, Burzo – who
chose not to attack the group more severely-- manages to conjure up ko
threats out of thin air....ITALY-MEXICO: THREE WEAK GROUPS:
W
When Cristiano Garbarini 1d of Italy creates three weak groups early in
his 6th-round game against Emil Garcia Bustamante 4d of Mexico, it’s
no surprise that one of them winds up in trouble...JAPAN-FRANCE: A
QUESTION OF TIMING: Sixteen-year-old Thomas Debarre 5d of
France misses a
chance to attack
JJapan’s Moriei
Kanazawa 6d
in the middle-game of their 6th-round game. Instead, his slack move
permits Kanazawa to both reduce Debarre’s moyo and weaken his upperside group...U.S.-AUSTRIA: HOW MUCH IS THAT JOSEKI? The
cost of joseki choices quickly becomes clear in the 7th-round game
between Austria’s Victor Lin 5d and Eric Lui 7d of the U.S. Though Lin
falls behind in the opening, he misses the chance to get back in the game
when he plays a series of false ladder-breakers (see disagram above left)....
FINLAND-KOREA: FIGHTING SPIRIT: When Shin-Hwan Yoo 7d
of Korea looks to coast to an easy win over Finland’s Antii Tormanen,
Tormanen generates a sharp double attack (diagram at right) that, even
though it comes up short, shows why he won this year’s Asada Fighting
Spirit prize.
- reported by Chris Garlock
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5 MINUTES WITH: Csaba Mero, Hungary
“I don’t believe in internet teaching,” Mero Csaba 6d said
Friday morning as he sat outside the Kuretake Hotel,
drinking a cup of coffee and smoking a cigarette as he
waited for the bus to the WAGC playing area. “Teaching is a face-to-face thing: you must see the eyes of the
student.” The former insei is one of the top players in
Europe, and certainly in his natïve Hungary where he
teaches go. “I prefer spontaneous teaching, though I
sometimes also have lesson plans,” Csaba said, smoke
wreathing his close-cropped head as he took another sip
of coffee. “When you’re doing lectures to people with a
wide range of strength, it’s hard to do any real analysis.
It’s more like stand-up comedy.”
For more E-Journal reports from Japan, see The Go
Players Guide To The World, Pages 50-53.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A heartfelt arigato gozaimasu to the 2009 WAGC EJ
team, which included photographer John Pinkerton
(far right), who always came up with the perfect shot
for our reports, Jeremy Banzhaf, Kazunari Furuyama
and Michael Simon, who helped with so much more
than translation, arranging our visits to the Star Nine
School, Shusaku and Sunshine go clubs, as well as Kaz’
impromptu go lessons. As always, Thomas Hsiang’s wise
counsel and guidance were invaluable. John and I were
incredibly privileged to be welcomed wholeheartedly
onto the Ranka Online team: Managing Editor
Ivan Vigano (far left) coordinated a huge amount
of material from the team with good humor and
unflappable equanimity; James Davies (second from
left) quietly produces impeccable reports that draw on
his tremendous wealth of go knowledge; Pieter Mioch
(3rd from right, in back), whose nose for finding go stories – and ability to reproduce game commentaries
from memory -- is phenomenal; and finally, Michael Redmond 9P (4th from right, front), whose depth of go
knowledge and command of succinct game analysis is matched only by his patience with my endless questions
and requests for just one more game commentary. Finally, kudos to the crackerjack tournament team from
the Nihon Kiin – especially Ms. Mori and Mr. Hosono of the Overseas Office -- and the International Go
Federation’s Yuki Shigeno, without whom this amazing event would be impossible.
— Chris Garlock; photo by Jeremy Banzhaf
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WORLD STUDENT OZA & N.A. FUJITSU QUALIFIER
JIE LI RUNNER-UP
AT WORLD STUDENT OZA
U.S. rep Jie Li 7d lost out to Zhao Wei of China
to take 2nd place at the World Student Oza, held
at Nihon Kiin in Tokyo on March 3rd & 4th.
Zhao defeated Li by resignation in the fourth and
final round to win the Student Oza 4-0, topping
a field of 16 top players.
JIE LI FALLS TO HANE NAOKI
IN FIRST ROUND OF FUJITSU
JIE LI REPEATS AT N.A. FUJITSU
Jie Li 7d,
representing North
America in the 22nd
international Fujitsu
Cup, was paired
against Honinbo
Hane Naoki 9P of
Japan in the first
round on April 11
and after a long battle
was forced to resign
(see game file on
CD). Although Li
can legitimately claim
to be among strongest players in North America these
days, he gets few chances to play against top Asian pros.
Hane is definitely one such, having been Japanese Kisei
twice, in 2004 and 2005, NHK Cup winner in 2006, and
the current Honinbo.
Twenty-year-old Kang Dongyun 9P defeated Lee
Changho 9P by 2.5 points on July 6th to win the Fujitsu.
- Bill Cobb; photo of Li by John Pinkerton
Defending champion Jie Li repeated as tournament
champion of the North American Fujitsu Championship
tournament in November 2009. Over 600 observers
tuned in to watch on KGS and Li thrilled kibitzers with
an exciting third-round victory over professional 9-dan
Feng Yun and a victory in the finals over Eric Lui. AGA
6-dan Daniel Chou played the role of spoiler when he
defeated professional Huiren Yang of Boston by a slim
half-point margin in the first round. Li will represent
North America at the 2010 Fujitsu Cup.
- Philip Waldron
YEARBOOK CD?
Production in ProgressStayed tuned!
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KOREA PRIME MINISTER CUP
LIVE FROM JEONJU
By Yuan Zhou 7d
The matches at the just-concluded Korea
Prime Minister Cup (KPMC) World Go
Championship – the 4th annual -- were
very exciting, with representatives from 68
nations fighting hard for their countries. I was
pleased to finish fifth, the best result yet for
the United States in this tournament. Held in
Jeonju, Korea, the hometown of famous world
champion Lee Changho 9P, the event — which
ran October 23-27 — is well organized by the
Korean Baduk Association and a special bonus
was that Lee Changho himself attended. My
only losses were to the Korean representative
(on right in photo), who won the championship
this year, and the Chinese Taipei representative,
a 1-dan professional who was allowed to play
because he didn’t officially become a pro until
2010. The match with the Korean representative was a
very complicated game, and we were both down to our
last byo-yomi period and one time we only had a couple
seconds left on our clock. None of my games were easy,
and the Europeans I played were all strong and played well.
The New Zealand player I defeated in the last round would
have placed 4th place if he had won; Canada’s Gangsheng
Shi — this year’s Redmond Cup winner — also did well,
finishing in 8th place.
World Go Championship official final result (top 16
finishers): 1. Korea; 2. China; 3. Chinese Hong Kong;
4. Japan; 5. USA; 6. Singapore; 7. Chinese Taipei; 8.
Canada; 9. South Africa; 10. Thailand; 11. Ukraine; 12.
New Zealand; 13. Slovenia; 14. Serbia; 15. France; 16.
Netherlands.
Photo: Yuan Zhou, US (left) and Song Hong-suk, Korea
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COTSEN OPEN
JING YANG 7D WINS COTSEN OPEN
Jing Yang 7d defeated a hard-charging Curtis Tang
7d to win the 2009 Cotsen Open in Los Angeles
September 19-20. Yang – who helped cement the
previous week’s Canadian win in the online U.S.Canada Team Tournament (Canada Wins U.S.-Canada
Team Tourney 9/14 EJ) -- fended off the 16-year-old
Tang in an exciting final-round showdown watched
online by hundreds while Jennie Shen 2P provided
live commentary. “Curtis was very tough,” said Yang,
a computer programmer from Vancouver, who was in
town to visit a friend he hadn’t seen in many years and
seemed pleasantly surprised to have managed to win the
tournament as well. Tang just returned from five years
in Shanghai studying Chinese. “I haven’t played go in two
years; been
too busy
studying,
it’s so hard!”
he told the
E-Journal.
Tournament
founder Eric
Cotsen led
the record
crowd of
165 in a
standing and
prolonged
ovation for longtime teacher Yilun Yang 7P, who, as usual,
was on hand for the entire tournament, providing game
analyses, life and death problems and a live game online
Sunday morning with Wang Runan 8P, the Chair of the
Chinese Go Association and formerly one of the top three
players in China. “Mr. Yang continues to inspire all of
us,” said Cotsen. The Cotsen, one of the top events on the
annual go calendar, features $6,500 in prizes – including
a unique go club prize -- one of the largest and strongest
fields, free lunch both days, refundable registration and –
this is LA, after all – roving masseuses. First-place winners
in the Open, A, B, and C divisions also received an official
certificate from the Korean Baduk Association, courtesy
of Myung-Wan Kim. Open winners: 1st: Yang, Jing;
2nd: Hong, Seung Hyun; 3rd: Tang, Curtis; 4th: Ko,
Dae Hyuk; 5th: Koh, Juyong; 6th: Sun, Calvin. Cotsen
Open sponsor: Eric Cotsen (below, right) ; Organizer:
Casie Rizer, assisted by LaNida Cedeno, Patricia Wang
& Alex Ledante; TD:
Chris Hayashida;
KGS support by
Akane Negishi;
onsite pro: Yilun
Yang 7P; live KGS
game commentary,
Jennie Shen 2P;
game recorders: Chris
Garlock (Bd 1), Richard
Dolen (Bd 2) & Joe
Cepiel (Bd 3).
- report/photos by Chris
Garlock
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COTSEN OPEN
GAME HIGHLIGHT
White: Curtis Tang 7d
Black: Dae Hyuk Ko 7d
Jennie Shen 2P provided live commentary on this third-round game as it was broadcast on KGS; the game
was recorded by Chris Garlock.
It is Black’ turn. Should he play at A or at B? See below
for Jennie Shen’s view.
Game Position 1
See below for Jennie Shen’s view.
Game Position
ii 2
Game Position 1 Answer: A (the game move) is a bit conservative; both Shen and MyungWan Kim 8P preferred the
more aggressive B
Game Position 2 Answer: Shen doesn’t like the game move at A, saying “it looks a little over concentrated to me.”
She says the left side is more important’ “Black wants to jump ahead.”
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COTSEN OPEN
AH, YOUTH...
By Eric Lee
went to the Cotsen Open this year and last. Last year, Jang
Bi and Dae Hyuk Ko ran wild uncontested, and there
wasn’t really much to say about the rest of the field. This year,
I think the word on everyone’s mind is YOUTH. Let’s start
at the lower end. Jerry Shen. If I recall correctly, he played in
either the 1k or 2k sections last year. This year, he played as
a 3d and ended up taking second place in the 3-5d division,
beating some of the opponents that beat me. I think in this
one tournament, his rating and skill level passed me up. I’m
pretty annoyed and looking forward to playing him in the
same division sometime, but for now I’ll congratulate him.
He’s also the under-12 Redmond Cup champion, and has
a bright future at his age. Next up, in the 5d division, is
Wang Fong-Chain, who I think is around 14 years old, and
currently attending Arcadia High School. I had to play him
in the first round of the US Open and the Die-Hard. I was
beaten pretty easily, and no wonder, since this youngster
went on to not only play in the Cotsen 5d section, but win
it. Definitely a lot of potential, I think we’ll be seeing him in
the youth scene more in the future. After that is, of course,
Calvin Sun (r), the 12-year-old 7d youngster that everyone’s heard of, who seems to be making steady progress as
he placed 6th this year in the tournament. It doesn’t look like he’s been getting rusty at all, and has been improving
steadily, from what I can tell. This year, we saw a not-so-good show from both Cherry Shen and Andrew Lu, the
former most likely because of high school pressures as she enters her senior year and has to do college applications
soon, and the latter most likely because of what I like to call the ‘Korea effect’ where people go to Korea to study for
a short amount of time, return to the US, and lose a bunch of tournament games. I think we’ll see better results from
these two in the future. But really, the star of the show this year was Curtis Tang, who was playing in his first major
AGA tournament in years, after having gone to China to study for several years. In the first two rounds, Curtis took
care of both Andrew Lu and Wang Dong with ease, but everyone watched with bated breath as in Round 3, he faced
none other than Dae Hyuk Ko, last year’s second place finisher, one of SoCal’s strongest players, who recently
played in the Samsung Prelims and managed a victory over an active Korean 4p. Well, the game (on the Yearbook
CD, with commentary by Jennie Shen) speaks for itself: as we reviewed the game at his house, my friend Zhou Yixian
(who took 7th), yelled out, “This is SICK!” at the top right feidao* that had us just staring in awe. Curtis is definitely
in the top class of players in the AGA, in my opinion. I’m looking forward to how he does in next year’s Jujo Cup
in January, and in the US Open/ING next Congress. Our youth players aren’t too shabby. Makes me want to get
stronger.
I
- This is an edited version of a post by Lee (“Violence”) that originally appeared on GoDiscussions.com photo by Chris Garlock
* a Chinese word meaning flying dagger. “It’s like a trick play,” Lee says, “but it’s more like a prepared trap, where even the correct
punishment still yields an even or close to even result; like someone throwing a dagger at you, if you were to dodge, you don’t gain that
big of an advantage, but if you get stabbed, you’re in trouble.”
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JUJO JIANG GO TOURNAMENT
MINGJIU JIANG RECAPTURES
JUJO CUP
Mingjiu Jiang 7P recaptured the Jujo
Jiang Go Tournament title January 3-4
in San Francisco, CA. The tournament is
named after Jiang’s brother, Jujo, the 9-dan
professional who flew in from Korea to
attend, bringing an entourage of strong
Chinese amateurs from Shanghai. Seventysix players participated in the seventeenth
edition of the event, held in the Hilton
Hotel’s grand ballroom and supported by
the ING Goe Foundation and the Chinese
Cultural Center of San Francisco. To retake
the title, Jiang’s defeated opponents included 2008
champion and runner-up Joey Hung 8d and Lu Wang
8d, who upset Jujo Jiang in Round 3. Reid Augustin and
Ernest Brown directed.
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Photo: Round 4 Wang Lu (far l) vs Mingjiu Jiang (far r)
and Jujo Jiang (near l) vs Joey Hung (near r)
- Lawrence Ku, EJ West Coast Reporter
NEW JERSEY & MARYLAND OPENS
ANDY LIU WINS NJ OPEN
Andy Liu 7D (l) swept all five rounds -- defeating Eric Lui 7d by half a
point in an exciting final round watched by over 450 on KGS -- to win the
New Jersey Championship at the New Jersey Open in Princeton, NJ. 113
players – including contingents from the Feng Yun Go School and Stony
Brook University -- turned out for the 50th annual event, held February
28-March 1, with nearly 50 joining or renewing their AGA memberships.
- report/photo by Chris Garlock; KGS
broadcasting by EJ game recorder John
Pinkerton
DANIEL CHOU
WINS MARYLAND
OPEN
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Instruction
QUESTIONS FROM ACTUAL PLAY
By Haruyama Isamu 9P
Translated by Robert McGuigan
With the permission of the Nihon Kiin, Robert McGuigan has been translating a series of studies from a book
by Haruyama Isamu 9P, the author of Basic Techniques of Go, called 80 Questions for Geting Strong at Real
Play. These run as occasional attachments to the E-Journal. This is an abridgement of 2009_07_13_Haruyama48.pdf on the Yearbook CD.
Question Diagram: Black pushed with 1 and 3 in Diagram 1,
and I expected the moves through White 10. I thought this would
be really good for Black. In fact White made the diagonal jump
to 4 in Diagram 2. What is a good way for Black to respond to
this move?
Answer: Essentially, White is suffering. Just about any way Black
plays will lead to a good result.
Explanation: In this shape naturally White would be suffering.
Instead of making a hanging connection at A or a shoulder hit at
B in Diagram 2, White has played elsewhere. After the slide to
White 4 in Diagram 2, there are many courses of action for Black
that lead to good results.
1 A 5
B
2
4
3
9 8
7 6
10
4 2
5 3 1
Diagram 1
4
A
2
B 3 1
Diagram 2
Diagram 3: If this were an even game, rather than push on top
my feeling is Black should squeeze White from below with
Black 1 here. This is good for Black. After White 2 and 4, Black
cuts with 5. Now if White gives atari at A, Black plays at B.
Diagram 3
Diagram 4: Now, what are we to make of White’s slide to 4 in
Question Diagram 2? With the diagonal extension of Black 1 here
and the moves following through White 6, Black captures two
stones. This is the most common response. Even though White’s
attachment at A remains, this result is good for Black.
3 2
5 1
4
6
Diagram 5
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Diagram 5: After Black 1, White will probably jump down with
2. Black shows spirit with the cut at 3, and White 4 and 6 gets
his head out. This was White’s aim in playing 2. However, even
though White gets out he has no base for his group. Furthermore,
Black gets a thick shape with the moves through Black 5. This is
good for Black.
Instruction
IMPORTANT, FUNDAMENTAL MATTERS
By Kazunari Furuyama
Kazunari Furuyama is a former insei and popular go teacher in Japan. He writes a series of lessons that run
as occasional attachments to the E-Journal. This is an abridgement of #2009.03.23_kaz#18 on the Yearbook
CD.
Common Amateur Mistake 38
1
3
2
3
5
Diagram 1: White 2 is a common
small mistake. It could be good in a
different situation.
Diagram 2: Black 3 is a common
moderate mistake. It doesn’t affect any of the white stones.
5
4
Diagram 3: White 4 and
Black 5 are also common
mistakes.
4 3
5
Diagram 4: If Black wants to aim at
the marked stones, he should push at
5 as a leaning attack.
Diagram 5: If Black wants to aim at Diagram 6: After Diagram 2,
the marked stone, he should push at White 4 is the correct shape.
5 as a leaning attack.
4
3
3 2
8 7 5
6
Diagram 7: This is the followup.
Because the marked stones are
strong, White 8 is possible.
Diagram 8: White 4 is a common
moderate mistake. It doesn’t affect
any of the white stones.
Diagram 9: After Diagram 1,
Black should push at 3 so his
stones are stronger than in
Diagram 2.
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Instruction
ON AMATEUR KYU GAMES
By Yuan Zhou 7d
White: Anonymous 4k
Black: Anonymous 4k
Yuan Zhou 7d regularly does game commentaries for the E-Journal on both kyu and dan amateur games.
This is a game between anonymous 4ks. The complete game with commentary by Yuan Zhou 7d is on the
Yearbook CD (2009_03_30_anonymous4ks_yuanzhou.
Is Black 19 a Good or a Bad Move?
See below for Yuan Zhou’s view.
19
Game Position 1
Should Black Play at A or at B and Why?
A
See below for Yuan Zhou’s view.
B
Game Position 2
Game Position 1 Answer: Black 19 is a very slow move. There is no danger for Black here. If White extends to 19,
Black can hane. It is very important for Black to play 19 on the mid-right-side star point.
Game Position 2 Answer: Black should play at B because it is bigger than A—four points in sente.
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Instruction
PRO COMMENTARY
By Alexander Dinerchtein 3P
White: Piao Wenyao 5P
Black: Gu Li 9P
Alexander Dinerchtein 3P, who is a Russian pro, presents commentaries on both pro and amateur games on
his web site Go4Go.net. His commentaries also appear occasionally in the E-Journal. This one is the final of
the 4th International Toyota-Denso World Oza on January 6, 2009. The complete game with commentary by
Alexander Dinerchtein 3P is on the Yearbook CD (2009_01_26_qu-piao_dinerchtein.sgf).
Should White Play at A or at B?
It is White’s turn. Should he descend at A or attach at B? See
below for Dinerchtein’s answer.
B
A
Game Position 1
Who Wins?
One player resigned at this point in the game. Was it White or
Black? What is the difference in the scores of the two players?
See below for Dinerchtein’s answer.
Game Position 2
Game Position 1 Answer: White chose to descend at A, allowing Black to get B. It would be better for White to play
at B.
Game Position 2 Answer: White resigned here. If my count is correct, White is behind by 5-6 points.
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Instruction
LIFE & DEATH (TSUME-GO) PUZZLES
By Yilun Yang 7P
Life and death (tsume-go) puzzles by Yilun Yang 7P were a regular feature of the E-Journal in 2009. Here we
show some example problems. You’ll find the solutions on page 76.
Hard Puzzle from 2009_03_02
What is the best way to attack White’s corner?
Easy Puzzle from 2009_02_02
What is Black’s best defense?
How should Black attack the corner?
Black must do something with his two
inside stones.
How should Black attack the corner?
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Any chance for the black group?
Instruction
COMMENTARIES FROM GO WORLD
32nd Kisei Title Match, Game 5
White: Yamashita Keigo 9P
Black: Cho Chikun 9P
This commentary by Imamura Toshiya 9P was published in the Autumn 2008 issue of Go World, #116, and
published in the E-Journal by permission. The complete game with commentary is on the Yearbook CD
(2009_03_30_Kisei_yamashita-ch0_goworld116.sgf).
Is White 12 a Good Move? What Is Its Purpose?
White has just invaded with 12. What is White aiming for? See
below for Imamura’s analysis.
12
11
Game Position 1
How Do You Judge the Overall Situation? Is One
Player Ahead?
White has just played the marked stone in the lower left
corner. How do you judge the balance in the game? Is it
even or does one player have the advantage? See below for
Imamura’s view.
Game Position 2
Game Position 1 Answer: The aim of White 12 is to take sente. White is worried that if he simply plays an extension
on the right side, Black will switch elsewhere. By sacrificing 12, White gets to play first in the top right corner.
Game Position 2 Answer: White’s marked stone starts the large endgame, but Black has the lead and White doesn’t
seem to have any chance of staging an upset.
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BARACK OBAMA ‘S AMERICAN-MADE GO BOARD
THE GAME OF DIPLOMACY GETS A NEW
BOARD IN OBAMA GIFT TO HU
in the United States. The
board was handmade of
Hawaiian koa, selected and
crafted by North Carolina
master carpenter Frank
Salantrie – a 3-dan go player
and longtime member of the
American Go Association -and has the presidential seal
engraved on the back, along
with President Obama’s signature. The jade weiqi stones
included in the President’s gift were donated
by professional go player Feng Yun, the former
a member of the China National Weiqi (go)
Team, who is now a United States citizen. The
stones were presented to her many years ago in
recognition of her contributions to the team in
China, and she said she was “honored to give
them to the President to present to President
Hu and the Chinese people as an expression
of continuing friendship between the United
States and China.” Feng Yun is a former
women’s world champion, one of only three
women ever to be awarded a 9 dan title, the
highest rank in professional weiqi. Feng Yun
teaches weiqi in the United States to players of all ages,
and in the summer takes American players to China
to study together with Chinese students. Feng Yun
currently resides with her husband and two children
in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The bowls containing the
stones were made by a West Coast glass blower who is a
favorite of the Obama family.
- Chris Garlock; photos by Peter Armenia
When U.S. President Barack Obama met with Chinese
premier Hu Jintao in last November, he presented
Hu with a go set that included an American-made go
board and a set of Chinese jade stones contained in
glass bowls from the West Coast of the United States.
Beyond the simple political symbolism of an ancient
asian game seamlessly melding Chinese and American
craftsmanship, the choice of a go
set – rather than, say, a Chinese chess
set – gently raises timely geopolitical
issues. “Perhaps this gift expresses
the president’s respect for China’s
long history,” suggests American Go
Association President Allan Abramson.
“And that the traditional Western
competitive model has room for the
cooperation and balance so prized
in go and China.” Whatever the
political, diplomatic and economic
ramifications, the gift set the world
go community abuzz as word spread.
Invented in China over 2,500 years ago, go is the
world’s oldest continually-played board game, played
by nearly 30 million worldwide. Considered one of a
handful of classic board games – along with chess and
checkers – go was included in the first-ever World Mind
Sports Games in Beijing in 2008, and the high-profile
presentation of a go set by an American President was
seen as a watershed moment in the history of the game
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INTERVIEW WITH ALLAN ABRAMSON
“A LIFETIME
PASTIME”
American Go Association President Allan
Abramson is a man on a mission. “I
want to see our membership double and
redouble, to 10,000 members,” Abramson
told the E-Journal in an interview. “That’s
what we need to gain critical mass and
build our financial base and network of
volunteers.” Abramson, appointed in
2008 by the AGA Board of Directors to
succeed Mike Lash, is a longtime local
club organizer in Northern Virginia who’s
served on the Board, including a stint as
Chair. A former chess devotee, Abramson
rose to the International Master level before retiring
from the game in his early 20’s, when “I had to choose
between turning pro or giving it up.” He’s been playing
go for 35 years, learning from a colleague in San Diego
and then getting serious about the game at the legendary
San Francisco Go Club. “At first I didn’t think that go
would compare with chess, but I soon realized that it
was even more complex, and I found myself attracted to
the game’s focus on harmonious balance.” After retiring
from the Environmental Protection Agency after a 34year career, Abramson has been able to devote more
time to hobbies like gardening and go, though the 3-dan
says that “These days it’s hardly any study and mostly
organizational work for the AGA.” Although AGA
membership has actually dropped in recent months –
down over 200 members from a record high of 2,440
last May – Abramson says “I have a long perspective,”
noting that the organization’s 75th anniversary is
coming up in 2010. Although go has become more
widely-known in recent years, “We have a long way to
go in terms of fitting into American culture the way
chess and bridge have,” he says, pointing out the game’s
appearance in a Domino’s TV ad (though he says the
ad sends the wrong message). He also points out that
this year’s U.S. Go Congress – scheduled for August 1-9
at George Mason University’s Fairfax campus – will be
the historic 25th and says he expects record turnout,
with nearly 100 players from Japan, Korea and China
already expected to join pros and hundreds of U.S.
players. Abramson, a former youth soccer coach, likens
go to soccer, “which everyone once said would never
catch on in America; now hundreds of thousands of kids
play it across the country.” He says that the explosion
of youth go in the United States is a very hopeful sign
for the future of the game in America, as is the growth
of E-Journal readership, and adds that go “sells itself;
Americans are games players by nature and once people
start playing they’re generally hooked for life. I like the
slogan ‘A lifetime pastime’.”
- interview/photo by Chris Garlock
WHERE’S THE YEARBOOK CD?
Due to technical and production issues, the Yearbook CD was not completed in time
to be included in the year’s Yearbook. Watch the E-Journal for updates on when the CD
will be available. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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The Go Players Guide to the World
TOKYO
The Star Nine Go School
By Chris Garlock
In a small house on a hill in the Tokyo suburb of
Tsunashima two young boys sit motionless. Outside, the
warm May afternoon beckons, but they are oblivious.
They are students at Isamu Takekiyo 4P’s Star Nine
go school http://starnine.homepage.jp/ , where 20
youngsters aged 7-15 study go. While some hope to
eventually turn pro, many do not, and are just there
to learn the game, “and get some mental training,”
teacher Kazumori Nagayo told me during a visit to the
school in May. Nagayo, attired in the standard black
Japanese suit, looked on as his students intently played
visitors, including our guide Michael Simon 5d and his
friends Toshiya Yatagawa and Kenji Murakawa, who are
members of Simon’s “go mame” group of go buddies.
The school was founded in 2006 and has attracted a
cross-section of youngsters, some brought in by Hikaru
No Go and some who’d been introduced to the game by
a family member, usually a father or grandfather who
plays. The young go players attend the school several
times a week - except for the senior student, an 18-yearold who lives in the house - studying a combination of
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pro games and problems. Intensity of study is the only
distinction between the possible pros and those destined
for a lifetime of amateur play. Admission to the school
“is not about strong or weak,” Nagayo says, “but about
spirit and whether they can concentrate.” There are over
500 schools like this across Japan, he
estimates, many participating in interschool tournaments. “I would like to be
a pro, if possible,” says 11-year-old Inoue
Harunori, a shy but self-possessed 3-dan.
“But who knows? We will see.” Ten-yearold Imai Mikio 4k says “I’d like to be
6-dan,” but his eyes really light up when
he talks about his baseball video games
and playing soccer. Outside the house on
the hill, crows caw and wheel in the blue
sky, oranges hang heavy from a tree out
back and an inviting spring breeze rustles
through the bamboo and tugs at the
curtains. But the boys have returned to
the gobans and all is still except the click
of stones on the boards.
- Garlock was in Japan to cover the 30th
World Amateur Go Championships. Photos
by John Pinkerton. Thanks to Michael
Simon for translation assistance.
TOKYO
The Shusaku Go Club
By Chris Garlock
It’s hard to imagine where else you’d
find a 24-hour go club besides Tokyo,
the city that never sleeps. “We’ve
had people collapse and have to be
carried away after 48 straight hours of
playing,” says Aoto Kuwahara, owner
of the legendary Shusaku Go Club.
“They just keeled right over at the
board.” Kuwahara started the club in
1982 when his good friend Fujisawa
Shuko 9P said Kuwahara could use
his name to promote the club, which
quickly became a popular hangout for
professionals. Perhaps not surprisingly
for a go club linked to a notoriously
alcoholic go player, the club became
famous for hard-drinking go playing,
as well as for gambling. Go proverbs rendered in
Shuko’s famous calligraphy hang in both of the rooms
of the club, on the 5th floor of a building five minutes
from the Shinjuku train station in central Tokyo. Like
Bogart’s Rick’s Café in Casablanca, everybody comes to
the Shusaku, in the heart of the fabled Shinjuku district,
home of the Golden Gai warren of tiny drinking
establishments where generations of writers and artists
have gathered.
“Professionals,
politicians, bums,
transvestites;
everyone’s equal
here,” Kuwahara
says. Go stones
litter the floor
beneath go boards
patinaed with thirty
years of play and
smoke, a thin haze
of which pervades
the club, yellowed
with timelessness.
But winds of
change are stirring
at the Shusaku.
Membership is down
f
h h off 60 in the
h club’s
l b heyday,
h d and
d
to just 26, from
a high
the club now offers an extensive food menu as well as
regular visits by a fortune-teller in an effort to bring in
more paying customers. There are now just a few dozen
go clubs left in Tokyo, Kuwahara says, down from more
than 200. The Hikaru No Go surge of interest peaked
several years ago, although with the series set to air again
soon, there are hopes it’ll spark another wave. Kuwahara
learned the game well over half a century ago, when
a old man, perhaps hoping to distract
a young boy from the horrors of war,
taught him as the Japanese retreated
from China. “You can play go your
whole life,” Kuwahara said, pipe smoke
wreathing his head and glowing in his
grey hair and moustache. “Go keeps
you from going senile,” and, chimes in
his daughter, Kyoko Bohno, who’s been
serving a steady stream of small cups of
green tea and coffee, along with bottles
of beer, “the more you drink the stronger
you get.” The Shusaku Go Club is
located at Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Kabukicho
1-24-2; telephone 03-3232-8755.
- Photos by John Pinkerton. Thanks to
Kaz Furuyama and Jeremy Banzhaf for
translation assistance.
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TOKYO
The Sunshine Go Club
By Chris Garlock
If the Sunshine Go Club has
none of the disreputable charm
of classic smoky go dives like the
Shusaku, it does have at least one
thing those clubs increasingly
lack: members. Over 450 belong
to the club, located on the 9th
floor of the Sunshine Building
in Tokyo’s east Ikebukuro
neighborhood. Once the site of
the infamous Sugamo Prison, the
Sunshine Building now draws
throngs of shoppers and tourists
to its indoor mall and other
attractions like Namjatown, a
rooftop aquarium, shops, a food
court, and weekly displays of
foods and goods from around
Japan and the world. Flooded
with natural light from a wall of windows overlooking
the complex of buildings owned and managed by the
Sunshine real estate company, the club has been open
a dozen years and manager Seizo Nakazono 8d credits
low membership fees, a non-smoking policy and regular
lessons with pros and top amateurs as top draws for
the healthy membership. Nakazono is a former insei
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who didn’t make pro and went to work for Sunshine,
which eventually asked him to open and manage the
club as part of their range of cultural attractions in
the complex. He’s proud that the club is home for an
unusual number of female and young players, as well as
foreigners, which has helped to mitigate the drop-off in
membership and attendance many clubs in Japan have
seen as the overall population of go players has declined
in recent years. Fridays and Saturdays are especially
busy at the club, as local university players come to
train, and pros give regular lessons. Precise and serious
in his immaculate suit, Nakazono is quietly passionate
about the game. “It’s fine to play go as a hobby,” he told
me Sunday. “But if you want to get strong it must be
more than just playing for fun.” After quitting playing
for five years after his insei training ended, Nakazono
returned to amateur play and won a number of top
Japanese amateur titles, including the amateur Meijin
and Honinbo, and placed 5th in the 2004 WAGC. “To
climb Mount Fuji you must go at your own pace,” he
told me Sunday. “If you try to run up the mountain,
you’re only going to get in trouble.”
- Photos by John Pinkerton. Thanks to Kazunari Furuyama
and Jeremy Banzhaf for translation assistance.
JAPAN
Pilgrimage to Honinbo Shuwa
By Chris Garlock
After the conclusion of the 30th World Amateur Go
Championships in Shizuoka, Japan, EJ photog John
Pinkerton, translator Jeremy Banzhaf and I boarded a
shinkansen, or bullet train, for the first leg of a threeand-a-half hour pilgrimage to the birthplace of the
legendary Honinbo Shuwa (1820-1873), the fourteenth
head of the Honinbo house and the pre-eminent
player of the day. In Mishima, we switched to a local
train that rumbled through countryside dotted with
vegetable gardens, rice paddies, and tea fields to the hot
spring resort town of Shuzenji, on the Izu Peninsula.
There, we boarded a bus that wound its way up into
the Toi mountains, the narrow two-lane road twisting
and turning like an eyeless group as we rose into the
clouds and the mountainsides fell away hundreds of feet
into bottomless ravines lined with towering stands of
bamboo. Descending into the seaside town of Toi, we
passed an old gold mine and as the road rose again the
bus dropped us outside the Saifukuji temple. Just off the
road, we found the monument to Shuwa, an oversized
goban carved from stone with a huge marker rising
from the board, on which a game position was laid out
in stones carved from marble. Highlights of Shuwa’s
illustrious career were etched into nearby marble marker.
Cars whispered by on the road below, a mountain
stream burbled nearby and cool salty ocean breezes
rustled in the trees. Up the lane we met the temple’s
head monk, Tomosumi Hirosawa, who delayed his noon
appointment to give us a quick tour. Next to the temple,
a small museum houses a collection of artifacts of local
history and native sons, including Shuwa and Fuji
Film founder
Osaguchi
Miyakichi.
Though
Shuwa’s ashes
are at the
HonmyoJi Temple
in
Tokyo’s
Sugamo
neigborhood
and his board
and stones
are at the
Nihon Kiin,
his spirit and
memory are
kept alive here
where he was
born. Shuwa’s
stern visage gazes down at the Edo-era board and
problem books, seeming to silently reproach me for
not studying enough. When Hirosawa can no longer
keep his guests waiting, he urges us to “please try hard
at go,” and turns us over to an assistant, who shows
us Shuwa’s ancestral home. The modest house is next
door to the temple and when major tournaments are
held in the area, the professionals come to pay their
respects, although the house is now uninhabited and
slowly returning to nature. The shinto gate at the front
of the house is long gone, and the yard and stairs in
front of the house are overgrown with weeds, but in a
small pool beneath an ancient palm, koi still lazily swish
their golden fins in murky water dark with last year’s
fallen leaves. A bird cries in the distance and unripe
plums crunch underfoot as we walk where the master
once strolled, perhaps with his most famous student,
Shusaku, whose birthplace in Innoshima I visited seven
years ago on my first visit to Japan. After winding our
way back through the mountains, we stop in at the
Hakoyu onsen in Mishima for one last hot soak before
heading to Narita Airport and home. The famous
spas have been around for hundreds of years and,
immersed in the volcanically-heated water, we consider
the possibility that Shuwa himself stopped by for a
contemplative soak. Like so many things in go – and
life -- it’s possible.
- Photos by John Pinkerton. This is an edited version of the
original report, which can be found on the Yearbook CD;
pphotos by John Pinkerton. Thanks to Jeremy Banzhaf for
travel coordination and translation assistance.
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SPAIN
Go In Madrid & Barcelona
By Todd Blatt
In Spain on a pleasure trip with my friend Colleen, I
stopped by the Madrid go club on a Friday evening.
I knew the club was in Plaza de España, but didn’t
remember exactly where in the plaza it was, so I ducked
into an internet cafe and looked up the address from the
Madrid Club mailing list and found the club on Google
Streetview. After locating the place, and listening for
stones clicking, I found the room. Minutes later, I was
sitting with a couple dozen players on the 3rd floor of
what seemed to be a restaurant that was closed for the
evening. Since I arrived so late, I didn’t get to play, but
I met a few people, including a Mr. Mikami, a former
insei in Japan. He’s been in Spain for 35 years and is
very strong. The Madrid club ends at 10pm, just in
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time for dinner, and we went to a Chinese place.
The way the meal worked was that everyone made
suggestions, and people voted on what the table wanted.
We sat around telling silly jokes, most of which didn’t
work in English, but a few of the people spoke English
very well and translated for me. The club members
were generous enough to treat their visitor to the meal
and after dinner, around 1 or 2 am, we headed over
to a local bar and hung out there pretty late. Madrid
bars close at 4am, and clubs close at 6am. I spent the
next few days in Madrid, and Tuesday night, we flew
to Barcelona. The main Barcelona go club meets on
Tuesday nights, so I missed it, but Fridays and Saturdays
other members meet informally at a different restaurant
and hang out and eat. I went to this club from 10-12
Friday night, and after that, met up with my friends at
the beach. The 10-day trip was amazing, and I can’t
wait to go back.
- Blatt runs the University of Maryland Go Club
Youth
U.S. YOUTH GO CHAMPIONSHIP
SUN SHINES IN US YOUTH
CHAMPIONSHIP
The senior division of the US Youth Go
Championship went down to the wire
in early June, with the top three players
competing in a playoff series to decide the
national champion and US representative
to the World Youth Goe Championship.
In the first-round game, Chicago native
William Zhou lost to Ricky Zhao of New
Jersey, who proceeded to face Calvin Sun in
the championship game. After a tense and
well-fought game, the game count showed
Calvin Sun to have won the game by a
single point.
- Phil Waldron
US YOUTH
PLACE
5TH AT WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIP
Twelve-year-old Calvin Sun 7d and 11-year-old Andrew
Lu 6d both placed fifth in their divisions at the 26th
World Youth Go Championship (WYGC) held in midAugust in Changzhi, China, and sponsored by the Ing
Foundation. “It was the most exciting WYGC I’ve been
to, far beyond what I expected,” Sun told the E-Journal.
Competing nations included the US, Canada, Ukraine,
China, Japan, Korea, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Russia,
France, Singapore, and Israel. The Senior Division is for
youth aged 12-17 and the Junior for 11 and under. “My
first game was against Korea,” Sun reports, “the Korean
player was not paying attention and smacked down
stones a second or two right after I played. Soon, he
made a huge mistake and I was leading by about twentyfive points. I guess I was a little too cautious in the
second half of the game and I ended up losing by seven
points. The second round, on Day 2, was against Japan.
Our go strengths were about equal and it was a really
tough game but I made some small mistakes during
yose and lost by three points. That afternoon, I played
Thailand’s rep, the weakest player in the senior division,
who was white and played tengen on his first move. It
was an easy win for me. “The third day, a day to relax,
the whole group of competitors -- along with referees,
translators, and family members -went on a trip to a scenic mountain. After a completely
tiring hike, we went back to the hotel for a fun partynight. Round four the next day was against Thomas
Debarre, who has represented France for the past three
years. I was losing in territory so I decided to kill a
dragon and won by resignation although he had some
chances to turn the tables in what was a really interesting
game. My fifth round was against Singapore who also
had two wins and two losses. He had beaten Chinese
Taipei in the second round; Taipei defeated Japan and
Japan beat me, so I was a bit nervous. I was losing in
territory but he slacked off when he was leading and I
found my chance and killed two groups, causing him to
resign. On the fifth day the semi-finals were held, as well
as a lecture about the top game in the senior division
played by China and Korea. The lecture was presented by
Nie Weiping’s son Kong Ning Wen and a Chinese pro,
Mrs. Chen. It was an interesting battle with a forty point
exchange flying across the board. The final result was still
close, with China winning by just one point.
-Paul Barchilon with Calvin Sun; photo: Calvin Sun (r)
vs. Lou Yuxiang (l) at the WYGC, Andrew Lu (Junior
Representative) can be seen in the rear at left. Photo courtesy
Calvin Sun
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The Company
"Het Paard" is founded more
than 20 years ago. The owners,
Marianne Diederen and Peter
Zandveld are both go players.
"Go"is the main part of the
business. Though the our
company is small by all
measures, we are the largest
go traders outside Asia.
The shop
We run a general games store
specializing in mind games and
puzzles. Our go department is
Europe's most extensive. You will find
almost all English language go books
in print, and also a good selection of
Korean Books. Worth a visit when you
are in Amsterdam.
World wide cooperation in publishing
and distributing go books
At the moment we import go books from Kiseido,
Yutopian, Good Move Press, Slate and Shell, Hinoki,
Oromedia to the Netherlands and ship them to almost
all European countries. Additional to that we have
joint ventures with Kiseido and Oromedia for the
publication of books.
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Youth
JUJO YOUTH TOURNAMENT
MATTHEW BURRALL WINS
JUJO YOUTH TOURNEY
Matthew Burrall 7d (l) won the 13th Jujo Jiang
Youth Tournament, held March 29 in Sunnyvale,
CA. Burrall won all his games, including a close
match against Hugh Zhang, to capture the
championship title and top a field of 88 youth
players from all over the Bay area, and from as far
away as Davis. Youth players ranging from 7d to
30k -- and even some beginners playing on 13x13
boards -- competed at the Chinese Cultural Center
in Sunnyvale. Mingjiu Jiang 7P and Reid Augustin
5d directed.
- reported by Lawrence Ku; photo by Ernest Brown.
For complete Winners Report, see the Scoreboard
section of the Yearbook CD.
Zhang 3-Peats At Ing Youth Cup
Hugh Zhang 6D captured the ING Cup Youth Goe Tournament for the third consecutive year,
winning all four of his games November 8. The 12th annual ING Youth attracted over 100 youth
players, with more than 70 in the 19x19 section and over 30 in the 13x13 section at the Chinese
Cultural Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Mingjiu Jiang and Reid Augustin directed the tournament.
- Lawrence Ku
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Youth
TRANSATLANTIC MATCH/NJ USYGC
NORTH AMERICA PREVAILS IN TRANSATLANTIC YOUTH MATCH:
Over 800 online spectators turned out April 19 to watch the inaugural TransAtlantic Youth Match http://www.
usgo.org/tournaments/TransAtlanticYouth/, which brought together twenty players from nine different countries for
an online friendship tournament between North America and Europe. Notable results included three-time Junior
Redmond Cup champion Calvin Sun’s victory over European Youth Champion Ali Jabarin in the morning session (see
attached game record), in contrast to the afternoon session where French strongman Thomas Debarre dispatched Senior
Redmond Cup champion Gansheng Shi. By the end of the series Team North America secured enough games to earn a
6-4 victory and congratulations from EGF organizer Ales Cieply, who expressed optimism for the future: “We hope there
will be more interaction between North American and European players.” 18 year-old AGA youth organizer – and
EJ reporter -- Lawrence Ku conceived of the event as a way of making new go friends: “I have always wanted to get to
know European players better, but as I was unable to attend the European Go Congress in the past few years. I thought
that the best way to meet other young players was through a friendship match online.”
- Philip Waldron
ZHAO AND
SONG TOP NJ
USYGC
Zhongxia (Ricky)
Zhao 7d, and
Forest Song 2d
took first place
in their divisions
at the United
States Youth Go
Championship
(USYGC) in
New Jersey. Both
boys had perfect
records, despite a
strong playing field
of high dan kids.
The qualifier was
held at the Feng
Yun Go School,
in Piscataway, NJ,
on April 11, and drew 27 kids. “The tournament was
great, although four rounds in one day was a bit tiring”
Zhao told the E-Journal. “Feng Yun kindly took the
time to review my last game with Michael Huang, so I
had an opportunity to learn as well,” he adds. A novice
tournament with 16 players was held after the junior
division tournament concluded in mid-afternoon. Paul
Matthews was the tournament director for both events.
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-
Paul Barchilon; photo: top boards in the Senior Division
at the Feng Yun Go School. Foreground: Michael Huang
(l) versus Zhao Zhongxia (r); background: Xu Yang Xu (l)
versus Jasmine Yan (r). Photo by Paul Matthews.
youth
TEACHER OF THE YEAR
FRYE NAMED TEACHER
OF THE YEAR
The American Go Foundation (AGF) named
Florida middle school teacher Joshua Frye 2009
Teacher of the Year. Frye teaches mathematics
at Lexington Middle School in Fort Myers, and
has been introducing go to kids since 2002.
He began with an after-school program, and
also teaches go as part of his math classes. “Go
has become such a passion for many of our
students that Mr. Frye was asked to teach it
as an elective in our school,” writes Assistant
Principal Cherie Allison; “he has four fulltime classes of students that are learning the
fundamentals and the history of the game
of go. We are an International Baccalaureate
(IB) application school and go has fit in perfectly with
our global curriculum.” Frye received 11 nominations
for the Teacher of the Year award, from students,
parents, administrators, and fellow teachers. The
prize is an all-expenses paid trip to the Go Congress,
courtesy of the AGF. “If you were to visit our school,
you would find students carrying go boards in their
backpacks- just waiting for a chance to play,” says Katie
Riemenschneider, IB Coordinator at Lexington Middle.
“He has a waiting list to get into his classes, and he
teaches hundreds of students each year how to play go.
The students are infected with his enthusiasm for math,
go, and cultural knowledge,” she adds. “Mr. Frye is
teaching our kids to think rather than just react,” writes
“Proud Go Mom” Linda Ponader, “this is a public service
that we should all recognize and support. The benefits of
his teaching will continue to influence our children for
years to come. He has given his students/our kids, and
our society a true gift. Thanks to Mr. Frye, I have three
sons who love to play the game of go!” The Teacher of
the Year Award has become quite competitive in recent
years, and many excellent teachers are finding themselves
on a waiting list for the honor. “We had a great crop
of teachers this year,” says AGF President
Terry Benson, “and the board decided to
give an honorable mention prize this year
to Su Co Chon Duc, of Massachusetts,
as well.” Also nominated were Ke Lu of
Boston, and Jasmine Yan of New Jersey.
“What an honor it is to be given this
award,” Frye told the E-Journal, “I’m
truly grateful to the AGF for recognizing
my work in promoting youth go. Go has
tremendous benefits in the middle school
classroom and I’m ecstatic that I get to
witness it daily. I have seen what you can
do with minimal motivation to start a go
program, and watched it spread within our
community. The more I learn about go, the
more I’m humbled and realize how much
more I have to learn.”
-Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor. Photo: Frye
with his number one student, his son Cater,
two years old at the time; Frye’s go class.
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passages
IN MEMORIAM
JIN CHEN 7D
Jin Chen 7D died on January 26th.
The 22-year-old go player had recently
begun work at Microsoft, and died
after falling from the 28th floor of
the Lincoln Square office complex in
Bellevue, where Microsoft’s sales force
leases space. “This is a huge loss to the
go community and our thoughts go out to Jin’s family,
friends and colleagues,” said American Go Association
President Allan Abramson. A fiercely competitive top
amateur, Chen left a legacy of dedication to teaching
go. He inspired and delighted young players at the West
Coast Go Camp, where he taught from 2005 to 2008.
Chen was a regular at the annual U.S. Go Congress
and competed internationally as well, winning the
right to represent the US at the World Student Oza
Championship in 2007, where he finished 9th. He
competed in the Redmond Cup for five years running,
and was described by organizer None Redmond as “a
special young man with great fighting spirit, and also a
special mentor to younger children.” Longtime friend
Jon Boley set up a Facebook page for friends to post
their memories of Chen, and his co-workers at Microsoft
created a memorial website for him. “He would wake up
at six a.m. to give a ride to some girl he didn’t know, just
so that she could play go,” writes Xingshuo Liu. “If he
could, he would have spent all of his time on go.”
- Paul Barchilon, EJ Youth Editor; photo by Barbara
Burrall
“WAY TO GO” AUTHOR
KARL BAKER
“The Way to Go” author Karl Baker passed away on
February 16. Likely the most-published book on go
ever written in English, over 70,000 copies of “The Way
To Go” -- first
issued by the
American Go
Foundation in
1986 -- are now
in print. Baker
(at right, with
Terry Benson)
completed
extensive
revisions to the
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seventh edition in 2008, updating it to feature AGA
rules. “Karl was a mainstay of the go community in
Ashland, Oregon,” wrote 2008 Congress Director Peter
Freedman. “He was an organic gardener, a ping pong
and tennis player, taught for the Oregon Commission
for the Blind, was an avid motorcycle rider, and just a
helluva sweet guy.” His wife Ann told the E-Journal that
Baker “endured, mostly with humor and always with
patience, a five-month medical nightmare following a
diagnosis of colon cancer. His passing was peaceful. He
knew that he was dying and he was happy and unafraid.
Until he slipped out of consciousness he was lucid,
present and clear. He asked me to write a letter to send
out to all of you. When I asked what he wanted me
to say, he said ‘Tell everyone that I just loved knowing
them.’” The print edition of The Way to Go is available
for free from AGA Chapter Services <chapterservices@
usgo.org>.
- Paul Barchilon; photo by Roy Laird
LARRY SIGMOND 2D
AND LANDON BROWNELL 7D
The American go community
lost two members over two
days in mid-April. 58-year-old
Laurence Sigmond 2d died on
April 22 after being hospitalized
recently for heart problems
and nineteen-year-old Landon
Brownell 7d died in a car crash
early on the morning of April
21. “Either of these losses would
have been painful; together they’re a terrible blow,” said
American Go Association President Allan Abramson.
“Our sympathies and thoughts
go out to Larry and Landon’s
families and friends. They’ll
both be missed.” Brownell
learned go when he was twelve,
and became a dan level player
almost immediately, reaching
7 dan by the age of 16 without
ever having a formal teacher.
He won the Senior division of
the Redmond Cup in 2007, and was a master player in
chess as well and was the 2006 National High School
Champion. Sigmond helped resurrect the Philadelphia
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IN MEMORIAM
Go club in the 1980’s, reports Phil Straus. “We had Jim
Kerwin workshops at his house, and I fondly remember
playing with him and professionals on my roofdeck.”
- Chris Garlock, with reporting by Paul Barchilon; Larry
Sigmond photo by Phil Straus; Landon Brownell photo by
John Pinkerton.
TOM TRILLING 1D
Longtime LA area go enthusiast Tom Trilling 1D (at left
in photo) succumbed to cancer in May. Trilling “was a
stalwart who played regularly with the South Bay Ki-in
and often at other local clubs and attended every local
event he could, including a pro workshop only weeks
before his death,” reported Andy Okun. “He loved
playing go,” said son Andy Trilling, “and it was a source
of great support, comfort and distraction, especially
during his final weeks.” Trilling played since the early
60’s, says Richard Dolen, but his work in the aerospace
industry kept him from regular participation in those
days, although “he was enthusiastic about the game,
and we would occasionally meet at the Seinan Go Club,
behind the barber shop in the Crenshaw area.” When the
South Bay club organized a sister city go visit to Nagoya,
Trilling went along and got special team t-shirts that
“contributed much to the spirit of the events.” Added
Bob Terry, “I do not think that I have ever met anyone
who loved go as much as Tom Trilling.” On a 1995 trip
to Nagoya, “we played some VIPs at city hall. I played
a member of the Japanese Diet and Tom played the
mayor. We all won that day, but the rest of the matches
on the trip were much more difficult. We played teams
from other countries at various venues in Nagoya. In the
end, the Chinese team came in first, but our team was
the best of all the Western clubs that participated. At
the closing ceremony, Tom Trilling was beaming from
ear to ear. And yet he still managed to slip away into the
hallway of the building where someone had a go board
and he played one game after another there. I was busy
enjoying the lavish buffet that had been furnished, eating
the best caviar that I have ever tasted, but all that Tom
could think of was go!”
JEFF BOSCOLE 2K
Longtime Seattle-area go player Jeff Boscole 2K passed
away in August. Local go organizer Chris Kirschner
remembers that Boscole was one of the regulars at the
Last Exit on Brooklyn coffeehouse, an earlyy hotbed
of Seattle go. “His
unexpected death may
have been caused by
a brain aneurysm,
according to a friend,”
reports Brian Allen of
the Seattle Go Center.
“Jeff recently attended
the Ryo Maeda workshop
on August 9-10, and
seemed in good health. I
especially remember his
sincere and public thanks
to Maeda Sensei at the end of the first session. We will
miss him.” Adds Gordon Castanza, “he was always
willing to engage anyone about the finer points of go.
He was especially active in supporting youth go and
kyu players.”
photo by Michael Alford
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scoreboard
2009 EVENTS
Local chapters and clubs organize dozens of go tournaments, workshops, lectures and
other events each year. Tournament results are reported each week in the American Go
E-Journal -- send your reports and photos to journal@usgo.org -- and can be found on
the Yearbook CD. Here’s a selection of photos from the events held across the country in
2009.
left: Boulder CO USYGC by Paul Barchilon (3/7-8)
right: Rocky Mountain Winter Go Tournament Boulder, CO (1/31)
below: New Jersey Open Princeton by John Pinkerton (2/28-3/1)
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scoreboard
2009 EVENTS
right: Chicago Spring Handicap & Youth Qualifier Tournaments
by Mark Rubenstein (3/14)
below: Vermont tourney
by Peter Schumer Middlebury, VT (3/14)
right: Carolina Spring Tourney
by Bob Bacon (3/21)
below left: Jujo Jiang Youth Tournament
by Ernest Brown (3/29)
below right: Sedgwick Elementary School
by Yuzhuo He (3/31)
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scoreboard
2009 EVENTS
right: Philadelphia
Cherry Blossom
Festival by Peter
Nassar (4/4)
below left: Seattle
Sakura-Con by Brian
Allen (4/17)
below center: Boulder
Kids and Teens
Go Club by Paul
Barchilon (4/5)
above: Univ.Central Fla
Tourney (5/9-10)
left: 2009.04.26 Miami
Ichimura Japanese Gardens
by Alex Feldstein (4/26)
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SCOREBOARD
2009 EVENTS
right top: 2009.05.24 Happy Cup Youth
Go (5/24)
right bottom: Ryo Maeda at the Seattle Go
Center (8/9-10)
left bottom: Chicago Tournament, by Bob
Barber (6/20)
left middle: Ed Zhang’s Chinese Go Party
by Chris Garlock (7/25)
left top: Santa Monica Coffee Cup
by Andy Okun (6/13)
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SCOREBOARD
2009 EVENTS
left: Xue Lei 4P Go Workshop
in Boston (9/1-6)
middle left: Xue Lei DCBaltimore workshops (8/25)
top left: Rocky Mountain Fall
Go Tournament,
by David Weiss (10/24)
above: Let’s Go tournament
Middlebury, Vermont,
by Peter Schumer (9/26)
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SCOREBOARD
2009 EVENTS
below, middle: Sasaki workshop Alhambra, CA,
by Terry McIntyre (11/8)
below, bottom: Bunka no Hi Culture Day in Seattle,
by Brian Allen (11/1)
left: UT Cicadas Sing tournament,
by Andy Olsen (10/24)
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Kiseido Publications for 2010
Graded Go Problems for Dan Players
The Graded Go Problems for Dan Players series is a translation of a best-selling Nihon Ki-in collection
for aspiring dan players. It is designed to provide low-kyu and low-dan players with the essential grounding
in the basics of life-and-death, tesuji, joseki, the opening, and the middle game that are needed to develop
deep and accurate reading as well as the intuition needed to compete as high-level dan players. The problems
start at around 5-kyu and, over the course of the series, work up to 7-dan.
These are not problem books that one can skim through in an evening or two. Each problem requires serious thought, especially in Volumes 4 and 5, to obtain the maximum benefit from them, which is to acquire the
ability to make an exhaustive analysis of a position. This means that you must not engage in one-sided reading where you only consider your own moves but neglect to look for your opponent’s strongest resistance.
Books in the Graded Go Problems for Dan Players series:
K61 — Volume 1: 300 Life-and-Death Problems (5-kyu to 3-dan)
K62 — Volume 2: 300 Tesuji Problems (5-kyu to 3-dan)
K63 — Volume 3: 300 Joseki Problems (1-dan to 3-dan)
K64 — Volume 4: 300 Life-and-Death Problems (4-dan to 7-dan) (Summer 2010)
K65 — Volume 5: 300 Tesuji Problems (4-dan to 7-dan) (Autumn 2010)
K66 — Volume 6: 300 Joseki Problems (4-dan to 7-dan) (Autumn 2010)
K67 — Volume 7: 257 Opening and Middle Game Problems (1-dan to 7-dan)
Mastering the Basics, Volume Seven
Attacking and Defending Moyos
by Richard Bozulich and Rob van Zeijst
Mastering the Basics is a series of books that will cover every aspect of the game. Emphasis is on basic
principles and each volume contains hundreds of problems to drive home these principles to the reader.
Attacking and Defending Moyos (frameworks of potential territory) follows this same format. Part One
contains example games, showing how pros build moyos and how they attack and defend them. Part Two
presents more than 150 full-board problems illustrating the various techniques used in building, attacking,
and defending them. (Summer 2010)
Books in the Mastering the Basics series:
K71 — Volume 1: 501 Opening Problems
K72 — Volume 2: 1001 Life and Death Problems
K73 — Volume 3: Making Good Shape
K74 — Volume 4: 501 Tesuji Problems
K75 — Volume 5: The Basics of Go Strategy
K76 — Volume 6: All About Ko
K77 — Volume 7: Attacking and Defending Moyos (Summer 2010)
The 21st Century Dictionary of Basic Josekis, Volumes 1 and 2
by Takao Shinji 9-dan
An English translation of the Japan Go Association’s latest joseki dictionary. Published in February
2010, it contains all the basic josekis found in older editions as well as the latest variations developed in
China, Japan, and Korea.
Volume 1: Available late summer 2010
Volume 2: Available late 2010
For precise dates of publication and to order, go to Kiseido’s online shop at
http://www.kiseido.com/online_f.htm and follow the links.
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Ratings
All current members who played rated games as of 4/1/2010 Ratings are updated continuously:
check your latest rating at http://www.usgo.org
Kim, Myung Wan
Feng, Yun
Jiang, Ming Jiu
Liu, Zhi Yuan [Andy]
Li, Jie
Yang, Yilun
Rhee, Tae Young
Yang, Jing
Jiang, Zhu-jiu [Jujo]
Ge, Yongfei
Chen, ZhaoNian
Ko, Dae Hyuk
Lui, Eric
Wang, Lu [Jeffrey]
Koh, Juyong
Yang, Huiren
Li, Cathy (Chen Shuo)
Hung, Joey
Huang, Kevin
Hsiang, Thomas Y.
Tang, Curtis
Feng, Zipei
Liang, Jie
Kim, Chaelim
Shou, Minshan
Zhou, Yuan
Ngai, Kwok Sul
Hong, Seung Hyun
Rhee, Young
Shi, Gan Sheng
Tu, Xinyu (Carson)
Sun, Calvin
Zhang, Jian Yi
Wu, Changlong
Xiao, Qiang
Song, Lian-Pu
Guo, Jing (Jimmy Creeks)
Ha, Soo Ihl
Liu, Xiliang
Liang, Richard
Zhou, William
Zhao, Xudong
Zhao, Zhongxia (Ricky)
Liu, Xingshuo
Wang, Rui
Mao, Jerry
Xie, Chao
Morris, Trevor
Chen, Bill
Hu, Thomas
Phipps, Ned
Burrall, Matthew
Gu, Jason
Zhou, Yixian
Wang, Dong
Bai, Yuchen
Min, Hong-yu
Xu, Renjie
Cheng, Wei
Price, Guthrie
Qin, You Min
Li, Song
Guo, Wangzi
Tang, Wenhua
Zhang, Hugh
Cui, Jinhe
Zhou, Xun
Kwon, Young K.
10.06
9.71
9.65
9.38
9.37
9.23
9.03
8.98
8.97
8.81
8.66
8.64
8.62
8.62
8.59
8.58
8.55
8.51
8.40
8.38
8.34
8.33
8.27
8.26
8.11
8.03
8.03
7.99
7.83
7.82
7.80
7.72
7.60
7.56
7.56
7.50
7.49
7.41
7.39
7.36
7.34
7.27
7.26
7.25
7.25
7.25
7.21
7.18
7.15
7.14
7.14
7.13
7.08
7.08
7.07
7.04
7.01
7.00
6.99
6.99
6.97
6.92
6.91
6.88
6.88
6.87
6.82
6.80
Jinno, Shohei
Gourdeau, Daniel
Gan, Jianing
Chou, Daniel
Zhang, Lionel
Roberts, Gary
Cheng, Wayne
Sedgwick, James
Park, SeJoon
Mizusawa, Shuma
Zhuang, Guozhong
Hyodo, Shunichi
Yi, Yun-Bo
Zhao, Kevin W.
Zhang, Mian
Wang, Jun
Zhang, Rongrong
Wang, Yinli
Sato, Akio
Emsenhuber, Anton
Zhang, Zhiyuan (Edward)
Lee, Calvin
Cai, Junzhang
Ku, Lawrence
Wu, Jianming [Jimmy]
Zhou, Yao
Lu, Andrew
Feng, Wenyi
Choi, Charles H.
Jhirad, Nicholas
Peterson, Maxwell
Bai, Taeil
Xu, Dairong
Shen, Cherry
Hamilton, Robert
Liu, Peng
Han, Kuo-Ruey
Shou, Guo Xiang
Ma, Dong
Huang, Andrew
Kawaguchi, Masahiro
Zhou, Xin
Ding, Haoning
Yao, Jin
Bull, Michael
Boley, Jon
Waldron, Philip
Zhao, Ju
Lee, Hyang Mi
Qian, Bo
Pine, Steven
Liu, Yong-Xin [Vincent]
Zhang, Tony
Kelly, Brett
Zhong, Yu
Chang, Huan-Min
Kin, Koryu
Rosenblatt, Gregory
Shen, Gary
Dobrescu, Bogdan
Gurevich, Alex
Choe, Solomon
Kim, Hyo Myung
Chen, Walter
Yu, Erwin
Givens, John S.
Kim, Eddie
Chao, Kevin
6.80
6.74
6.73
6.73
6.71
6.69
6.69
6.67
6.63
6.62
6.59
6.58
6.58
6.57
6.53
6.48
6.47
6.47
6.41
6.39
6.37
6.37
6.37
6.37
6.33
6.33
6.33
6.30
6.30
6.25
6.25
6.25
6.24
6.20
6.19
6.18
6.16
6.16
6.13
6.11
6.10
6.09
6.08
6.07
6.02
6.01
6.00
6.00
5.98
5.88
5.85
5.84
5.81
5.80
5.79
5.76
5.73
5.72
5.72
5.71
5.71
5.71
5.69
5.68
5.67
5.64
5.61
5.59
Chen, Tianbing
Chen, Yi Jin
Wang, Fong Chain (Gary)
Hong, Michael
Huang, Xiaohan
Lin, Evan
Hua, Hong
Quizon, Juan Pablo
Stevens, Kory
Kim, Won Jong
Zhuang, Vincent
Lim, Ducksoo
Chen, Owen
Zhang, Zheng (Eric)
Lu, Ke
Xu, Yang
Zhang, John
Shih, Jack
Lockhart, William
Feldman, Micah Y.
Zhang, Feng
Liu, Bing
Tan, Eric
Liu, Chen-Chang
Kuang, Jeff
Henckell, Karsten
Trinks, Daniela
Chen, Mengmeng
Burrall, Steven F.
Xu, Gang
Tan, Mingdong
You, Zhiping
Lebl, Martin
Wang, Yi
Kuo, Kuan Chu
Koguchi, Hirouyuki
Shang, Kevin
Chen, Wan Yu
Yeo, Sung
Arnold, Keith L.
Huang, Michael
Li, La
Pelrine, Kellin
Yan, Jasmine
Lee, Joshua
Roads, Francis M.
King, Frederick
Yu, Shi Ming
He, Sean
Ring, David
Stephenson, John C.
Blocher, Kyle David
Kim, Michael [Gyung-Ik]
Mathisen, Ryan
Matsumoto, Mamoru
Lechasseur, Jean-sebastien
Wu, Ming Teh
Zhang, Yue
Park, David
Gourdeau, Francois
London, Philip
Han, Changyu
Zhou, Kevin
Nguyen, Long
Lee, Eric
Lu, Jing
Yamaguchi, Iwao
Shieh, Justin
5.58
5.55
5.55
5.54
5.47
5.46
5.45
5.41
5.41
5.40
5.35
5.33
5.32
5.30
5.30
5.29
5.29
5.24
5.19
5.19
5.17
5.16
5.15
5.15
5.15
5.14
5.12
5.10
5.06
5.04
5.01
5.00
4.90
4.88
4.88
4.88
4.86
4.86
4.85
4.82
4.78
4.77
4.77
4.76
4.75
4.70
4.66
4.64
4.63
4.60
4.58
4.52
4.51
4.51
4.50
4.50
4.48
4.46
4.46
4.42
4.39
4.37
4.35
4.34
4.34
4.33
4.30
4.30
Buss, Jonathan
Guo, Zhi Qiang
Short, Daniel
Huang, Zhijian
Zhang, Tina
Shen, Jerry
Kirschner, Christopher
Arinkin, Dima
Jackson, Andrew
Briscoe, Andrew
Sibicky, Nick
Lin, Eric
Yang, Jimmy
Chen, Wei
4.29
4.27
4.27
4.26
4.23
4.22
4.22
4.21
4.21
4.14
4.11
4.10
4.08
4.08
Bennett, Huck
Chen, Albert
Rohlfs, Jeffrey
Hoshi, Isamu
Peng, Haijiang
Luo, Moulun
Shi, Ming
Senesac, James
Liu, Jianbo
Xi, Yuanxin
Allen, Patrick
Luo, Ming [Michael]
Kramer, Justin
Harwit, Matthew
4.07
4.06
4.05
4.03
4.01
4.01
4.00
4.00
3.97
3.87
3.84
3.82
3.81
3.81
MOST GAMES/EVENTS 2009 (TOP 50)
Name
Schrag, Roger
Castanza, Gordon
Horn, Jeff
Dyer, Kelsey
Huang, Vincent
Khalsa, Gurujeet
Louderback, Allen
Shen, Jerry
Chiu, Linden
Huang, Xiaohan
Phoon, Joey
Teng, Justin
Zhou, Yixian
Brown, Frank
Lebl, Martin
Phillips, William W.
Zhang, Sammy
Conyngham, Jim
Kurz, Steffen
Lui, Eric
Chin, Kabe
Chin, Kevin
Doughty, Herb
Kolb, Laura
Lee, Richard
Mooyman, Peter J.
Baum, Leonard
Phoon, Marcus
Celmer, Paul
Heck, Gus
Lancaster, Larom
Lu, Andrew
Nderitu, Gikuyu
Takehara, Keiju
Takehara, Yukino
Wu, Eric
Fang, Kevin
Li, Yunxuan
Rohde, David
Thompson, Bill
Lu, Jerry
Okun, Andrew
Huang, Barbara
Jackson, Andrew
Johnson, McLeod
Zhang, Henry
Zimmerman, Samuel E.
Chou, Daniel
Haldeman, Kurt
Lee, Eric
Metcalf, Wanda
Qu, Larry
Scott, Lisa
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IL
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Ratings
Lockhart, Benjamin
Qu, Hongya
Hershberger, Matthew
Alison-Mayne, Cooper
Leahy, Brian
Kim, Dae Woong
Lin, Bin
Gan, Nianci (Neal
Sawka, Greg
Zhou, Mian
Sellon, Tyler
Weimer, David L.
Shi, Lei [Rocky]
Duan, Zheng Daniel
Hudnall, Christopher
Li, Min Yong
Sun, Stephen
Holleran, Andrew
Cushing, William
Yang, Xinlin
Sobieski, Jonathan E.
Kierulf, Anders
Choi, Sang Il
Robbins, Charles G.
Kupon, Austin
Sim, Andrew
Bengtson, Matthew
Xiang, Qian
Lee, Chun-Kyu
Myers, Bob
Nelson, Alexander
Blake, Nicholas
Larson, Josh
Horowitz, Stuart
Thek, John J.
Davis, Ian
Zhou, Hang
Small, Haskell
Hop, Jonathan
Salantrie, Frank
Olsen, Andy
Teng, Justin
Beck, Jared
Li, Sihao
Zhang, Peter
Bernstein, Ryan
Tan, Kuo Hung
Ito, Shingo
Song, Forest
Lloyd, Harold
Schattke, Robert
Lin, Sheng
Li, Quan Bang
Chi, Ren Guan
Simon, Burt
Levenick, Jim
Zhang, Tao
Pronovost, David
Wu, Steven
Garlock, Chris
Baker, Lucas
Probst, Alex
Qiao, Jinglu
Phipps, Joanne
Abramson, Allan
Dawson, John
Weiss, David
Anderson, Paul
Nayfack, Nicholas
70
3.80
3.79
3.79
3.79
3.78
3.78
3.76
3.76
3.72
3.71
3.71
3.69
3.69
3.67
3.67
3.64
3.64
3.64
3.59
3.58
3.57
3.57
3.56
3.56
3.56
3.54
3.52
3.52
3.51
3.50
3.49
3.47
3.46
3.46
3.43
3.38
3.38
3.37
3.37
3.36
3.35
3.35
3.34
3.32
3.27
3.26
3.21
3.21
3.19
3.19
3.17
3.17
3.16
3.16
3.15
3.11
3.11
3.09
3.08
3.07
3.07
3.05
3.04
3.04
3.03
3.01
2.99
2.98
2.96
Sanet, Joel S.
Su, Eric
Guo, Albert
Su, Roger
Harriman, John Steven
Osman, Eric
Sullivan, Shaun
Kato, Kaoru
Dyer, Michael
Li, Yunxuan
Cain, Jeremy
Fan, Jiwei
Whitlow, Jeffery
Barthropp, Stuart
Kim, Inbok
Wu, Tianying
Qiao, Ting
Straus, Phil
Muldowney, Robert S.
Suzuki, Fumio
Nakajo, Mitsuru
Harwit, Nathan
Burg, Chris
Kim, Richard
Koester Jr., Kenneth M.
Bates, Jason
Tanaka, Yoshio
Kim, Kevin
Luce, Matthew
Tabata, Tom
Vel, Sudhir
Mao, Yunfei
Sears, Eric
Willerth, Marc
Yin, Alan
Xu, Robin
Baldridge, Ethan
Lapidus, Saul
Xu, Caohua
Lin, Brandon
Chamberlain, John
Gillis, Edward
Ray, Shawn
Oyakawa, Tyler
Siemon, Debbie
Hendrick, John K.
Hlavka, Jim
Wainwright, Eric
Yavich, Aleksandr
Bernardo, Neil
Chalmers, Richard M.
Hayashida, Christopher
Waschipky, Robert
Pasini, Jose Miguel
Kawabata, Kei
Simmons, Joshua
Kwahk, Han
Fodera, Michael
Drange, Theodore M.
Hearn, Bob
Bustamante, Richard
McCarthy, Michael
Lakis, Erik
Burrall, Kristen
Li, Jason
Weiland, Charles
Chen, Leishan
Moore, John
Takehara, Keiju
2.94
2.93
2.91
2.86
2.86
2.85
2.83
2.83
2.83
2.79
2.78
2.76
2.75
2.73
2.72
2.70
2.65
2.65
2.64
2.64
2.63
2.62
2.62
2.58
2.57
2.56
2.54
2.54
2.51
2.50
2.49
2.49
2.46
2.45
2.43
2.43
2.42
2.42
2.42
2.42
2.41
2.39
2.38
2.36
2.31
2.30
2.28
2.28
2.28
2.28
2.27
2.26
2.26
2.25
2.24
2.20
2.20
2.17
2.16
2.15
2.12
2.12
2.11
2.11
2.10
2.09
2.08
2.07
2.07
Herman, David A.
Xing, Larry (Lei)
Ma, Jianxiong
Li, Wei Qing
Armitage, Benjaman
Wang, Zhijian
Tse, Hong
Wallstedt, Michael
Cornell, Dewey G.
Luo, Xian Wu
Bahun, Tom
Schmittberger, R. Wayne
Chang, Kevin
Saxner, David
Ye, Aaron
Wu, Victor
Hestnes, Odie
Peterson, Raymond
Tsukamoto, Masaya
Wong, Siang Kai (Mark)
Spector, Martin B.
Xu, WeiGuo
Klemm, James
Anuzis, Michael
Chen, Ronghao
Backues, Mark
Wilkie, Clayton C.
Chen, Kaishuo
Huang, Chun Yen
Womack, Hal
Brown, Ernest
Liu, Daniel
Liu, Jian
Gehrkin, Jonathan
Hsieh, Lester
Huynh, Lee
Gross, Samuel
Zhang, Xiaoshan
Takahashi, Yoko
Celmer, Paul
Cho, James
Palmer, Marc
Searcy, Hughes L.
Daniels, Brady
Wolf, Oliver
Benson, Terence G.
Nybo, Kristian
Dudzik, Andrew
Park, Anthony
Li, Shi
Kang, Alex
Horn, Jeff
Kang, Victor
Byrne, David
Poore, Daniel
Wahl, Troy A.
Fu, Matthew
Baghboudarian, Jason
Kington, Tim
Fujita, Go
Hunley, Ray W.
St. John, Peter
Fang, Justin
Hsieh, Pao
Yuan, Fuping
Nelson, Wayne B.
Prairie, Alexander
Gilston, Mark
Zhou, Xin-Li
2.06
2.06
2.06
2.03
2.03
2.03
2.01
2.01
2.01
2.00
1.98
1.97
1.96
1.95
1.95
1.93
1.93
1.92
1.90
1.89
1.88
1.87
1.86
1.86
1.84
1.83
1.82
1.82
1.82
1.81
1.81
1.81
1.78
1.78
1.77
1.76
1.74
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.71
1.70
1.69
1.68
1.68
1.67
1.67
1.62
1.59
1.57
1.55
1.53
1.53
1.51
1.51
1.48
1.48
1.47
1.47
1.47
1.45
1.45
1.45
1.45
1.44
1.43
1.43
1.41
1.41
Lee, Seong-Min
So, Christopher
Fujimoto, Takemi
Sawada, Yoshi
Wu, Xiaoping
Fang, Alex
Branlund, Eric
Lai, Wai Kin ( Sam)
Wilkins, Don
Haynes, Willard
Searcy, Lanny
Ogg, Karen
Nderitu, Gikuyu
Tellier, Shane
Shiba,
Belmont, Jeremy
Shin, Woo
1.37
1.36
1.36
1.35
1.34
1.33
1.32
1.30
1.29
1.29
1.29
1.28
1.27
1.27
1.27
1.25
1.25
Zhang, Sammy
Sugita, Shoichi
Felcan, David
Chi, Tim
Zhang, Lisa
Schrader, Robert
Downes, Edward R.
Char, Wai-to S.
Foxx, Richard
Younger, Phillip
Umetani, Hiroshi
Stout, Erik
Uhl, Steve
Lai, Irving
Arrand, William
Scott, Lisa
Wang, Andrew
1.25
1.23
1.22
1.22
1.21
1.20
1.19
1.17
1.16
1.13
1.13
1.11
1.11
1.10
1.10
1.10
1.09
MOST GAMES/EVENTS 1991-2009 (TOP 50)
Name
Robbins, Charles G.
Barberi, Steve
Sudhoff, Horst
Arnold, Keith L.
Lebl, Martin
Kurz, Steffen
Maia, Joseph
Frankel, David M.
Horn, Jeff
Small, Haskell
Pickett, James M.
Zhou, Yuan
Conyngham, Jim
Schmitten, George
Metcalf, Wanda
French, Charles C.
Ingram, C. Louise
Lui, Eric
Palmer, Marc
Zawacki, Chester
Osman, Eric
Burrall, Matthew
Garlock, Chris
Celmer, Paul
Lui, I-Han
Burrall, Steven F.
Baum, Leonard
Schumer, Peter
Mott, Rick
Blagrove, Anthony
Straus, Phil
Arrand, William
Eudell, Arnold
Benthem, James A.
Zhou, Xin-Li
Carter, James
Casey, Eva W.
Benthem, Adam
Henzel, H. Alexander
Williams, Russ
Phipps, Joanne
Schneider, Ira H.
Small, Elizabeth H.
Keener, Robert W.
Pohl, Pauline
Burrall, Karoline
Peterson, Lars D.
Pierce, Franklin
Gilston, Mark
Games
1164
1015
843
812
803
733
661
659
651
648
625
610
606
583
554
549
531
528
525
502
497
483
477
477
464
457
445
424
414
410
403
397
395
393
392
389
386
381
378
377
376
373
365
364
361
355
351
350
347
346
Events
319
135
32
160
69
153
86
123
65
130
147
84
136
99
100
106
110
90
126
105
43
101
113
110
111
100
109
66
83
99
101
85
101
90
52
94
53
87
35
89
44
64
43
82
16
80
81
83
69
35
State
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PA
GER
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PA
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WA
DC
MD
MD
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PA
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MA
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MD
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MD
CA
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NJ
VA
PA
NH
MD
MI
MD
TX
MA
MI
VT
TX
CA
TX
DC
MI
IL
CA
NJ
FL
Ratings
Howard, John
Shainok, David
Chang, Wenzhong
Cheng, Lei
Liu, Colin
Ronan, Mark
Okun, Andrew
Chou, Kevin
Elchert, Ken
Chiu, Linden
Barber, Robert J.
Dombro, Quentin W.
Shen, Jie
Samuel, Michael
Yang, Huan
Goerss, Michael
Wanek, Michael
One, Kunio
Whang, Sung Kyu
Thacker, Andrew
Blake, Ken
Saltman, Bill
Andreasen, Michael
Abell, John
Barberi, Steve
Wolf, Ross
Hubbard, Andrew
Wu, Jian
An, Terence
Sollish, Robert
Evenson, Kent
Tung, Stephen
Li, HaoXuan (Henry)
Tayek, Ray
Blatt, Todd
Marrow, Owen Chalmers
Allison, Donald
Lin, Eric
Dows, David A.
Phillips, William W.
Rivera Jr., Fernando
Laing, Mark
Lim, Bryan Christopher
Major, Matthew
Zhou, Afa
Peters, Glenn
Newmiller, Jeff
Fang, Kevin
Gundberg Jr., William
Wang, Xiquan
Harris, David
Chen, Shi Wu
Frankel, David M.
Pohl, Pauline
Lin, Yen-Chun (Josephine
Hoak, Joshua
Wuest, Christopher
Carlton, David
Burzillo, Anthony
Kaniuk, Geoff
Penner, Mark M.
Gross, Jonathan
Wei, Yun
Furuyama, Yuji
Mallory, Matt
Goldenberg, Ryan
Yee, Karl
Borggren, Nathan
Chin, Kabe
1.08
1.06
1.06
1.05
1.04
1.02
1.02
1.01
-1.00
-1.03
-1.04
-1.04
-1.06
-1.08
-1.08
-1.08
-1.10
-1.12
-1.13
-1.14
-1.14
-1.17
-1.18
-1.19
-1.23
-1.24
-1.25
-1.28
-1.28
-1.29
-1.29
-1.30
-1.30
-1.30
-1.31
-1.32
-1.33
-1.33
-1.33
-1.36
-1.38
-1.38
-1.39
-1.40
-1.40
-1.43
-1.44
-1.45
-1.45
-1.47
-1.47
-1.47
-1.47
-1.47
-1.50
-1.51
-1.52
-1.53
-1.54
-1.54
-1.55
-1.56
-1.57
-1.57
-1.58
-1.59
-1.60
-1.62
-1.63
Tabaniag, Jay
Sorenson, Robert
Yoon, Seokwoo
LaBarbera, Michael
Barchilon, Paul
Dinhofer, David
Fang, Hawren
Bakker, Feite
Nakata, Yoshitomo
Pinkerton, James
Cameron, Chris
Salts, Jamie
Wright, Nathaniel
Smith, Daniel
Wu, Jinhong
Bird, Isaiah
Cheng, Joey
Shieh, Alex
Petrescu, Adrian
Foss, Bjorn
Fix, Ryan
Bernadsky, Boris
Liang, Jonathan
Cai, Duo De
Huang, Edric
Akeyama, Koichi
Simon, Richard
Nakajo, Kyoko
Michali, James
Nelson, Jeremy
Urban, Justin
Zaytsev, Anatoly
Stark, Chester
Matson, David
Cotsen, Lloyd Eric
Richards, Norman
Brooks, Clark
Toister, Yigal
Pongracz, Gregory
Hamaguchi, Masaaki
DeVeyra, Aeones
Schaefer, Kagen
Carlson, Lucas
Scammon, Chris
Cai, Rui Xin
Wilks, Stuart
Cordingley, Robert
Peterson, Max
Johnson, Justin
Zhou, Jie
Schumer, Peter
Person, Chris
Zhang, Luke
Fukuda, Frank K.
O’Malley, Robert
Izak-Damiecki, Arthur
Schenck, Louis
Parson, Devante
Milner, Shane
Lampert, Roger
Siratanon, Jun
Aylsworth, Tim
Haler, Eric
Pruner, Matt
Kolb, Laura
Feldman, Ian
Dew, John
Danaher, Henry
Mizuno, Shigetami
-1.63
-1.64
-1.64
-1.66
-1.67
-1.67
-1.68
-1.68
-1.71
-1.75
-1.77
-1.77
-1.78
-1.78
-1.80
-1.81
-1.81
-1.82
-1.88
-1.88
-1.90
-1.93
-1.93
-1.95
-1.95
-1.97
-1.98
-1.98
-1.99
-1.99
-2.00
-2.00
-2.01
-2.02
-2.04
-2.06
-2.07
-2.07
-2.08
-2.09
-2.15
-2.15
-2.16
-2.17
-2.17
-2.19
-2.20
-2.21
-2.22
-2.23
-2.27
-2.27
-2.28
-2.29
-2.34
-2.34
-2.34
-2.37
-2.38
-2.38
-2.38
-2.40
-2.43
-2.45
-2.46
-2.47
-2.47
-2.48
-2.51
Rabinowitz, Larry
Brandt, Theodore
Kenyon, Anthony W.
Kirby, Brian
Flamm, Matthew Harris
St-onge, Marc
Yoon, James
Top, Daniel
Tsay, Alex
Payette, James
Wu, Eric
Langley, Brandon
Luk, Franklin
Williamson, Glenn
Qiu, Tong
Maia, Joe
Dyer, Kelsey
Rueckriemen, Rolf
Luff, William
Kenyon, Brian
Heck, Gus
Vanderlaan, Zachary
Sprang, Todd
Hsiao, Tim
Bridges, Adam
Stoner, Cye
Du, Xiaoling
Brown, Richard L.
Zhao, Kelley
Bretherick, Steven
Miyama, Miyoko
Huang, Corey
Winters, Jordan
Hutchins, Preston
Chin, Ching-Sung
Baver, Derek
Krafick, Dakota
Fienup, James R.
Li, James L.
Tewahade, Yaphet
Polzin, Oliver
Chappell, David
Zhang, Henry
Weg, Eric
Chan, Louisa
Mott, Cullen
Armenia, Peter
Zhang, Jingjing
Aspinall, John
Kane, Leonard
Benyowitz, Joel
Chao, Jack
deCourcelle, Donald A.
Li, Sean
Schwartz, Michael A.
Solberg, Richard
Miller, Matthew
Tunzi, Joshua
Traibush, Victor
Kurz, Steffen
Alexis, Philippe
McLaughlin, Ian
LeJeune, Larry
Conyngham, Jim
Jankowski, Scott
Davila, Efrain
Feiveson, Eric
Nguyen-Vu, Anton
Chow, Matthew
-2.53
-2.55
-2.56
-2.57
-2.58
-2.63
-2.64
-2.65
-2.67
-2.67
-2.69
-2.70
-2.72
-2.72
-2.73
-2.74
-2.75
-2.76
-2.78
-2.78
-2.80
-2.81
-2.82
-2.82
-2.82
-2.83
-2.84
-2.86
-2.89
-2.93
-2.94
-2.98
-2.98
-3.02
-3.02
-3.04
-3.04
-3.06
-3.12
-3.12
-3.14
-3.15
-3.18
-3.20
-3.20
-3.21
-3.22
-3.22
-3.22
-3.24
-3.27
-3.30
-3.32
-3.34
-3.36
-3.37
-3.38
-3.41
-3.42
-3.43
-3.43
-3.45
-3.47
-3.48
-3.48
-3.48
-3.50
-3.50
-3.50
Baum, Leonard
Huang, Sam
Bensen, Paul
Suson, Andrew
Sailing, Jasmine
Hogan, John M.
Ye, April
Garrett, Zack
Shang, Andrew
Elliott, Kenneth
Chan, Jay
Laird, Roy
Eaton, Joe
Wan, Raymond
Warren, Kyle
Townsend, Damon
Van, Randy Yao-Chiang
Le, Robert
Sprechman, Daniel
Eudell, Arnold
Matthews, Paul G.
Mueller, Andrew
Ye, Jack
Huang, Xiao (Alan)
Feng, Yijun
Wells, Chris
Warzinski, David
Cain, Collin
Hu, Albert
Balwit, Fritz
Gu, Brian
Hoshi, Takashi
Bibbs, Brian
Huang, Sida
Nassar, Peter N.
Harris, Ronald L.
Shrewsberry, Eric
Li, Xu Ming
Guan, Raymond
Craig, Joseph
Warzinski, Kim
White, Ronald G.
Mooyman, Peter J.
Qiu, Kathy
Uptain, Jacob
Hsu, Sheehan
Aronson, Brian
Takehara, Yukino
Palumbo, Matthew
Mount, Steve
Mercado, Ramon A.
Jain-Sharma, Vishank
Spitz, David
Rubenstein, Mark
McDaniel, Kenneth
Arnon, Yoram
Schwarz, Klaus
Puchtel, Max
Doughty, Herb
Li, Henry
Milling, Chris
Malveaux, Mike
Curtis, Robin
Gum, Josh
Cai, Jack
Pojman, Paul
Reid, Eric
Russ, Larry
Dyer, Landon
-3.51
-3.52
-3.52
-3.52
-3.53
-3.54
-3.58
-3.59
-3.60
-3.60
-3.61
-3.62
-3.62
-3.62
-3.63
-3.63
-3.64
-3.66
-3.66
-3.67
-3.68
-3.69
-3.69
-3.70
-3.71
-3.71
-3.71
-3.71
-3.72
-3.73
-3.74
-3.75
-3.76
-3.77
-3.80
-3.81
-3.81
-3.81
-3.84
-3.86
-3.86
-3.87
-3.88
-3.88
-3.91
-3.93
-3.94
-3.97
-3.98
-3.98
-3.99
-4.03
-4.04
-4.06
-4.09
-4.09
-4.10
-4.10
-4.14
-4.15
-4.17
-4.17
-4.19
-4.19
-4.20
-4.20
-4.22
-4.25
-4.27
Bartels, Larry
Park, Nathan
Pearson, David
Grguric, Samuel
Wong, Chi
Stevenson, David
Chan, George
Chin, Kevin
Shaw, Nathan
Chen, Jerry
Kline, James
Friedman, Simon
Grant, Ryan
Chang, Alice
Clapp, Gordon
Xu, Chuck
Henzel, H. Alexander
Murphy, Jeff
Backus, Eric
Jacobs, Paul
Toyoda, Hiroshi
Plotz, Michael
Heitmann, Ray
Casey, Eva W.
Ban, Dong-Hun
Nelson, Tom
Johnson, Eric
Ravin, Lihu Ben-Ezri
Jacob, Bart
Dougherty, Michael
Vizzarro Vallejos, Pedro
Lu, Xujun
Fredrickson, James
Swanson, Eric
Martin, Peter
Wu, Kevin
Yang, Diana
Carter, James
McLellan, Jeffrey J.
Armstrong, Harry
Desouza, Alex
Pfaff, Jason
Huang, Vincent
Lock, Eddie
Launchbury, John
Ching, Justin
Wynn, Peter
Zhang, Jeffrey
Yo, Jung Sok
Taylor, Abe
Metcalf, Wanda
Gold, Karen
Cobb, William S.
Zhao, John Q.
Lee, Ed
Fede, Samantha
Mott, Rick
Moses, John D.
Wall, Philip J.
Panicucci, Ted
Lee, Kyu Ha
Jain-Sharma, Niraek
Bowie, Lee Anne
Berlekamp, Elwyn R.
Hendricks, Ryan
Batchelor, Egl T.
Connell, Adam
Li, Lisha
Louderback, Allen
-4.27
-4.28
-4.29
-4.29
-4.34
-4.34
-4.35
-4.36
-4.36
-4.37
-4.37
-4.38
-4.41
-4.43
-4.44
-4.44
-4.45
-4.46
-4.46
-4.47
-4.48
-4.49
-4.51
-4.51
-4.51
-4.53
-4.56
-4.56
-4.57
-4.61
-4.62
-4.62
-4.63
-4.63
-4.64
-4.64
-4.65
-4.65
-4.65
-4.66
-4.66
-4.66
-4.66
-4.67
-4.67
-4.70
-4.71
-4.73
-4.73
-4.74
-4.74
-4.75
-4.78
-4.78
-4.80
-4.82
-4.83
-4.83
-4.83
-4.85
-4.91
-4.92
-4.93
-4.93
-4.97
-4.97
-4.98
-4.99
-4.99
71
Ratings
Shimura, Takao
Key, Tyler
Harker, Wesley H.
Bui, Sony
Tracy Jr., Philip E.
Mikula Jr., Alfred
Nutzman, Philip
Li, Baifu
Burrall, Karoline
Colburn, Steve
Palmour Jr., Evans
Zoroglu, Demir
Preuss, Jason
Swarzman, Danny
Heidenreich, Todd
Meyer, Robert
Jessen, Jared
Miller, Jeffrey
Xu, Larkin
Harvard, Alexei
Ma, Vincent
Jordan, Karen
Runyan, Christopher
Donatz, Michael
Blank, Justin
Massey, Ryan B.
Spencer, Joseph
Pierce, Aaron
McNelis, Nick
Nyquist, Jonathan
Leinbach, Braden
Lapidus, Carrie
Mangual, John
Cunningham, Cory
Schenthal, Kevin Justin
Guffin, Josh
Fraser, William E.
Yang, Haisong
Su, Amy
Terpstra, Theodore B.
Greene, Kevin J.
Tomak, Steven
Goldman, Neal
Rohde, David
Campbell, Greg
Greechie, Richard
Yoo, Daniel
Koch, Lance
Pickett, James M.
Colladay, Donald
Chan, Chi-Hung
Wong, Howard
Lee, Eric
Goldman, Jacob
Shimomura, Takao
Clark, Calvin
Chau, Alex
Rogers, Steven
Greenberg, Gabe
Gilman, Robert D.
McCann, H. Gilman
Hardy, Richard
Lee, Joseph
Jan, Joseph
Sanders, Corey
Pedersen, Norman P.
Bresler, Jonathan M.
Young, Bruce
72
-4.99
-5.00
-5.00
-5.01
-5.01
-5.01
-5.01
-5.02
-5.03
-5.03
-5.06
-5.06
-5.07
-5.08
-5.09
-5.10
-5.14
-5.15
-5.19
-5.20
-5.22
-5.23
-5.25
-5.26
-5.28
-5.29
-5.30
-5.31
-5.32
-5.33
-5.33
-5.34
-5.35
-5.36
-5.36
-5.36
-5.36
-5.37
-5.38
-5.40
-5.42
-5.42
-5.42
-5.43
-5.44
-5.44
-5.48
-5.48
-5.48
-5.51
-5.52
-5.59
-5.60
-5.60
-5.61
-5.62
-5.62
-5.62
-5.63
-5.66
-5.70
-5.71
-5.72
-5.72
-5.72
-5.73
-5.76
-5.77
-5.79
Ehrlich, Robert
Wilson, George
Mowshowitz, Avi
Huang, Kuan-Lun
Yue, Vincent
Ambrose, Dan
Crowl, Roland W.
Hwang, Albert
Swigert, Jason
Schumm, Thomas
Blue, Shawn
Speck, Darrell
McIntyre, Terry
Zhou, Andy
Saniee, Bijan
Jacoby, Adam
Hogrefe, Jared
Zumstein, Heath
Crumb, Matthew
Hommerding, Mark
Martin, Nathan
Swanson, David
Thomson, Carrie
Hellinger, Jason
Sato, Akira
Xu, Eddie
Dolev, Kfir
Au, Tom
Lipofsky, Barton
Herrmann, George
Ty, Michael
Liu, Howard
Lerner, Ben
Cha, Tai-An
Hamers, Allen D.
Zamora, Carlos
Allen, Stephen
Walters, Rex
Greiner, John A.
Drake, Peter
Hsieh, Chengau
Hartman, John David
Ohashi, Yoko
Shin, Michael
Burrall, Julie
Manning, Christopher
Kovitz, Jordan
Lash, Michae l
Rosenblum, Steven
Cai, Henry
Decker, Michael
Timms, Benjamin
Vogel, Jeffrey
Cheyne, Rob
Gipson, John
McCarthy, Thomas
Cole, Sean
Nazif, Zaher A.
Garcia, Bryant
Liu, Xiao
Qu, Larry
Tsujimoto, Yoshinori
Bacon, Bob
Cary, Jack
Bender, Erik Clark
Park, Chui S.
Ray, William
Field, Martin
Felice, Robert
-5.79
-5.79
-5.80
-5.80
-5.81
-5.81
-5.83
-5.83
-5.83
-5.84
-5.84
-5.84
-5.84
-5.85
-5.85
-5.85
-5.89
-5.89
-5.89
-5.90
-5.91
-5.92
-5.93
-5.93
-5.95
-5.97
-5.98
-5.98
-5.99
-6.00
-6.00
-6.00
-6.02
-6.03
-6.05
-6.07
-6.10
-6.11
-6.15
-6.15
-6.17
-6.18
-6.22
-6.23
-6.24
-6.28
-6.29
-6.32
-6.32
-6.34
-6.35
-6.42
-6.43
-6.45
-6.46
-6.47
-6.47
-6.48
-6.49
-6.49
-6.54
-6.54
-6.55
-6.56
-6.57
-6.57
-6.57
-6.60
-6.61
Moleda, Spencer
Daye, Alex
Wasiqi, Joseph
Reed, Sean
Reed, David
Shin, Brian
Crumpler, Ken
Friedenbach, Ken
Day, Peter
Chiles, Bill
Wilson, Zachary
Ngoy, Ryan
Gonnella, Jim
Key, Rachel
Sun, Geng
Yeh, Raymond P.
Min, Seun Guy
Abentroth, Nicholas
Kellogg Jr., Ogden Ellis
Ruder, John
Peters, James
Richards, John
Holden, William F.
Caldeira, Edward
Brown, Frank
Liang, Victor
Brady, Zarathustra
Kim, Ilhee
Okuma, Brad
Young, Corey
Takasumi, Koji
Parry-Hill, Jeremiah
Gang, Joshua
Sharvy, Ben
Knauer, James
Hambelton, Chris
Forrest, Chris
Fraser, Mark
Pierson, Burton E.
Wu, Brian
Wheeler, Dennis
Wei, Matthew
Angerman, Chris
Greer, Todd
Capps, Jonathon
Klockow, Dennis
Cram, Don
Heinich, Mike
Zimmerman, Robert C.
Demoss, Dan
Daniels, Kevin
Kokosenski, Michael
Hunter, Ryan
Linz, Laurie
Schrag, Roger
Khripkov, Dmitriy
Hardman, Dennis
Wu, Tiffany
Sherrill, Jace
Glekel, David
Wu, Jeff
Guth, Stephen
Donboch, Jared
Bailey, Bruce W.
Phoon, Joey
Tewahade, Aichan
Van, Eric
Chen, Andrew
Brix, Phillip
-6.63
-6.65
-6.65
-6.66
-6.68
-6.68
-6.72
-6.74
-6.75
-6.76
-6.76
-6.79
-6.80
-6.80
-6.81
-6.84
-6.85
-6.90
-6.91
-6.92
-6.94
-6.96
-6.96
-6.99
-6.99
-7.00
-7.01
-7.01
-7.02
-7.02
-7.03
-7.04
-7.05
-7.07
-7.08
-7.11
-7.13
-7.13
-7.16
-7.16
-7.19
-7.21
-7.23
-7.23
-7.24
-7.28
-7.29
-7.32
-7.35
-7.36
-7.36
-7.36
-7.37
-7.37
-7.38
-7.38
-7.40
-7.41
-7.41
-7.42
-7.47
-7.47
-7.51
-7.51
-7.54
-7.55
-7.59
-7.60
-7.60
Olson, Joel
Hlavka, Eileen
Burns, Zachary
Enyeart, Peter
Lou, Jingbo
Furth, Caleb
Hershhorn, David Corey
Moakley, Eric
Feliccia, Jesy
Gonnella, Ben
Nguyen, Tu
Yuan, Jonathan
Pratap, Nick
Chisholm, Blair
Hurd, Joe
Cheng, Andy
Wiersema, Cody
Button, Tim
Daland, William C
Hutachinda, Paramesh
Leung, Alan
Liaw, Grace
Boehm, William
Do, Minhat
Sun, Yanchen
Inwood, Matt
Brochet, Art
Miller, Paul
Hawley, Matthew
Gaty, Cynthia
Halderman, Nicholas
Passolt, Gregor
Barilas, Pedro
Bates, Robert
Meoz, Benjamin
Ward, Russell
Hellum, Uffe
Wong, Albert
Reeves, Sean
Casal, Andrew
Wiggins, Dylan
Eller, Eric
Blackburn, Paul
Horwitz, Daniel
Sarry, Jonathan
Moore, James
Lear, Ryan A.
Higgins, Graham
Gow, Owen
Valdes, Carlos
Tsai, Alex
Head, Jeff
Stern, Elliot
Nishimura, Mark
Hockman, Lucien
Strohm, Jed
Huang, Yu Hsin
Dietze, Bill
Jackson, J.T.
Williams, Jeffrey
Huang, Barbara
Rice, Joshua
Ingram, C. Louise
Ruggles, Nicholas
Bernhardt, John
Lee, Christopher
Fitzpatrick, Wilhelm
Keech, Brandon
Lewis, Philip
-7.61
-7.62
-7.62
-7.63
-7.63
-7.66
-7.70
-7.71
-7.75
-7.75
-7.76
-7.78
-7.78
-7.81
-7.81
-7.83
-7.84
-7.85
-7.86
-7.87
-7.87
-7.90
-7.92
-7.92
-7.92
-7.93
-7.93
-7.96
-7.96
-7.97
-7.97
-7.98
-7.98
-7.99
-8.00
-8.00
-8.01
-8.06
-8.06
-8.09
-8.10
-8.13
-8.14
-8.17
-8.17
-8.18
-8.19
-8.19
-8.22
-8.23
-8.25
-8.26
-8.27
-8.28
-8.29
-8.30
-8.31
-8.31
-8.32
-8.33
-8.33
-8.35
-8.36
-8.40
-8.41
-8.50
-8.51
-8.52
-8.53
Irgang, Mark
Yaromenk, Vladimir
Wu, Joshua
McCusker, Michael
Fox, Lawrence
Hanson, Earl
Brown, Mike
Schaefer, James
Waggoner, Michael
Werner, Ross
Alexander-Leist, Casey
Wiley, Micah
D’Andrea, G. Nicholas
Hsieh, Leon
Knox, Warren
Nguyen, Tung
Schmitten, George
Alt, Greg
Yon, Anthony
Serebryany, Igor
Williams, Tyson
Kahn, David
Pai, Daniel
Walters, Joseph
Imperiale, Larry
Muskovitz, David
Osoba, Dammy
Eclipse, Larry
Lu, Jeffrey
Frye, Joshua
White, Roy
Hong, Andrew
Hernandez, Jessvan
Khalsa, Gurujeet
Canavan, Gerry
Chen, Yeh (James)
Huang, Zongli
Zhai, Jingxi
Allen, Ashley
Colakoglu, Gulsen
Hogarty, Dave
Tang, Kevin
Li, Albert
Thomas, Chuck
Small, Rachel
Chenault, Ray
Willis, Jared
Su, Gabriella
Davis Jr., Daniel Allen
Miller, Amanda
Dority, Mike
Anschultz, Reese
Larscheid III, Francis E.
Rofe, Amanda
Lentczner, Mark G.
Lee, Wei
Kotler, Mitchell
Wiegand, Paul
Pelayo, Jorge
Xu, Diana
Lebovitz, George
Fresquez, Gary
Blagrove, Anthony
Schurter, Terri
Berhane, Ezana
Abrams, Scott
Jacobsen, Nathan
Allen, Brian
Yen, Alex
-8.54
-8.55
-8.56
-8.57
-8.57
-8.57
-8.59
-8.62
-8.62
-8.62
-8.64
-8.64
-8.64
-8.65
-8.66
-8.68
-8.68
-8.69
-8.72
-8.72
-8.74
-8.74
-8.74
-8.76
-8.81
-8.81
-8.82
-8.84
-8.84
-8.88
-8.90
-8.92
-8.92
-8.94
-8.95
-8.98
-9.01
-9.02
-9.03
-9.04
-9.06
-9.06
-9.06
-9.08
-9.08
-9.08
-9.11
-9.11
-9.11
-9.14
-9.14
-9.21
-9.22
-9.22
-9.22
-9.23
-9.23
-9.24
-9.25
-9.26
-9.27
-9.27
-9.29
-9.29
-9.31
-9.31
-9.31
-9.34
-9.35
Ratings
Van Gorder, Neil
Maquieira, Hector
Beitzel, Jeff
Anand, Sathya
Norman, Matthew
Cowles, Tim
Willard, Ellen
Kadakia, Tania
Hughes, John
Garza, Gilbert
Hyatt, Danielle
Sun, Stanley W.
Luo, Daisy
St-onge, Xavier
Rees, Roderick
Dupont, Brett
Herbert, Tommy
Long, Jason Alonzo
Litke, Matthew
Lalonde, Sebastien
Lee, Albert
Chen, Jesse
Ingham, Steve
Hong, Joyce
Livieratos, Vin
McCants, Edward
Baldwin, Fred D.
Robert, Kerby
Check, Ivan
Warhurst, Joshua
Dela Cruz, Rhea
Smith, Patrick
O’Brien, Kevin
Strommen, Alexander
Fogie, Nathan
Luc, Jonathan
Chow, Priscilla
Olson, Chris
Lee, John
Chen, Jonathan
Novacek, Dave
Hildebrand, Kurt
O’Connell, Jeffrey
Chiu, Harrison
Wilkinson, John
Tweet, David
Sharpe, Natalie
Li, Jiayue
Keeler, Robert E.
Young, Kyle
Cheng, Yan
Johnson, James
Feller, David
Belarmino, Joseph
Edey, Marion
Kudryashov, Roman
Sancak, Yasin
Hsu, Lance
Shirley, Michael
Huy, Jonathan Q.
Lunsford, Sean
Basom, Edward
Reynolds, Ronald
Chiang, Justin
Wang, Matthew
Sherrill, Blaine
Liu, Raymond
Carpenter, Mikael
Sargon, Cyris
-9.40
-9.44
-9.44
-9.45
-9.45
-9.47
-9.49
-9.50
-9.51
-9.53
-9.54
-9.58
-9.60
-9.63
-9.63
-9.66
-9.66
-9.74
-9.74
-9.74
-9.77
-9.80
-9.81
-9.82
-9.83
-9.86
-9.87
-9.88
-9.90
-9.93
-9.93
-9.96
-9.98
-10.01
-10.03
-10.07
-10.07
-10.12
-10.12
-10.14
-10.17
-10.17
-10.18
-10.19
-10.19
-10.22
-10.23
-10.25
-10.27
-10.29
-10.29
-10.32
-10.34
-10.42
-10.45
-10.48
-10.49
-10.52
-10.54
-10.54
-10.56
-10.57
-10.59
-10.61
-10.62
-10.69
-10.71
-10.73
-10.73
Goertzel, Zarathustra
Liao, Austen
Yip, Rae
DiMattia, Vincent
Knuttinen, William
Lai, Anthony
Odhner, Josiah
Li, Arthur
Giglio, Justin
Whiteside, David E.
Hogins, Jonathan
Postert, Anthony
Avakov, Alexei
Michmerhuizen, James
King, Jake
Pak, Gun-Ik
Wheeldon, Megan
Royce, Liam
Ponader, Nikolaus
Dror, David
Hardin, Bryan
Park, Charles
Davis, Samantha
Hill, Gerald
Wilson, Zachary
Kutner, Skye
Boone, Thomas L.
Allis, Michael
Huynh, Kenny
Greene, Christopher
Secor, Kent
Pankratz, Mark
Newmiller, Cordell
Adomeit, Ambjorn
Tang, Jimmy
Sun, Shih Pen (Jim)
Lin, Iris
Parker, Masanari
Small, Elizabeth H.
Harder, Jason
Huang, Kevin
O’Leary, Paul
Colbert, Myles
Feng, Gilbert
Fisher, Skylar
Kang, Min Soo
Xiong, Kevin
Johnson, Sam
Nguyen, Minh
Erville, Julian
Rogers, Peter
You, James
Jiang, Eric
Smadja, Frederic
Gray, Ian
Kerr, Christie Danielle
Burgin, Tucker
Nichols, Scott
Woehler, Rick
Zod, Neil
Lancaster, Larom
Zhang-Zheng, Vincent
Curry, Stephen
Carlson, Tom
Chung, Gene
Bennett, Rory
Masumoto, Ken
Evans, Richard
Squitire, Kerianne
-10.74
-10.75
-10.76
-10.86
-10.87
-10.87
-10.88
-10.93
-10.93
-10.95
-10.96
-10.96
-10.98
-10.98
-10.99
-11.02
-11.04
-11.05
-11.06
-11.07
-11.07
-11.11
-11.12
-11.16
-11.18
-11.21
-11.29
-11.32
-11.34
-11.34
-11.35
-11.37
-11.42
-11.42
-11.45
-11.45
-11.48
-11.49
-11.51
-11.53
-11.54
-11.58
-11.59
-11.60
-11.63
-11.67
-11.68
-11.73
-11.73
-11.74
-11.76
-11.77
-11.79
-11.80
-11.88
-11.90
-11.92
-11.97
-12.00
-12.05
-12.06
-12.06
-12.06
-12.07
-12.09
-12.11
-12.12
-12.14
-12.18
Kinnear, Noel
Ward, Jeffrey
Johnson, McLeod
Wheeler, Jacob Michael
Choi, Sky
Frantz, Doug
Sundermeier, Brian
Dudzik, Michael
Carr, Kevin
Liu, Ray
Thompson, Josh
Mellnik, Alex
Xu, William
Todd, Blackmon
Durfee, Ryan
Castanza, Gordon
Gallegos, Josh
Yates, Tyler
Wu, Ann
Johnson, Rez
Sipes, Eric
Hinojoza, Justin
Russell, Aaron
Cartwright, Tony
Capobianco, Christopher
Huang, Conan
Hilt, Jonathan
Nazarenko, Sergiy
Fang, Daniel
Anderson, Ivar
Walter, John
Fitzgerald, Craig
Layton, Charles
Taylor, Ryan
Brovoort, James
Zhou, Roy
Michihata, Nobuaki
NG, Philip
Duprey, Jeff
Lemmon, Jay
Smith, Garrett
Rogers, Tim
Clark, Mike
Armendariz, Luis
Li, Zheng
Zuniga, Jeremy
Crowther, Molly
Edge, Jake
Ji, Bennett
Zilber, Steven A.
Shi, Yili
Morris, Steven
Lee, Hyoung-Gyu
Slider, Nathan
Feeney, Jonathan
Jin, Jason
Szepietowski, Josh
Zeng, Sicheng
Wu, Andrew
Zhou, Henry
Saunders, Allen
Lu, Zachary
Haldeman, Kurt
Russell, Eric
Holmes, Craig
Chen, Jessie
Shaw, Robert
Danzy, Anthony
Wang, Michael
-12.19
-12.21
-12.22
-12.23
-12.23
-12.24
-12.24
-12.28
-12.28
-12.29
-12.33
-12.33
-12.38
-12.38
-12.38
-12.47
-12.49
-12.50
-12.54
-12.56
-12.57
-12.61
-12.61
-12.63
-12.68
-12.71
-12.71
-12.73
-12.76
-12.76
-12.76
-12.80
-12.84
-12.84
-12.85
-12.87
-12.90
-12.93
-12.94
-12.96
-12.96
-12.96
-13.00
-13.04
-13.05
-13.12
-13.13
-13.14
-13.20
-13.21
-13.24
-13.35
-13.41
-13.42
-13.44
-13.47
-13.51
-13.51
-13.56
-13.56
-13.58
-13.60
-13.68
-13.69
-13.75
-13.81
-13.82
-13.82
-13.89
Golash, Deirdre
Rumsey, Christopher
Pridgen, Robert
Shufflebarger, Matthew
Highful, Kyle
Hess, Nathan
Paquette, Dalton
Zhou, Jerry
Swanson, Aron
Giusto, Michael
Henz, Triana
Kerr, Kelly
Wang, Amy
Inman, Daniel
Pfeffer, Susanna
Loria, Gavriel
Wu, Charlie
Thaithawarn, Sar
Hlavka, Chris
Manning, Steven
Fraley, Andrew
Daley, Rachel
Jones, Noah T .
Bassett, Ben
Huang, Yu-Hsin
Gritten, Cassie
Komarek, Dan
Tran, Minh
Niedermeyer, Deborah
Ayers, Robert M.
Steveson, Christopher
Kasper, David
Jenkins, Kenneth
Shi, Julia
Polkiewicz, Charles
Anderson, Jeff
Brosy, Steven
Chue, Kazuya
Eckles, DeeDee Lee
Zalesak, Andrew
Tsai, Ken
Feaster, Brian
Siangliulue, Pao
Clifford, Kevin
Hsu, Justin
Rhone II, Michael
King, Kevin
Gross, Lawrence E.
Gordon, Kazumi
Yang, Austin
St. Aubin, Rich
Lee, Richard
Smith, Tom
Mulryan, Seamus
Wong, Stephen
Tran, Van
He, Bowen
Park, Jong Hoon
Ink, Lawrence
Reeves, Richard
Cihak, Joshua
Hong, Brian
Long, Anthony
Ke, Felix
Irving, John
Flood, Eric
Shinmo, Kyoko
Lopes, Robert
Geiger, Marty
-13.91
-13.92
-13.92
-13.98
-13.99
-13.99
-14.01
-14.01
-14.02
-14.08
-14.11
-14.11
-14.13
-14.16
-14.18
-14.20
-14.20
-14.22
-14.25
-14.25
-14.38
-14.38
-14.40
-14.47
-14.55
-14.55
-14.62
-14.62
-14.64
-14.65
-14.65
-14.69
-14.69
-14.70
-14.74
-14.75
-14.76
-14.77
-14.77
-14.78
-14.82
-14.83
-14.86
-14.91
-14.92
-14.93
-14.93
-15.05
-15.05
-15.06
-15.08
-15.09
-15.12
-15.12
-15.15
-15.16
-15.16
-15.20
-15.21
-15.34
-15.36
-15.36
-15.40
-15.40
-15.44
-15.47
-15.52
-15.52
-15.55
Cole, Mark
Newman, Richard
Lu, Jerry
Janssen, Dustin
Newshan, Adam
Crouch, Steve
Lozano, Daniel A.
Romero Y Vigil, Ramon
Sin, Christopher
Ayres, Robert W.
Wood-Vasey, Michael
Sun, Glenn
Chan, Chia
Yun, Edward
He, Zhiying
Hornberger, Christopher
Ruster-Mack, Aaron
Luo, Robin
Pepmiller, Ethan
Louchez, Eric
Selesky, Peter Joseph
Cook, Jeremy
Oakeson, Lehi
Lemus, Geovanni
Blann, Dale
Doman, Matt
Tsimakuridze, Nikoloz
Seifrid, Alicia
Chen, Alan
Anderson, James
Akeyama, Yuriko
Nyman, Kuhlman
Bailey, Jason
Myers, Drake
Zhang, Christopher
Moore, Barry
Grodzki, Jonathan
Nelson, Jonathan
Michel, Ethan
Ulate, Ricardo
O’Leary, Sanchez
Hu, Alvin
Wolf, Stanley
Klock, Gordon
Solovay, Robert
Parks, Ben
Grantham, Beau
Granger, Otis Keom
Roth, Stephanie
Manning, Jane
Corbin, Jonathan
Delaney, Clayton
Teutsch, Thomas
Latimer, Ash
Sparks, Michael
Brow, John N.
Yi, Alexander
Kasischke, Katherine
Tobias, Mike
Swen, Donald
Harris, Ian
So, Brian
Yu, Austin
Metcalf, Gary
Wan, Andrew
Clifford, Derek
Joiner, Christopher
Rouch, Keith
Liu, Kevin
-15.56
-15.59
-15.61
-15.63
-15.65
-15.73
-15.73
-15.73
-15.75
-15.77
-15.79
-15.80
-15.80
-15.82
-15.82
-15.86
-15.89
-15.89
-15.91
-15.94
-15.95
-16.00
-16.03
-16.05
-16.06
-16.06
-16.13
-16.20
-16.24
-16.25
-16.30
-16.30
-16.36
-16.36
-16.37
-16.47
-16.50
-16.50
-16.53
-16.59
-16.61
-16.63
-16.64
-16.65
-16.66
-16.69
-16.77
-16.78
-16.80
-16.81
-16.82
-16.92
-16.93
-16.95
-16.98
-17.01
-17.03
-17.05
-17.05
-17.07
-17.08
-17.08
-17.09
-17.16
-17.17
-17.20
-17.20
-17.24
-17.27
73
Ratings
Wu, Derek
Phoon, Marcus
Sumner, Eric
Eldred, Tyler
Davis, Blake
Holgerson, Mark
Hong, Jonathan
Tran, Tristan
Austin, Alec
Serra, Cesar
Tanaka, Payam
Allison, Conner
Heuett, Jacob
Ehrlich, Joseph
Carbonell, Sergio
Hoffman, Damon
Laser, Charles
Ari, Margo
Lin, Vincent
Ong, Ze-Ching
Zhu, Alec
Acuna-Guintero, Daniel
Wang, Patrick
Spindler, Mark
Maier, Henry
Lai, John
Szmajda, Josh
Colas, Mike
Heindl, Shane
Estrada, Phillip
Zhang, Jerry
Burton, Sean
Choi, Danny
Abramson, Myriam
Lewis, Warren
Reiner, Ben Soto
Tran, Eric
Greenwell, Zachary
Brownewell, Eric
Akeyama, Shuntaro
Torres, Marcus
Reedy, Ryan
Heintz, Jackson
Swartz, Justin
Goodman, Grant
Rodenbaugh, Dillon
Lloyd, Steven
Hanson, Leah
Nguyen, Tai
Churchill, Courtney
Ponader, Chris
Bessenov, Daniel
Perman, Eric
Sailing, Amara
Soto, Ben
Steffens, Wayne
Littlefield, Lukas
Zhang, Ling
Seco, Angel George
Sandell, Dustin
Maher, Zack
Wassmer, Marcus
Hsu, Alan
Miyake, Yuriko
Rouen, Michael
Saint, Chuck
Weight, Josh
Farkas, Jacob
74
-17.28
-17.37
-17.37
-17.38
-17.39
-17.40
-17.40
-17.41
-17.43
-17.44
-17.53
-17.56
-17.58
-17.63
-17.64
-17.66
-17.68
-17.72
-17.77
-17.86
-17.87
-17.89
-17.94
-17.99
-18.02
-18.06
-18.06
-18.08
-18.10
-18.12
-18.12
-18.13
-18.18
-18.22
-18.24
-18.30
-18.31
-18.43
-18.44
-18.51
-18.53
-18.59
-18.69
-18.69
-18.74
-18.75
-18.77
-18.91
-18.96
-19.00
-19.03
-19.07
-19.10
-19.14
-19.18
-19.22
-19.31
-19.33
-19.36
-19.43
-19.45
-19.45
-19.46
-19.47
-19.50
-19.70
-19.71
-19.73
Hey, Marjorie E.
Mei, Brian
Huang, Joanne
Tao, Kevin
Haddad, Geoffrey
Moseley, Brian
Thompson, Bill
Mouly, AJ
Strater, Dorothy
Roberts, Christopher
Manning, Joel
Shum, Matthew
Yi, Christopher
Bynum, Jim
Zhang, Wayne
Cane, Ariel
Hall, Lynn
Hambor, Jacob
Liu, Zhi
Presson, Cheri
Oshel, David C.
McNary, Brian
Liang, Raylen
Ramos, Jessica
Bridgman, Andrew
Nonini, Donald
Zhu, Brian
Lai, Matthias
Pederson, Sean
Berner, Mallory
Blue, Sunny
Cheng, Justin
Ma, Elan
Martinez-Ortega, Jorge
Uzal, Christopher
Monroy, Maria
Ward, Richard
Johnson, Diane
Fu, Sybil
Milling, Alex
Stone Fish, Avery
Spangler, John
Cole, Robert
Collins, David
Cho, Brandon
Greco, Anne Marie
Cho, John
Jenkins, Lisa
Frankel, Danielle
Lewis, Nathanael
Guo, Shuyue
Bradley, Seth
Gulkis, Adam
Feldman, Steven
Dauska, Povilas
Dorsey, Trevor
Colas, Brandon
Okun, Emily
Baker, Morgan
Walters, Joshua
Lai, Mitchell
Hu, Scott
Endres, Ashley
Craig, Morgan
Mitchell, Phillip
Jauregui, Jonathan
Kerr, Brandy
Yim, Daniel
-19.73
-19.74
-19.79
-19.81
-19.82
-19.84
-19.85
-19.86
-19.90
-19.92
-19.97
-19.97
-19.99
-20.00
-20.01
-20.02
-20.04
-20.07
-20.12
-20.12
-20.13
-20.22
-20.33
-20.33
-20.33
-20.36
-20.37
-20.38
-20.39
-20.42
-20.51
-20.60
-20.61
-20.64
-20.69
-20.71
-20.71
-20.74
-20.76
-20.80
-20.85
-20.86
-20.86
-20.87
-20.88
-20.88
-20.88
-20.91
-20.92
-20.95
-20.97
-20.98
-20.98
-21.03
-21.04
-21.16
-21.17
-21.22
-21.27
-21.29
-21.38
-21.38
-21.46
-21.64
-21.67
-21.67
-21.68
-21.73
Nachiappan, Aditya
Pohl, Eric
Sheng, William
Law, Phillip
Kerr, Alan
Dettmar, Hans
Huang, Jessica
Viemeister, Steven
Benson, Justin
Burkholder, Max
Evans, Brad
Barry, Jessica
Fang, Bryan
Song, Andrew
Takahashi, Curtis
Rogers, Chris
Tolley, Christopher R.
Kuhlenbeck, Drew
Herman Jr, L. Russell
Wu, Benjamin
Ghizzoni, Jack
Jauregui, Joshua
Basham, Rowan
Liang, Raylen
Chi, Andrew
Zheng, Kevin
Yang, Ashley
Karanja, Andrew
Cook, Christopher R.
Jones, J.
Lim, Eugene
Hoh, Jay
Li, Si Roger
Carley, Nicklaus
Huang, Daren
Malay, Allison
Higuchi, Katsuya
Waldron, Joseph
Jones, Chris
Leitonaite, Monika
Chao, Melody
Goss, IlanaRei
Boyer, David N.
Mei, Gary
Manning, Casey
Xiang, Jiexin
Tallant, Purity A.
Longo, Mark
Li, Larry
Fraser, Kalinda
Hersey, April
Hart, Sean
Chen, Benjamin
Valdes, Chayanne
Li, Victor Dai
Nye, Grey
Nieman, Mark
Chiu, Antoine
Spangler, Jared
Masinter, Alan
Chao, Alan
Li, Thomas
Huang, Diana
Berrian-Phillips, Andrea
Pun, Anthony
Cho, Vanessa
Berthelette, Julia
Wynn, Zachary
-21.79
-21.99
-22.01
-22.03
-22.03
-22.11
-22.20
-22.20
-22.21
-22.36
-22.41
-22.49
-22.49
-22.52
-22.52
-22.54
-22.60
-22.74
-22.83
-22.93
-22.94
-23.07
-23.10
-23.13
-23.13
-23.43
-23.43
-23.45
-23.49
-23.51
-23.52
-23.56
-23.66
-23.70
-23.72
-23.84
-23.86
-23.93
-23.96
-24.07
-24.14
-24.25
-24.27
-24.28
-24.34
-24.37
-24.38
-24.41
-24.42
-24.45
-24.47
-24.56
-24.60
-24.61
-24.62
-24.73
-24.80
-24.80
-24.81
-24.99
-25.07
-25.15
-25.17
-25.22
-25.22
-25.23
-25.23
-25.34
Lewis, Joseph
Smith, Gary
Garcia, Khiara
Thompson, L. Anne
O’Leary, P.J.
Tang, Daphne
Liou, Kevin
McAlister, Johnathon
Wuest, Courtney
Peve, Gustavo
Yang, Kevin
Blue, Victoria
Huang, Leo
Cheng, Charles
Schery, David
Costello, John C.
Lezenby, Noah
Mc Laws, Sean
Johnson, Chelsey
True, Kevin (Kenneth)
Morales, Chris
Stein, Brad
Sheng, Charlie
Salomone, Thomas
Lu, PoeAn
Ledante, Alex
Costa, Charlie
Barbaro, Ron
Shepherdson, Braden
Lu, William
Blumenfeld, Michael
Huang, Sean
Bridges, Arlene
Harris, Kyoko
Andree, Glen
Yu, Alex
Duplissey, Jesse
Palovich, Matthew
Hughes, Samuel J.
Persinger, Emma
Batista, Blendon
Wang, Sophia
Brohier, Natasha
Ehlinger, Reese
Li, William
Hergenrather, Jackson
Williams, Kris
Lin, Eric
Liu, Shengjie
Chiang, Annie
Perry, Robert
Lim, Grace
Besser-Gilbert, Irene
Yu, Justin
Liu, Shirley
Wu, Wenguang
He, Max
Chou, Pallas
Zalesak, Rudy
Mou, Wendy
Yen, Derek
McAlister, Sean
Li, Julian
Li, Daniel
Lei, Alan
Gloor, Cole
Wykhuis, Bill
Hance, Tristan
-25.51
-25.57
-25.61
-25.76
-25.79
-25.79
-25.81
-25.83
-25.86
-25.93
-26.01
-26.07
-26.11
-26.16
-26.23
-26.35
-26.38
-26.42
-26.58
-26.62
-26.64
-26.67
-26.69
-26.81
-26.83
-26.95
-26.99
-27.07
-27.16
-27.18
-27.22
-27.24
-27.25
-27.25
-27.30
-27.34
-27.34
-27.49
-27.53
-27.60
-27.75
-27.76
-27.92
-28.06
-28.18
-28.22
-28.39
-28.39
-28.55
-28.61
-28.61
-28.67
-28.69
-28.83
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-29.20
-29.31
-29.36
-29.39
-29.70
-29.71
-29.75
-30.05
-30.11
-30.37
-30.51
-30.53
-30.55
Huang, Sophia
Fraser, Isabel
Yu, Selena
Mott, Susie
Hiatt, Jesse
Goodman, James
Bennington, Cydne
Barleta, Cole
Bai, Michael
Wu, Wei-Lee
Reith, David
Cui, Kevin
Briscoe, Sarah
Wu, Yvonne
Taylor, Jeanette
Keenan, Brendan
Dorsey, Cherise
Chiang, Helen
Dickson, Marc
Lin, Benjamin
Arnold, Melanie Gui
Wei, Sophia
Tietjen, Zach
Lloyd, Jared
Rosemont, Penelope
Wu, Yu-Chia
Chen, Brian
Yang, Daniel
Chen, Kevin
Lai, Samantha
Fang, Bryan
-30.82
-30.86
-30.88
-30.96
-31.10
-31.12
-31.19
-31.20
-31.25
-31.29
-31.86
-31.95
-32.05
-32.11
-32.15
-32.26
-32.41
-32.41
-32.42
-32.49
-32.66
-33.44
-33.97
-34.17
-34.35
-34.55
-35.43
-35.55
-36.83
-37.56
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75
Yang’s Life & Death
SOLUTIONS TO YILUN YANG 7P’S LIFE & DEATH PROBLEMS
Easy and hard life and death puzzles by Yilun Yang 7P were a regular feature of the E-Journal in 2009. Here
we show the solutions to the puzzles shown on page 46. In the SGF files attached to the E-Journals, Yang explains the moves and shows failure variations.
9
7 8 2
10 3 1
5
6 4
2
6 3
5 4 7 1
9
Easy Solution from 2009_02_02
White 8 at 6, White 10 at 4
Hard Solution from 2009_03_02
4
3
2
1
5
1 2
4
3 5
8
7
6
4
5
3 1 2
76
1
2 3 4
Black 5 at 3, white 6 at 4, White 7 at the
marked white stone, Black 9 at 3: a ko
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