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U.S. DOWN TO LAST PLAYER IN TEAM TOURNEY: Dae Hyuk Ko's lost to Jing Yang makes Huiren Yang the only player left on US team. There are still two players in team Canada: Jing Yang and Cathy Li. Huiren Yang will play with Jing Yang after Canadian Open Go Tournament this weekend. FIRNHABER FLIES TO KOREA: Local Marco Firnhaber 5d swept the 5th Korean Ambassador's Cup in Berlin, August 29,30. He finished ahead of Bernd Wolter and Bernd Schuetze at 4-1. They are both 4d and also from Berlin. Of 45 participants, one out five were female players. No one else won 5-0. Click here for full results:
MASTER DICKHUT KING OF COLOGNE: Favorite Franz-Josef Dickhut 6d - current European Master and German Champ - swept Cologne’s large tourney August 29-30. Cologne will host the European Go Congress in 2012. Click on Latest Go News at right for full details and more. | |
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STRONG PLAYING FIELD, RECORD TURNOUT AT NORCAL TOURNEY: (9/1/2009) Fifty three players participated in the monthly ratings tournament August 22 in Palo Alto, CA, the biggest turnout since Bay Area Go Players Association began running monthly tournaments a year and a half ago. Joey Hung 8d (in striped shirt), Matthew Burrall 7d, and Hugh Zhang 7d and German Woman's Go champion Daniela Trinks 5d (third player on right) were part of an impressively strong playing field that boasted ten players ranked 4 dan or above.
ZHANG YANQI WINS FRENCH CHAMPIONSHIP: "Zhang Yanqi of China won the French Open title August 27-30 in Toulouse. She defeated Motoki Noguchi (Japan) in the final. Thomas Debarre finished third. As best Frenchman, he will represent France during the next World Amateur Championships", wrote Eric Saves on the Go is... 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. 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.
