2008 US Go Congress Results, Games, Photos & More
The 2008 U.S. Go Congress took place in Portland, Oregon August 2-9. The American Go E-Journal provided full coverage of the annual event, including live broadcasts of top boards at the U.S. Open and North American Ing Masters tournaments, nightly simulcast game commentaries on the NAIM top board, website updates and special Congress editions of the E-Journal. We've collected the highlights of this coverage here on one page for easy reference and study.
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Special thanks to Congress Directors Peter Freedman and Akane Negishi, the Congress team and the American Go E-Journal team; see bottom of page for full credits/acknowledgements.
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Congress Editions of the American Go E-Journal:
US Open
Tournament Directors: Chris Sira and Jeff Shaevel
Running Crosstab - Updated 8/11 11pm
Round 1 - Round 2 - Round 3
Round 4 - Round 5 - Round 6
Teaser: Check out our interactive crosstab. Coming next year this will be a full listing for all results using this feature. This year is the top band of players. Try clicking on a game record(underlined record) for a direct look of the record.
2008 U.S. Open Results (Place-winner list)
North American Ing Masters
Tournament Director: Jeff Shaevel
Find out full results and coverage here
NAIM Crosstab, including tiebreak scores: here
Click here for professional game commentaries on North American Ing Masters games:
Live Commentary Posters: artwork by Todd Heidenreich
Click here for a group photo of the American-taught go players playing in the North American Ing Masters. Photo by Phil Straus
CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS? During the second round of the North American Ing Masters, the building was evacuated because of a possible gas leak. With several games still going on, players milled about outside while some continued to play until the building was closed down for the night. Photos by Steve Colburn
Redmond Cup
Junior Division results and game records.
Senior Division results and game records.
In Other News
Computer Beats Pro! The Mogo go program defeated Myungwan Kim 8P by 1.5 points on Thursday. The game was played online with a 9-stone handicap. Mogo was powered by an 800-core super-computer. Click here for the game record.
Photo Albums
US Open and North American Ing Masters Top Players; photos by Steve Colburn
E-Journal Team; photos by Steve Colburn
Congress Playing Areas: main playing area 1; main playing area 2; Strong Players Room
EJ photog Phil Straus' Congress photos
EJ photog Brian Allen's Congress photos
Questions? Comments?
Email journal@usgo.org or webmaster@usgo.org
CREDITS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The annual Go Congresses are made possible by a huge investment of time, energy and dedication by dozens of go volunteers, their friends and family. Below are the folks who made the 2008 Congress possible. To find out how you can get involved in the 2009 Congress in Washington DC, email us at journal@usgo.org
GO CONGRESS TEAM
Peter Freedman & Akane Negishi, Co-Directors
Cynthia Gaty, John Howard, Doug Cable, Richard Mann, Chris Shelley, Doug Haning, Ellen Mann, Bob O Malley, Bill Shubert, Mark Jefferys, Peter Drake, Josh Gum, Gordon Marsh, Glenn Peters Yung-Ping Chen, Eddie Kim, Owen Chen, Ralph Chen, Phil Britt, Casey Alexander, Kim Hodges, Tom Hodges, Gail O Malley, Gordon Costanza, Jim Levenick, Kevin Altis, Linden Jeffries and Jayme Fosa.
- Chris Kirschner for his unflagging support and advice, all the pros, especially Takemiya Masaki 9P, without whose instruction we will wither on the vine; Paul Barchilon and his assistant, Fritz Balwit, nurturing the next generation of American go players; All the tournament directors, with a special thanks to Jeff Shaevel and Chris Sira, who set a new standard by starting all rounds of the US Open on time; The players in the US Open...over 50 of whom called to let us know of their travel status, a major contributor to starting the US Open on time; Frank Fukuda, Yoshi Sawada, and our intrepid team of translators; The AGA and Mike Lash, who 'gave us our head', facilitating our ability to self-organize and manage.
E-JOURNAL TEAM
Chris Garlock, Managing Editor
Game Recorder/Broadcast Coordinator: Todd Heidenreich
IT/Logistics: Steve Colburn
KGS Admins: Matthew Heymering & Akane Negishi; special thanks to KGS the EJ's official broadcasting partner -- and especially creator Bill Schubert.
Photographers Phil Straus (who also recorded Ing games) and Brian Allen.
Youth Team: Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor; Calvin Lee & Cherry Shen.
Multiple-event game recorders: Dennis Wheeler: Game Recorder (Open/Ing), Richard Dolen: Game Recorder (Open/Ing) and the only EJ team member to win his game in the EJ-Pro Simul, Casey Alexander: Game Recorder (Open/Ing), Troy Wahl: Redmond Cup/Ing, Todd Blatt: Ing simul game commentaries & fastest typist in the west. Ing game recorders: Brian Leahy, Gordon Castanza, Paul Hardin, Terry Fung, Tom Hodges, Dave Weimer, Huck Bennett, Josh Gum, Matt Bengtson, Nial Burnham, Brady Daniels. Oren Laskin recorded in the Open and Landon Brownell in the Pair Go Final.
Reporting Team: Assistant Managing Editor Bill Cobb, Laura Kolb, Lee Hunyh.
Honorary members of the 2008 E-Journal Team: Takemiya Masaki 9P: the E-Journal is dedicated to communicating go to the world and we take our inspiration from Takemiya, who has done so much to spread go worldwide; Ryo Maeda 6P: many know him as a great lecturer and teacher, but Maeda is also a regular in the EJ office, where he does game commentaries for us, as well as a simul for some of the EJ staff; Yoshi Sawada: to call Yoshi a translator doesn't begin to describe Yoshi's tremendous communications skills and he's always been a huge help to the E-Journal; Chris Sira and Jeff Shaevel, as TDs for the U.S. Open and Ing Tournaments, worked hand-in-hand with the EJ recording team at those events and set a new standard for starting tournaments on time.
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