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PRE-TEEN YEO WINS CHI TOURNEY: Sung Yeo 2d won the June 20 Don't Go in the Water! Tournament in Chicago, IL. Yeo topped 37 players in an event that was forced to relocate at the last moment when the playing site was closed for construction.
U.S. GO CONGRESS RATES INCREASE 7/1: “Beat the July 1 rate increase and register now for the 25th annual U.S. Go Congress!” says Congress Director Todd Heidenreich. Click here for full details on the August 1-9 event in Fairfax, Virginia. Nearly 400 have signed up so far, and nearly 1 dozen professional go players – including Takemiya Masaki 9P – will be attending as well. “The Congress now has a Twitter account,” Heidenreich adds; click here to get your Congress tweets.
NETFLIX CONTEST MAY TURN ON GO: “In a sense, formulating equations for collaborative filtering is like the game of Go,” Electrical engineer Martin Piotte told Wired in a June 17 report on the million-dollar contest to improve Netflix’s recommendation engine. PLUS: FREE GO STONES; GO PHOTO: Promoting Go In Cyprus; WORLD GO NEWS BRIEFS: Cho U Takes First Game In Gosei Defense U.S. GO NEWS BRIEFS: Haynes Tops Davis/Sac Tourney; Redmond Cup Finalists Set; Canada leads U.S. 4-2 in Team Tourney; AUSTRALIAN GO NEWS BRIEFS: Go Camp A Success; Shen Wins NEC Cup; Upcoming Tournaments; Players Wanted; EUROPEAN GO NEWS BRIEFS: Turkey Hosts Events & Pros; Rehm Rules Rapid; Oh Wins Gold In Warsaw; Mitchell Stops Roever; Slovak Festival Redux CLICK ON LATEST GO NEWS AT RIGHT FOR COMPLETE STORIES AND ALL THIS WEEK’S GO NEWS! | |
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AMERICAN LEE SWEEPS FREIBURG: "American 3d Joshua Lee won Freiburg impressively" (5-0), reports German go journalist Tobias Berben. Lee is currently living in Baden in south-west Germany.
JANICE KIM 3P COMING TO SF: There’s still space in Janice Kim 3P’s weekend workshop July 11-12 in San Francisco, CA. “Janice has a knack for explaining concepts in ways that players of all levels can relate to,” says organizer Roger Schrag.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.
