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The Syracuse Go Club’s Anton Ninno sent along this “1956 Press Photo Japanese Game of Go Enjoyed By Berlin Youths” found on eBay on offer by HistoricImages, “one of the largest providers of original photos and negatives on the planet.”

Dr. Frank Krause and Chul Wha Kim, M.D. played go at the North Pole in July 2006. Krause is a 66-year-old 1-dan who lives in Munich, Germany, and Kim is a lawyer in Washington, DC.
- photo courtesy Dr. Krause

Yang Shuang 2P from Shenyang, China visited the Princeton Go Club on April 25 where she played simul games against allcomers during the evening. Earlier in the day, Yang Shuang visited her colleague Feng Yun 9P in Bridgewater, New Jersey and discussed her interest in teaching in the United States.
photo: Yang Shuang 2P plays Jim Fredrickson at the simul; photo courtesy Feng Yun

Atop Roy Laird’s goban in New York City is flame-point Siamese Kibi’s favorite perch.
photo by Mary Laird

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Brooklyn Go Club members at the April 28 Sakura Matsuri Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. photo courtesy Felice Simon

We came across this great photo posted 11/7/2011 on the V = I·R blog. Titled “Playing Go In Russia,” the blogger finds some appropriate ice floe references in James Davies’ Elementary Go Series, Volume 3: Tesuji: “A good player tries to read out [ahead] in his head before he puts the stones on the board. He looks before he leaps. Frequently he does not leap at all; many of the sequences his reading uncovers are stored away for future reference, and in the end never carried out. This is especially true in a professional game, where the two hundred or so moves played are only the visible part of an iceberg of implied threats and possibilities, most of which stays submerged.”
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5/7/2012 Update: “I could be mistaken, but the men in that photograph look like Igor Grishin (left) and Maksim Tikhomirov (right) from the Russian Go Federation,” writes Nikolas. “ Alexandre Dinerchtein sent me more photos of them” on the All About Go blog.

E-Journal reader Ramon Mercado sent this along; it’s from a series posted on BoardGameGeek. One commenter was surprised the Storm Trooper is playing white, “since storm troopers are on the ‘dark side’”.
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