u.s. go 2010: the year in headlines

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U.S. Go 2010: The Year in Headlines

JANUARY U.S. Go Congress Dates & Location Set; Maiden U.S.-Canada Women’s Team Tourney Launched; Portland Yang Workshop Set For March; Redmond Cup Registration Opens; Peng Wins MGA Winter Tourney; Jujo Games Broadcast Live; AGHS School Teams Tourney; U.S. Congress site launched; Seattle Go Center Now Tax-Deductible; AGF Drive Nets Funds For Go Projects; Hu Wins Chi Tourney; Go Behind Bars (see � e Traveling Board, p X for story)

graphic by Mike Samuels

FEBRUARY AGA Board Waives U.S. Youth Go Championship Requirement; Matthews To Retire As AGA Ratings Coordinator (below right); Feng Yun/Jie Li Win N.A. Pair Go 1st Round; USYGC Season Opens; Big

Tourney Weekend Coming Up; Nakayama Noriyuki 6p Dies: Special Nakayama Edition (see pp xx); Feng Yun-Jie Li Win Pair Go Quali! er As Pair Go Celebrates 20 Years; Kirschner Hopes To Stage “Honinbo” At Go Congress; Chen & Yuan Win NJ Open (above left); Mingjiu Jiang 7P To Rep N.A. At Chunlan Cup; Rueckriemen Wins VT Tourney; First-Timer Shin Wins Gold At Groesch Memorial; Seattle Hosts Pro Workshop For Kyu Players; Myungwan Kim 9p Workshop Set For Berkeley; Orlando Hosts Guo Juan 5p Workshop; New Go Club In Chiphotos by John Pinkerton

MARCH Sun Wins SoCal Tourney & USYGC Quali! er; Yi-Jin Chen Tops Nova Chinese Lunar Tourney; USYGC Quali! ers Set; School Team Tourney Sets New Record; Seattle Hosts Two Pros (l); Milling, Boehem & Haddad Top Austin Wild" ower Classic;

Zhang Wins Montreal Winter Tourney; AGA Board Approves Continuation Of Fujitsu Cup & NAIM, Seeks 2010 Hosts; World Youth Quali! er Moved Up To April 3; School Team Tourney Setting New Records; AGF Accepting Apps For College Scholarships; AGA Ratings Updated, New AGA Database Feature Links Players; Why Host A Pro Workshop?; Lockhart & Xiong Win Boston Youth; Myungwan Kim 9P Workshop Gives NorCal Players A Boost; N.A. & Europe Out In Chunlan Cup; Guy Wins All-Iowa Go Cup; Meadowdale HS Wins

Iwamoto School Team Tourney In Seattle (below); School Team Tourney Heats Up; New N.A. Online Tourney To Use Skype; “Slow Go” Tourney Seeks Players

photos by Brian Allen (bottom left and above)

APRIL Zhang Tops Carolina Spring Tourney; Edward Zhang Wins DC Cherry Blossom; Redmond Into Tengen 3rd Round; Smartgo Kifu Released For iPad; Top Youth Set For 2nd Transatlantic Match; AGA Go Camp Updates; Bay Area Schools Compete; Guo Juan Workshop Prepares Florida Go

Community For Spring Tournament; Americas, Europe Out In Fujitsu 1st Round; Myungwan Kim To Play In U.S.-Based Online Tourney; Top 10 AGA Tourney/Game Players List Debuts; Sun And Fang Win World Youth Slots; Morris Wins Mass. Spring Tourney; Tiebreak Win Gives North America Edge In Transatlantic Youth Match; Tang, Dolev & Qu Top NorCal Tourney (above); Price, Wynn, Young & Houston Top Syracuse Tourney; Strong Players Online Tourney Launches Tonight; Hal Small Hosts Sasaki 8P At DC Workshop; Spot1

photo (above left) by Roger Schrag

Selected from reports appearing in the American Go E-Journal in 2010; click here for our online archive, where you can search by category, month or keyword: http://www.usgo.org/news/

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Down To Sweet Sixteen Players; Chong Tops Chi Tourney, Zhou & Yang Win Youth; Harwit And Zhang Top Boulder USYGC; Seattle Go Center Blossoms At Festival; Straus On Marriage, Music And Go; Jie Li To Comment Live On Spot1 Top Board

MAY OC Go Club Wins School Tourney; Nominations Open For 4 AGA Board Seats; Levenick Tops Corvallis Spring Tourney; Spot 1 “Elite 8” Game Records Posted; New Daily E-Journal Launches; Myungwan Kim 9P Cruises Into Final 4 To Rematch With 2009 U.S. Open Runner-Up Michael Chen 7d; 13-Year-Old Jianing Gan 6d To Play Myungwan Kim 9p In Spot1 Finals; ! rongs Come Out For Norcal Go Expo Day; Chiu Tops Morningstar Happy Cup Youth Tourney (above right); Ranka & E-Journal Team Up Again For WAGC; Evanston Go Club Teaches Hundreds At Chi Anime Convention (below); Trevor Morris Slips Ahead To Win In Amherst; Jianing Gan Looking To Stay Alive In Spot1 Tourney Saturday; New AGA Tournament Coordinators Appointed; Live From ! e World Amateurs!; Mission San Jose Aces School Tourney; Myungwan Kim 9P Wins First Strong Players Online Tourney; Nakayama’s Quiet Farewell; E-Journal’s WAGC Coverage Commences; WAGC UPDATES: Twice ! e Coverage (see pp x-y for WAGC reports)

photo by Mark Rubenstein

JUNE U.S. Youth Championship Finals Set; Jie Li 7d Wins Maryland

Open; Abramson Appointed To Second Term As AGA President, Pohl Re-Appointed Secretary; West Coast Janice Kim 3P Workshop Scheduled For July; AGA Website To Accept Advertising; Canada

Dominates Redmond Cup; Tigersmouth Team To Take On Insei Empire June 13 (below right); Michael Redmond On Studying, Improving Your Game And How ! e Pros Train; Quali# ers set for 2010 N.A. Ing Cup; Tiger’s Mouth Defeats Insei Empire In Online Youth Tourney; Six Win In U.S. Youth Go Championships; Tang Wenhua 6d Most Ca$ einated In Santa Monica Co$ ee Cup (above right); Zipei Feng 7d Wins Rocky Mountain

Spring Go Tourney; Yasumasa Hane 9p & Go Family To Attend U.S. Go Congress; Races Heat Up In AGA Board Elections; Michael Redmond Defeats Cho U In Agon Cup; U.S. Junior National Team To Compete In Brunei Friendship Games; Jian Liu 1d & Great Falls Go Club Win Nova Congress Tune-Up; Seventh-Grader On Quest For Go Credit; U.S. Pair Go Players Wantedphoto (above right): Andy Okun

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JULY Wanted: Memories Of Nakayama; AGA Board Elections Underway; AGA Issues New Membership Cards; Slate & Shell Issues Spanish Translation Of “How Not To Play Go”; Waldron Wins “Go For All” Game

Summit; Diverse Playing Field In NorCal; Jianping Wang Wins Ascheim Memorial; Our Youngest Member (l); Buddhist Nun Marjorie “Su Co” Hey Named Teacher Of ! e Year; Tang To Play In Redmond Cupphoto (left) by Ted Terpstra

AUGUST 2010 U.S. Go Congress Opens (see pp XX-YY for complete coverage); New Way To Find Go Players Debuts;

Online Software For Managing Your Club; U.S. Go Congress Bids Nakayama A Joyful Farewell; AGA Board Election Results Announced; 13-Year-Old Sun Places Fourth In World Youth; Wall-To-Wall Congress Tourney Coverage; Chen/Tang Win U.S. Pair Go Championships; Huiren Yang 1P Wins 2010 North American Ing; Myung-Wan Kim 9P ! ree-Peats As U.S. Open Champion (right); Wolf Wins Redmond Cup (below); Myung-Wan Kim 9P Makes ! ree-Peat Donation To AGF; Bresler Appointed AGA Ratings VP; Record E-Journal Team Covers 2010 Go Congress; Gross And Ye Top Norcal Monthly; Guochen

Xie Wins Boston Openphotos by Chris Garlock (above r) and Ling Shan (left)

SEPTEMBER AGA’S 10-Game Rule Assailed By Feng Yun 9P; Justin Teng Wins UMD Tourney; AGA Board To Review 10-Game Rule; Two Chances To Study With Guo Juan 5P; Cathy Li 1P Knocked Out Of Bingshen Cup; COTSEN OPEN Games, Photos & News (see pp for complete coverage); EJ Gets Seriously Social; 10-Game Rule Dropped; Lisa Scott’s Central Lessons;

Visitor From Paris Leads NorCal Monthly; IN MEMORIAM: Milton Bradley, “An unstoppage passion for go”; Gu, Hokies & Team Tourney Highlight Nova Tourney; Dae Hyuk Ko 7d Wins ’10 Cotsen; Carson Tu & Kevin Huang Tie For Tops In Hoboken; Tadashi Sasaki 8P Workshops Scheduled For San Francisco Area; Shen And Su Win 2010 AGF College Scholarship; Smith Snags Top Prize In Chi Fish Amnesty Tourney. Cotsen photo (above) by Chris Garlock

OCTOBER Moon Cha Memorial Tourney Planned; Wu, Kuang & Yang Top N.C. Triangle Tourney; Yearbook Goes All-Electronic; Schumer Tops Mass Fall Tourney; U.S. 15th In Int’l Pair Go Championships; NY Go Center Launches League; Miami Go Club Marks “End Of An Era”; U.S. Rep Jie Liang 7d Takes 4th In Korean P.M. Cup (above); Miami Go Club Migrates A Mile; Xu Wins In NY; “Stephanie” Ming-Ming Yin Is Go Center’s New “Club Pro”; Jhirad Tops Portland Tourney; Strain Tops In Austin. photo (above) by Allan Abramson

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NOVEMBER Kupon Reaps Victory In Heartland Harvest (right); Teng Tops In Nova Pumpkin Classic; Andrew Lu 6d Wins Ing’s Cup Youth Goe Tournament; Sasaki 8P To Give Two Teaching Events In L.A. ! is Week; 16 Top Players To Joust In N.A. BC Card Cup Qualie ! is Weekend; Meyer Tops Rocky Mountain Tourney; Zhuang Tops Young Lions Tourney; Sasaki Workshops A Hit In NorCal; Go Playing Teen Wins Siemen’s Prize; Ye And Qu Sweep

NorCal Monthly; Liu Wins N.A. BC Card Cup Quali" er; Won Suk Suh 5d Wins Moon Cha Memorial; Why Did My Rating Change?; Syracuse Fall Ratings Tourney; Zhao Ju Tops Tacoma Tourney; NY Go

Center Faces Uncertain Futurephoto (above left) by Lisa Schrag

DECEMBER Feng Yun 9P Winter Workshop Set; 2011 Guo Juan School Enrollment Open; NY Go Center Closes Manhattan Site (below); Colburn Wins First Cornell Open; Matthew & Karoline Burrall Top Davis/Sacramento Tourney; Chit-Chatting About Go; Won Suh 6D Wins NOVA Slate and Shell Open; Tengxiao Yang 5D Tops Windy City Winter Tourney; U.S. Youth Take on Canadians Sunday on KGS; Andy Liu

7d Wins N.A. Fujitsu Quali" er; Wheeler & Zhou Join AGA Tourney Team; Young Kwon National Online Tourney O# ers $3,000 in Prizes; Myung-Wan Kim 9P Added To EJ Roster; Yang And Chan Lead December’s Bay Area Monthly; Are You Smarter ! an a Jeopardy Contestant?; Canada Wins 3rd Youth Friendship Match; ! e Man Behind the YKNOT Tournament; Follow the E-Journal on Twitter!

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