27 Dec 2008 1 Comment

Brisbane-Keio Friendly Igo Match 2009

January 18, 2009
3:00 pmto6:00 pm

The All Keio Igo Association has challenged the Brisbane Go Club to a friendly match over the internet in January, with the intent to make this an annual event. The match will take place in the public Australian Room of the KGS Go Server, between a picked team of eleven Keio University alumni and a Brisbane team, plus ring-ins.

The main event kicks off at 3PM Brisbane time (4pm Sydney time, 3:30pm Adelaide time) and is scheduled to take around three hours. An Young Gil 6P (KGS handle younggil), currently based in Sydney, will play a demonstration match against Yamashita-san 9d from Keio, which he will then review. Master Gil is also going to select and review one of the team matches.

All Australian go players are invited to watch any or all of the games and reviews. If you don’t have a KGS account, it is easy enough to log in and create one; KGS is where most of the AGA’s public activities occur, outside of tournaments.

by aguido in Announcements, Team matches Tags: , , , ,

25 Dec 2008 No Comments

Adelaide Go Clubs acquire a new web page

The Adelaide, Adelaide University, and North Adelaide go clubs have a new web page up at http://adelaide.go.org.au/. Between them they meet Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday evenings and Thursday evenings most weeks, and there is a growing movement towards holding their first tournament in 2010. If you’d like to know about all this in more detail, follow the link and sign up for the adelaide@go.org.au mailing list.

If you’re in another city and have decided that, for example, http://hobart.go.org.au/ would be a nice place for your club to put up a page about itself, feel free to contact horatio@go.org.au and enquire. :)

by aguido in Club updates, Meta, Other Tags: , ,

21 Dec 2008 1 Comment

Pair Go at Christmas in Brisbane

The Brisbane go club‘s Christmas party for 2008 was held yesterday at our usual stomping grounds, the Queensland Contract Bridge Centre. We had a nice healthy lunch (Subway and watermelon and cookies) and then played Australia’s first pair go tournament, just because.

Pair Go

The tournament was three rounds of go on thirteen-by-thirteen boards, run as a single division. The teams were:

  • Chulho Rhee 5d and Peter Hexel 18k (first place)
  • Jae-Wan Lee 2d and Fumiko Hulme 8k (second place)
  • John Hardy 2d and Kei Nakagawa 7k (third place)
  • Chris Zhao 2d and Nozomi Nakagawa 9k (fourth place)
  • Sam Nakagawa 2d and Takao Fujimori 5k (fifth place)
  • Jason Mackay 2d and Rodney Topor 3k (sixth place)
  • Jack Xu 3d and Justin Lee 9k (seventh place)
  • Rene Hexel 2d and, um, Horatio Davis 5k (wooden spoon)

Pair go - two facing two

The prize was a box of chocolate for each half of the winning pair. Mr Rhee and Dr Hexel were kind enough to share the loot with the rest of the club.

The winning team at the 2008 Brisbane pair go tournament

The pairing and draw were tuned for social go, which mean that the teams had to be paired up to be within four stones’ strength of each other to have a competitive single division. Slide pairing was used throughout, with Swiss pairing for the draw. Kudos to Amelia Gray, who slaved over a hot spreadsheet all afternoon, and Jason Mackay who helped her make reality match the spreadsheet.

Fumiko at the 2008 Brisbane Christmas tournament

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Rounds were nominally forty minutes main time with ten minutes per side byoyomi. In practice, as club treasurer John Hardy remarked during the prolonged death agonies of round three, “This was not such a bad idea, but perhaps we should’ve used clocks.”

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Not enough sugar
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No kifu, but Sam Nakagawa and John Hardy took some interesting pictures, shown above.

Update: “The organisers used mysterious incantations, plus smoke and mirrors to calculate the handicaps. The losers consoled themselves with food and drink.” – the Brisbane Go Club‘s official take on the afternoon. :)

by aguido in Events, Tournaments Tags: , ,

04 Dec 2008 No Comments

Wu Shu Hao 3p visits Melbourne

The Australian 2008 national championships were held on the twenty-first to twenty-third of November, and Wu Shu Hao (a third dan professional from China) was invited to Brisbane for the tournament, to teach and referee. On his way through, he stopped in at the Melbourne University Students Playing Go club to visit. These are some pictures of what happened that day…

by aguido in Events Tags: , ,