30 Oct 2011 No Comments
Amelia Gray (kifudancer on KGS) has stepped down as editor-in-chief of the Australian Go Journal as of this evening. Any volunteers to replace her should discuss the matter with me at the 2011 Australian Open in Canberra.
20 Oct 2011 No Comments
…at least, if you are a student at an Australian, New Zealand or African university who can play in the regional preliminary tournament on IGS and can be in Tokyo from 27 February to 2 March 2012 for the world finals. Citizenship in a country in the Oceania or African IGF regions would be good, too, and it would be helpful if your national go association has at least heard of you.
This year’s representative from Oceania was Jimmy Yuan from New Zealand, and in 2010 we sent Mile Gu, who liveblogged the whole thing.
More details at the tournament page. Register for the regional qualifiers with this form. Remember, the deadline for registration is 30 October. Pass the word along….
10 Oct 2011 No Comments
This just in: Joanne Missingham, who was promoted to fifth dan on the strength of her bravura performance as the Oceania representative at last year’s Bingsheng Cup in China, has returned to represent Oceania again in this year’s cup. According to reports, play starts tomorrow.
10 Sep 2011 2 Comments
| November 26, 2011 | to | November 27, 2011 |
The 2011 Australian National Go Championships will be held at the Australian National University, Canberra on Saturday the twenty-sixth and Sunday the twenty-seventh of November. The venue will be the School of Arts, upstairs from the usual Canberra Go Championships room. The organisers anticipate the traditional six round tournament with an open division and a handicap division.
Contact Tony Purcell at the the Canberra Go Club to preregister or get further information.
06 Apr 2011 No Comments
On Sunday the second of April, just a little earlier this week, a dozen go players converged on The Lost City Hotel in Upper Coomera on the Gold Coast, to meet for the first time as the Gold Coast Go Club. Players ranged from Kevin Jiang 5d and Simon Kim 5d, down to Joshua Murray 28k, who we summarily promoted to 20k after a couple of calibration games.
Kevin Jiang 5d and Cronos Chen 3d playing
Kudos to Joshua Murray for volunteering to organise the GCGC. Sam Nakagawa and a couple of other members of the Brisbane Go Club dropped in to teach.
Many beginners, with Amelia Gray teaching one of them
Currently the GCGC is operating as a chapter of the Brisbane Go Club, and meets on the last first Sunday of the month from 2pm until (nominally) 5pm. The venue is go-friendly during quiet periods and serves a decent menu for dinner, and I can report the chairs are much more comfortable than their Brisbane counterparts. A Gold Coast Cup is planned for mid-October this year. If you live within cooee of the Gold Coast, why not drop in for a game? Give Joshua an email on goldcoast@go.org.au, and get him to subscribe you to the mailing list for Gold Coast players, gold-coast-players@go.org.au.
More teaching, this time by Sam Nakagawa
13 Sep 2010 No Comments
Word has just come in that Joanne Missingham has been representing Oceania in the Bingsheng Cup, the first annual world women’s tournament in Qionglong Mountain, Suzhou over the last three days; the last round of the knock-out tournament is tomorrow. In the rounds so far she has defeated Aoki Kikuyo 8p (Japan), Li He 3p (China), and Zheng Yan 2p (China) , both of the latter considered among the top female Chinese players. Tomorrow in the final (15:30 AEST, if I’m reading this correctly) she goes up against Pak Chi Eun 9p from South Korea, who according to sources at the AGA is regarded as the top female go player in the world. The Journal understands that Joanne actually won the qualifying tournament to represent Taiwan, only to be informed by the tournament organisers that she should represent Australia instead.
Joanne Missingham storms into the finals (h/t sports.sina.com.cn)
Unfortunately I cannot read Chinese, but those of you who can please feel free to look at the original story and correct me forcefully in the comments. :)
Developing…
Correction: Larry Wen has helpfully pointed out I had the wrong name for the other finalist.
Update 15/9/2010:Joanne played as white against Pak Chi Eun 9p and lost, so comes second overall in the tournament. Kudos to her on a very strong result, nonetheless…
Update: Larry Wen has helpfully pointed out the correct name for the tournament, whereupon I was able to actually find the Sensei’s Library page for it.
Second prize is a big, *big* cheque.
13 Sep 2010 1 Comment
| November 27, 2010 | to | November 28, 2010 |
The thirty-third Australian National Go Championships will be played on Saturday the twenty-seventh and Sunday the twenty-eighth of November, 2010. The venue will be the Young Go Academy in Strathfield, Sydney. The organisers are Robert Vadas of Sydney Go Club (ravadas@yahoo.com) and An Younggil of the Academy (anyoungkil@gmail.com). Third dans and stronger will play in the open division, second dans and under will play in the handicap division.
To register, contact one of the organisers with your name, rank, club, and AGA membership number if you have one, or ask your club secretary to pass the information along. The tournament fee (to be announced, but around $55) will be collected on the Saturday. As always, you must be a member of your national go association to compete in this tournament; for most of you that means the Australian Go Association, who will be happy to sign you up on the day if need be. The annual general meeting of the Australian Go Association will be on the Saturday evening.
Korean lunch and refreshments, tea, coffee and wireless internet will be provided. There will be at least three Korean professionals and one from Japan. We will try to broadcast the open division on EurogoTV, and there will be liveblogging. :)
15 Aug 2010 No Comments
After yesterday’s dramatic end to Division B (Tring Xu losing the deciding game to Sun Woong Choi 1d, letting him catch up to her and tie for first place on score, SOS and SDS), the kyu players got to have some fun in division C.
As I write this, the third round is about to finish up. When the round started, Tae Sun Min 1k and Lee Kang Hyun 2k were tied for the lead. Sixteen players are competing in C Division, three 1k, three 2k, two 3k (including your humble author, who apparently got promoted when he wasn’t looking) and the rest 4k and under. Notable in the first round was a jigo
Meanwhile, the A Division is finishing up the fifth round. At the start of the round, Bi Jang 7d and Miao Zhao 7d were sharing the lead on four victories and equal SOS and SDS, with Guyu Liu 7d in third.
Update 2:50pm: Third round started early and finished even earlier. Tae Sun Min 1k is in first place after easily crushing his third opponent. Lee Kang Hyun 2k is close behind in second place with three victories and a half a point less SOS. Oh Ryoon Kwon 1k is third, sort of.
Update 6:03 pm: ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! The Sydney KAC Champion is Bi Jang 7d from Korea. Meanwhile in division C Oh Ryoon Kwon 1k has taken first place on four wins, beating Tae Sun Min 1k on SOS, who in turn beat Lee Kang Hyun 2k. Going to go listen to the trophy presentations now…
14 Aug 2010 No Comments
The fifth Korean Ambassador’s Cup in Sydney started ninety minutes ago. The A division has twenty players (nine 7d, three 6d, and eight 5d) in it, and the first victory of the first round has gone to Hae Taek Choi 6d, who defeated Kang Yong Lee 5d.
Meanwhile, in the B Division there are sixteen players (six 1d, four 2d, five 3d). This is a handicap division, which must make Hak Beom Seo 4d very happy. :) First blood in round one went to young Yelson Qian 1d (Australia’s representative at the recent Children’s Baduk Cup in Korea), defeating the visiting Gilbert Kim 3d. Also competing in this division is Tring Xu 3d, half of this year’s Australian team at the world pair go championships, who defeated Mark Law 1d.
Between them the two top divisions fill the room and then some, so C Division (1k to 9k) will be playing five rounds tomorrow. It’s quite an atmosphere here, what with a sizeable Korean delegation led by Sang-Dae Hahn and at least four professionals on the floor. I’ve counted half a dozen cameras, so there should be some pictures coming up soon, although as befits an intrepid go reporter I’ve left my camera cable behind, so they won’t be mine.
More updates as the weekend goes on…
Update 2:35pm: round 3 of B Division has just started; Tring Xu 3d, Duc Cho 2d, and Changup Son 1d are tied for first place. A Division is still grinding through its second round of games.
Update 6:50pm: the third round of A Division has finished, with Guyu Liu 7d, Miao Zhao 7d and Bi Jang 7d tied on three wins and separated on SOS. Meanwhile, Tring Xu has maintained her lead through to the final round of Division B and is playing out a thrilling endgame against Sun Woong Choi 1d. If she wins the game, she takes first place in the division, if she doesn’t…
08 Aug 2010 No Comments
| August 13, 2010 | ||
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An Younggil 8p sends word: the two Korean visiting professionals in Sydney will hold a teaching evening on Friday the thirteenth of August, the day before before the fifth Korean Ambassador’s Cup this weekend. Kickoff is at seven at the Young Go Academy; cost is $30. Details in the flyer posted on the AGA web pages.
03 Aug 2010 No Comments
If you are somewhere far, far away from a go club, and yet you want to find people to play with across an actual goban, then look at the IgoLocal site. The concept is: you tell it who and where you are, and it gives you a map with nearby players and groups of players, plus the tools to reach them and challenge them to a game. The author operates on the idea that there a lot more go players around than you’d think. Seems ideal for Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of Oceania. Go ahead and have a stickybeak.
19 Jul 2010 2 Comments
| August 14, 2010 | to | August 15, 2010 |
The fifth Korean Ambassador’s Cup will be held on Saturday the 14th of August and Sunday the 15th of August at the Young Go Academy in Strathfield, Sydney. Attending as guests are An Younggil 8p and Kyung-Min Yu 6p from the YGA, and Youngmin Yoon 3p and Sohyun Park 3p from Korea.
Registration is 8:30 to 9:30 each morning, play starts at 10am each day. Prize money is $300 (first place), $200 (second place) and $100 (third place) for each division. Registration is $10 for seniors and students, and $30 for everyone else. Lunch and refreshments will be provided on both days. AGA representative points will be granted to members who compete, on the usual basis. For interstate visitors, remember that the YGA is open for play 2pm to 10pm, seven days a week.
For more information or to preregister, please contact Jungwoong Lee (0410 910 600) and Yoonguk Noh (0430 273 393) of the Korean Baduk Association of Australia (who are organising the tournament) or An Younggil of the YGA (anyoungkil@gmail.com).
Play at the Korean Ambassador's Cup, 2009
A report from last year’s KAC was posted to the Journal. It looks like this year’s will be even more fun.
14 Jul 2010 13 Comments
Local professional An Younggil has just opened the Young Go Academy in Strathfield, Sydney. He sends through this report:
“Last Sunday was the opening day for of the new club. There was a friendship match between Korean and Chinese go players in Sydney as the opening event. Participants are 3d to 7d and each dan has three or four players each team. The team members are 17 each, and there were two rounds in the afternoon.
On the first round, Chinese team won by 10 to 7, and after the round, there was a review between Rain Jang and Miao Zhao. Rain beat Miao, and he came to Australia three weeks ago, and he seems to be the strongest amateur player in Australia I think. Kyung-Min Yu reviewed the game in fluent Chinese; he’s a 6p Korean player and has lived in Taiwan about 5 years before coming here. After the short review, the second round had begun and the Chinese team won by 11 to 6. Finally, the friendship match ended with the result Chinese won by 21:13. There were three foreigners in the Korean team (Norman Wildburger 5d, Ciaran Pearson 5d and Barry Jay 3d) although actually, we count as foreigners too. They won 5 games and one lost, and they also seemed to enjoy the time so much. There were many other go players who came to watch the games and the new venue.
After the event, the players and watchers were all coming for dinner together and people enjoyed the Korean style of buffet. There was also raffle time for some concert tickets, and the Chinese took all five. The event was so successful and I really thank the visitors including players. :-) As the Australian government is letting me stay here longer for Go, I hope to contribute something with Go and this is the first step to do it properly. By the way, the new club will be opened every single day from 2pm to 10pm.”
The YGA has An Younggil 8p, Kyung-Min Yu 6p (come here from five years in Taiwan teaching go), and Rain Jang 7d (fresh from a year in Seattle) as teachers, and seems to be exciting a lot of interest. Here are some photos of the open day tournament:
18 Jun 2010 No Comments
| July 24, 2010 | to | July 25, 2010 |
The 2010 ACT Championships will be on the weekend of 24-25 July. The new venue is the ANU School of Art – located at the “C” of Childers Street in the attached ANU Campus map. For those coming from interstate, take a right off Northbourne Ave southbound onto London Circuit, then right at University Ave, then left onto Childers St at the end of University Ave; the School of Art is at the end of the road. Parking is available. Registration is 9am on the Saturday. Contact Neville Smythe of the Canberra Go Club.
Update:The tournament was in conjunction with the 18th ANU Chess Festival at Fenner Hall in the Australian National University, Canberra. Times are unchanged: registration 9am Sat Jul 23.
15 Jun 2010 1 Comment
The NSW State Championships were played on the Queen’s Birthday weekend in June. The tournament was held in Sydney. The New South Wales state champion is Guyu Liu 7d with a clean sweep of all six rounds in the open division, with Yiming Guo 7d second on five victories and Jianghong He third on four victories (plus SOS and SDS to see off Ciaran Pearson 5d and Miao Zhao 7d, also with four wins each). Unfortunately David Ormerod 5d had to withdraw injured in the fourth round.
The New South Wales kyu champion is Michael Thompson 2k, with five victories and one defeat. Second in the handicap division was Daniel Filan 5k on three wins. This year’s handicap division was small, but kudos to the four of them for playing. The full results are in PDF format here and on the AGA web site.
Here are some pictures of the day, taken by An Younggil. Can anyone supply captions?
11 Jun 2010 No Comments
The thirty-first World Amateur Go Championships this year was held in Hangzhou, China in the last eight days of May. David Ormerod 5d represented Australia, and placed thirtieth in the results as reported in Ranka, with victories against Costa Rica in the first round, Spain in the second round, Norway in the fifth round, and Thailand in the seventh round. Kaikun Xie 3d represented New Zealand and placed thirty-third, with victories against Mongolia in the first round, Lithuania in the fourth round, Norway in the sixth round, and Spain in the eighth round.
This is David’s first game against Daniel Vargas Campos 5k of Costa Rica, with comments by Younggil An 9p, one of his teachers:
This is David’s second round game against Antonio Egea Diaz 3d of Spain, again with comments:
Ranka mentioned “a strong challenge” from David to the USA’s Thomas Hsiang 7d in the seventh round, which, alas, did not quite come off.
10 May 2010 2 Comments
| June 12, 2010 9:00 am | to | June 13, 2010 7:00 pm |
This is just a reminder that the 2010 New South Wales Go Championships are in Sydney on the Queen’s Birthday weekend, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of June. This year they’ll be run by An Young Gil 8p, Sydney’s resident professional, assisted by Robert Vadas and a stalwart band of other volunteers from the city’s go clubs. Players from out of state are welcome.
Venue and other details will be announced closer to the date. Contact anyoungkil@gmail.com or ravadas@yahoo.com to preregister or ask questions.
22 Mar 2010 1 Comment
The final results of today’s Pair Go 20th Anniversary World Cup are now up on the web. Cathy Zhang 6d and Yiming Guo 7d (representing Australia and New Zealand) were eliminated by Chinese Taipei (Joanne Missingham 1p and Chun-Hsun Chou 9p) in the opening round. Here is the kifu:
Teams from the People’s Republic of China took first and third place, with Korea taking second place in the final.
19 Mar 2010 No Comments
The winners of this year’s first round of the AGA Problem Competition have been announced. The good news is, David Schofield 10k has taken the kyu division with four correct answers for five problems. The bad news is, there were no entries for the dan division, so the book prize goes to…no-one.
Seriously? There aren’t any dan players who wanted a free go book?
06 Mar 2010 1 Comment
| April 17, 2010 | to | April 18, 2010 |
This is a placeholder for the weekend in mid-April when the Keio Old Boys will be visiting Brisbane for their annual shindig with the Brisbane Go Club. Dinner on Saturday evening, random go, lunch and the now-traditional team vs team match on Sunday. RSVP and/or query John Hardy at the club, if you’re in Brisbane at all and want to come play.
04 Mar 2010 2 Comments
| March 7, 2010 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Fresh off the Perth mailing list: the Perth go players are holding a Beginners Session on Sunday afternoon. Like their last beginners session, this is also a regular playing meet up, so all strengths and ages of player are encouraged to turn up and play. The venue is 93 Circe Circle, Dalkeith, opposite the Dalkeith Primary School playing fields. Parking near the fields, or come by bus or train to nearby Clairemont Station, and they’ll pick you up. RSVP to the usual suspects, Clive Hunt or Peiran Guo.
01 Mar 2010 No Comments
| March 3, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
| March 4, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
On Wednesday evening this week (3 March), members of the Brisbane Go Club will host a banquet with guest of honour Wang Runan 8p, the current chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association, who is visiting several cities in eastern Australia. The venue is the Rasa Malaysia Chinese Restaurant, Underwood. Please RSVP to John Hardy at the AGA before turning up, as a cover charge does apply; dinner starts at six, go probably around eight.
All else being equal, there will also be a less formal barbeque on Thursday evening, and more go, at St Mark’s Lutheran Church, Mount Gravatt. As this event is free, please RSVP to Larry Wen at the AGA beforehand so they can lay on enough food. The BBQ starts at half past five for six o’clock, and go will happen after that.
Further events on Wang Runan’s visit to Australia are being coordinated by David He in Sydney, and Billy Sun in Melbourne. Please contact them for more information as to what’s happening in your city, and do feel free to tell us!
25 Feb 2010 No Comments
| March 6, 2010 11:00 am | to | March 7, 2010 7:30 pm |
Fresh off the nzgs mailing list: there will be a go tournament in five rounds at the International Cultures Festival in Napier, NZ, starting on the afternoon of Saturday the 6th of March and finishing Sunday evening. The Festival is organised by the New Zealand China Friendship Society and this is the first annual tournament of the new Hawkes Bay Go Club. Contact details and schedule are on the NZGS wiki.
Update: Long Yang Li 5d and Juhua Zhou tied for first place. For the rest, see Graeme Parmenter’s excellent tournament report on the NZGS wiki.
25 Feb 2010 No Comments
| February 27, 2010 11:00 pm | to | February 28, 2010 1:00 am |
The Insei League on KGS has Australia’s own An Younggil 8p participating. In the KGS English Room on February 27 (1pm GMT, 11pm Brisbane time), there will be a live review of his game against Ilya Shiksin 8d. They invite everyone and anyone interested to come and watch; they’re hoping to get a record number of observers, and will repeat the event later on if they do.
21 Feb 2010 No Comments
| February 24, 2010 | ||
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If you’re going to be around the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus on Wednesday the 24th, drop by the Queensland University Gaming Society stall, where they will be raffling off a Hikaru no Go-themed beginners go set and various other gaming gear, to kick off first semester. They usually run a weekly go session on campus during semester. More go players of all strengths always welcome…
21 Feb 2010 No Comments
| March 5, 2010 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
The Melbourne University Students Playing Go collective are kicking off first semester with their traditional Beginners’ Night from 4pm on Friday the fifth of March. If you’re around Melbourne Uni then, RSVP via Facebook or just turn up. Here are some pictures of last year’s beginners night.
13 Feb 2010 2 Comments
The Australian Go Association will be running its quarterly problem competition again in 2010. The first installment is up on the AGA web site in two divisions: kyu and dan. Entries are open now for all Australian go players, and close on the fifteenth of March. The prize is a go book from JW&S Hardy.
01 Feb 2010 1 Comment
On the twelfth of December, Mile Gu from Auckland and Matthew Crossman from Brisbane played a game on IGS to determine who goes to the eighth World Students Go Oza Championship this year. The game was even, with Mile taking black and Matthew taking white:
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White resigned at that point. Mile Gu will represent Australia and New Zealand in the championships on the second and third of March in Japan.
18 Jan 2010 No Comments
Yesterday in the Australia Room of the KGS Go Server a team from the All Keio Igo Association met a team led by the Brisbane Go Club in the second of what is becoming a series of annual friendly matches. Of the ten games played, Brisbane won eight, Keio won one, and one went to jigo. The games played were (with the Keio players listed first):
Etsuko Hoshino 15k did not get to play, unfortunately, as her opponent from the Brisbane team, Dr Peter Hexel, was a late scratching due to illness. The shortest game was Jason Mackay’s (15 minutes):
and the last to finish was Alex Hanysz in a thrilling arm wrestle in the endgame:
An afternoon of good clean fun, and hopefully a stepping stone on the way to many more such matches in the future. Kudos to John Hardy from Brisbane and Kiga-san from Keio for organising the event.
13 Jan 2010 3 Comments
| January 17, 2010 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
It’s back. The All Keio Igo Association will meet the Brisbane Go Club (and connections) in the Australia Room of the KGS Go Server for the annual friendly team vs team match on the afternoon of Sunday the seventeenth of January. Come and watch. If you’re a Brisbane player, or know someone who once played go against someone who once had a beer in Brisbane, contact John Hardy and see if there’s still a place or two open on the team.
Kickoff is at 3pm Brisbane time, 2pm Tokyo time. Games will be played in tournament time and at tournament strength.
20 Dec 2009 1 Comment
The 2009 Brisbane rengo champions are Larry Wen 3d and Andrew Gray 9k. The three rounds of pair-ish go on Saturday started a little late, and finished a lot late, but that was alright, because it doubled as the Brisbane Go Club’s Christmas party, and there was plenty of BBQ and salad and delicious desserts to keep the membership occupied. We had eleven teams:
up from eight competing last year. Second place went to team A (Tim and Rene) with three wins and 2 points SOS, and third place (with a box of Christmas crackers as the prize) went to team L (Andrew and Matthew) with 2 wins and a bye. As always the draw was a mutant Swiss with initial slide pairing, ably executed by Amelia Gray with a bare spreadsheet and mysterious incantations, then funneled through whichever BGC committee member was handiest as a front man:
The consensus is that Yanis is indeed not a fifth kyu, Fumiko Hulme is indeed not a tenth kyu, and that go on a thirteen by thirteen board is much deeper than it looks. Many thanks to club president Mark Bell for his house as the venue and the barbeque (and the beer), John Hardy for donating the first prize, and the players for turning up and joining in in such good spirits.
19 Dec 2009 No Comments
The World Pair Go Association is holding a Pair Go World Cup to mark the twentieth anniversary of modern pair go. The tournament itself is in Hangzhou, China, from the 20th to the 23rd of March, 2010. Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) have been invited to send a pair, accommodation and travel paid. The Australian Go Association invites expressions of interest from pairs of players (male and female) to represent Oceania; please make these to your nearest club or national association. If more than one pair makes itself known to the AGA and NZGS, there will be playoffs held on the Pandanet Internet Go Server. We want as many as possible.
The WPGA would like us to select a representative by the end of January. We are looking to close expressions of interest by 8 January and hold playoffs circa 23 January. These dates will vary depending on what comes in. Tournament details and prize money are here.
12 Dec 2009 No Comments
| December 13, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
At the very last minute, we’ve arranged a teams match between Melbourne (MU-SPGO and the Victorian Go Club) and Brisbane (Brisbane Go Club and QUGS). It’s on at 2pm Brisbane time tomorrow (Sunday the thirteenth of December) in the Australia Room of the KGS Go Server. More details at Sensei’s Library.
12 Dec 2009 No Comments
The third annual M&H Go Cup was held at Campsie RSL in Sydney on the twenty-ninth of November. Being a Sydney event, they had approximately fifty competitors and An Younggil 8p as referee. Guyu Liu 7d won Division A (6d and above) with K. Song 7d second and David He 7d third. Fenfeng An 5d won Division B (4d to 5d) with Huan Liu 5d second and Xuedon Lu 5d third. Harry Wi 1d won Division C, with Hao Shi 3d second and Xinyi Lu 3d third.
02 Dec 2009 1 Comment
The representative from Australian and New Zealand to the 2010 World Students Go Oza championship in Japan will be determined by a playoff between Mile Gu and Matthew Crossman on December the twelfth, on IGS. More details as they come to hand.
29 Nov 2009 No Comments
On November 15, Neville Smythe attended the closing ceremony of the 20th World Pair Go Championship in Tokyo. IGF vice-president Thomas Hsiang presented Mr Taki Hisao (inventor of pair go) and Mrs Taki Hiroko (major force behind the Japanese Pair Go Association), with a plaque “with appreciation from the World Pair Go community” but specifically signed by the American Go Association, the European Go Federation, the Ibero-American Go Federation, the Canadian Go Association and the Australian Go Association.
The Australian Go Association by prior invitation contributed substantially to the cost of the plaque, in “deep appreciation of (their) pioneering effort and leadership in the development of pair go”. Mrs Taki was reported to be very happy indeed.
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