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29 Nov 2011 No Comments

34th Australian championship roundup

The National championships were held over the 27-27 November weekend in Canberra at the ANU school of arts building.
The open division results were; Guyu Liu 7D in first place, Xuanyu Zhou 7D in second and Raphael Shin 7D taking third place.
The handicap division was won by Horatio Davies 3k.

We had 18 players competing in the open division, and 6 players in the handicap division.
There were 6 rounds in the open division, while the handicap division played for 5 rounds in a round-robin.
Both divisions were run with time limits of 1 hour + 1 * 30 second byo-yomi.

Mr An Young Gil acted as a referee and provided teaching and reviews in addition to a demonstration review of a top game using the facilities overhead projector.

Photos from the event can be found using the following picasa link

2011 national go championships

by matjet in Australia, Competitions, Events, Tournaments

30 Oct 2011 No Comments

Amelia Gray steps down

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.

by aguido in Australia

20 Oct 2011 No Comments

The 10th World Students Go Oza Championship wants YOU

…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….

by aguido in Australia, New Zealand, Tournaments, World Championships, World Students Go Oza Tags: , , ,

10 Oct 2011 No Comments

Joanne Missingham 5d returns to 2011 Women’s Bingsheng Cup

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.

by aguido in Australia, New Zealand, Tournaments

10 Sep 2011 2 Comments

34th Australian Championships

November 26, 2011toNovember 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.

by aguido in Announcements, Australia, Tournaments

03 Aug 2011 1 Comment

ACT Championships

The ACT Championships were held last weekend. Somewhat disappointing turnout with only two players from Sydney (we normally have 10 or more—Canberra’s very cold winter this year to blame?) so only 8 players in a 7 round round-robin. But with 3 seventh dans, and 2 fifth dans (one of whom we are going have to promote to 6dan) all games were interesting. Indeed our two Canberra players Xuanyu Zhou 7d and David Ormerod 5d+ defeated both Dae Hahn and Raphael Shin to vie for the top two places in the last round.

ACT 2011 Champion Xuanyu Zhou

Xuanyu a student at ANU, regrettably only for this year, won the deciding game with a very exciting game in which David caught a very big corner in a ko fight but Xuanyu’s ko threat, which seemed obscure, turned out to be real. Raphael Shin took 3rd place. Younggil An came down from Sydney to observe, and we all had a great meal together on Saturday night at one of Canberra’s really good restaurants: so next year we want to see lots of people from interstate, it’s always a fun tournament. Of course we also expect you all here in Canberra in November for the Nationals.

by neville in Australia, Other, Tournaments

26 Jun 2011 No Comments

ACT Championships

July 30, 2011toJuly 31, 2011

The Canberra club will be holding the ACT Championships in the last weekend of July (Saturday 30/Sunday 31). The event is held as usual in conjunction with the ANU Chess Festival, and the venue is the same as last year: the ANU School of Art.

Entry fee is $30 ($20 for students). Players must be AGA members.

Please contact Neville Smythe on 0414517719 or neville.smythe@optusnet.com.au if you are intending to participate or would simply like more information.

by neville in Announcements, Australia, Other, Tournaments Tags: , , ,

06 Apr 2011 No Comments

Gold Coast Go Club starts up

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

by aguido in Australia, Visiting Tags: , ,

25 Feb 2010 No Comments

An Younggil live review on Insei League

February 27, 2010 11:00 pmtoFebruary 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.

by aguido in Announcements, On KGS Tags: , ,

18 Jan 2010 No Comments

2010 Brisbane-Keio Friendly Match Report

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.

by aguido in Analysis, Events, On KGS, Team matches Tags: , , , ,

13 Jan 2010 3 Comments

Brisbane-Keio Friendly Igo Match 2010

January 17, 2010
3:00 pmto6:00 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.

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

12 Dec 2009 No Comments

Australia Room Friendly Series: Melbourne v Brisbane

December 13, 2009
2:00 pmto4:00 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.

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

28 Jun 2009 No Comments

Date Claimers

Just a reminder of the three Australian tournaments in the last half of 2009:

  • The ACT Go Championship will be held at the Australian National University by the Canberra Go Club on the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth of July (last weekend of the inter-semester recess) as part of the 17th ANU Chess Festival. Neville Smythe posted the formal announcement to AusGo, and the Journal has a previous post with all the details up. The Chess Festival page also seems to list a “Go Exhibition” on Friday the twenty-fourth, at Garema Place, Civic. Does anyone know any more about this?
  • The 4th Korean Ambassador’s Cup in Sydney will be held at Sila Restaurant (161 Beamish Street, Campsie, phone 9718 1029) by the Sydney Ki-Won on Saturday the eighth of August. This is a one-day tournament and the open division will determine the Australian representative in the Korean Prime Minister’s Cup.
  • The 32nd Australian Championships will be held at the University of Melbourne by the MU-SPGO and Melbourne Go Lovers clubs on the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh of September third and fourth of October (the first second weekend of mid-semester break). Six rounds of go in two days, with the open division deciding the Australian Champion, plus a BBQ lunch and a bonus AGA annual general meeting. I am entirely certain there will be a blog post very soon from the tournament announcers.

Also there’s the Brisbane Christmas pair go tournament coming up in December, and the ongoing Australia Room Friendly Series – Brisbane v Sydney fixture has better-than-even odds of happening in early July.

by aguido in On KGS, Other, Tournaments

10 Jun 2009 No Comments

Bits and pieces

  • Some of the Perth go players will be meeting on the first Sunday of every month at Clive Hunt’s place from the fifth of July. Play starts from two in the afternoon, more details closer to the date. If you want to RSVP, contact Clive at clivehunt@bigpond.com or 0415-619046.
  • The NSW State Championships have just finished. Does anybody have any kifu or anecdotes or photos from the tournament they would like to share? Send them in and we’ll blog ‘em.
  • The Australia Room Friendly Series on KGS has its second fixture on Sunday the fifth of July 2009: Sydney vs Brisbane. Both cities have the core of a team, although Sydney’s is at this point stronger. If you want to play, contact David Mitchell (Sydney) or Horatio Davis (Brisbane). If you’re in Melbourne or Adelaide and want to join in the fun, put a team together and scribble down a claim to a month on the SL wiki page. Currently Adelaide leads the table with two points, with Brisbane in second place on half a point. All other cities are equal last on zero points. :)
  • The biennial Toyota and Denso Cup World Go Oza, including the Brisbane qualifying tournament has been cancelled as the sponsors aren’t going to support it any more. Rumours have been going around for several days on various forums; the Australian Go Association has just been formally notified. The fifth tournament was going to be next year. If you have any suggestions for what to replace it with, please do tell the AGA…

by aguido in On KGS, Other, World Championships Tags: , , , ,

07 May 2009 No Comments

An Young Gil in invitational match at The Enclave?

Spotted on the KGS message of the day: Ahn Younggil, Korean 6p vs. Andy Liu (bigbadwolf), KGS 9d, AGA 7d. 5/10/09 8:00 AM in The Enclave, under social. Master Gil is based in Sydney, and has taught a lot of people around the traps in Australia, as well as frequenting the Kiseido Go Server under the login younggil. For those who’ve wondered what he plays like when he’s not trying to teach you, this should be well worth watching…

(hat tip: Rene Hexel, Australia Room regular on KGS)

Update:White by resignation after one hundred and eighty-four moves. The SGF record is here in the KGS archives.

by aguido in Events, On KGS Tags: ,