• Shigeru Inoguchi 5k (inogus6044) black no komi vs Horatio Davis 4k (aguido) white – black by resignation
• Kiyoshi Itsuki 7d (itsukk6575) white vs John Hardy 4d (jackoheart) black and three stones’ handicap – jigo
• Shunji Iseki 7d (isekis6575) white vs Alexander Hanysz 3d (xela) black and four stones – black by one point
• Tokio Sugimoto 1k (sugimt6560) white vs Amelia Gray 2k (kifudancer) black – black by resignation
• Humihoshi Mochida 1k (motidh6560) white vs Matthew Weiss 4k (weissm) black and three stones – black by resignation
• Tatsuo Suzuki 5d (suzukt6572) white vs Jason Mackay 3d (nighteyes) black and three stones – black by resignation
• Kensei Ishibashi 3d (ishibk6668) black vs Mile Gu 3d (syptryn) white – white by resignation
• Hiroshi Kobayashi 2d (kobayh7466) white vs Jeremy Wen 2d (hello12345) black – black by 15.5 points
• Yuuji Kaneko 4d (kaneky7870) white vs Rene Hexel 3d (powidl) black – white by four points
• Takahiro Ishiyama 2d (ishiyt1765) white vs Matthew Crossman 2d (matjet) black – black by 20.5 points.

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.

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.

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.