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Young Go Academy opens in Sydney

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:

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.

Third Annual M&H Go Cup results are in

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.

Many thanks to the generous sponsors of the Cup, Ming Cheng Xu from M & H Paints Pty Ltd, and to David He for sending in these photos and the tournament report.