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Winner announced for 2010 AGA problem competition

aguido — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:17:46 +0000

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?

First AGA problem competition of the year gets underway

aguido — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:38:14 +0000

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.

WPGA Pair Go World Cup

aguido — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:46:23 +0000

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.

First Australian go problem competition

aguido — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:11:09 +0000

The Australian Go Association is running an inaugural go problem competition for kyu players and dan players. Closing date for entries is 31 August. Details at the link.

Australasian Go Forum is up and running

aguido — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:56:07 +0000

The Melbourne Go Lovers club asked for a discussion forum so that go players in Victoria could find one another. Normally I’d leave this kind of thing to GoDiscussions, but frankly I got bored waiting for their answer to my request for an AGA subforum, so now there is discussion.go.org.au.

It runs bbPress, and uses the same user accounts as the AGJ blog; that is, if you have a login there, you have the same login (and password) here, and vice versa, register wherever you feel like. The forum administrator is James Kaaden of MGL, one of the team behind the 2009 Australian National Championships.

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