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13 Sep 2010 1 Comment

Thirty-third Australian National Go Championships

November 27, 2010toNovember 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. :)

by aguido in Announcements, Tournaments Tags: , , , , ,

15 Jun 2010 1 Comment

NSW State Championships Report

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?

by aguido in Tournaments Tags: , ,

10 May 2010 2 Comments

2010 New South Wales Championships

June 12, 2010 9:00 amtoJune 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.

by aguido in Announcements, Other, Tournaments Tags: , ,

08 Jun 2009 No Comments

New South Wales Go Championships report

The NSW Go Championships was played in at the Sydney Go Club rooms in Surrey Hills on the weekend of 6 – 7 June 2009. Twenty players entered the dan division – a massive 82 dan aggregate! Fifteen players from the Chinese go community boosted the numbers, and Guyu Liu 7 dan was first with 6-0, while Miao Zhao 7 dan was second with 5-1.

The kyu division was not so blessed, with four entrants including tournament director Robert Vadas playing as 1 dan. Only four rounds were played due to one withdrawal, and Robert was first with 4-0, while Guo Liang Xu 1 kyu was second.

The event ran smoothly under Robert’s guiding hand. Lunches were provided for participants. Popular professional Younggil An 6P provided commentaries on some of the key games, adding to the overall fun and excitement.

A young lady who did well was Cuiying Xu Tring 2 dan (2-4), the only female and also the youngest participant at about 14 years. We remember her from one of the early Toyota Cups, still barely able to reach across the board. Another young entrant Edwin Tang 2 dan (2-4) also did well. It is just so great to see young players joining in and chasing the older ones.

For those interested, full results will be available on the AGA website very soon. Thanks to Robert Vadas for organising the event, and to all participants who made this such a memorable occasion.

by John Hardy in Tournaments, Visiting Tags: , ,

31 Jan 2009 1 Comment

2009 Australian Go Camp is coming to Ballina

May 2, 2009toMay 4, 2009

This year’s Australian Go Camp will be held on the Labour Day weekend at the Ballina Beach Resort, New South Wales. Two-ish days of sun, sand, surf, and go, with An Young Gil 6P flying up from Sydney to teach, and a contingent driving down from Brisbane to play. More details in the flyer.

The Journal will of course be reporting live from the event. :)

by aguido in Announcements, Events, Go camp Tags: , , , ,