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16 May 2009 No Comments

2009 World Amateur Go Championships

The thirtieth World Amateur Go Championship this year will be eight rounds played from Wednesday the twenty-third to Saturday the twenty-ninth of May in Fukuroi, Japan. Australia’s representative is David He 7d of New South Wales, who was the 2007 Australian champion. David is profiled in this week’s American Go Association E-Journal. The Australian Go Journal will be following how he goes, and reporting it here.

Ranka Online has the tournament announcement and will be covering the championships in depth.

by aguido in Tournaments, World Championships Tags: , , ,

29 Mar 2009 No Comments

Before day two of the Queensland Championships

This weekend is the Queensland State Championships, run by the usual suspects at the Brisbane Go Club. I’m liveblogging from the venue, thanks to the wonders of mobile prepaid broadband. :)

After three rounds on day one, the open division placings are as follows:

  1. Kevin Jiang 6d
  2. Fred Huang 4d
  3. Markus Pache 4d
  4. Larry Wen 3d
  5. Chulho Rhee
  6. Sam Nakagawa
  7. Mark Bell
  8. Jeremy Wen

plus eleven others with fewer than two wins. In the kyu division, the placings so far are:

  1. Warrakun Mangrai 8k
  2. Amelia Gray 3k
  3. Horatio Davis 4k
  4. James Chown 1k
  5. Bruce Mcintosh 5k

plus six others with fewer than two wins. The day also featured the Brisbane Go Club‘s annual general meeting, which re-elected the same officers as last year and discussed the upcoming Ballina Go Camp.

Three more rounds, and pictures to come.

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