Games

Dear Go Players,

The Seattle Go Center will be closed for the New Year’s Holiday  from Wednesday, Dec. 30 – Jan. 1.  We will be open on Saturday, Jan. 2, but with shorter hours than usual: 1-5 pm.  As mentioned in my previous email, on Sunday, Jan. 3, we have our big tournament, the Jin Chen, with registration starting at 10.

Happy New Year!

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

The Jin Chen Tournament is coming up this Sunday, Jan 3, 2016, with registration from 10 – 10:45 am.  This tournament is usually our biggest tournament of the year, but since we had a very large Anniversary Tournament last fall, with 48 players, I am not sure if this tournament will be the largest.  But it will be big, with a total prize pool of $1050, and both Open and Handicapped Sections.  Anybody who can finish a 19x19 game is welcome to play. The fee is $15 general admission and $10 for youth and for voting members. (Youth are under 18, voting members have yearly or lifetime memberships.)

This is an AGA (American Go Association)  rated tournament.  Please make sure your AGA membership is current.  New members can join the AGA online at https://www.usgo.org/members/join.  We can also enroll you in the AGA at the Go Center, with payment ($30) by cash or check.  But please come early to do that.

First round starts at 11 am.  Second round starts by 1:30, but may start sooner.  If your first game runs long, you do not have much time for lunch.  We recommend that you bring food to the Go Center, rather than planning on going out to get lunch.

First prize for the Open Section (all even games) will be $300.  The Open Section will be limited to the top 8 players who register by 10:45 am.   All others will be moved to the Handicapped Section. Player’s strength will be determined by the players AGA rating, or if they are international visitors, by the decision of the Tournament Director.

Mark Lee is coming to Seattle to play in the tournament, and to teach on Monday evening, Jan. 4, and on Tuesday, Jan. 5.  Since Mark is rated at AGA +10.000 we expect he will be playing in the Open Section!

We hope to see you there!

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Members,

Our annual Holiday Party will be tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 29, starting at 6:00 p.m.   This is a potluck event, so please bring some food or drink to share.  We will have a banquet permit for beer, wine and sake.  (If you don’t know what to bring, let me remind you that there is a Trader Joe’s in the neighborhood.  I’m sure you could find some inspiration there.)  We will be playing Go, and Sonny Cho will continue with teaching the Tesuji problems.  While the party starts at 6 pm, we will open at 1 pm, as usual.

We will also have a short fundraising speech:  The Seattle Go Center depends on donations of both time and money from our members.  This allows us to continue our frequent outreach projects, the free 10 visit passes to all new members, and the free classes to all members. We usually collect more money from donations than we do from memberships.  Please help to continue that tradition if you can.  Your contribution is tax deductible if you itemize your deductions on your federal tax.  You may donate in person on Tuesday with cash or checks, or online at:

http://www.seattlego.org/donate/

We hope to see you soon!

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

Here is a friendly reminder that Sonny Cho 6d will be doing a class continuing the tesuji problems that Yoonyoung Kim 4P brought for her workshop.  The class is on Monday evening, Dec. 28, from 7-9 p.m.  It is recommended for all kyu players.

The problems are here:

http://www.seattlego.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Tesuji-Problems-from-Yoonyoung.pdf

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

Sonny Cho has volunteered to teach next Monday evening, Dec. 28, while Nick is on holiday.  He will be continuing the Tesuji Go Problems that Yoonyoung Kim 4P started during her workshop.  This free class is open to everybody – you do not have to be a workshop attendee.  The class should be good for both DDK and SDK students.  Please note that the class starts at 7 – not the usual 6:30 p.m.

Sonny will also be at the Go Center on Tuesday evening, Dec. 29, if you want to continue with the problems.  This is also the evening of our pot-luck holiday party, but you can do both things.

If you attended the workshop, you have the problems already, but we have enlarged them to make them easier to read, and we also edited some confusing problems out of the collection.  Each of our pages has a half page from the original collection. The problems are in a pdf file at this link below:

http://www.seattlego.org/docs/tesuji/

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

Happy Solstice!  The light will be coming back, and none too soon for my old friends in Fairbanks, Alaska, who are down to 3 hours and 41 minutes of daylight.

The DDK class will not be meeting tonight Monday 12/21, Monday 12/28, or Monday 1/4.

We will be open on all Tuesdays, from 1 – 10 p.m., including tomorrow 12/22.  On Tuesday 12/29, we will have our holiday party and five minute fundraising speech, starting at 6:00.  Potluck donations of food and drink are very welcome.

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

We will be open regular hours this Saturday, Dec. 19, from 1-7 p.m.   Dennis Wheeler will be the Day Manager, and he is available for teaching games.

Next Saturday, Dec. 26, we will be closed for the holidays.

On Saturday, Jan. 2, we will be open only in the afternoon (1-5 p.m.)  There is a party with Go playing happening elsewhere that evening – ask around and you will probably get invited to it.

On Sunday, Jan. 3, we have our big Jin Chen Tournament, starting at 10.

As usual, there is more information on our website calendar. 

http://www.seattlego.org/events/

Click on an item for details.

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

Our guests from Korea will be playing simultaneous games on Tuesday Evening, Dec. 15.  There are sign-up sheets on the second desk at the main room entrance.  (The desk we keep the red SDK class file on.)  Or you can email me with reservations.

Yoonyoung Kim 4P will be starting at 6:30 p.m.  Hyunwoo Kim will be starting at 7:00 p.m.  Did I mention that Yoonyoung is really strong?  She beat a (male) 9 Dan Korean Pro in a tournament game last Monday.  Hyunwoo attended the Baduk Studies program at Myongji University in Korea, and speaks very good English.

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

You can take the Yoonyoung Kim 4P workshop on Sunday for the day rate of $22.50  (voting members and students) and $35 (all others).  This is a great opportunity, with a great teaching ratio, since we have three teachers.  The workshop is taught in English.

The topics will be:

Tesujis (including “Learning to escape with good shape”)

Reductions (they are doing invasions today)

Student questions and game reviews

Plus, Ms. Kim will review her recent tournament game with Ahn Jo Young 9P.  This is breaking news:  she beat Ahn Jo Young this Monday.  He is a very strong player, winner of the BC Cup in 2004.  He has beaten Gu Li from China several times in tournaments.  His name is also written as An Cho-yeong.

The workshop has three teachers:  Yoonyoung Kim, Hyunwoo Kim, who completed the Baduk Studies program at Myongji University, and our own Sonny Cho, 6d.  We will have fresh bagels in the morning.

We hope you can come!

Cheers,

Brian

Dear Members,

The Go Center will be closed to casual play this Saturday, due to some special events.

Our workshop with two very strong players from Korea, Ms. Yoonyoung Kim 4P, and Mr. Hyunwoo Kim, is this weekend, starting at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 12.  You can register on the day of the workshop, or sign up and pay on-line here:

http://www.seattlego.org/2015/12/01/yoonyoung-kim-3p-wkshp/

These teachers come highly recommended by the Korean Amateur Baduk Association.  It is possible to take the workshop for one day, and pay half price, if you pay in person.  Our guests will also be playing simultaneous teaching games on Tuesday evening for $10, starting at 6:30 and 7:00.

On Saturday, the workshop runs from 9:00 am  – 4:00 pm, with a break for lunch.  The workshop ends at 4:00, to give you time to get ready for the Pair Go Tournament, which has registration from 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm, with the first round starting at 7:00 pm.  Fancy cake and fruit will be served around 8:30.

http://www.seattlego.org/2015/11/18/gala-pair-go-night/

On Sunday, the workshop will run from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.

Cheers,

Brian

Dear Go Players,

Although Andrew won’t be able to teach tonight, the SDK group is meeting for study tonight, starting a 7 p.m.  Heath and/or Drew will be opening the Center.

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

We had a big crowd at the Go Center the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, including 4 new players and some visitors.  Last Tuesday started slow, but people kept showing up, and we still had 11 players at 10 p.m.  A volunteer kept the Go Center open late.   I don’t know how big our crowd will be this Tuesday, but I’m sure you will find a game.

We will also be practicing Pair Go, since the gala tournament is this Saturday, Dec. 12!

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Go Players,

Here is a friendly reminder that the Monthly Ratings Tournament is this Sunday, Dec. 6, with registration from 10 – 10:45 a.m. 

Next weekend, December 12 -13, we have the workshop with Ms. Yoonyoung Kim 4P, and Mr. Hyunwoo Kim.  Yoonyoung Kim won a Gold Medal in the Asian Games of 2010.  She also won the Kisung Women’s Tournament that year.

More information here:

http://www.seattlego.org/2015/12/01/yoonyoung-kim-3p-wkshp/

On Saturday Night, December 12-13, we have the Gala Pair Go Night.  This year, the cakes will be coming from the Sweetside Bakery in Wallingford.

More info:

http://www.seattlego.org/2015/11/18/gala-pair-go-night/

We hope to see you soon!

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)

Dear Members,

A last minute opportunity has allowed us to schedule a two day workshop on Dec. 12 and 13, open to all players 15 kyu and stronger. The workshop will be conducted in English and has two teachers, Ms. Yoonyoung Kim, a professional 3 dan, and Mr. Hyunwoo Kim, a former insei who majored in Baduk Studies at Myongji University, Korea. $70 general fee, $45 for students and voting members. This workshop was made possible by the Korean Amateur Baduk Association (KABA) – that is why the fees are quite low.

Our guests from Korea will also be coming to the Pair Go Tournament on Saturday Evening,  Dec. 12.  (But they will not be competing as a pair!)  And they will be playing simultaneous games on Tuesday, Dec. 15, in the evening.

To register for the workshop, please follow this link:

http://www.seattlego.org/2015/12/01/yoonyoung-kim-3p-wkshp/

Cheers,

Brian

Brian  Allen

General Manager, Seattle Go Center

Nihon Ki-in Go Institute of the West

700 NE 45^th Street

Seattle WA  98105

206 545-1424 (Go Center)

206 370-1069 (Cell Phone)

206 632-1122 (Office at Home)

manager@seattlego.org (e-mail)

www.seattlego.org (website)