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Hello Go folks,

Saturday
This long weekend, the Go Center is open as usual Saturday, 1 PM - 8 PM (free instruction available for beginners).

Sunday
Sunday, the Center is open for the monthly ratings tournament.  (TOURNAMENT!!  Yay!!!)  Registration 10:00 - 10:45 AM; first round starts at 11:00 AM.  Three rounds total.  (You don't have to play all three rounds; just let the tournament director know your plans.)  No charge to play (but you must be an AGA member -- see www.usgo.org/join-aga-today -- and Go Center membership policies apply -- see www.seattlego.org/membership/ for details).  More info at www.seattlego.org/events/

Monday
This Monday, September 3, the Go Center is closed for Labor Day.  Next Monday, September 10, NICK SIBICKY returns with his ongoing series of classes, appropriate for players about 20 kyu through 5 kyu in strength!

See you soon at the Go Center,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

PS - Professional Go players sometimes change their names at various points in their careers.  For example, Kuwahara Torajiro changed his name to Shusaku in 1841 when, aged 12, he was promoted to 2 Dan (pro).

One of Shusaku's contemporaries changed his name *seven* times.  Originally Todani Umetaro, at various times he was known as Dowa, Kadono Tadazaemon, Mizutani Junsaku, Ioue Shutetsu, Inoue Inseki XII, and Setsuzan.

(From "Invincible: The Games of Shusaku" by John Power.  There's a copy in the Go Center library.)

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Hi Go people,

Hurry Curry of Tokyo, in the South Lake Union neighborhood, is open 10 AM - 10 PM on Labor Day Monday; but we won't
have anyone there to host Go due to the holiday.  Daniel Top or Kyle Berg will be back the following Monday, Sept. 13, 5:30
PM - 8:00 PM.
Hurry Curry's website:  http://hurrycurryoftokyo-seattle.com/

See you at the Go Center soon,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

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Hello Go folks,

The Go Center is open today, 2:00 - 9:00 PM, so come on in for some casual Go action!

Larry teaches beginners, beginning around 6:30, so bring that person who really ought to be a Go player, but who you probably shouldn't be teaching. Because, reasons.

And remember, Sunday is the monthly AGA-rated tournament! Registration 10:00 - 10:45 AM; first round starts at 11:00. More details: http://www.seattlego.org/events/
There's no charge, other than Go Center membership (so this is a good way to use your 10 free visits, if you're a newcomer); but you do need to be an AGA member: http://www.usgo.org/join-aga-today

See you at the Go Center soon,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

PS - "Realising he wants to give some advice, [the kibitzer] steps into the garden."

(A Japanese "senryu" poem from the Edo period; and advice that I ought to follow more often myself! From "Games of Go on Disk".)

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Hello Go people,

The Go Center is open today for the "largest weekly gathering of Go players in North America and possibly the Western Hemisphere"! Open today 1 PM - 10 PM, with free instruction for beginners after 3 PM. Chris K. is expected to bake his wonderful bread, so come on in for some Go fun!

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

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Hello Go folks,

Today the Go Center is open, 5 PM - 9 PM. Drew's Go Basics class, for relative beginners and double-digit kyu players, starts at 6:30.

The Go Center is closed next Monday (September 3) for the Labor Day holiday. Subsequent Mondays, Nick Sibicky will resume his series of classes.

See you at the Go Center soon,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

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Hello Go folks,

Seattle Go Center is air conditioned and open Tuesday (today), 1 PM - 10 PM. Instruction for beginners will be available after 3 PM. And Chris Kirschner is back from the east coast, and planning to bake fresh bread. So come get your Go on at the largest weekly gathering of Go players in North America!

The Go Center will be open:
Thursday, 2 PM - 9 PM. Class for beginners starts at 6:30.
Saturday, 1 PM - 8 PM, with instruction available for beginners.
Monday, 5 PM - 9 PM. Go Basics class starts at 6:30.

Monthly ratings tournament will be Sunday, Sept. 2 -- http://www.seattlego.org/events/

The Go Center will be closed Monday, Sept. 3, for the Labor Day holiday.

Look for Nick Sibicky's class to return on Monday nights, probably starting Sept. 10; and Drew Barnett's class on Wednesdays, probably starting Sept. 12.

See you soon at the Go Center,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

PS - Why did the Go players apply for work at the deli?

(They heard it was a good place to weigh cheese.)

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Hello Go people,

The Go Center is open as usual tomorrow (Saturday), 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM. Come on in for some casual games of Go! Instruction for beginners will be available.

Also, tomorrow (and every 3rd Saturday, going forward) there will be a group of people interested in Shogi, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM! It's organized by Brandon Barton and Catherine Ozols, and instruction for beginners will be available.

See you at the Go Center,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

PS - What three English language books did Iwamoto-sensei (whose foundation helped build the Go Center) write?


Go for Beginners [Berkeley : Ishi Press, 1976]
Keshi and Uchikomi: A Study of Reduction and Invasion in Go [Richmond, VA : Slate & Shell, 2002]
The 1971 Honinbo Tournament [Tokyo : Ishi Press, 1972 ; Santa Monica : Kiseido Pub. Co., 1999]

(When I'm running low on Go jokes, I'll try Go trivia :-)

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Hello Go folks,

By popular demand: Speed League tournament this Saturday, August 11th!

Registration will be Saturday, 1:15 - 1:45 PM. First round at 2:00 PM.
No cost to play, except the usual Seattle Go Center membership http://www.seattlego.org/membership/
These games are not AGA-rated, and AGA membership is not required.

Time limits will be 10 minutes main time, followed by 3 byo-yomi periods of 20 seconds. I expect that we'll play 3 rounds
in about 2.5 hours.

Players will be sorted by strength, and organized into leagues of 4 players. Each league will play a round-robin of 3
games. Each game earns a certain amount of league points. At the end of the round-robin, the league player with the
most points moves up a to the next strongest league; and the league player with the least points moves down a league.
Then next month, we meet to compete again!

I'm pretty excited about this -- it's going to be a lot of fun.

See you at the Go Center,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

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Hi everyone,

The laptop has been found, safe and sound.

Thanks,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424


> -------Original Message-------
> From: programs@seattlego.org
> To: SGC Groups <seattlego@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [Seattle Go Center] Laptop missing at Go Center
> Sent: 2018-08-07 21:51
>
> Hi Go people,
>
> If you grabbed the wrong Microsoft Surface laptop from the Go Center today, please call 206-482-9218 right away.  Thanks!
> Zhixuan Shao will appreciate it very much!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Malveaux
> Seattle Go Center Programs Manager
>
> email: programs@SeattleGo.org
> web: www.SeattleGo.org
> Go Center phone: 206-545-1424
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Hi Go people,

If you grabbed the wrong Microsoft Surface laptop from the Go Center today, please call 206-482-9218 right away. Thanks!
Zhixuan Shao will appreciate it very much!

Thanks,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

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Greetings Go Folks,

Credit to Cullen
Cullen Mott has been teaching Nick Wilmes and Cat Mai for the past months, and they inform me that his excellent instruction (along with Jonathan Cheng and other Go Center teachers) helped push them over the top to attain their superb results in the US Open this year (6-0 for Cat, 5-1 for Nick). Sorry Cullen -- I didn't mean to omit you!  (Remember, you too can get Go tutoring through the Go Center's Paid Private Instruction program -- http://www.seattlego.org/paid-instruction/ )

Go Center Open
The Go Center will be open today, 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM, so come get your Go on!  Chris K. is still vagabonding about the east coast, so we'll again make do with bagels rather than his freshly baked bread.  After Facebooking with Felipe Herman van Riemsdijk, President of the Brasil Nihon Kiin which meets at the São Paulo Go Center, I feel we can't (yet!) honestly claim "largest weekly gathering of Go players in the Western Hemisphere", because on Saturdays they usually have "about 20" players.  We usually have about 25 on Tuesdays, but recently we had only 18. So we're "largest in North America"... for now!

See you at the Go Center,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

PS - Why did the Go-playing locksmith walk away from the job?

(A customer wanted ten new keys.)

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Hello Go fans,

Today in Seattle Go:

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM:  Memorial replay of the Atomic Bomb game between Iwamoto Kaoru and Hashimoto Utaro, at Green Lake https://goo.gl/maps/e1R5SUE5FFn (before the "From Hiroshima To Hope" floating lanterns ceremony).  All are welcome. Brian will be bringing shrimp fried rice to share.  This was the 2nd game of the 3rd Honinbo Tournament (I previously said "3rd game" -- sorry for the mistake).  Background info (posted 2015) and the game itself:  http://www.seattlego.org/2015/08/06/the-atom-bomb-game/

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM:  Go Center will be open for casual games.

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM:  Go Basics class at the Go Center with Drew B., for DDKs.

See you soon,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

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Hello Go people,

Tomorrow starting at 5 PM, volunteers from Seattle Go Center will replay the "Atomic Bomb Go Game" (that was interrupted by the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945), in commemoration of the victims of war, and in accordance with Iwamoto-sensei's mission of spreading cultural understanding and peace with Go.

It was the 3rd game of the third Honibo title series. Iwamoto Kaoru was challenging Hashimoto Utaro for the Honinbo title. The game is depicted on the side of the Go Center building.

We will be on the grass near Green Lake Trail, between the tennis court and the theater:
https://goo.gl/maps/TgSsaDNhzto

We will set up about 4:45, and start replaying the game at 5:00. We will finish probably about 6:00. Another organization, From Hiroshima To Hope, will begin their commemorative program of speakers, music, and floating lanterns, at 6:00.

All the best,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

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Hello Go folks,

Monthly ratings tournament is today! http://www.seattlego.org/events/
Register 10:00-10:45 AM. Round 1 starts at 11:00. Cost is free (aside from AGA membership http://www.usgo.org/join-aga-today and Go Center membership http://www.seattlego.org/membership/ )
You don't have to play in all three rounds (just let the TD know your plans).

This may be a good chance to see what our comrades returning from Virginia learned during the pro workshops etc.!

(Sorry to be late with the reminders.)

See you at the Go Center,

Mike Malveaux
Seattle Go Center Programs Manager

email: programs@SeattleGo.org
web: www.SeattleGo.org
Go Center phone: 206-545-1424

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Dear Members,

Lots of people visit Seattle in August, and some of them are Go players. On Thursday, we had three groups of visitors,
including an enthusiastic dan level player from Korea, and Jason Cheatham from San Antonio, who has written an app for
beginning Go players who use i-phones or i-pads. (More on that later.)

I don't have any definite information for this Saturday, but I expect we will have more visitors. Come join the fun; you
never know who will come in through our door. We are open 1-8 p.m.

Cheers,
Brian

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