Games

Hey, all, because we've managed to line up a few pro visits this year already, I want to let folks think ahead to be in town.  Also, we will try a couple new things with a couple of the visits -- one workshop for teaching how to teach Go that should be interesting for volunteers and PPI folks and one day workshop for strong players (that others may benefit from as well).

We will have a pro a few days before the US Go Congress, hopefully for the Tue and Wed evening before the congress (09-10 JUL).

We will have a pro visit the Mon and Tue (22-23 JUL) after the Go Congress.  One of these evenings we will hold a teach the teacher workshop for folks who volunteer, want to spread Go, and for our teachers.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, by member request (thanks to those who poked me), I managed to get MIchael Redmond pro 9d to visit SGC in SEP, 13-15 SEP (thanks to the Nihon Ki-in for arranging).  I asked him if we could have a one-day normal workshop and a one-day strong players workshop (say 4-7d or lower ranks depending on pre-registration), and he is willing.  We look for input from the strong players, but our idea is that Redmond Sensei could play simuls in the morning, 10am-12pm, and after lunch break, he could review each game at the front of the room.  Attendees from day one could come and watch the game reviews.

Cheers,

Bill

PROXIES PLEASE!!.  We need 14 voting members (annual or lifetime) as a quorum.  If you cannot make the meeting, you can email manager@seattlego.org to register a proxy for yourself (notification goes to the secretary for recording).  We appreciate your naming proxies to ensure we have quorum for the meeting.

The nominated directors this year are:

 * Oren Laskin -- long time serving on the board, speaks Japanese, sometimes helps with translations

 * Chris Kirschner -- founding director, Tue bread baker, does many things for SGC and AGA

 * Saki Umezaki -- native Japanese speaker, mother of Ayumu, donated several Hikaru No Go books to complete our Japanese collection, played Go since she was 10, full-time mom, and studying to be a CPA.

Cheers,

Bill

Peter is back and hosting Kids Time.  Please try to come, the more the merrier 😊.

Drew is hosting open time Wed, 6-8pm, and leading a class for advancing through the kyuu ranks.  We encourage folks to check it out or just show up to play some Go.

David is hosting at Cap Hill Stoup Brewing Wed at 7pm.

Jay is hosting at Crossroads Mall food court Sat 2-5pm.

Zoka coffee in Greenlake area Mon 9am-noon.

All of the above are on our home page at seattlego.org on the right side.  We also just kicked off planning for an Everett meetup with about a dozen folks.  When that gets going, we'll announce it and put it on our website too.

Cheers,

Bill

Thanks for the note, I'll send mail in a few days ...

Bill

In a few days I'll send a mail to just the folks that responded to see what we can organize.  We can discuss more when we know who is interested.

Thanks,

Bill