GOne Tacoma: 2004
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- Thursday, January 1 starting at 1 p.m., Jon Boley 6-dan plays simuls at Seattle Go Center; your donation benefits Northwest Harvest. [archived 2004-01-10]
- Saturday, January 10 -- Salem Oregon Winter Tournament; register at 9:30, clocks start at 10:00 a.m.; 3 rounds, $20 (if preregistering; $30 at the door) includes lunch. [archived 2004-01-12]
- Kisei Title professional tournament, round one, will be played in Seattle! Jan. 15 & 16, 2004 at Four Seasons Olympic Hotel. Yamashita Keigo 9-dan faces challenger Hane Naoki 9-dan in the first game of Japan's most lucrative pro tournament! Play begins at 9 a.m., and will be broadcast live with pro commentary at Seattle Go Center. Volunteers are needed, contact jon@seattlegocenter.org
- Toyota Densho Oza tournament, largest tournament in North America, will be at Seattle Go Center, January 17th and 18th; first round at 10 a.m. Opening ceremony Friday Jan. 16, 7 p.m.; Kids Pizza Party & Lightning Tournament Sat. Jan. 17, 7 p.m. Seattle Oza Registration page. Volunteers are needed, contact jon@seattlegocenter.org
- Bon voyage, Mike LePore! Going-away go party Friday Jan. 30, 5:30 p.m. at Connie's house in University Place -- email Mike M. for directions.
- Ratings Tournament at Seattle Go Center, Sunday February 1, 12:30 p.m.; 3 rounds, AGA rated.
- Memorial for Rick Hubbell (who died Jan. 10), Sunday, Feb. 1, 2004, starting 5pm. Share your memories of Rick. Potluck dinner afterwards -- bring something vegetarian / vegan, or something chocolate.
Super week of go in Seattle [posted 2004-01-20; expired 2005-01-23]
Several Tacoma players visited the Seattle Go Center
for a special historic event Thursday and Friday, Jan. 15 and 16, when the
first round of the Kisei title matches
between Yamashita Keigo
(2003 champion) and Hane Naoki
(challenger) was held at the
Fairmont Olympic Hotel
in Seattle. The game was broadcast on
IGS, and live video
of the playing room was displayed at the Seattle Go Center.
Michael Redmond provided
commentary for the enthralled fans. Japanese and Seattle newsmedia gave the
event some coverage. Hane Naoki won this first match. The best- of- seven series
will continue in Japan. (Here's Chris Kirschner's
report for the American Go E-Journal.)
Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 17 and 18, the North American Oza tournament,
sponsored by Toyota and Denso, was held in New York and Seattle. Several
players came from California, along with at least one from Boston and one
from Florida. Seven (I think) players from Tacoma Go Club participated,
and the Seattle Chinese Go Club was well represented.
Edward Kim played, but
he couldn't defeat Jie Li and
Mingjiu Jiang. After
the tournament, Michael Redmond gave an excellent, detailed commentary on
the close, decisive game between Li and Jiang, won by Jiang when Li
didn't have a ko threat big enough to save his left-side group.
So many players attended that there was not room for everyone at the Go
Center, and some had to play in a hotel conference room a block away.
The tournament was a little odd, because all the games were played without
handicap. This resulted in some mismatched pairings among the players who
normally would have been in the "handicap" section, but it was
probably good experience for the lower- rated players. All in all, it
was a wonderful four days.
- Roy Hayashi Memorial Tournament Saturday, Feb. 28, 9 a.m. at UPS. Three rounds, generous prizes, please pre-register by Feb. 25 (deadline extended) to make life easier on the planners (and to avoid the $5 late registration penalty).
So long, farewell [posted 2004-02-03; expired 2005-01-23]
It was a weekend of farewells for the Puget Sound go community. Friday
Jan. 30, Connie Hayashi hosted a going- away party for Mike LePore, who
took a job in the other Washington (D.C., that is), and will therefore
undertake a transcontinental relocation in a week or so. Normally, we
would give Mike a going-away present, but instead, he gave one to us:
$300 for use as prize money in the upcoming tournament in memory of
Roy Hayashi. I wish he could stay and play, but our loss is DC's gain.
(The DC area has a strong go community -- Mike already has lunchtime
games planned with Chris Garlock, editor of American Go E-Journal).
Sunday, Feb. 1, the Seattle Go Center hosted a memorial
potluck for Rick Hubbell 6-dan, who died unexpectedly
of heart failure in early January. I didn't know Rick well -- our only
interactions had been some brief lessons from him when I played at
Seattle Go Center (which I rarely get to do anymore); but I had
considered him to be calm, thoughtful, and generous with his skills and
knowledge. At the memorial, I learned that he was also an ardent
football and soccer fan (and player), a wine connoisseur, and a long-time
political activist who'd worked on the SANE/FREEZE campaign in the '80s,
and who'd remained true to his ideals. I learned he'd grown up in Tacoma.
And I learned that he is missed by some very cool people. Sometimes, you
can know about someone from the way those nearby behave, like deducing
the presence of an unseen interstellar body by observing perturbations
in the orbits of objects nearby. Watching those who loved him best, I
feel I am poorer for not having known Rick better during his too-brief
time with us.
Other news:
Check out Pacific GO Monthly,
an online go "magazine" focusing mostly on western Oregon, but
also covering go for kids, and events on the rest of the West Coast.
In Oregon, they're playing a
different kind of ongoing tournament,
which was started as a way to support go-playing schoolkids. Games can
be over the internet, or face-to-face. Players are grouped into
"tiers" based on their rating, and each month they're meant
to play a round-robin with the others in their tier. Winning 2/3 or
more gets you moved to the next stronger tier; losing 2/3 or more moves
you to the next weaker tier. It sounds interesting and fun. So far,
about 40 players are participating. (These games generally are not AGA-rated.)
Our Go Outreach program has taken a leap forward, thanks to Sharon
Yang, Kyung Hui Ballard, and Jason Baghboudarian. Sharon has started
an after-school go club at Crescent Heights Elementary (near Brown's
Point). Jason is teaching the kids to play, with help and advice
from Kyung. I sat in on the first meeting, and it is fascinating to
note the differences between the method Kyung uses (which was very
successful for her in Korea) and the "Capture Game" method
to which I'm accustomed. It will be interesting to see the results
in a few months.
Unfortunately, much of Mike M.'s 2004 was taken up by work obligations, a broken ankle, and other impediments. Consequently, the Tacoma Go Club website was not maintained from February 2004 to January 2005.
Thanks for reading! Best wishes; - Mike Malveaux
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