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AGA NEWS ITEMS The Young Go Academy opened on Sunday 11 July in Strathfield, Sydney. The next Australian tournament is the Australian Capital Territory Championships on the 24-25 July in Canberra. *****April 2010: Shu Ping Cai 7d won the open division of the inaugural Golden Aussie Go Tournament in Melbourne, with Woon Moon Jeong second and Zack Zhou third. Gu Guang Lin and Xu Ran won the second and third divisions. The next Australian tournament is the New South Wales State Championships on the Queen's Birthday weekend in Sydney. *****February 2010: The 2010 Queensland champion is Markus Pache 4d. Second place in the thirty-first Queensland Championships went to Akira Tamura 4d, and Qi Wan Qiu 4d placed third. The top two players won five of the six rounds and were separated on the sum of their opponents' scores. Next up is the Golden Aussie Go Tournament in Melbourne (17-18 April), the New South Wales Championship, and then the Nationals at Sydney in October. *****October 2009: The 2009 Australian open champion is Zack Zhou 7d. Second place in the open division of the thirty-second Australian National Go Tournament on the weekend went to Kevin Chen 7d, and Raphael Shin 7d placed third. All three players won five of the six rounds, and were separated on the sum of their opponents' scores. Next up is the Brisbane Pair Go Tournament on the nineteenth of December, and then the Queensland Championships in Brisbane on the 6-7 of February. *****August 2009: The KAC top section was win by Yiming Guo after a major comeback from losing his first game; the top 3 players all had 4 wins out of 5 and the same SOS, separated by only one point of SoDoS each! Yiming will be Australia's representative at the 4th Korean Prime Minister's Cup in Korea in October. Full results are in the Files section. The final event for the year is the most important, the National Championships in Melbourne. Please register so the organisers can plan for the number of participants! *****August 2009: The ACT Open Championship was won by Guyu Liu, with 6 straight wins; Yiming Guo and David Ormerod came 2nd and 3rd. The Handicap section was won by Jordan Ceglinski. The tournament was run as a McMahon, so after the second round the kyu players were mixed in with the dan players; Jordan's record indicates we have to upgrade his ranking significantly! The AGA announces a new Problems Competition (see the link above) open to all, with book prizes generously donated by David Mitchell and John Hardy. *****June 2009: The NSW Championships results (won by Guyu Liu), together with the latest Ratings and Representative Points, are in the Files section. Members of the AGA can see their own up-to-date Ratings and Rep Points on their member page. There is a report of the tournament in the Journal. The next event will be the ACT Championships 25-26 July, and then the one-day Korean Ambassador's Cup on August 8 in Sydney. *****April 2009: The 13th NEC Cup was, as usual, a tremendous success. Kawamura-sensei brought 40 Japanese players with him for his farewell visit to Australia marking his retirement from professional play. See Photos from the weekend and full results. AGA events coming up in the next few months: Ballina Go Camp in May, NSW Championships in June, and ACT Championships in July. *****March 2009: Winner of the Queensland Championships was Kevin Jiang; Amelia Gray won the kyu section. Read all about it in the Australian Go Journal - and bookmark the Journal while there! Last Month's news is still relevant: A long-weekend Go camp will be held at the beautiful northern NSW beach resort of Ballina, May 2-4. Organised by the Brisbane Go Club, professional Young Gil An 6p will be in attendance. Details here. And don't forget to register for the 13th NEC Cup, April 18-19, and note the new venue! *****February 2009: A long-weekend Go camp will be held at the beautiful northern NSW beach resort of Ballina, May 2-4. Organised by the Brisbane Go Club, professional Young Gil An 6p will be in attendance. Details here. And don't forget to register for the 13th NEC Cup, April 18-19, and note the new venue! *****November 2008: The winner of the 31st Australian National Go Championships was Miao Zhao of Sydney. Miao edged out He Jianghong on SOS after both won 5/6 games. Division two was won by Erli Qiu of Brisbane with six straight wins. The tournament was held from 22-23rd November with a teaching day on Friday 21st. Professional players An Young Gil (6p) of Korea and Wu Shu Hao (3p) of China were present on all three days and provided excellent instruction to many players. Thanks to John Hardy and the Brisbane Go Club for organising a very enjoyable event. *****June 2009: The NSW Championships results (won by Guyu Liu), together with the latest Ratings and Representative Points, are in the Files section. Members of the AGA can see their own up-to-date Ratings and Rep Points on their member page. There is a report of the tournament in the Journal. The next event will be the ACT Championships 25-26 July, and then the one-day Korean Ambassador's Cup on August 8 in Sydney. *****April 2009: The 13th NEC Cup was, as usual, a tremendous success. Kawamura-sensei brought 40 Japanese players with him for his farewell visit to Australia marking his retirement from professional play. See Photos from the weekend and full results. AGA events coming up in the next few months: Ballina Go Camp in May, NSW Championships in June, and ACT Championships in July. *****March 2009: Winner of the Queensland Championships was Kevin Jiang; Amelia Gray won the kyu section. Read all about it in the Australian Go Journal - and bookmark the Journal while there! Last Month's news is still relevant: A long-weekend Go camp will be held at the beautiful northern NSW beach resort of Ballina, May 2-4. Organised by the Brisbane Go Club, professional Young Gil An 6p will be in attendance. Details here. And don't forget to register for the 13th NEC Cup, April 18-19, and note the new venue! *****February 2009: A long-weekend Go camp will be held at the beautiful northern NSW beach resort of Ballina, May 2-4. Organised by the Brisbane Go Club, professional Young Gil An 6p will be in attendance. Details here. And don't forget to register for the 13th NEC Cup, April 18-19, and note the new venue! *****November 2008: The winner of the 31st Australian National Go Championships was Miao Zhao of Sydney. Miao edged out He Jianghong on SOS after both won 5/6 games. Division two was won by Erli Qiu of Brisbane with six straight wins. The tournament was held from 22-23rd November with a teaching day on Friday 21st. Professional players An Young Gil (6p) of Korea and Wu Shu Hao (3p) of China were present on all three days and provided excellent instruction to many players. Thanks to John Hardy and the Brisbane Go Club for organising a very enjoyable event. *****October 2008: The Australian team did well at the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing. In particular Joanne Missingham reached the quarterfinals in the Individual Women's event, and the Womens Team of Joanne, Cathy Zhang and Wei Chen also reached the quarterfinals. Naturally the professionals from China, Korea and Japan took out all the medals. Photos from the WMSG are available in the Files/Photos section, and also you can view a slideshow *****July 2008: Our first professional! Australian Joanne Missingham has achieved 2nd place in the 2008 China Professional Qualifying Tournament! This means that Joanne, at age 14, has gained 1 dan professional status (only the top two female players qualify). Joanne joins the ranks of just 3 other western female professional players (Janice Kim, Svetlana Shikshina and Diana Koszegi) *****June 2008: Raphael Shin represented Australia at the 29th World Amateur Championships in Tokyo, May 27-31. Raphael finished 19th out 68 players with 5 wins out of 8, defeating Ireland, Belarus, UK, Switzerland and NZ, losing to Serbia, Luxembourg and Romania (the latter two being well-known European players Laurent Heiser and "Cornel"). Some photos are on the Events page. *****January 2008: Joanne Missingham won all her games at the Toyota-Denso Cup in Brisbane, January 18-19, and so will go on to the next round of the Oza qualifying tournament in Japan. *****January 2008: The Australian Go Association regrets to inform the Go community here in Australia and world-wide of the death of Wu Song Sheng 9p, in Sydney on December 24. Mr Wu was born 1945 and was one of the strongest players in the pre-professional era in China and a teacher of many of the leading professional players since then. He was given a 9 dan rank as soon as China gave professional ranks (1982). He migrated to Australia in 1985 with his family, though later for a time resuming his Go career in South Korea and China. Mr Wu was Honorary National Coach of the Australian Go Association. ***** November 2007: Amelia Gray and John Hardy had a great time representing Australia in the International Amateur Pair Go competition in Tokyo. John's report is in the Files section (for now --- watch for an AGA Pair Go page. Yiming Guo represented Australia in the 2nd Prime Minister's Cup in Seoul, coming in 8th (places 3-9 all had 6 wins out of 9). Yiming, Raphael Shin and Dong Ming Liu then formed a team at the Hangzhou International Cities Cup tournament, which proved an even tougher competition. ***** October 2007: Amelia Gray and John Hardy, from the Brisbane Club, will represent Australia in the International Amateur Pair Go competition in Tokyo in November. David He is the 2007 Australian Champion, winning all 6 games at the National Championships in Sydney. Raphael Shin, at the top of the Credit Point table after the Nationals, becomes our representative at next year's World Amateur Championships. ***** August 2007: The winner of the Korean Ambassador's Cup in Sydney was Yiming Guo, who becomes our representative in the 2nd Korean Ambassador's Cup, Suwon City, Korea, in October. The battle for first place between Yiming and Miao Zhao depended on a very tight last game between Yiming and Sena Lee. In the end Yiming won the game and the Cup, he and Miao each with 5 wins and equal SoS but a difference of just 2 points in SoDoS (although Yiming defeated Miao in their head-to-head game so would have won even if their SoDos were equal). ***** July 2007: The Sydney Korean Baduk Association will host the Korean Ambassador's Cup on the weekend of August 4/5. This will be the qualifying tournament for selection of the Australian representative in the 2nd Korean Prime Minister's Cup, Suwon City, Korea to be held in October. ***** June 2007: Winner of the NSW Championships was Zhao Miao, newly arrived from China. Congratulations to the Sydney Club for their excellent new venue, which should see the club growing back to its former numbers. ***** April 2007: A new star ....? Winner of the NEC 1st Division on April 22 was 15-year old Yang Han. Recently arrived from China, there was a bit of a problem assigning him a rank (the NEC is a handicap tournament) but he said could play a bit, so he was tentatively given a rank of 7dan. Visiting Nihon Kiin pro 9dan Shinichi Aoki commented he is a good deal stronger than that! ***** February 2007: The Australian representative at the 28th World Amateur Go Championships to be held in May at the Nihon Ki-in in Tokyo will be Hae Taek Choi. 16-year old Jimmy Yuan from Christchurch will be playing for New Zealand. ***** October 2006: Wei Qian competing in the 1st Korea Prime Minister's Cup, South Korea, came 19th out of 66 players with 4 wins out of 8. First was Dong Ha U 7d of Korea with 7/8. In a parallel event, the Korean Amateur Baduk Association Cup, Carl Jiang won a creditable 3 out of 8 games. Details of both the KPMC and the KABA Cup here ***** |
