Fairfield Go Club
contact: Duncan H. Brown
(duncanbrown108[~~at~~]yahoo[~~dot~~]com
All-Iowa Go Tournament, Ames, IA, on Sept. 3rd
Results: Race for the Kaya All-Iowa Go Tournament, Iowa City on July 22
Results: All-Iowa (and Beyond!) Go Tournament, Des Moines, May 20th
Results: Spring Forward Iowa Go Tournament, Apr. 2nd, Iowa City
Waterloo Go Club Joins AGA; Ames Go Club Organized
Fairfield Go Club Announcements
Results: Des Moines All-Iowa Go Tournament, Feb. 26th
Iowa Players: Go Servers/Usernames
Visit the new Iowa Go Web site for Forums, News, and more.
Please visit
Slate & Shell for fine books on go,
and go equipment.
Slate and Shell has been a generous, ongoing sponsor of the go tournaments in
Iowa.
Please visit the AGA Web Site to connect to the U.S. go scene.
Pictures from the
first All-Iowa Go
Tournament on Dec. 19th, 2005
All-Iowa Go Tournament, Ames, IA, Sept. 3rd There will be an All-Iowa Go Tourney in Ames, Iowa on Sunday, September 3rd, all day. This is an American Go Association (AGA)-sanctioned tournament: game results will be forwarded to the AGA ratings folks. Want to add fun to your Labor Day Weekend (which includes a Monday Holiday?). Come and play go with us. This tourney is hosted by the Cyclone Go Club, led by Ramon Mercado, Tournament Director, with help from Duncan Brown (Fairfield Go Club), Assistant Tournament Director.
The Cyclones have won the Iowa Cup the last three
tournaments in a row. Due to a recent rules change, the Iowa Cup is now up
for grabs by ANY club from ANY state. We'd love to see Chicago, Kansas City,
Minneapolis, and other clubs (from anywhere) come to contend for the cup. The Cyclones
have promised to polish up that silver bowl (of course, they say that's just
so it will look prettier on their mantels.) Also, Ramon says that a 5-dan
(almost-insei) will be at the tourney. |
Results: July 22nd “Race for the Kaya” All-Iowa Go Tournament Iowa Cup Swept Up by
Cyclones a Third Time The overall individual tournament winner was Han Hong Lu (2k, Fairfield, 4 wins); he received the Kaya table board donated by Andras Kristof. Ian Barnard (19k, Ames, 4 wins) received the second prize, a set of Yunzi go stones, bowls and carrying case, also donated by Andras Kristof. Among the runner-ups were Jitzhou Chen
(11k, Ames, 3 wins), Zaida Marreno (25k, Ames, 2 ½ wins), Francois Torney
(17k, Ames, 2 wins), Matt Pinkston (11k, Cedar Rapids, 2 wins), Ramon
Mercado (16k, Ames, 2 wins) and Jacob Uptain (8k, Cedar Rapids, 2 wins).
Prizes for winning players were books donated by Slate and Shell, or cash. |
WINDY CITY NEARLY SWEEPS IOWA CUP;
The All-Iowa (and
Beyond) Go Tourney in Des Moines on May 20th featured 29 players in 4
divisions, the
Mark Hommerding, Des Moines Go Club
Duncan H. Brown,
Fairfield Go Club |
One of the newest chapters of the AGA is in Waterloo, Iowa, home of Will Shirey and the Waterloo Go Club. Will Shirey has participated in two Iowa go tournaments. in the December, 2005 All-Iowa Go Tournament in Iowa City, Will placed first in the higher-kyu division by winning all four of his matches. In fact, his showing was so strong that the four points he earned in the tournament also made him, by himself, the third-placing go club in Iowa in the competition for the All-Iowa Go Tournament Cup. Will is a sixth-grader in Waterloo; the Waterloo Go Club meets at his school. At the January Snow Grade Go Tournament in Iowa City, Will brought along one of his fellow go players, Ashok Rao, who joined the AGA just before the tournament. CYCLONE GO CLUB (AMES) BECOMES AGA CHAPTER Ramon Mercado and other go players
from Ames and from Iowa State University in Ames have formed the Cyclone Go Club. We're
looking forward to seeing more Ames players at Iowa go tournaments. At the
February tournament in Des Moines, Cyclone player Ning Sun won the entire tournament!
And they've won the Iowa Cup in April and in May (and now July). |
FAIRFIELD GO CLUB EXPANDS MEETINGS; NEWSPAPER STORY The Fairfield Go Club has doubled its weekly meetings; it’s now gathering Friday nights (7-10 pm) at Revelations Bookstore and Café, and Sunday nights (7-9:30 pm) at the M.U.M. Student Union’s Cosmic Café. Everyone is invited to come to learn and to play this game. There was a front-page story in The Fairfield Daily Ledger on Friday, February 3rd. It featured a photo of several Fairfield Go Club members, plus an in-depth interview with Duncan H. Brown, head of the club. Go is a fascinating Oriental board game that is widely played in China
(where it was invented), Japan, and Korea. It’s been compared to chess, but
unlike chess, no computer program has ever been devised that can defeat even
a talented amateur go player. |
CEDAR RAPIDS WINS IOWA CUP; The Des Moines All-Iowa Go Tournament was a great success. 18 players competed all day in Des Moines at Java Joe's on Feb. 26th. Five players joined the AGA on the day of the tournament, and a member from a new AGA chapter (the Waterloo Go Club) competed as well. Three players attended from Kansas City. The overall tournament winner was Ning Sun (Ames), who was undefeated in four matches. The All-Iowa Go Tournament Cup was won by the Cedar Rapids Go Club with 12 wins among 5 players. The Des Moines Go Club (who had won the cup in the January tournament) placed second with 8 wins among 5 players. The ISU Go Club (Ames) placed third with 6 wins by 2 players. Waterloo was fourth with three wins by one player, Iowa City was fifth with one player and 2 wins, while Fairfield placed last with one win by one player. (Had the three Kansas City players been able to compete for the All-Iowa Go Tournament Cup, they would have placed fourth with 4 wins.)
Jacob Uptain savors the victory of the Cedar Rapids Go Club in the February competition for the All-Iowa Go Tournament Cup Winners received go books (kindly provided by Slate & Shell) or cash prizes. Individual Winners:
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Pictures from the All-Iowa Go Tournament,
Dec. 18th in Iowa City
Thanks to Alice Shirey, Waterloo, for taking them
Note: click on images to see the full-sized picture.
Iowa Players: Go Servers/User
Names
Player Name, City, Rating (if known) | Go Server | User Name |
Andras Kristof, Fairfield, 13k (AGA) | KGS | kanagawa |
Brigid Strait, Des Moines, 13k (AGA) |
www.kiseido.com |
Rutabaga &/or MrsKibbles |
Duncan H. Brown, Fairfield, 11k (AGA) | Yahoo games | harpno_mapcase |
Duncan H. Brown, Fairfield, 11k (AGA) | www.Kiseido.com | HarpnoMarx |
Eric Swaney, Waterloo, 10k, KGS |
KGS and IGS |
Reepicheep |
Jacob Uptain, Cedar Rapids, 10k (AGA) |
www.Kiseido.com |
juptain |
Jacob Uptain, Cedar Rapids, 10k (AGA) |
http://igo.cc/club/enter-e.php |
foot_ofgod |
Ramon Mercado, 22k (IGS) |
IGS |
rmercado |
Ramon Mercado, 22k (IGS) |
KGS |
TheKid |
Will Shirey, Waterloo, 15k (AGA) | www.pandanet.co.jp/English/ | crazyguy |
Will Shirey, Waterloo, 15k (AGA) | Playgo.ti | sai |
Tristan Webb, Fairfield, 11k (AGA) | KGS | dubhdara |
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last updated: 08/24/06, DHB