2009 AMERICAN GO YEARBOOK 8 Contents AGA OFFICERS & COORDINATORS
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Go Club Gallatin Valley Go Club TX: San Antonio WA: Olympia WI: Madison William Gundberg Jasmine Sailing Sid Kobashigawa Joshua Warhurst Pippin Wallace San Antonio Go Club Olympia Go Club University of Wisconsin Go Club DAF Go League 480-831-5567 303-388-4666 833-2540 508-728-1351 406-582-8732 Levi Self Jason Baghoudarian Dan Kastenholtz Latasha James [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 210-367-9759 360-867-4086 608-255-6539 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] AZ: Tucson CO: Longmont HI: Kaneohe MA: Sharon NE: Omaha Tucson Go Club Longmont Go Club Oahu Go Club Sharon Go Club Omaha go UT: Salt Lake City WA: Seattle WI: Milawukee Martin Lebl Aref Nammari Frank H. Alejandro David Hawkins Stuart Shell Salt Lake Go Club Seattle Go Center Milwaukee Go Club 520-850-9213 303-776-4200 808-235-1567 781-784-7782 402-216-1235 Mike Wallstedt Jon Boley Richard Hayes [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 801-558-4892 206-545-1424 414-967-1057 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CA: Davis DC: Washington IA: Ames MA: Somerville NC: Cane Creek Middle School Go Club Davis/Sacramento Go Club NI_ME Cyclone go Club Massachusetts Go Association Jeff Long VA: Blacksburg WA: Tacoma ISRAEL: Rosh Ha’Ayin Willard Haynes Thomas Giles Kirk Moloney Peter Martin 828-628-0824 Blacksburg Go Club Tacoma Go Club Mind Go Club [email protected] 202-368-9955 515-294-6415 617-629-0110 [email protected] John Greiner Gordon Castanza Shavit Fragman [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 540-884-7010 253-853-4831 +972 (0)54 500453 Ca: Irvine NC: Cary [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Orange County Go Club DC: Washington IA: Cedar Rapids MD: Baltimore Cary Go Club Kevin Chao Greater Washington Go Club Cedar Rapids Go Club Baltimore Go Club Owen Chen 949-466-1479 Haskell Small Jacob Uptain Keith Arnold 919-468-2062 [email protected] 202-244-4764 319-329-5344 410-788-3520 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CA: Livermore DC: Washington NC: Charlotte LLNL Go Club 19 Squared Points Go Club IA: Davenport MD: Baltimore Charlotte Go Club Karl Nelson Thomas Allen Giles Quad Cities Go Club UMBC Go Club Greg McCall 925-424-4183 202-338-8301 Michael Dudzik 443-392-6822 704-358-6297 [email protected] [email protected] 312-265-3061 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CA: Oakland FL: Fort Myers MD: Baltimore NC: Durhan/Chapel Hill Bay Area Go Players Assoc. Ft. Myers Go Club IL: Evanston Hopkins Go Cllub Triangle Go Group 510-501-2701 Joshua Frye Evanston Go Club Lisa Scott Paul Celmer 239-357-8811 Mark Rubenstein 816-651-6347 919-779-7925 CA: San Diego [email protected] 847-869-6020 [email protected] [email protected] San Diego Go Club [email protected] Andrew Smith FL: Gainsville MD: College Park NH: Nashua 619-669-8410 Univ. of Florida Go Club IL: Peoria University of Maryland Go Club Milford Go Club [email protected] Michael Dyer Bradley Go Association Stephen M. Mount Peter Gousios 352-514-3723 Roy Schmidt 301-405-6934 603-882-0543 CA: San Francisco [email protected] 309-677-3718 [email protected] [email protected] Salesforce.com Go Club [email protected] Benjamin Tsai FL: Melbourne MD: Germantown NJ: Caldwell 415-8431688 Space Coast Area Go Assoc. IL: Prospect Heights XYZ Private Go Group Feng Yun go School [email protected] George Lebovitz Northwest Chicago Go Club Yuan Zhou Feng Yun rokkitsci@cfl .rr.com Kyung Han 301-528-7259 973-992-5675 CA: San Francisco 847-296-2510 [email protected] [email protected] San Francisco Go Club FL: Miami 415-386-9565 Miami Go Club IL: Rockford MI: Ann Arbor NJ: Freehold [email protected] Joel Sanet Rockford Go Club Ann Arbor Go Club Rutgers Go Club 305-652-1137 Michael Hopkins Eric Jankowski Andrew Casal CA: Santa Monica [email protected] 815-979-1148 734-663-1675 732-740-7815 Santa Monica Go Club [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Christopher Hayashida FL: Orlando 310-479-2892 Go Orlando IL: Schaumburg MI: Kalamazoo NJ: Hoboken [email protected] Joshua Lee Schaumburg Go Club Kalamazoo Go Club Hoboken Go Club 305-308-6624 Daniel Smith Paul Miller Larry Russ CA: Sunnyvale [email protected] 847-274-9742 269-623-9981 201-216-5379 Sunnyvale Go Club [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jean G. DeMaiffe FL: Sarasota 408-720-0738 Sarasota Go Club KY: Louisville MN: Fairboult NJ: Princeton [email protected] Larry Rabinowitz Louisville Go Club Rice County Go Club Princeton Go Club 941-922-1000 Asha Nagaiya F. John Rowan Rick Mott CA: Ventura [email protected] 270-300-3418 507-220-0825 609-466-1602 Ventura County Go Club [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] David Whiteside FL: Tampa 805-647-8803 Tampa Go Club LA: New Orleans MO: Go Miners S&T NV: Las Vagas [email protected] John Russell Crane’s Nest Go Club Donald Wunsch Las Vegas Go Club 813-385-1853 Sean Moy 573-341-4521 James Schaefer CO: Boulder [email protected] 504-813-2804 [email protected] 702-824-2898 Boulder Kid and Teens Go Club [email protected] [email protected] Paul Barchilon GA: Atlanta MO: Southwest Missouri Go Club 303-440-7124 Atlanta Go Club LA: Shreveport Tyler Keithley NY: Brooklyn/Manhatten [email protected] Jeffery J Kerlagon Shreveport-Bossier Go Club 417-399-4318 Brooklyn Go Club 770-992-0308 Peter Haas [email protected] Jean-Claude Chetrit CO: Colorado Springs [email protected] 318-861-7829 718-638-2266 Springs Go Club [email protected] MS: Jackson/Ridgeland/Brandon [email protected] Jim Michali GA: Reingold Mississippi Go Society 719-487-8816 Go Players’ Association MA: Amherst Rez Johnson NY: Buffalo [email protected] Greg Gibson Western Massachusetts Go Club 601-732-2392 Buffalo Go club 706-980-4924 Micah Feldman [email protected] David Daniels CO: Denver [email protected] 413-587-3720 760-468-4204 Colorado Go Center [email protected] [email protected] Eric Wainwright 303-460-0885 [email protected] 2009 AMERICAN GO YEARBOOK 8 contents AGA OFFICERS & COORDINATORS . 5 AMERICA’S TEACHING PROFESSIONALS . 6 10 US TITLEHOLDERS . 7 U.S. GO: THE YEAR IN HEADLINES . 8 MAJOR 2009 TOURNAMENTS & EVENTS US GO CONGRESS Takemiya Returns To U.S. Go Congress . 10 Doubling Up With Live Pro Commentary . 10 Kim Sweeps U.S. Open To Retain Title . 11 12 Zhao Wins Congress Die Hard . 11 A (Musical) Game Of Go . 12 More Commentaries . 12 Learning From Th e Professionals: Yilun Yang 7P . 12 New Player Database Launched . 13 A Closer Look At Shusaku . 13 Shi Repeats As Redmond Senior Champion . 14 Go is… an ancient board game which takes simple elements—line and circle, 13 Black and White, stone and wood—combines them with simple rules and generates subtleties which have enthralled players for millennia. Go’s appeal resides not only in its Asian elegance, but also in practical and stimulating features in the design of the game. Go’s few rules can be demonstrated quickly and grasped easily. It is enjoyably played over a wide range of skills. Each level of play has its charms, rewards and discoveries. A unique and reliable handicapping system leads to equal contests between players of widely disparate strengths. Go is uniquely fl exible and rewards patience and balance over aggression and greed. An early mistake can be made up, used to advantage or reversed as the game proceeds. Th ere is no simple procedure to turn a clear lead into a victory. 14 Go thinking seems to be more lateral than linear, less dependent on logical deduction, and more reliant on a “feel” for the game, a “sense” of form, a gestalt perception of signifi cant patterns. Beyond being merely a game, go can take on other meanings to en- thusiasts: an analogy with life, an intense meditation, a mirror of one’s per- sonality, an exercise in abstract reasoning, or, when played well, a beautiful art in which Black and White dance across the board in delicate balance. But most important for all who play, go is challenging and fun.