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Bga Crossword N Number 183 Spring 2018 London Open – Kyu-Players’ Room South Manchester – Yangran Zhang (L) wins British Go Journal 183 Spring 2018 CONTENTS EDITORIAL 2 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 3 FROM:KEY CONCEPTS IN LIFE AND DEATH Richard Hunter4 WORLD NEWS Tony Atkins5 INTERNATIONAL PAIR GO CHAMPIONSHIP Francis Roads7 DEVELOPING GO IN NOTTINGHAM Robin Dews 11 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Toby Manning 14 GO JOTTINGS 5 John Tilley 15 LONDON GO CENTRE LAUNCHED Tony Atkins 20 REFLECTIONS ON GO FROM A BEGINNER Mike Medaglia 21 UK NEWS Tony Atkins 22 BGA ANNOUNCEMENTS 26 SOLUTIONS TO THE NUMBERED PROBLEMS 27 BGA CROSSWORD NO.2 SOLUTION by Sphinx 33 UK AND IRELAND CLUBS LIST 34 ASSOCIATION CONTACT INFORMATION 40 COLLECTING GO XXXVI: WESTERN ART Tony Atkins – Rear Cover Copyright c 2018 British Go Association. Articles may be reproduced for the purpose of promoting Go and not for profit, providing that the British Go Journal is attributed as the source and the permission of the Editor and author(s) have been sought and obtained in writing, in advance. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the BGA, nor of the Editor. 1 EDITORIAL [email protected] Welcome to the 183rd British Go Journal. In This Issue Thank you to everyone who sent in entries for the prize crossword, the solution for which can be found herein. The winner was Donald MacLeod who will receive a book from the BGA book stock. Well done Donald. Paul Barnard’s article in the last issue prompted a discussion with Richard Hunter (see Letters) who described exactly the same position in an article from some years ago. We have reprinted Richard’s article. Francis Roads and Jenny Rofe-Radcliffe represented GB in the World Pair Go Championships this year and Francis has written about their trip to Japan. And there is another of John Tilley’s Go Jottings inside too, which I always find instructive and entertaining. Two new contributors find their way into this Spring edition, namely Robin Dews, writing about the extremely successful new Nottingham event, and Mike Medaglia with a personal view of someone new to Go. The ’Cover Story’ is the launch of the new London Go Centre which happened in February – thanks to Tony Atkins for his report on the inaugural tournament – we wish them every success. Bob Scantlebury Credits My thanks to the many people who have helped to produce this Journal: Contributions: Tony Atkins, Paul Barnard, Tony Collman, Robin Dews, Richard Hunter, Liu Yajie, Toby Manning, Ian Marsh, Mike Medaglia, Francis Roads, and John Tilley. Photographs: Front cover,Cat˘ alin˘ T, aranu˘ at The London Go Centre (Gerry Gavigan). All other photographs in this edition were provided by the article authors or sourced from the BGA website. Proofreading: Tony Atkins, Rich Bentley, Barry Chandler, Mike Cockburn, Brent Cutts, Martin Harvey, Richard Hunter, Pat Ridley, and Nick Wedd. 2 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Life and Death Dear Editor, Following the publication of my “Dame Disaster” in the recent BGJ 182, Richard Hunter kindly pointed out that my analysis of the position was rubbish, although his terminology was a little more gentle. He referred to an article he wrote in BGJ 125 (accessible online here1), which has exactly the position in question on page 17. Fortunately for my self respect, Richard admits to not having got it fully right when it cropped up in one of his games, despite having seen it before. If a strong dan player can slip up on this, I feel less obliged to suffer anguish and mortification. And also, the positional analysis wasn’t really the point of my article - not that that is an excuse for feeding duff information to your readers. His analysis follows below, for readers not minded to go to the online archive just now. Readers may also be interested in Richard’s book, “Key Concepts in Life and Death – Inside Moves and Under the Stones Techniques.” See this page at Sensei’s Library for details https://senseis.xmp.net/ ?KeyConceptsInLifeAndDeathInsideMovesAndUnderTheStonesTechniques. Best regards, Paul Barnard [email protected] Rule leaflets Dear Sir, I have just read the article in the BGJ 182 about rules leaflets. The first BGA rules leaflet was written by myself in 1968, following my co- option to the BGA Committee. It was to be distributed at the Daily Mail New Year Show, the successor to the Daily Mail Boys and Girls Exhibition, at Earls Court. The BGA had been commissioned to staff a Go stall there. In those days we had no diagramming material at all. I cut the diagrams from an American leaflet, and wrote my own text to suit it. It was printed on a single sheet, bearing the address for John Barrs as contact. I don’t think I have a copy anymore, but hope there might be one in the BGA archive. Jeremy Hawdon, Wayne Walters and myself staffed the stall for the first of two weeks. I can’t remember who then took over. The three of us all lived in Enfield, where we founded the Enfield Go Club. These three founder members are still active members of the club’s successor, the Wanstead Go Club, fifty years later. Francis Roads [email protected] 1http://www.britgo.org/files/bgj/bgj125-2.pdf 3 FROM:KEY CONCEPTS IN LIFE AND DEATH Richard Hunter was to think that White has no move after 6 in Diagram 2A. Neither atari looks useful, but I overlooked the fact that White can fill in the partial eye to make a pyramid four and then increase it to a bulky five. I really should have known better, and I hope Diagram 2: Safe? to avoid such misconceptions in the Well, I make blunders too. I’m sure future. I hope you will too. we all do. Here is an example from What is really galling is that not long one of my games. In Diagram 2, I’m afterwards I found this exact position White. Black has just connected on in a book—and one that I had read the first line in the late endgame. I before too. Black 2, the move I actually hope you have alarm bells ringing expected, was given as a failure in your head when you see a position because of the potential ko at 6. And like this. When all the outside liberties it specifically mentioned 6 as being are filled, there is almost certain to suicidal, because after 6 in Diagram be some danger of a liberty shortage 2A Black is unconditionally dead. inside. Diagram 2B: Seki Diagram 2A: Status? I play 1 in Diagram 2A, expecting to The correct reply is 2 in Diagram 2B. get a seki at the minimum. After 5, White 5 threatens to start a ko, so I point out to my opponent that he Black must add a move at 6 to make a seki. needs to add a move at 6 to avoid a ko in the corner. This is a friendly social game, and I am giving him a three stone handicap. Later, near the end of the game, a kibitzer comments how sad it is that the black corner is dead. ”It’s not dead, it’s a seki,” I say. But after a while, I realize that he is right. The black group really is dead. Diagram 2C: Seki I tell my opponent that since we have agreed that the status of the corner White 5 in Diagram 2C gives an is seki, that status will stand at the equivalent result. end of the game. My hallucination 4 WORLD NEWS Tony Atkins [email protected] European Teams 23:00 UK time. The match ended in a The fifth round of the B-League of draw, with Andrew Simons and Chris the Pandanet Go European Team Bryant winning on the top boards, rd but Des Cann and Jon Diamond Championship on 23 January losing on the other two. Andrew saw the UK playing Finland. Yet used some AlphaGo techniques to again our team did extremely well. beat Jostein Flood by resignation and Bruno Poltronieri won his game Chris had the same result against against Javier-Aleksi Savolainen by Severin Hanevik by killing a big resignation after successfully attacking group. Jon came unstuck against a weak group and not making Heming Hanevik, when a group got any mistakes in overtime. Chris cut off and killed, and Des ended 3.5 Bryant won a peaceful game against behind against Tomas Hjartnes due to Vesa Laatikainen by 17.5. Mikko not getting enough profit from saving Lappetelainen¨ lost by resignation his weak centre groups. This left the to Des Cann, failing to spot a ko UK in second place with 12 points, as attack on one of Des’s groups. Jamie Germany beat Denmark to go clear Taylor also played well and won by top with 13 points. The Netherlands resignation against Jari Koivikko to drew with Austria to stay third on 11 win the match four-nil. As top placed points. So with just the Netherlands team Netherlands lost to Germany and Sweden to go the UK team was three-one, our team returned to the still hopeful of promotion. top spot, on boards-won tie break from Germany, and Netherlands Youth Teams dropped to third. On Saturday 27th January the UK Just under a month later, on 20th youth team played their third match February, it was Austria’s turn to in the 2017/18 European Youth Go play UK. The team won again to stay Team Championship. They were top. Daniel Hu was our only loss, to playing Romania, who had won their the strong player Viktor Lin, after a previous match five boards to nil; good attack turned, by one liberty, they were likely to win again, as the into a bad loss.
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