U.S. Go 2010: The Year in Headlines Selected from reports appearing in the American Go E-Journal in 2010; click here for our online archive, where you can search by category, month or keyword: http://www.usgo.org/news/ JANUARY U.S. Go Zhang Wins Montreal Winter Tourney; AGA Congress Dates & Location Set; Board Approves Continuation Of Fujitsu Cup Maiden U.S.-Canada Women’s & NAIM, Seeks 2010 Hosts; World Youth Team Tourney Launched; Quali! er Moved Up To April 3; School Team Portland Yang Workshop Set Tourney Setting New Records; AGF Accepting For March; Redmond Cup Apps For College Scholarships; AGA Ratings Registration Opens; Peng Updated, New AGA Database Feature Links Wins MGA Winter Tourney; Players; Why Host A Pro Workshop?; Lockhart Jujo Games Broadcast Live; & Xiong Win Boston Youth; Myungwan Kim AGHS School Teams Tourney; 9P Workshop Gives NorCal Players A Boost; U.S. Congress site launched; N.A. & Europe Out In Chunlan Cup; Guy Seattle Go Center Now Tax- Wins All-Iowa Go Cup; Meadowdale HS Wins Deductible; AGF Drive Nets Funds For Go Projects; Hu Wins Chi Iwamoto School Team Tourney In Seattle (below); School Team Tourney; Go Behind Bars (see e Traveling Board, p X for story) Tourney Heats Up; New N.A. Online Tourney To Use Skype; graphic by Mike “Slow Go” Tourney Seeks Players Samuels FEBRUARY AGA Board Waives U.S. Youth Go Championship Requirement; Matthews To Retire As AGA Ratings Coordinator (below right); Feng Yun/Jie Li Win N.A. Pair Go 1st Round; USYGC Season Opens; Big photos by Brian Allen (bottom left and above) Tourney Weekend Coming Up; Nakayama Noriyuki 6p Dies: Special Nakayama Edition (see pp xx); Feng Yun-Jie Li Win Pair Go Quali! er As Pair Go Celebrates 20 Years; Kirschner Hopes To APRIL Zhang Stage “Honinbo” At Go Congress; Chen & Yuan Win NJ Open Tops Carolina Spring (above left) ; Mingjiu Jiang 7P To Rep N.A. Tourney; Edward At Chunlan Cup; Rueckriemen Wins VT Zhang Wins DC Tourney; First-Timer Shin Wins Gold Cherry Blossom; At Groesch Memorial; Seattle Hosts Pro Redmond Into Tengen Workshop For Kyu Players; Myungwan 3rd Round; Smartgo Kim 9p Workshop Set For Berkeley; Kifu Released For Orlando Hosts Guo Juan 5p Workshop; iPad; Top Youth Set New Go Club In Chi For 2nd Transatlantic photos by John Pinkerton Match; AGA Go Camp Updates; Bay Area Schools Compete; MARCH Sun Wins Guo Juan Workshop SoCal Tourney & USYGC Prepares Florida Go Quali! er; Yi-Jin Chen Community For Spring Tournament; Americas, Europe Out Tops Nova Chinese In Fujitsu 1st Round; Myungwan Kim To Play In U.S.-Based Lunar Tourney; USYGC Online Tourney; Top 10 AGA Tourney/Game Players List Quali! ers Set; School Debuts; Sun And Fang Win World Youth Slots; Morris Wins Team Tourney Sets New Mass. Spring Tourney; Tiebreak Win Gives North America Record; Seattle Hosts Edge In Transatlantic Youth Match; Tang, Dolev & Qu Top Two Pros (l); Milling, NorCal Tourney (above) ; Price, Wynn, Young & Houston Top Boehem & Haddad Top Syracuse Tourney; Strong Players Online Tourney Launches Austin Wild" ower Classic; Tonight; Hal Small Hosts Sasaki 8P At DC Workshop; Spot1 photo (above left) by Roger Schrag 8 2010 AMERICAN GO YEARBOOK U.S. Go 2010: The Year in Headlines http://www.usgo.org/news/ Down To Sweet Sixteen Players; Chong Tops Chi Tourney, JUNE U.S. Youth Zhou & Yang Win Youth; Harwit And Zhang Top Boulder Championship Finals Set; USYGC; Seattle Go Center Blossoms At Festival; Straus On Jie Li 7d Wins Maryland Marriage, Music Open; And Go; Jie Li To AbramsonAb Comment Live On AppointedAp Spot1 Top Board To Second TermTe As AGA MAY OC President,Pr Pohl Go Club Wins Re-AppointedRe School Tourney; Secretary;Se Nominations Open WestWe Coast For 4 AGA Board JaniceJa Kim Seats; Levenick 3P Workshop Tops Corvallis ScheduledSc Spring Tourney; ForFo July; Spot 1 “Elite 8” AGAAG Website Game Records To Accept Posted; New Daily Advertising;Ad E-Journal Launches; Myungwan Kim 9P Cruises Into Final Canada 4 To Rematch With 2009 U.S. Open Runner-Up Michael Dominates Redmond Chen 7d; 13-Year-Old Jianing Gan 6d To Play Myungwan Cup; Tigersmouth Team Kim 9p In Spot1 Finals; ! rongs Come Out For Norcal To Take On Insei Empire Go Expo Day; Chiu Tops Morningstar Happy Cup Youth June 13 (below right); Michael Redmond On Studying, Improving Tourney (above right) ; Ranka & E-Journal Team Up Again For Your Game And How ! e Pros Train; Quali# ers set for 2010 N.A. WAGC; Evanston Go Club Teaches Hundreds At Chi Anime Ing Cup; Tiger’s Mouth Defeats Insei Empire In Online Youth Convention (below) ; Trevor Morris Slips Ahead To Win In Tourney; Six Win In U.S. Youth Go Championships; Tang Wenhua Amherst; Jianing Gan Looking To Stay Alive In Spot1 Tourney 6d Most Saturday; New AGA Tournament Coordinators Appointed; Ca$ einated In Live From ! e World Amateurs!; Mission San Jose Aces Santa Monica School Tourney; Myungwan Kim 9P Wins First Strong Players Co$ ee Cup Online Tourney; Nakayama’s Quiet Farewell; E-Journal’s (above right) ; WAGC Coverage Commences; WAGC UPDATES: Twice ! e Zipei Feng 7d Coverage (see pp x-y for WAGC reports) Wins Rocky Mountain Spring Go Tourney; Yasumasa Hane 9p & Go Family To Attend U.S. Go Congress; Races Heat Up In AGA Board Elections; Michael Redmond Defeats Cho U In Agon Cup; U.S. Junior National Team To Compete In Brunei Friendship Games; Jian Liu 1d & Great Falls Go Club Win Nova Congress Tune-Up; Seventh-Grader On Quest For Go Credit; U.S. Pair Go Players Wanted photo (above right): Andy Okun photo by Mark Rubenstein 2010 AMERICAN GO YEARBOOK 9 U.S. Go 2010: The Year in Headlines http://www.usgo.org/news/ JULY Wanted: SEPTEMBER AGA’S 10-Game Rule Assailed By Memories Of Feng Yun 9P; Justin Teng Wins UMD Tourney; AGA Nakayama; AGA Board To Review 10-Game Rule; Two Chances To Board Elections Study With Guo Juan 5P; Cathy Li 1P Knocked Out Underway; AGA Of Bingshen Cup; COTSEN OPEN Games, Photos Issues New & News (see pp for complete coverage); EJ Gets Membership Cards; Seriously Social; 10-Game Rule Dropped; Lisa Scott’s Slate & Shell Issues Central Spanish Translation Lessons; Of “How Not To Play Go”; Waldron Wins “Go For All” Game Visitor From Paris Summit; Diverse Playing Leads NorCal Monthly; FieldFi In NorCal; Jianping IN MEMORIAM: WangWa Wins Ascheim Milton Bradley, “An Memorial;Me Our Youngest unstoppage passion MemberMe (l); Buddhist for go”; Gu, Hokies NunNu Marjorie “Su Co” & Team Tourney HeyHe Named Teacher Of Highlight Nova ! e Year; Tang To Play In Tourney; Dae Hyuk Ko RedmondRe Cup 7d Wins ’10 Cotsen; photoph (left) by Ted Terpstra Carson Tu & Kevin Huang Tie For Tops AUGUSTA 2010 U.S. In Hoboken; Tadashi Go Congress Opens (see Sasaki 8P Workshops pp XX-YY for complete Scheduled For San cocoverage); New Way To Francisco Area; Shen FiFind Go Players Debuts; And Su Win 2010 AGF Online Software For Managing Your Club; U.S. Go Congress College Scholarship; Bids Nakayama A Joyful Farewell; AGA Smith Snags Top Prize Board Election Results Announced; In Chi Fish Amnesty Tourney. Cotsen photo (above) by Chris 13-Year-Old Sun Places Fourth In World Garlock Youth; Wall-To-Wall Congress Tourney Coverage; Chen/Tang Win U.S. Pair Go Championships; Huiren Yang 1P Wins 2010 North American Ing; Myung- Wan Kim 9P ! ree-Peats As U.S. Open Champion (right); Wolf Wins Redmond Cup (below) ; Myung-Wan Kim 9P Makes ! ree-Peat Donation To AGF; Bresler Appointed AGA Ratings VP; Record E-Journal Team Covers 2010 Go Congress; Gross And Ye Top Norcal Monthly; Guochen Xie Wins Boston Open phphotos by Chris Garlock OCTOBER Moon Cha Memorial Tourney Planned; Wu, (above r) Kuang & Yang Top N.C. Triangle Tourney; Yearbook Goes and Ling All-Electronic; Schumer Tops Mass Fall Tourney; U.S. 15th In Shan (left) Int’l Pair Go Championships; NY Go Center Launches League; Miami Go Club Marks “End Of An Era”; U.S. Rep Jie Liang 7d Takes 4th In Korean P.M. Cup (above) ; Miami Go Club Migrates A Mile; Xu Wins In NY; “Stephanie” Ming-Ming Yin Is Go Center’s New “Club Pro”; Jhirad Tops Portland Tourney; Strain Tops In Austin. photo (above) by Allan Abramson 10 2010 AMERICAN GO YEARBOOK U.S. Go 2010: The Year in Headlines http://www.usgo.org/news/ NOVEMBER Kupon DECEMBER Feng Yun 9P Winter Reaps Victory In Heartland Workshop Set; 2011 Guo Juan School Harvest (right); Teng Tops Enrollment Open; NY Go Center Closes In Nova Pumpkin Classic; Manhattan Site (below) ; Colburn Wins First Andrew Lu 6d Wins Ing’s Cornell Open; Matthew & Karoline Burrall Cup Youth Goe Tournament; Top Davis/Sacramento Tourney; Chit- Sasaki 8P To Give Two Chatting About Go; Won Suh 6D Wins Teaching Events In L.A. ! is NOVA Slate and Shell Open; Tengxiao Yang Week; 16 Top Players To Joust 5D Tops Windy City Winter Tourney; U.S. In N.A. BC Card Cup Qualie Youth Take on Canadians Sunday on KGS; ! is Weekend; Meyer Tops Andy Rocky Mountain Tourney; Liu Zhuang Tops Young Lions Tourney; Sasaki Workshops A Hit In 7d Wins N.A. Fujitsu NorCal; Go Playing Teen Wins Siemen’s Prize; Ye And Qu Sweep Quali" er; Wheeler & Zhou NorCal Monthly; Join AGA Tourney Team; Liu Wins N.A. Young Kwon National BC Card Cup Online Tourney O# ers Quali" er; Won $3,000 in Prizes; Myung- Suk Suh 5d Wan Kim 9P Added To EJ Wins Moon Cha Roster; Yang And Chan Memorial; Why Lead December’s Bay Did My Rating Area Monthly; Are You Change?; Syracuse Smarter ! an a Jeopardy Fall Ratings Contestant?; Canada Wins Tourney; Zhao 3rd Youth Friendship Ju Tops Tacoma Match; ! e Man Behind Tourney; NY Go the YKNOT Tournament; Center Faces Uncertain Future Follow the E-Journal on photo (above left) by Lisa Schrag Twitter! 2011 U.S.