Twenty-eight players — fourteen teams of two — competed in the “Rengo with Pie and Coffee” tournament on Saturday, June 9, 2018. Pair Go stalwart Bill Thompson organized the event, brought the fancy pies, directed the tournament, and even played in it.
TD Bill Thompson explains the rules
The event was run with the International Pair Go Association rules, but with no restrictions to team composition. [ Read more… ]
There was fresh bread (THANK YOU, Chris!). There were visitors from far places (Bellingham, Japan by way of Los Angeles, Germany). There were fond farewells (good-bye to Peter Nelson, and thank you for your service) and new representation to the AGA (hello Nick Wilmes, and good luck at the national meeting).
And there were players who didn’t want to wait for the weekend to play Rengo.
Couldn’t wait for Saturday
A couple hours later, the board looked like this:
Rengo board two hours later; Black to play
The corner held some surprises.
Black to play
Cullen Mott provided a kifu that covers from game start to early endgame: TheArgoGame (getting JagoPlayer working on the website will be a project for the future).
Join us Saturday for Rengo with Pie and Coffee! $10 to register ($5 for persons under 18, and for voting members of the Go Center). Registration opens 5:30 PM, and play starts at 6:00 PM. More info at www.seattlego.org/events
Rengo Tournament poster for June 9, 2018
It was a pleasant Sunday at the Seattle Go Center, with 19 players present for the monthly AGA ratings tournament. TD Daniel Top got the pairings out on time, and ran the tournament with his customary aplomb. Rounds 1 and 2 each had nine games. But two players in the second round fought deep into byo-yomi, and only a half-dozen players stayed until the bitter end; so round 3 had three games.
There were no three-game winners. Winning two games were Zhihong Yao 2d, Steve Ling 2k, Christian de Oro 4k, Brian Dai 8k, George Schmitten 8k, and John Johnson 9k.
Lucy Lu Wang vs. Tyler Michael Moore, and Nick Collins vs. Xiangnan Chen
Lucy Lu Wang vs. Tyler Michael Moore, and Emma Huang vs. Abigail Chen
Join us for the next monthly ratings tournament, Sunday July 1st! It’s free to play (but you do have to be a member of the AGA, and you do have to be a member of the Go Center or pay for your visit — under 18 is free, and adults first 10 visits are free).
Catherine Ozols has created a great poster publicizing the Rengo tournament on June 9!
Rengo Tournament poster for June 9, 2018
You can download it as a high resolution JPEG for printing, if you want to help publicize the event. The more, the merrier!