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The Seattle Go Center will be closed for the New Year’s Holiday on Tuesday, Dec. 31, and Wednesday Jan. 1.  We will be open on Thursday Jan. 2 and Saturday Jan. 4 for our regular hours.

We have 6 visitors from China who have come for the Jin Chen Tournament on Sunday, Jan. 5.   They include the professional Yao, Xiaomin 4P, who was a colleague of our teachers Yang, Yilun and Guo, Juan when they lived in China.  So we enjoyed meeting her!

Our visitors will be at the Go Center on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 4.

Fourteen pairs of go players gathered at the Seattle Go Center Saturday night, December 7, for a gala dress-up event that included two rounds of Pair Go and three kinds of cake provided by the stylish Bakery Nouveau of Capitol Hill.  [ Read more… ]

Photo and photo styling by Anne Thompson. [ Read more… ]

We will now open at 1:00 pm on Tuesdays, rather than 3:00 pm, effective November 19, 2013.  We hope that this will give our afternoon players more time.  Informal instruction will still begin at 3:00 pm, and continue until 9:00 pm.  Chris K. will be the manager in the early afternoon.

Oct. 2: The fall Go clubs at Seattle Public Schools are starting up.  Students can still sign up the for the club at Hamilton International Middle School, which meets on Thursdays after school.  The McDonald elementary club has 13 players. There will be another session in the winter.

Our full lineup of evening classes will start up the week of Sept. 23.  Beginners have classes on Thursdays, Double Digit Kyu Players (advanced beginners) meet on Mondays, and Single Digit Kyu Players meet on Wednesdays.  All these classes are free, and your first ten visits to the Go Center are also free.

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August 15: Two professional Go players who came for last week’s U.S. Go Congress  have been visiting us this week, treating us to 3 sessions of simultaneous games, and 3 evening lectures.  Chihiro Chujo 1p from the Kansai Ki-in, based in Osaka, Japan is a young pro who loves teaching and who has been enthusiastically learning English during our stay.  The famous Masaki Takemiya 9p from the Nihon Ki-in in Tokyo was our second visitor.  [ Read more… ]

This is a great week for Go in Seattle.  We will have events with professional Go players all this week, Monday Aug. 12 – Thurs. Aug. 15, at 7:00 p.m.  We will also have simultaneous games with pros on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.  The schedule is in our events calendar; you can then click on a listing for more detail. [ Read more… ]

The Seattle Go Center will be open Tuesday, Aug. 6 from 3-10 p.m.  We will be closed all other days from Saturday, Aug. 3 through Sunday Aug. 11, since we will be at the U.S. Go Congress in Tacoma.  We hope to see you there!

We have some excellent events coming up. Maeda Ryo 6p from the Kansai Ki-in will be visiting us on Thursday afternoon, Aug 1, for simultaneous games, and on Friday evening, Aug. 2 for a lecture. ($15 general admission, $10 for youth and voting members).  Maeda-sensei is one of our favorite instructors for kyu players.

The U.S. Go Congress will meet in Tacoma at Pacific Lutheran University from Saturday, Aug. 3 to Saturday Aug. 10.  There will be 22 professional Go players from around the world participating in this event.  The Go Center will be open only on Tuesday, Aug. 6, during this week, since most of our staff and instructors will be at the Go Congress.  It is possible to get day passes to the Go Congress for $60.  Go Congress Site

After Go Congress, Kansai Ki-in pro Chihiro Chujo will give a lecture suitable for kyu players on Monday evening at 6:30 Aug. 12, and play simultaneous games at 3:00 p.m., Aug. 13.

The famous Masaki Takemiya 9p from the Nihon Ki-in will playing simultaneous games with strong players  in the evening on Tuesday Aug. 13, and  will give a lectures for strong players in the evening of Aug. 14, and for intermediate players in the evening of Aug. 15.

Please check our calendar on this website for the latest schedules: events calendar [ Read more… ]