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.
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… ]
The Seattle Go Center will be expanding its sequence of free evening classes. We will be adding a “Single Digit Kyu Player’s Class” on Wednesday night, June 12, with Andrew Jackson 5d as the instructor. Here is the revised sequence of our classes, in order of rising difficulty:
Thursdays, starting June 13: “Real Beginners” 7 week intro class starts at 6:30 p.m. with Jon Friedman. Here is the flyer. “Beginners Workshop” ongoing class starts at 7:00 pm with Frank Lam. The Workshop is good for graduates of “Real Beginners” up to about 15 kyu. Here is their website. [ Read more… ]
The Seattle Go Center will be closed for Memorial Day Weekend, May 25 – 27. An Ikebana group will be meeting there for a workshop.
Nick’s Monday night DDK class on May 27 is also taking a holiday.
The Iwamoto Youth 19×19 Tournament will be held Sunday, May 19, at the Seattle Go Center, at 1:00 p.m. If the open section has a least 4 players, the first place prize will be $50. There will also be an handicapped section with book and equipment prizes. This is a great way for youth to start playing rated games. The tournament is free, but players must be under 18, and have an American Go Association membership, which costs $10. AGA memberships can be set up online or in person on the day of the tournament. Advanced registration is not required, but please send an email with your playing strength if you know you are coming. [ Read more… ]