The fourth annual Jin Chen Memorial Tournament, held Jan. 5, 2014 at the Seattle Go Center, brought together 46 players from diverse backgrounds. The 12-person open section was won by Ximeng (Simon) Yu, a 1 dan professional from China who is also a local college student. Second place in the open went to longtime Northwest teacher and player Edward Kim 7d.
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The Jin Chen Tournament is on Sunday, Jan. 5. Registration is on the day of the tournament, from 10:00 -10:30 a.m. There will be a short break for lunch after the first round. The second round will start at 1:30 p.m. The third and final round should be done by 6:30 p.m., with prizes done by 7:00 p.m.
The tournament has an open section and several handicapped sections. [ Read more… ]
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.
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… ]