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March 8th, 2010
Lloyd Rubidge to represent South Africa at WAGC
Congratulations to Lloyd Rubidge, who has been selected to represent South Africa at the World Amateur Go Championships in May this year. This year, the tournament will be held in China, unlike previous years where it has traditionally been held in Japan. We wish Lloyd all the best!
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March 4th, 2010
SA Open 2010 report
The SA Open was held in Pretoria for the first time. It is great to see Go activity increasing here, and thanks to all in the club who helped with the event. The SA Open was a 6 round McMahon tournament played over Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 February.
This year was anticipated to be an Oza event, but unfortunately with the withdrawal of the sponsorship, attendance at the event dropped. Also, the Dobsonville players only manged to attend on Sunday.
Congratulations to the following prize winners:
1st: Andre Connell
2nd: John Leuner
3rd: David Richfield
Best 11-7kyu: Gerrit Kapp
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February 15th, 2010
SAGA Council meeting minutes available
The minutes of the SAGA council meeting held on 13 January are now available for download.
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February 14th, 2010
New single-digit kyu at Stellenbosch
Congratulations to Francois van Niekerk, who has been promoted to 9-kyu after last week’s club games.
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February 8th, 2010
Notice of 2010 SAGA AGM and call for nominations
The Annual General Meeting of the SAGA will be held on Saturday 17th April 2010 during the lunch break of the SAGA second quarter internet tournament in the South African Room on KGS (expected time 14h00). The agenda will be as follows:
- Considering the 2009 minutes for acceptance.
- Receipt and consideration of the President’s report for 2009/2010
- Receipt and consideration of the Treasurer’s report for 2009
- Adoption of the Financial Statements for 2009
- Election of new council members for 2010/2011. [Update: Valid nominations were received for John Leuner (Proposed: Steve Kroon; Seconded: Chris Welsh), David Richfield (Proposed: Steve Kroon; Seconded: Chris Welsh), and Paul Steyn (Proposed: Chris Welsh; Seconded: Steve Kroon)]
- Matters arising
The reports and financial statements will be released in due course, and linked to from this article.
This post also serves as a call for nominations for the SAGA council for 2010/2011. Chris Welsh, Andre Connell and Ben Gale’s terms of office expire in April. Nominations must reach the secretary (secretary@saga.sagoclubs.co.za) by 6 March 2010: nominations require a proposer and a seconder, and an indication by the nominee that (s)he is willing to serve on the SAGA council. Proposer, seconder, and nominee must all be members of SAGA (more details on nomination are available in paragraph 6.9 of the SAGA constitution).
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February 8th, 2010
Konrad wins first 2010 SAGA internet Go tournament
Congratulations to Konrad who took advantage of the absence of Victor and Ben to win the internet tournament held on the 6th Feb. Congratulations also to:
Francois for winning group 2
Michael who was promoted to 14k
Cornelia who was promoted to 19k
It was great to see some new faces, and I’m hoping the internet tournaments will grow to 2 full groups this year. The final placings were:
1 Konrad Scheffler
2-4 Andrew Davies
2-4 John Leuner
2-4 Chris Welsh
5-7 David Gale
5-7 David Richfield
5-7 Gordon Wells
8 Paul Steyn
9 Francois van Niekerk
10 Michael Ben-Yosef
11 Cornelia vd Walt
12 Rory Shea
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February 1st, 2010
African representatives for WPGA Pair Go World Cup 2010
Congratulations to Victor and Carle who will represent Africa at the world cup to be held in Hangzhou, China from March 20 to March 23. They were the winners of the selection tournament held on 31 Jan.
Pair-Go, requiring a team of 1 male and 1 female is not big in Africa, and eventually only 3 teams were able to compete in the final. Of the IGF member nations, Madagascar and Morocco were unable to field any teams, and South Africa only managed 4, whcih was reduced to 3 on the day because of client/PC interface problems. The teams were:
Team1:
Victor Guang Chow, 7d
Carle Joubert, 4k
Team2:
Lloyd Rubidge, 1k
Cornelia vd Walt, 20k
Team3:
Rory Shea, 16k
Candice Barker, 27k
Round 1 was played between teams 2 and 3, and was won by Lloyd and Cornelia. They then faced team 1 in the final and were beaten by Victor and Carle. In both games it was interesting to observe the problems that arise when the partners follow different plans. It looked like upset results were quite possible.
Talk is underway to introduce a pair Go tournament to the SAGA calendar. Most likely it will be RenGo, where the gender of the teams is not specified.
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January 30th, 2010
Japanese Go Symbols
Japanese Go Symbols
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January 20th, 2010
World Pair Go Championship change of date
The African qualifying stage for the World Pair Go championship will now be held on 31 January. Morocco and Madagascar do not have any female players available to take part, so the field will consist of four South African pairs in a knockout tournament. The tournament will take place on IGS-Pandanet. Round 1 begins at 10h00, and Round 2 begins at 13h00 (South African time).
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January 20th, 2010
World Pair Go Championship – African qualifiers date change
The African qualifying stage for the World Pair Go championship will now be held on 31 January. Morocco and Madagascar do not have any female players available to take part, so the field will consist of four South African pairs in a knockout tournament. The tournament will take place on IGS-Pandanet. Round 1 begins at 10h00, and Round 2 begins at 13h00 (South African time).
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