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January 17th, 2012
SAGA Council meeting minutes available
The minutes and transcript of the SAGA Council meeting held on Monday, 16 January 2012, are now available on this page.
Posted by Steve as News, SAGA at 10:08 PM, No Comments »
January 17th, 2012
SAGA Credit Points for 2011
The SAGA credit point standings at the end of 2011 are now available for download. Also available is a zip file showing the calculations for each entry in the list.
Any errors or omissions must be reported to the Membership Secretary (Paul Steyn) by the 25th of January (one week from tomorrow). If errors are not reported, the current lists will be considered final, barring situations which the SAGA council deems exceptional.
Update: No objections received by the deadline; the credit points are now considered final
Posted by Paul Steyn as News, SAGA at 4:31 PM, No Comments »
January 6th, 2012
Final call for 2012 membership renewals
This is the final call for all SAGA members to renew their membership for 2012 as soon as possible – your 2011 memberships have expired.
You have only one week left to renew if you wish to receive the AGA Newsletter. All membership applications received after January 13th will NOT be eligible for the newsletter.
Please see the original post for more details. Details for how to renew your membership are available on the SAGA general information page (see the section: Joining SAGA/renewing your membership).
Please remember to email the membership secretary once you have paid, and mention how (or who) you paid and your current preferred email address. If paying by EFT please also email the treasurer.
Posted by Paul Steyn as Uncategorized at 3:20 PM, No Comments »
January 1st, 2012
Notice of 2012 SAGA AGM and Call for Nominations
The Annual General Meeting of the SAGA will be held on Saturday 14th April 2012 during the lunch break of the SAGA second quarter internet tournament in the South African Room on KGS. This means that the meeting will start at 14h00, unless there are second-round games still in progress, in which case the meeting will begin when those games have been concluded. The agenda will be as follows:
- Considering the 2011 minutes for acceptance.
- Receipt and consideration of the President’s report for 2011/2012
- Receipt and consideration of the Treasurer’s report for 2009
- Adoption of the Financial Statements for 2009
- Receipt and consideration of the Treasurer’s report for 2010
- Adoption of the Financial Statements for 2010
- Receipt and consideration of the Treasurer’s report for 2011
- Adoption of the Financial Statements for 2011
- Election of new council members for 2012/2013
- Matters arising
The reports and financial statements should 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 2012/2013. Paul Steyn and Lloyd Rubidge’s terms of office expire in April. Nominations must reach the secretary (secr...@saga.sagoclubs.co.za) by 3 March 2012: 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).
Posted by Steve as News, SAGA at 3:13 PM, No Comments »
December 20th, 2011
Second call for 2012 membership renewals
This is the second call for all SAGA members to renew their membership for 2012 as soon as possible – preferably before 01 January 2012. 2011 memberships will expire on 31 December.
Please see the previous post for more details. Details for how to renew your membership are available on the SAGA general information page (see the section: Joining SAGA/renewing your membership).
Please remember to email the membership secretary once you have paid, and mention how (or who) you paid and your current preferred email address. If paying by EFT please also email the treasurer.
Posted by Paul Steyn as News, SAGA at 10:56 PM, No Comments »
December 20th, 2011
Stellenbosch Club on vacation till January
The Stellenbosch Club will not be meeting any more this year. Our first meeting of next year will be on 18 Jan at 19:30 in the Neelsie.
Before then, if you are in the Stellenbosch or Somerset West areas and looking for a game, send an email to the mailing list and see if anyone is available.
Posted by Francois Van Niekerk as Stellenbosch at 5:21 PM, No Comments »
December 4th, 2011
2011 Cape Town Blitz Tournament results
Chris Welsh was the winner (on tiebreak, against Lloyd Rubidge) of the 2011 Cape Town blitz tournament
There were nine players who took part in the 2011 tournament, held on 22 November, at the usual venue of the Touch of Madness restaurant. The tournament was very informally run, with the pairing done by a combination of random draw and rough attempts to match players with the same number of wins. The odd number of players meant a bye player had to be selected each round, which further complicated matters.
The players were:
Andrew Davies 3d
Konrad Scheffler 2d
Sam Scott 2d
Chris Welsh 1d
Steve Kroon 1k
Lloyd Rubidge 1k
Francois van Niekerk 5k
Paul Steyn 7k
Rory Shea 14k
The tournament was a full handicap tournament, which meant that anyone had an equal chance to win
Round 1 saw Rory beating Andrew (no advantages for the stronger player), Lloyd beating Francois, Konrad beating Steve on time (how often does Konrad win on time?!) and Sam beating Paul, with Chris taking the bye in the first round.
Round 2 saw Andrew beating Chris, Konrad beating Rory, Francois beating Paul, Lloyd beating Sam, with Steve taking the bye. After two rounds, Lloyd and Konrad were leading with two wins each.
Round 3 saw Lloyd taking a decisive lead by beating Konrad, with Chris beating Rory, Sam beating Andrew, Francois beating Steve, and Paul taking the bye. Lloyd was now on three wins, with Francois, Chris, Konrad and Sam on two wins. (Note that the bye players got credited with a full win).
Round 4 saw Lloyd taking the bye, thus guaranteeing him a share of the title. Additionally, round 4 saw Sam beating Francois, Chris beating Konrad, Paul beating Andrew, Rory beating Steve and Lloyd taking the bye. After round 4, Lloyd was on four wins, with Chris and Sam on three wins. Since Sam had already played Lloyd, this meant Chris played Lloyd for a share of the title.
Round 5 saw some significant drama. Sam would have been hoping that Chris beat Lloyd, and that he could beat Rory, while obviously Chris would have been hoping to beat Lloyd. In the event, Chris did beat Lloyd, in that most dramatic of fashions, by a mere half point. In the event Sam was unable to overcome the enormous komi he had to give Rory. This meant that Chris and Lloyd shared the title, but since Chris beat Lloyd in the head to head match, Chris won on a tiebreak. Other results in round 5 were Francois beating Andrew and Steve beating Paul (Konrad took the bye). Andrew, the winner in 2010 and 2009, was thus last with only one win (against Chris, the tournament winner). After Chris and Lloyd, Francois, Konrad, Sam and Rory finised on the three wins and thus shared 3rd place.
For stats lovers, there were 20 matches played, with 8 won on time, 7 by points, and 5 by resign.
Posted by Chris as Cape Town, Tournaments at 10:20 PM, No Comments »
November 14th, 2011
2011 Cape Town Blitz Tournament Announcement
Players in the Western Cape are hereby notified that we will be holding our annual blitz tournament on Tuesday the 22nd of November 2011, at our usual venue of the Touch of Madness. Please make sure you get there before 8pm if you wish to play. There are no entry fees, and the only requirement to play is that you have a stable rank on the SAGA system.
Detailed rules are available, but the basic idea is that the games use
absolute time of 12 minutes per side. The games will be played with
full handicap, including 10 points of komi per handicap stones if the rank
difference exceeds 9 stones.
Can participants please bring sets and, more importantly, clocks!
Here’s the 2008 notice and results: http://www.sagoclubs.co.za/cape-town-club/cape-town-blitz/ctblitz-2008/
Posted by Chris as Announcements, Cape Town, Tournaments at 3:44 PM, No Comments »
November 7th, 2011
Stellenbosch University Computer Go Talks
There will be two complementary talks on Computer Go at Stellenbosch University’s Computer Science division this Wednesday evening (18h00-19h00). Details are at http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/colloquia/computer-go-where-are-we-now/.
Posted by Steve as Announcements, Cape Town, Events, Stellenbosch at 9:12 PM, No Comments »
November 7th, 2011
Please renew your SAGA membership for 2012
This is a call for all SAGA members to renew their membership for 2012 as soon as possible – preferably before 01 January 2012. All membership fees for 2012 have remained unchanged from 2011: R100,00 in general, but R50,00 for full time tertiary students and R20.00 for primary or secondary school pupils. Your renewed membership will be valid for the 2012 calendar year. 2011 memberships will expire on 31 December. Details for how to renew your membership are available on the SAGA general information page (see the section: Joining SAGA/renewing your membership).
New members are also welcome to join for 2012 now. Membership is required for participation in the national tournaments co-ordinated by SAGA (the SA Open, SA Closed, and the quarterly internet tournaments on KGS). Also, only members earn credit points to qualify to represent South Africa at various international tournaments. From 2012, members will hopefully also receive the members-only edition of the AGA newsletter, if they wish. To this end can all renewing their membership or applying for first time membership please email the membership secretary with their current preferred email address
Finally, we are working on updating the SAGA credit points list for 2011. In order to receive credit points for 2011, you need to have been a member in 2011. The list we are using for this purpose is the one at http://www.sagoclubs.co.za/saga/saga-membership-list/. Please check whether your name is listed as a 2011 member on this list, and contact me if you should be listed, but aren’t.
Posted by Paul Steyn as Uncategorized at 2:38 PM, No Comments »
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