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January 30th, 2007

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Impromptu short notice Stellenbosch go meeting tonight from 19h00

This week sees a conference held by the Maths department of
Stellenbosch University. 5 of the attendees are Japanese,
and they all are interested in playing Go, with at least one
of them being dan-level. Tonight is the only evening they
are available, so everyone who’s interested, please show up!

Hopefully we’ll be able to provide these visitors with a
good Go playing experience in South Africa, and perhaps get
a good game from them as well. To help accomodate this, the
idea is that the players from Cape Town who can, will come
through to Stellenbosch for their Tuesday night meeting.
This should swell the numbers a little, as well. Please
bring a Go set along if you have one. We will be meeting
from 19h00.

Posted by Steve as Cape Town, News, Stellenbosch at 10:01 AM, 1 Comment »

January 25th, 2007

2006 WAGC Points

The Credit points as at the end of 2006 are available for download as wagc-2006-points-20061231.csv. The individual record sheets are in recordsheets_20061231.zip. Please check your points and get back to me before 15 February 2007 if there are problems. After that date, the points will be assumed to be correct. Note that the deadline for changing points for the top two positions is 2 February 2007, since the deadline for submitting the WAGC representative is 10 February 2007.

Andries Kruger

Posted by akruger as SAGA at 3:53 PM, No Comments »

January 24th, 2007

Ben promoted

Congratulations to Ben Bredenkamp, who was promoted to 11 kyu after last night’s games at the Joburg club, where he was visiting.

Posted by Steve as Rank Changes, Stellenbosch at 10:33 AM, 1 Comment »

January 23rd, 2007

Upgrade

Hi folks.

The website has been upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 and the wiki has been upgraded to Mediawiki 1.9.1. If you encounter any unexpected behaviour let me know.

Oh yes, and the arrows on the menu are back – thanks to Jaco for his patience in helping me get that working again!

Posted by Steve as Announcements at 9:46 AM, No Comments »

January 23rd, 2007

Adrian’s stepfather passes away

This Sunday, Adrian Thom’s stepfather, Bernard passed away at home. It is not confirmed, but it seems the cause of death may well have been a heart attack. Adrian is a regular and active member of the Stellenbosch club, and Bernard was well known to most members of the club, since he was employed at Jeff’s Place, right next to the club’s meeting place in the Neelsie.

Bernard’s loss leaves a huge void in the lives of Adrian and his mother Wynandia, as well as his other family members. Please carry them in your thoughts and prayers.

The funeral will take place in Stellenbosch on Saturday, 27 January. If you would like more information, please e-mail me.

Posted by Steve as News, Stellenbosch at 9:06 AM, No Comments »

January 17th, 2007

Snap enabled

Please note that I’ve enabled Snap preview anywhere on this website today. This means that, by hovering on an external link, you will be able to see a snapshot of that website without following the link. This may help you decide if you want to follow the link or not.

If you don’t want to see the snapshots, you can disable them, either for this site, or for all sites, by clicking on the “option” link which appears in the window which pops up with the preview, and clicking on the relevant disable command.

Posted by Steve as Announcements at 8:15 AM, 1 Comment »

January 16th, 2007

A themed problem collection from GoGoD

The GoGoD team’s New In Go column recently released an interesting themed collection of problems. The solution to these full board problems, all from pro games, are all of the same nature. The challenge is to try find the common theme among the problems, and of course the individual solutions.

Posted by Steve as Links at 11:00 AM, No Comments »

January 12th, 2007

Jaco promoted

Jaco Swanepoel beat Rory last night at the Stellenbosch club, giving him a long-awaited and well-deserved promotion to 3 kyu. 4 kyu has been quite a barrier for Jaco, with the difficulty confounded by a number of games lost on time from a winning position.

Congratulations Jaco!

Posted by Steve as Rank Changes, Stellenbosch at 7:29 AM, 2 Comments »

January 11th, 2007

SAGA SA Open Championship 2007 notice

The SA Open 2007 will be held on the 24/25th of February 2007. It will be hosted by the Soweto Go Club, and the tournament directors will be Andre Connell from SAGA and Sipho Mampe from the Soweto Club.

If you live in Gauteng and could help host travelling players, please let me know. Also if you are planning on travelling up for the tournament from the Cape or Natal, let me know if you will require accomodation. I’ll see what I can organise.

I can be contacted at aconnell (at) cinet (dot) co (dot) za

Posted by Andre as News, SAGA, Tournaments at 2:06 PM, No Comments »

January 9th, 2007

Go-test on play.baduk.org

Alexander “Breakfast” Dinerchtein, the Russian who made it to 1-dan pro at the Korean Go institute, has been quite busy with popularising Go lately.

Besides the Goama newsletter, which he is editor of, featuring commented games, discussion of josekis and trick plays, interviews with pros, occasional quizzes, and more, Alex has recently made a webpage which allows one to get an idea of one’s strength.

Do the test here (take your time). The ranks given seem generally to be a bit inflated. See the bottom of the linked page on the results page to see how your results match up with European and American ranks.

Posted by Steve as Links, Pro News at 3:05 PM, 1 Comment »

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