Where & WhenWednesdays 5-8 pm
MCJ434, Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
SPECIAL PARKING
Courtesy of NPCC (Niagara Peninsula Children's Centre)
Wednesdays 5-8pm
567 Glenridge Ave.
When Go Club is in session.
CONTACT:
President:
Justin Grossman
jg10is (at) brocku.ca
Co-Organizer
Thomas Wolf
twolf (at) brocku.ca
Mackenzie Chown J413
Office: 905-688-5550 ext. 3803
Home: 905-680-0575
News8. Aug 2010
At the US Go Congress 2010 Oliver won the match for the Junior
Redmond Cup 2010 (link to the games)
and became 2nd in the 2-Dan section of the US Open. A note shall
appear soon on the
Redmond Cup
home page.
Our former Club president John Dew, now founder of the Newmarket Go Club,
also scored 5 wins in 6 games in the US Open.
A report about the trip (in German) is available
here.
28. July 2010
Oliver was invited to play at the 10. Korean Life Insurance Cup where 288
children under 12 years old participated. He became 16th among 64 players
in group 3. He had a great time when being allowed to play in a simultaneous game
against the probably most famous Korean player
Cho Hun Hyeon .
Pictures and a tournament report are under
1,
2,
3.
(As one of very few with blond hair he is easy to spot in the background of
some of the pictures.)
3. June 2010
Today was the crucial face off
between the German Bundesliga
team "Slaughterlake" (currently league 4) in which Oliver plays
on board 4 against the team "Steinfuchs Rhein-Main1" (currently
league 3). As "Steinfuchs Rhein-Main1" won that match (results on
"Berlin Slaughterlake")
both teams will stay in their leagues next year. One of Oliver's
Bundesliga games in the past season (played as bsl4 against Bremen04
on 11 March 2010, see archive of KGS) was discussed in detail
by Franz-Josef Dickhut (fj[7d] on KGS) in the "Deutsche Go
Zeitung" no 2, 2010, p. 27-30.
1. June 2010
Oliver won the Internet
pre-selection tournament of the Junior Redmond Cup 2010 which
is open to players under 12 years old from the USA, Canada and
Mexico. He now has to play a best 2 of 3 match against 2nd
place Henry Zhang at the US Go Congress 2010 in Colorado Springs to
win the title.
24. April 2010
This years High School & University
Go Tournament was organized by our Brock Go Club President Nelson
Ing and by Jeffrey Fung (Toronto). It was held at the Chinese Cultural
Center in Toronto. We had 2 teams from Brock taking part reaching
places 4 and 5.
3-4. March 2010
This years European Youth Goe Championship (EYGC) 2010 was held in
Sibiu/Romania on the weekend of 4-7 March. Oliver participated in the
'Under 12' tournament and reached a 4th place. One week later he played
in the German Youth Go Championship (under 18) and reached a 6th place.
Here is a report on this trip.
5. Nov 2009
Our club member Oliver Wolf plays in 2 leagues. One is the
Canadian Go Association League
which is strongly recommended for anyone to take part. Oliver
is currently in group A6 and got promoted to 1 Dan end of October,
congratulations!
The other league is the German Bundesliga where he
plays for the team
"Berlin Slaughterlake"
(team members)
which started last year in the lowest league 5 and was able to
become second winner of over 20 teams and thus to move up and play
in league 4 (A) this year. So far (5 Nov 09) Oliver playing on
board 4 won all games (all against 1 and 2 Dan).
1. Nov 2009
A small team from our Brock GO Club took part in the
Laurier Goban's
1st Annual Fall Go Tournament . Two of our games played there
even made it as a video into
EuroGoTV. One video shows Oliver giving 9 stones handi and winning
after 19 min with 80 points.
9. Sep 2009:
Following the advertisement for our club on the Brock Club Fair on Tuesday 8.Sep.
and Wednesday 9.Sep. we will have our first club evening
in the coming academic year on the same day, Wed 9. Sep, 5pm
at the usual place.
3. Aug 2009:
Go tournament at his home.
27.June-24.July:
Thomas and Oliver went to the
Feng Yun Summer Go Workshop in Shantou/China.
July-August:
We are on summer break.
16. Apr 2009:
With the end of term we for now will meet only Wednesdays not Thursdays. That might
change in the fall depending on demand.
11-12. Apr 2009:
We were represented at the
Rochester 2009 spring tournament, and got one of the generously
provided random prices.
8. Apr 2009:
Thomas gave computer go talks at workshops at the Univ. of Oklahoma and at
Menlo Park/California (Feb 2009).
28. Feb 2009:
Five of us participated in the
2008/09 High School & University Go Tournament. As this was a
no-handicap tournament with only 3 players in a team we did not too
well, as our strength is to have a good mid field with about 5
players in the 2-5kyu range. But it was fun.
14. Jan 2009:
We are grateful to our club member Joyce Rustenburg for another generous donation!
11. Jan 2009:
Oliver takes part in the 2009 CGA Winter Cup and had his first game as
sinsai (Black) against Ram 3k (White) on KGS.
25-26. Oct 2008:
Peter, John, Kelly, Oliver and Thomas went to Toronto to take part
in the Toronto Open.
23. Oct 2008:
This is the first
day that Oliver plays for a go-team from Berlin/Germany
(bsl1..bsl4 on KGS) in this seasons (Sep 2008 - May 2009)
in the "Bundesliga 5" - a nationwide Go league
in Germany. Good luck!
16. Oct 2008:
Today was the first
day that our club run on a second day of the week - from now on
not only on Wednesdays but also on Thursdays.
15. Oct 2008:
We got 6 new go
books for our club library. Please check them out!
6. Oct 2008:
We are grateful to
our club member Joyce Rustenburg who made a generous financial
donation to our club. That will take care of the hot chocolate
to be served during club time for the next months :) . Thank you,
Joyce!
14. Sep 2008:
Peter hosts a small
tournament at his home.
10. Sep 2008:
With the start of the new
academic year we also resume playing in our club.
30. Aug - 1. Sep 2008:
John took part
in the Canadian Open in Quebec City on the occasion of its 400th
anniversary.
July 2008:
Thomas' Go book
"Mastering Ladders" went in press and is available from
"Slate & Shell".
5-12. July 2008:
Oliver took part
for one week in the Feng Yun Summer Go Workshop in New Jersey.
5. Apr 2008:
Five of us
(John, Graham, Kelly, Oliver and Thomas) drove to Rochester this
weekend and took part in the 'Empty Sky Go Tournament'.
We even got a couple of prices including a nice go board
from bamboo wood which is now in use in our club.
24. Nov 2007:
Peter McMain, John Dew,
Thomas + Oliver Wolf (starting as 3,3,7,8 kyu) took part as
Brock University team in the 'High School & University Go Tournament
2007' at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus
(http://hsu.ahed.ca/). From 8 teams
we took 3rd place. Winner was University of Toronto at Scarborough
team A. In parallel there was also
an open tournament with separate games to which games of the team
tournament contributed. With a win/loss ratio of 3:1 for John, Thomas
and Oliver and 2:2 for Peter in category B (1-9 kyu), John became
overall winner and Thomas was 4th in this group. Other groups were
Group A: 6 dan - 1 dan, Group C: 10 kyu - 19 kyu and
Group D: 20 kyu - 30 kyu.
20-21. Oct 2007:Four of us (John Dew, Graham Sharp, Thomas + Oliver Wolf) drove to Rochester this weekend and took part in the 'Third Annual Greg Lefler Memorial Tournament' (http://www.emptysky.org/tourn.html). Thomas became second in the low kyu category.
12 Sep 2007:
The first playing
evening in the new academic year. On Thursday we had a stand at the
Brock Club Fair and 13 new students signed up!
18 Apr 2007:
Until further
notice we continue playing Go each Wed also after end of term. On this
day Thomas will be away but Sylvie and Beate will take over.
28 Feb 2007:
Normal play
scheduled.
21 Feb 2007:
This week we will
not play as Thomas and Sylvie are both away.
14 Feb 2007:
We will play
tonight despite of the heavy snow fall :)
7 Feb 2007:
We welcome
Jiangnan Fan, a 2 Dan from Niagara Falls who had already last week
interesting games with some of us.
About UsThe rules are simple and can be learned in 15 minutes, but the depth and strategy of the game is unsurpassed. Children of all ages have shown that they can compete with adults who have been playing for years, so anyone has a chance at being a good Go player.
We have many different levels of players in the Brock Go Club, from beginners with a few weeks experience, to those who have been playing for over 20 years. Go is a game where amateurs and experienced players can sit down and still have a really close game against each other.
We welcome all players and age groups for our weekly meetings. Currently scheduled for Wednesday from 5-8pm at Brock University MC J-Block Room 434. However this time and day is flexible based on when the majority of people are available to play. So dont be discouraged if you cannot make this time.
Since Sep 2006 we teach Go to children ages 5 and older. This is scheduled for Wednesdays from 5:00-7pm in MCJ434. We would also like to thank the Niagara Peninsula Children's Centre for offering us free parking during our meetings.
Hints for Beginners:
- Start by visiting, reading and going through http://playgo.to/interactive
- When you know the rules and got some experiences after a number of games you can visit the online server http://www.gokgs.com and study more introductory material and/or play online 24/7 against hundreds of people or watch games and read comments other observers of games make or make your own comments.
- A complete overview about Go and all its faces is given at http://senseis.xmp.net
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