Life In 19x19

Surprise! Google is celebrating Shusaku's birthday instead. http://www.google.com/doodles/honinbo-s ... h-birthday

Go Seigen's 100th birthday is a week from today! (June 12) Seems like somebody somewhere should be making a big deal of this. Any plans?

Or maybe according to Chinese and Japanese counting he's already 100? I'm not sure.

Another food idea: Chinatown has some of the best you'll ever eat at criminally low prices. It's 15 minutes from the hotel by subway, less by taxi.

Re kids at the Congress - of course you don't let young kids wander around NYC unsupervised. But Paul Barchilon tells me, "The Youth Room is open from 1 pm to 5:30 pm every afternoon at the go congress. There are different fun activities every day, from 9x9 tourneys, to lightning Go, Pair Go, and ...

Oh, and I'm sure that this place will appeal to some go players! http://momath.org/

The fears of having to eat at McDonalds are making me laugh. New York City has a greater variety of good food at all price points than anywhere else in the world. I guarantee you will eat better than you do at home. No way you would want to be locked into a cafeteria!

Specifically, the best thing ...