Life In 19x19

The Shogi variant is "Dōbutsu shōgi" and is commercially available (maybe also in your region) - more in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dbutsu_sh%C5%8Dgi

For the Go variant I think that 9×9 and bigger stones is better for the kids.

I am finishing off the draft of my Segoe book. A few extra details would be nice.
2. In a separate case, a Peter Schnell is mentioned. I gather he declined to play in the European Championship in 1960, won by Guenther Ciessow. I'd like confirmation of the name Schnell (Snell?; a 3-dan in Darmstadt ...

Hello,

we have equipment from different sources including from 6brothers. Buying directly in Asia means to handle the customs yourself and pay higher shipping costs and import taxes.

That's why most of our equipment is bought in Europe, because that's easier and gives us more time to organize Go ...

an enthusiastic German passenger

His name was something like Stanbach (Sutanbakku)

The German Go Magazine (Go-Blatt) started in 1952 after World War 2.

Noone of the names in the list of Go players (December 1952) started with "Ste" oder "Sta", also no article about this person/journey in 1952 ...

artem.kachanovskyi wrote:Updates on the European Go Journal will not be published here anymore - maybe only some really big news.

And of course, you can read and subscribe here
https://eurogojournal.com/

Subscribe and support a Go project in Ukraine.

Looking forward to 64th Go Congress https://egc2022.ro/ - there is still a world outside the US

And I hope that both congresses will help to spread friendship between different cultures.

I'm beginning to wonder whether Fischer timing or byo'yomi are really necessary in standard tournaments of Go,

. . . Because you can use absolute timing, absolutely.
There are a few tournaments with absolute timing. I'm a tournament organizer - and I do not use absolute timing, because Go is a ...

John Fairbairn wrote:Cho Hun-hyeon … the report highlights five areas that need attention.

Thank you for the posting and the translation. Is this report public available?

greetings from Germany

Wilhelm

Pashley wrote:then suggested 9 stones with free placement for the second.

Free placement is common with Chinese rules, see more on https://senseis.xmp.net/?FreeHandicap

The French go Federation …

In the 11k-30k range, only resets by 4 levels or more are allowed.

two points.

It is sad, that it's different from the European rule (that allows 2 stones).

But having Sandbaggers by design means, that people who do not like sandbagging, will not join the tournament ...

The final results are also here in the EGD https://europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Tourn ... y=T210115A

Dear go community,
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The first edition of the journal (February 2021) is available free of charge. You can find more information, including the link to the first edition, in the article on the EGF website: https://eurogofed.org/index.html?id=308

Thank you, Artem, for the initiative!

I ordered ...

Offical status as of 20th January 2021 from EGF https://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=306
The organizers of the next congress in Kamianets-Podilskyi Ukraine are positive that they can hold the event this year.


Offical status as of 6th March 2021 from homepage https://egc2020.org.ua/
Given the ...

It is absolutely vital that this officer would have a proper sense of priorities: facilities and securing patronage. ...

Obviously no-one is going to toss money into an open pit, so an achievable business plan, with specific goals and not the waffle I have seen so far, is needed.

But I'm sure ...

and now it is realeased https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13364846/