Life In 19x19

The 2016 Pair Go World Cup will be held on July 9 and 10 in Tokyo. This is the second version of the event, after the first was held in Hangzhou in 2010.

Sixteen pairs of the world’s best male-female players will compete for the top prize of 10 million JPY. The star-studded field includes all the ...

A reminder: application for admission into the joint Iwamoto North American Foundation - Nihon Kiin Go Teachers’ Workshop will end in two weeks, on June 30.

The Workshop is intended for North American nationals with interest in implementing Go into school or university curriculum. The sponsors ...

Good suggestions.

The October time frame is the choice of Nihon Kiin, based on the availability of their team. For us, of course the summer would be preferable. Hopefully we can change that in future versions.

Likewise the workshop content is restricted by the available instructors. There are many ...

Marcel Grünauer wrote:Sounds very interesting!

Am I right in assuming that sponsorship is only available for American attendees?

Yes. For now the applications are accepted from U.S. and Canada only.

The Iwamoto North American Foundation (INAF) announced jointly with Nihon Kiin (NK) the establishment of a Go Teachers’ Workshop, to be held in Tokyo in October. The Workshop is intended for people with interest in implementing Go into school or university curriculum. The sponsors will cover most of ...

At the 36th World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) this year, Pandanet will broadcast up to seven games live each round. The venue this year is at the beautiful Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, see http://www.montien-riverside.com/ . The games will be broadcast from June 7 ...

Sorry to say, but this looks very suspicious.

Why is the form asking to enter Igs password? It's a very bad security practice, if this is not a phishing attack all together.
Not an unreasonable suspicion. You really need to know more about Pandanet and me to be assured of the security. Feel free ...

The 13th World Students Go Oza Championship will be held from Feb 23 to 27, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan.
16 students from around the world will come together in Japan to decide the world’s number one student player.

To select the 16 finalists, we are going to have an online preliminary round on Pandanet ...

SportAccord just released the following:

SportAccord set to launch the biggest ever World Mind Games online tournament

Ahead of the 4th edition of the SportAccord World Mind Games organized in Beijing on December 11-17, 2014, SportAccord in partnership with RSportz, the community-based global ...

A traditionally-sized 19x19 board has 42 squares on it, which is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Oh, absolutely!

In addition, I-ching says that the Go Board emulates the universe and its movement replicates the cycle of life. "Tengen" is the dome in the sky, the four corners ...

Is this only for strong players? or should kyu players join as well?
Check out the website. There are four divisions, the main division is for players 3d and up, then divisions A through C are for progressively lower-ranked players. Anyone can play, provided you first obtain a firm Pandanet ...

Registration for the 2014 SportAccord-Pandanet Online Tournament has started! See m for details. This tournament is organized by Pandanet with cooperation from the International Go Federation and SportAccord. Parallel tournaments for Chess and Bridge will also be held. Registration ends September 15 ...

The Chess line up looks impressive
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and it seems confirmed here that xiangqi is going to be part of the games.
That's a different event - the SportAccord World Mind Games (SAWMG or just WMG). It is an annual invitational tournament, not the quadrennial Olympic-style WMSG. (The names are confusing ...

I saw recently that the prospect of the next World Mind Sports Games being held in Brazil had vanished. Baku in Azerbaijan was touted as a candidate replacement. Does anyone know any more gossip on this topic. I wondered if it had anything to do with the break up of the contract between the IMSA ...

Asked if anyone knew how to get Pandanet t-shirts in the funny t thread where drmwc indicated that most probably the only way is to either participate in a Pandanet tournament or talk someone who has one out of theirs. Figure the chances of my finding someone with a small t and talking my way into ...