Life In 19x19

Are there many Go players and tournaments in Australian? It's closer to Asian, so maybe have some geographic advantage?

Some hundreds who turn up to tournaments, according to records. Under a dozen clubs, scattered across three time zones. About a dozen tournaments.

My personal theory is that there's thousands of go players in Australia, they just all play on the internet, 'cos finding another person to play IRL is so hard.

'cos finding another person to play IRL is so hard.

just compared the population density of Australia and The Netherlands

the Netherlands has a population density which is around 150 times higer then that of Australia
(400 people/km^2 compared to 2.7 people/km^2)

No-one lives in most of Oz though, right ? Giant heatstrokey cancer-curing-tree-y fly-filled desert ?

Loons wrote:No-one lives in most of Oz though, right ? Giant heatstrokey cancer-curing-tree-y fly-filled desert ?

Flies? I wish. Mosquitoes. We keep the cancer-curing trees on the northern coastal rainforests, where it is convenient to cut them down for hardwood timber.

Giant heatstrokey cancer-curing-tree-y fly-filled desert ?

But we have those too it's called "zandverstuiving" (they aren't really desert)
Thing is they only cover 1400ha (5.5 sq mi) That is even more a lot more than 150 times smaller compared to the Australian desert (529,000 sq mi).

There isn't any Australian Go Congress, as big as European or US one? With pros from CJK countries?

kokomi wrote:There isn't any Australian Go Congress, as big as European or US one? With pros from CJK countries?

There is a tiny little national championship, with one or two professionals, whom we have to ship in specially.

with one or two professionals, whom we have to ship in specially.

I thought that the Aussies had their verry own pro. At least that is what I read yesterday on their AGA homepage.

AGA Home page wrote:First Australian citizen qualifies as go professional

Or does she not live in Australia?

freegame wrote:

with one or two professionals, whom we have to ship in specially.

I thought that the Aussies had their verry own pro. At least that is what I read yesterday on their AGA homepage.

AGA Home page wrote:First Australian citizen qualifies as go professional

Or does she not live in Australia?

You mean JOANNE MISSINGHAM ?

freegame wrote:Or does she not live in Australia?

San Fransisco, last I heard. No-one here was qualified to teach her, except Younggil An 8p, who is swamped.