Friendship Go Tournamen 2009

The CGA will organise a tournament as part of the 2009 Friendship Tournament of SPE Strovolou. The 2009 Friendship Go Tournament will take place on the weekend 21-22 March 2009.

Cyprus Go Blog

The Cyprus Go Association blog got it's own place under the CGA new domain. You can now visit the blog directly at http://blog.cyprus-go.org.

New web site

The Cyprus Go Association has a new domain registered, as the old site was deleted by the provider without notice.

You will now find us at http://www.cyprus-go.org

Dasoupoli Go Club Tournament

The Dasoupoli Lyceum Go club is organising its first tournament on 10-11 November 2007. For more details please contact the organiser, Dimitris Regginos at regginos@gmail.com.

Cyprus Go Championship

The Cyprus Go Championship has been scheduled for 8-9 December 2007. More details will be posted soon.

Lee Changho loses No.1 position in Korean Rating List

As reported by Alexandre Dinerchtein in Goama #42, Lee Changho, 9-dan lost his No. 1 position in Korean Rating list.

The current list is:
1. Lee Sedol, 9-dan 20,466
2. Lee Changho, 9-dan 20,179
3. Choi Chelhan, 9-dan 17,465
4. Park Yeunhun, 9-dan 16,176
5. Cho Hanseung, 9-dan 15,499
6. Park Cheongsang, 9-dan 15,396
7. Ko Gunte, 5-dan 13,832
8. An Joyoung, 9-dan 13,798
9. Weon Songjin, 7-dan 13,795
10. Lee Younkyu, 6-dan 13,686

The largest changes:
Yoo Changhyuk, 9-dan went 4 places down, from 15th to 19th place
Mok Chinseok, 9-dan improved his position from 18th to 15th place
Hong Minpyo, 5-dan also improved his standing a lot, from 24th to 21st place

Note: Goama is a nice Go newsletter, and one can register for free at http://www.gogame.info.

Goama Newsletter as a good source of Go info

We would like to recommend you to subscribe to the Goama newsletter, which is put together by 1-dan professional player Alexandre Dinerchtein. You may find the relevant information and register at http://www.gogame.info.

Test your strength

Alexandre Dinerchtein (1p), has devised a series of Go problems as a test to measure your strength. You can find this test at http://play.baduk.org. You are encouraged to try this out and to share your results with the other Cypriot Go players.

International Pair Go Championship

Maria Leonidou and Nicholas Roussos will represent Cyprus in the 17th International Pair Go Championship to take place in Tokyo, Japan (http://www.pairgo.or.jp/amateur/index_e.htm).

We wish them to enjoy the trip and the games. Many thanks to the International Go Federation, the International Pair Go Association, and the sponsors: the Japan Airlines, Hitachi and East Japan Railway.