David’s Go Dojo

I have taken a look at the pictures I took while at the Youth Tournament over the weekend, and I will post some highlights as they come to me, along with a link to the pictures and the gallery I have of the full photostream of the event. Gallery direct link is here, as well as off the menu at the top right of the main page. Unfortunately, the shake that you see in many of the pictures causing poor focus is a side effect of trying to hold a 9 month old squirmy toddler while snapping pictures, so sadly many of these shots plain suck. Such it is.

Two of the youngest players are shown here, playing at table two of the junior division. On the left is Hugh Zhang, and playing black on the right is Maverick Lin. These two kids are (I think) about 9 years old, certainly not much older if not close. I watched this game pretty intently during the tournament, since it was the table that was closest to my vantage point and I was amazed at the youth of the two contestants. The ending result was not a huge surprise due to the different rankings of the two players, Maverick was the sole kyu rated player in the final round. I do not know how he did overall, but I would be interesting in reviewing this final game for certain, I will post up the record with some preliminary thoughts later. Of course, my commentary is likely to be the least useful owing to the difference in my level and the level this game is played at, but perhaps the youth of the participants gives me some hope of understanding the fundamental activies and thought processes happening behind the scenes. Perhaps not

I’m here at the Youth Go Tournament, and the final game has completed, with Will going undefeated at 5-0 for the two days. In an amazing final game that felt close up to the last few moves, the penultimate match was also the longest of the final round. I have the game record saved for later analysis, and I have watched as the person recording the game replayed through the opening and gave comments to the two players afterwards. The defeated player was heard to say that at the final moment due to the method of scoring that he had thought it was his victory instead. I have many pictures, and some brief movie clips that I will upload once the final ceremony and the awards are concluded.