We had great success at West Gray last week, so we're going to meet again. Same address, same time (see last blog entry).
However, because of most of our regular members are attending the Houston Go Club Spring Tournament, it is one of the rare occasions where we will not have a Sunday meeting this weekend!
I hope everyone has fun at the tournament!
Looks like we have enough interest with the people we've talked to. For all you people who just can't make it out Sunday morning, please join us at Cafe Express at 1422 W. Gray this Thursday (April 17th) at 7:30pm for an informal meeting of Go. Bring a board if you have it!
When you get there, just look for the people with the go boards :)
~Carey
After looking and seeing that Houston has 4 Go clubs listed on AGA, none of which are really active (online). While some clubs may have some internal mailing lists or phone trees, there hasn't been a single website to address all the Go players in Houston. I thought I would try to remedy that by putting up a message board for people to discuss go-related activities in the Houston area.
Check out http://careyj.com/houstongo/ . I've made four boards, one for each go club, where people can post and share ideas, etc. relating to their club, as well as a general category, where Go players from ALL of Houston can discuss anything they want.
Please pass this link on to Go players in the Houston area. It's time we start building a stronger local Go community.
(I apologize to Ziggy's members who already got my announcement through the google group and are getting this a second time)
This was just released in the AGA Go Journal, and I thought it was worth a note:
BRITS ADOPT U.S. RULES: The British Go Association officially adopted AGA rules of go at last weekend's British Go Congress at Hastings, reports BGA President Ron Bell, who was re-elected for another term. "AGA rules have two major benefits," Bell tells the E-Journal, "First, they neatly allow either the Japanese or Chinese styles of counting the score to be used. Second, the use of pass stones allows any disagreement between the players to be resolved by simply resuming play. Since the BGA Council adopted AGA rules last October, they've been used successfully in about half a dozen tournaments. We do have some members who wanted to keep the previous Japanese rule set - but the motion at the AGM to approve the change was passed with no opposition
All,
This weekend the Japanese Festival will Run, I invite whomever can go to give it a GO with GO.
The Houston Go Club will have some representatives to show the Game so stop by.
Regards,
The Staff
