AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the American Go Association
August 4, 2003
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Florida State Go Championship Orlando, FL
July 5/5, 2003
On July 5th & 6th, the Tesuji Go Club and the Go-Orlando organized the first annual Florida State Go Championship. Located at the University of Florida and hosted by the UCF Asian Student Association, organizers report that the tournament "was a great success." A representative of the Venezuelan Go Association lent the tournament an international flavor. Dan Micsa, 3d won the championship, while Gregory Geller, 2d came in second and Paul Benson, 4k was third. Ian VanSice was the top scholastic player.
AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the American Go Association
August 6, 2003
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MICSA BLAZING TRAILS IN SELF-PAIRED Action in the Self-Paired Tournament continues to be light with just 150 games played as of noon Tuesday. In fact, the three top contenders for the Dedicated award (most games played) account for nearly a third of all self-paired games. Longtime followers of this popular event won`t be surprised that 1 kyu Martin Lebl leads for Dedicated with 17 games (yesterday's E-journal mistakenly gave Lebl`s rank as 8 kyu). Lebl also leads in Sensei (14 games vs. weaker players) and Hurricane (9 wins). Lebl is tied with 3 dan Joanne Phipps for Straight Shooter: each has defeated 5 consecutive ranks.
But Lebl has dropped from the top spot as Champion, not even appearing in the top three. The current Champion is Dan Micsa 3 dan, who has won 6 more games than he has lost. Micsa also currently holds the no. 1 position for the Keith Arnold category, having beaten 7 kyu level opponents. Chelsea Dinhofer, 20 kyu, has leaped into first for the Grasshopper award, improving her provisional rank by a whopping seven stones. And Justin Chiang, 14 kyu, is the new Optimist, with his provisional rank falling two stones. Most Faithful is Hiroshi Yuyama, 3 dan, whose provisional rank has risen just 0.0312 stones. Wrapping up today's Self-Paired roundup is the current Philanthropist, 3 dan Horst Sudoff, with 9 losses.
- reported by Jeff Miller
AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the American Go Association
August 9, 2003
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Leading in the Hurricane category is Dan Micsa, 3d, with 14 total wins. Thirteen of those wins were against kyu players, giving Micsa the lead in the Keith Arnold (aka "Kyu Killer") category. Micsa also leads in the Sensei, with 22 games against weaker players.
"It was premeditated," Micsa explains."I seek them out. It's my goal, to play fast qames against kyu players. I want to teach them respect." Nipping at Micsa's heels for the Hurricane is David Frankel, 1k with 3 wins against dan level players...
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