AMERICAN GO E-JOURNAL: News from the
American Go Association
August 4, 2003
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Orlando, FL
Florida State Go Championship
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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