Brunei Team gotten 8th in 21st Asian University Go Tournament in Bangkok

*Alumni Category*

Triple Go Event
South East Asia Team: Li Ting (Front), Eileen Goh (Mid) & Chaihui (Back) vs Singapore Team

24-27th June was the 21st Thailand Asian University Go Tournament held in Silpakorn University, Bangkok. Brunei representative, Chai Hui had joined in with another two female representatives from Singapore in taking part of University Alumni Category of this event.

The event attracted 13 Asian Countries to participate along with over 300 local Thai-Students from over 50 institutions.

The event is categorized into three divisions: 1) National High-School Tournament 2) Asian University Go Tournament and 3) Alumni of Asian University Go Tournament.

Each Team comprised of three members from Alumni of Asian University Go Tournament competed 6 rounds in 3 days; Lim’s Team came out 8th out of 12th.


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Joanne Missingham appeared on Taiwan Entertainment Show!

*最強大老師*

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Joanne Missingham (黑嘉嘉) had recently attended the show MUCH “Greatest Teacher” along with other celebrities: Tai Chih-Yuan (邰智源), 張立東Daniel Chen (陳大天) competed to win cash prize of TWD10,000.

Joanne Missingham had also mentioned that this is her first appearance on Taiwanese Entertainment Show and she had a lot of fun.


 

“flowery” female professional go championship

*花樣圍棋女王戰*


The 1st “Flowery Female Professional Go Championship” 「花樣圍棋女王戰」will be held on the 27th September in Korea Baduk Association.

The event is organized by “Flowery Baduk Institution” 「花樣圍棋中心」 which was newly opened by Famel Korean Professional Players: Moon Dowon (文度媛),  Lee Da Hye (李多慧), Bae Yunjin (裴允珍) and Kim Hye Lim (金慧琳). There are 3 institutions opened for adult classes in Seoul and with the support from members, they managed to host their event.

Currently, There are only three professional Go Tournament in Korea namely the Female Pro League, Female National Touranemt and Female Meijin Tournament. Furthermore, Female National Tournament and Female Meijin Tournament uses Elimination Rules which limit the amount of serious matches for female players. Hence, the”Flowery Female Professional Go Championship” will run 4-Rounds of Swiss System during the Preliminary Rounds and  12 players will advance to Round-Robin rules in 2 groups. only two players from each group will advance to Quarter-Final. The Semi Final will be on 21st October and final will be on the 25th October, 2016.

more infor at http://news.sina.com.tw/article/20160922/18749007.html

Young Go Prodigy 7-years old

*仲邑菫 (Nakamura Sumire)*

photo credit: Ms. Kanami


more info: http://yoshiko3.exblog.jp/23494866/

Daughter of  Nakamura Shinya (仲邑信也), Nakamra Sumire-chan (仲邑菫) who has became a Go sensational topic as she possesses amateur 7-dan at the age of seven only!

During the interview, she is intending to become professional player and she loves doing tsumego!


*more pictures of little girl*

Joanne Missingham strongest female player in Taiwan!

*第二屆女子圍棋最強戰*

第二屆女子圍棋最強戰
All Participants

The 2nd Strongest Female Go Tournament” was held from the 17th of August and ended on the 26th August, 2016 with Joanne Missingham (黒嘉嘉) meeting up against Yang ZiXuan (楊子萱) in the final. Joanne Missingham who had won the 1st Strongest Female Title previous year had shown another marvelous performance in this one.

During the final match, Rin Kaiho (林海峰), O-Rissei (王立誠) and Xie-YiMin (謝依旻) had made their appearances during the commentary.

for more information please visit: http://www.haifong.org/?p=11899

to support Brunei Darussalam Go Association please join: http://www.facebook.com/groups/bruneigo



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New member of Brunei Darussalam Go Asssociation

*Zhao from China*

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Zhao who resides in Brunei

Zhao who has been learning Go at young age resides in Brunei doing business with his parents selling famous “Assam Pedas Mee” at pasar malam occasionally and others.

According to Zhao, while he was studying at Laksamana College in Brunei, he had been looking for Go Club to join but with no luck contacting the Association until recently.

The President of the Association, Ms.Lim presented the Association T-shirt as membership ceremony for Zhao’s recruitment. Zhao is apparently China 5-dan!

Richest Go Players in Japan!?

*Iyama Yuta and Hsien Yi-Min*

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7 Title-Holders Iyama Yuta (井山裕太)
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5 Title-Holders Xie Yi-Min (谢依旻)

In April, 2016, Iyama Yuta is the first player ever to hold all seven major titles simultaneously. He already already earned in over USD1 Million already.

In July, 2016, Xie Yi Min had won 1st Senko Cup (worth USD74K+) recently which entitled her the 5th Title Holders. Basically She had basically earned USD290k+ already.

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