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Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/houston-go-club-2026-fall-tournament-tickets-1997565504196

Six round, two day GO tournament for members of the American Go Association. Also called baduk, weiqi, or igo.

NEW QUIET VENUE: This year's tournament will be held in the library of the Chinese Community Center of Houston Texas. (Room 236)

Tournament will occur over two days. 9 am to 6 pm both days.

Games will be played using American Go Association (AGA) rules with Fischer Timing. Base time will be 30 minutes. Ten seconds will be added each move. Clocks, boards, and stones will be provided.

Players must be members of the American Go Association. First time new members can obtain a 50% discount by using the DISCOUNT CODE: NEWHOGC. Please affiliate your membership with the Houston Go Club. You can check your AGA rating and membership number here:

https://www.usgo.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=454497&module_id=550340

There will be two sections; an Open Section (games played without handicap stones) and a Handicap Section. Players of any strength can enter either section.

Competition prizes will be provided to the player with the best record among all high dan, low dan, single digit kyu, and double digit kyu players.

Competition Prizes:

High Dan: Japanese Shell and Slate Go Stones, Size 25, 7 mm thick, Tsuki (Moon) Grade. See photographs of this prize: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iz5U0qdrnoWePH-h5D9h_Lyi8BRBFkna?usp=sharing

Low Dan: $200

Single Digit Kyu: $150

Double Digit Kyu: $100

Door Prizes:

The following additional prizes will be provided to participants through a random drawing. Must be present to win.

One Hour Go Class By Closssius (Shawn Ray) (3 Available)

Other prizes to be added soon.

I see the obvious moves to claim some pieces. Black hasn’t blocked either one so I’m curious to know if there are other better plays I’m missing.

EDIT:

Thanks for the feedback, we’ll see how things play out. I went with taking the two black stones then will start working on the bottom corners.

This is my first 13x13 game so I will take advantage of the additional space by putting pressure on other areas.

I wish that one comment wasn’t deleted lol it was helpful.

Hey everyone. I picked up go yesterday and learn the basic rules of how to play. Before trying some games online I decided to play against some easy bots. I decided to go with the bots on https://gomagic.org/play-go/ where the first player to capture a piece wins. Things were okay on the level 1 bot but I can't beat the level 2 bot.

Something that keeps on happening is that the bot forces me to escape to the edge of the board where I eventually have no more liberties and it captures all my pieces.

What do I do? I know that this is probably the newbiest question of all time but this seems unstoppable.

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I’m not very good at life and death problems but I just cannot figure out how black here captures. The puzzle says correct but I only see options:
N14 (black), M15
Then a net on L14 but white can play O14 and black cannot save those stones. Without the net black can start a ladder (M14, K15, L15) going to bottom left but since we don’t know what is there that doesn’t sound like a good solution. There must be something I don’t see.

Solved - it is the ladder and assuming empty board.

beginner player