Outreach, events, writings, and library collection

This page highlights Go-related outreach projects and events, past or present, in which our club has taken part, and also features writings or activities sponsored by our members. In addition, this page provides a link to our club's growing library of Go books. Many of the writing pieces were originally published in the American Go Association's E-journal, which you can receive for free if you subscribe here!

Travels

Playing Go in China: Visiting the Hangzhou Qi-Yuan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China, with Feng Yun's 2007 Summer Go Camp (June 23 - July 1, 2007)

Outreach

2008 Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia (Sunday, April 13, 2008, Horticulture Center, Fairmount Park)

2007 Celebrate Japan! Festival (Saturday, September 29, 2007, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South Street, 11:00 - 4:00 p.m.)

2007 Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia (Sunday, April 15, 2007, Horticulture Center, Fairmount Park)

Teaching Go at the Guang Hua Chinese School (a weekend Chinese school for children at Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA)

2006 Celebrate Japan! Festival (Saturday, October 7, 2006, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South Street, 11:00 - 4:00 p.m.)

2006 Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia (Sunday, April 9, 2006, Horticulture Center, Fairmount Park)

Printable 9x9 board with basic rules of play on reverse (pdf file) (May 2006)

Events

2008 Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Tournament (Sunday, March 30, 2008)

2007 Philadelphia Fall Open (Saturday & Sunday, September 22 & 23, 2007)

2006 Philadelphia Fall Open (Sunday, December 10, 2006)

Penn Go visits Feng Yun! (Saturday, February 4, 2006)

2005 Philadelphia Fall Open (Sunday, December 3, 2005)

Writings

Peter's interview with Rob Van Zeijst, 7d (pdf) (originally published in the American Go Association E-journal, September 2, 2005)

Playing Go at Ben's Cafe, Takadanobaba, Tokyo, Japan (originally published in the AGA E-journal, November 14, 2005)

Visiting Jakkoji Temple, home and burial site of Honinbo Donsaku (1st Honinbo), Kyoto, Japan (Summer 2005)

Visiting Honinbo Shusaku's Gravesite, Innoshima Island, Japan (Summer 2005)

10 Tips on How to Annoy the Stronger Player, by Barry "Baka-san" P., 500 kyu (originally published, in an abridged format, in the AGA E-journal, December 5, 2005)

Book review: Basic Techniques of Go, by Haruyama Isamu, 9-dan and Nagahara Yoshiaki, 6-dan (originally published in the AGA E-journal, June 10, 2005)

Book review: Reducing Territorial Frameworks, by Fujisawa Shuko, 9-dan and Aiba Kazuhiro. (originally published in the AGA E-journal, May 12, 2006)

Library Collection

The Penn Go Society maintains an ever-growing collection of Go books, which are available for loan to all of our members.
Please click here to see what titles we possess.

Any questions? Please email co-organizers Peter Nassar at pnassar@vet.upenn.edu or Matt Bengtson at matt@mattbengtson.com.