18 Feb 2020
Here is a short report about our 10th tournament with lots of pictures.
16 Feb 2020
Our club invites everyone to our 10th Anniversary Brock Go tournament.
We are grateful for sponsorship from the Confucius Institute at Brock University!
7 March 2019
Here is a short report about our 9th tournament.
2 March 2019
Our club invites everyone to our 9th Brock Go tournament.
We are grateful for sponsorship from Licaliva International Weiqi (Go) Club, Toronto and
the Confucius Institute at Brock University.
4 March 2018
Here is a short report about our 8th tournament.
3 March 2018
Our club invites everyone to our 8th Brock Go tournament
22 Feb 2018
We are grateful for a donation from LICALIVA International Design Inc. Canada in support of our 8th Brock Go Tournament brought to us by Feng Li (on left).
25 Feb 2017
Here is a short report about our 7th tournament.
25 Feb 2017
Our club invites everyone to our 7th Brock Go tournament
5 March 2016
Here is a short report about our 6th tournament.
5 March 2016
Our club invites everyone to our 6th Brock Go tournament
26-28 Sep 2015
Oliver participated in the Inaugural American Chang Qi Tournament which was
held on 26-28 Sept at Harvard University, Cambridge, in parallel to the
2015 Chinese Chang Qi Cup Semi-finals.
(For the first time in history, the semi-finals of an Asian professional Go
tournament (China's Chang Qi Cup) will be held on U.S. soil.)
Oliver won all of his 4 games and won the 3rd Division which was
the group of 5-Dan players. The American Go E-Journal published a number of
reports.
10 Aug 2015
Our player Oliver Wolf participated in the
2015 US Go Congress in
St Paul and reached a 2nd place in the 5 Dan section of the
US Open tournament.
21 July 2015
On one evening of this years Brock Math Camp we had a
session introducing the Go game with games played afterwards. The BUSU sponsored wooden easel
holding our big magnetic board was very useful.
8 Apr 2015
We thank our former president Justin Grossmann for running our club for the last three years. Best wishes!
8 Apr 2015
Thanks go to the Brock Student Union for purchasing a nice wooden easel to hold our big magnetic board.
1 March 2015
Here is a short report about our 5th tournament.
28 Feb 2015
Our club invites everyone to our 5th Brock Go tournament
7 Mar 2015
We ended up with a
4th place in season 4 of the
northamerican Collegiate Go League.
7 Feb 2015
For the the last years our club participates in the northamerican
Collegiate Go League.
This is a friendly league with handicap given. Through a few recent wins,
last week against Princeton, we currently lead this league.
31 Jan 2015
As board 2 of the german national youth Go team, Oliver won 2nd place with his team in the
European Youth Go Team Championship 2014/15.
March ... Aug 2014
After participating in the
European Youth Go tournament in Bognor Regis (UK)
28. Feb - 3. March 2014 and the
German Youth Go championship in Jena/Germany
15.-16. March, Oliver got invited to the
31st World Youth Goe Championship from
13.-19. Aug in Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia where
he reach a 5th place after China, Korea, Japan and Chinese Taipei.
30 March 2014
Here is a short report about our 4th tournament.
14 Feb 2014
Our club invites everyone to our 4th Brock Go tournament
17 March 2013
Here is a short report about our 3rd tournament.
15 Feb 2013
Our club invites everyone to our 3rd Brock Go tournament
9 Feb 2013
Oliver (AGA 3.5 Dan) was invited to play in the Canadian youth team against the youth team
of the US in an annual friendship match. Oliver won against Vincent Zhuang (AGA 6.4 Dan).
In the match the US won the first 3 games that were completed but Canada won the next 3 games
and because Canada won at board 1 which is the tiebreak, Canada also won the whole match. (See
AGA news letter and
individual results of the match.
22 Sep 2012
Our club plays for the second year in the Collegiate Go League.
With two more matches to go, Brock is at
place 2 (Feb 2013).
5 Sep 2012
Organized by Justin and helped by John we were well represented with a stand
and our large magnetic Go-board at the Brock Club fair held each year at the start of the new academic year.
Thus, our first club evening was well visited with about 20 students in total.
5 Sep 2012
The Brock Weiqi (Go) Club and the
Brock Confucius Institute
discussed how to support each other in the coming year. Our contribution will be
to run a course or sessions to introduce Weiqi in Chinese culture courses.
4 Aug 2012
Thomas gave a talk at the 2012 International Go Symposium (Black Mountain, North Carolina)
video file ,
pdf file
21 July - 4 Aug 2012
In the 2012 European Open (Bonn/Germany) Oliver participated and achieved a
57th place
out of 608 and was 12th from Germany. He also won the
children tournament.
Congratulations! A highlight for him was a game against
Nie Weiping.
2 - 13 July
Oliver participated in a 2-week Feng Yun summer camp.
29 June - 2 July 2012
A few members of our club participated in the
2012 Canadian Go Open in Ottawa.
12 April 2012
Here is a short report about our tournament.
April 2012
At the Niagara Science Fair held on March 25, Oliver obtained a Bronze Medal
in the Juvinile group for his project "Semeai Against Common Sense" describing the
analysis of optimal play in semeai positions in Go with approach moves.
25 March 2012
Our club invites everyone to our 2nd Brock Go tournament
3 March 2012
Since this week our club is member of the
American Collegiate Go Association.
Today, 2 days later, we had the first match in their league. Brock won against
Cornell with 3:2 through wins on boards 1 (Oliver Wolf), 2
(John Dew) and 3 (Chris Gaudaur). That gave us an article in the
Brock News.
4 Feb 2012
Five of our club members went to Waterloo to take part in the U of Waterloo Go tournament
and had a good day.
1 Jan 2012
Over XMAS an article on semeai with approach moves was written
by Thomas. pdf file
12,13 Nov 2011
In the
Young Lions Tournament 2011 Oliver Wolf reached 2nd place.
30 July - 7 Aug 2011
At the 2011 US GO Congress in Santa Barbara, Oliver won the 3 Dan
Section and was 2nd in the Die Hard tournament.
25, 26. Juni 2011
At the German Youth Go Championship U18 held in Darmstadt (Germany)
Oliver tied for 2nd place with two other players.
May 2011
The team "Slaughterlake" (league 4 in 2010/11) in which Oliver plays finished
in the top of the group and moves up to the 3rd league (Liga 3B) in the coming
year 2011/12.
17 April 2011
In the
3rd TransAtlantic Youth Go Match
Oliver represented North America in the U12 section and won against
Stepan Popov (Russia). North America lost with 5:6.
March 2011
With Justin Grossman as our new Club president the number of our members is
constantly rising.
5 Feb 2011
Our club holds the first club tournament. The adult section has 12 players
with a wide range of strengths (9D,6D,4D,3D,3D,2D,1k,1k,3k,9k,18k). The
children section had 5 participants. We also had a 13x13 side tournament.
Sep 2010 - Feb 2011
Former Korean 1st class insei, winner of 4 national and 2 international
tournaments Yutae Seo visits us for 5 months. In this time he taught us during
club times and co-authored 2 book manuscripts
pdf file,
pdf file
During this time he played a few games on KGS and became
quickly 10dan on KGS as sky77 (on the rank graph).
8. Aug 2010
At the US Go Congress 2010 Oliver won the match for the Junior
Redmond Cup 2010 (link to the games)
and became 2nd in the 2-Dan section of the US Open. A note shall
appear soon on the
Redmond Cup
home page. Our former Club president John Dew, now founder of the
Newmarket Go Club, also scored 5 wins in 6 games in the US Open.
A report about the trip (in German) is available
here.
28. July 2010
Oliver was invited to play at the 10. Korean Life Insurance Cup where 288
children under 12 years old participated. He became 16th among 64 players
in group 3. He had a great time when being allowed to play in a simultaneous game
against the probably most famous Korean player
Cho Hun Hyeon .
Pictures and a tournament report are under
1,
2,
3.
(As one of very few with blond hair he is easy to spot in the background of
some of the pictures.)
3. June 2010
Today was the crucial face off
between the German Bundesliga
team "Slaughterlake" (currently league 4) in which Oliver plays
on board 4 against the team "Steinfuchs Rhein-Main1" (currently
league 3). As "Steinfuchs Rhein-Main1" won that match (results on
"Berlin Slaughterlake")
both teams will stay in their leagues next year. One of Oliver's
Bundesliga games in the past season (played as bsl4 against Bremen04
on 11 March 2010, see archive of KGS) was discussed in detail
by Franz-Josef Dickhut (fj[7d] on KGS) in the "Deutsche Go
Zeitung" no 2, 2010, p. 27-30.
1. June 2010
Oliver won the Internet
pre-selection tournament of the Junior Redmond Cup 2010 which
is open to players under 12 years old from the USA, Canada and
Mexico. He now has to play a best 2 of 3 match against 2nd
place Henry Zhang at the US Go Congress 2010 in Colorado Springs to
win the title.
24. April 2010
This years High School & University
Go Tournament was organized by our Brock Go Club President Nelson
Ing and by Jeffrey Fung (Toronto). It was held at the Chinese Cultural
Center in Toronto. We had 2 teams from Brock taking part reaching
places 4 and 5.
3-4. March 2010
This years European Youth Goe Championship (EYGC) 2010 was held in
Sibiu/Romania on the weekend of 4-7 March. Oliver participated in the
'Under 12' tournament and reached a 4th place. One week later he played
in the German Youth Go Championship (under 18) and reached a 6th place.
Here is a report on this trip.
5. Nov 2009
Our club member Oliver Wolf plays in 2 leagues. One is the
Canadian Go Association League
which is strongly recommended for anyone to take part. Oliver
is currently in group A6 and got promoted to 1 Dan end of October,
congratulations!
The other league is the German Bundesliga where he
plays for the team
"Berlin Slaughterlake"
(team members)
which started last year in the lowest league 5 and was able to
become second winner of over 20 teams and thus to move up and play
in league 4 (A) this year. So far (5 Nov 09) Oliver playing on
board 4 won all games (all against 1 and 2 Dan).
1. Nov 2009
A small team from our Brock GO Club took part in the
Laurier Goban's
1st Annual Fall Go Tournament . Two of our games played there
even made it as a video into
EuroGoTV. One video shows Oliver giving 9 stones handi and winning
after 19 min with 80 points.
9. Sep 2009:
Following the advertisement for our club on the Brock Club Fair on
Tuesday 8.Sep. and Wednesday 9.Sep. we will have our first club evening
in the coming academic year on the same day, Wed 9. Sep, 5pm
at the usual place.
3. Aug 2009:
Go tournament at his home.
27.June-24.July:
Thomas and Oliver went to the
Feng Yun Summer Go Workshop in Shantou/China.
July-August:
We are on summer break.
16. Apr 2009:
With the end of term we for now will meet only Wednesdays not Thursdays.
That might change in the fall depending on demand.
11-12. Apr 2009:
We were represented at the
Rochester 2009 spring tournament, and got one of the generously
provided random prices.
8. Apr 2009:
Thomas gave computer go talks at workshops at the Univ. of Oklahoma and at
Menlo Park/California (Feb 2009).
28. Feb 2009:
Five of us participated in the
2008/09 High School & University Go Tournament. As this was a
no-handicap tournament with only 3 players in a team we did not too
well, as our strength is to have a good mid field with about 5
players in the 2-5kyu range. But it was fun.
14. Jan 2009:
We are grateful to our club member Joyce Rustenburg for
another generous donation!
11. Jan 2009:
Oliver takes part in the 2009 CGA Winter Cup and had his first game as
sinsai (Black) against Ram 3k (White) on KGS.
25-26. Oct 2008:
Peter, John, Kelly, Oliver and Thomas went to Toronto to take part
in the Toronto Open.
23. Oct 2008:
This is the first
day that Oliver plays for a go-team from Berlin/Germany
(bsl1..bsl4 on KGS) in this seasons (Sep 2008 - May 2009)
in the "Bundesliga 5" - a nationwide Go league
in Germany. Good luck!
16. Oct 2008:
Today was the first
day that our club run on a second day of the week - from now on
not only on Wednesdays but also on Thursdays.
15. Oct 2008:
We got 6 new go
books for our club library. Please check them out!
6. Oct 2008:
We are grateful to
our club member Joyce Rustenburg who made a generous financial
donation to our club. That will take care of the hot chocolate
to be served during club time for the next months :) . Thank you,
Joyce!
14. Sep 2008:
Peter hosts a small
tournament at his home.
10. Sep 2008:
With the start of the new
academic year we also resume playing in our club.
30. Aug - 1. Sep 2008:
John took part
in the Canadian Open in Quebec City on the occasion of its 400th
anniversary.
July 2008:
Thomas' Go book
"Mastering Ladders" went in press and is available from
"Slate & Shell".
5-12. July 2008:
Oliver took part
for one week in the Feng Yun Summer Go Workshop in New Jersey.
5. Apr 2008:
Five of us
(John, Graham, Kelly, Oliver and Thomas) drove to Rochester this
weekend and took part in the 'Empty Sky Go Tournament'.
We even got a couple of prices including a nice go board
from bamboo wood which is now in use in our club.
24. Nov 2007:
Peter McMain, John Dew,
Thomas + Oliver Wolf (starting as 3,3,7,8 kyu) took part as
Brock University team in the 'High School & University Go Tournament
2007' at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus
(http://hsu.ahed.ca/). From 8 teams
we took 3rd place. Winner was University of Toronto at Scarborough
team A. In parallel there was also
an open tournament with separate games to which games of the team
tournament contributed. With a win/loss ratio of 3:1 for John, Thomas
and Oliver and 2:2 for Peter in category B (1-9 kyu), John became
overall winner and Thomas was 4th in this group. Other groups were
Group A: 6 dan - 1 dan, Group C: 10 kyu - 19 kyu and
Group D: 20 kyu - 30 kyu.
20-21. Oct 2007:Four of us (John Dew, Graham Sharp, Thomas + Oliver Wolf) drove to Rochester this weekend and took part in the 'Third Annual Greg Lefler Memorial Tournament' ( http://www.emptysky.org/tourn.html). Thomas became second in the low kyu category.
12 Sep 2007:
The first playing
evening in the new academic year. On Thursday we had a stand at the
Brock Club Fair and 13 new students signed up!
18 Apr 2007:
Until further
notice we continue playing Go each Wed also after end of term. On this
day Thomas will be away but Sylvie and Beate will take over.
28 Feb 2007:
Normal play
scheduled.
21 Feb 2007:
This week we will
not play as Thomas and Sylvie are both away.
14 Feb 2007:
We will play
tonight despite of the heavy snow fall :)
7 Feb 2007:
We welcome
Jiangnan Fan, a 2 Dan from Niagara Falls who had already last week
interesting games with some of us.