A new Go Festival was held on the 22-23 of October 2005. It was held at the Teaclub “Tea floor 108″. More than 50 participants took part in this Go Festival. Mrs. Noguti, culture attache of the Japanese Embassy in Russia, visited our Festival.
The first round.
After the game the players review it.
This Goban is a gift from LG Corporation
You can find a lot of photos here: Go gallery, Neya’s site and another Go gallery.
“The Cup of Radujnaya Street” was held on September 24-25. More than 60 visitors took part in that Go festival.
You can see some photos here: Go gallery 1 and Go gallery 2.
The meeting at the tea Go-house (Nikitskaya, 19, Moscow) took place in August, 30.
The participants discussed the perspectives of cultural interaction between Russia and Japan.
From the left to the right:
- the general director of “Business Eurasia” Ilya Kirsanov
- the administrative director of the Go Federation Michail Emelyanov
- the publisher of the Go Federation Andrei Stepanov
- “S&A” director Sugahara Nobuo
- the editor-in-chief of ”Budokan”, “Dodjo” and “Japon.ru” magazines Alexander Kulanov
- Japan culture experts Olesya and Alexey
Alexandre Dinerchtein took the 1-st place in the Main tournament of EGC 2005 held in Prague.
Here are the results of the EGC Main 2005:http://www.goweb.cz/egc2005/results.asp?id=144&lang=en
Alexandre Dinerchtein finally won 8 of his 10 games
He won:
Zhao, Pei 6d
Cho, Seok-bin 7d
Lim, Yeon-sik 7d
Shikshin, Ilja 6d
Taranu, Catalin 7d
Miyazaki, Nobuyosi 5d
Yoon, Kwang-sun 7d
Kim, Kyung-rae 6d
He lost to:
Park, Jong-Wook 7d
Kim, Se Young 7d
The meeting of the General Director Nobuo Sugahara with the governing body of the Go Federation took place on July, 20. The President of the Go Federation Igor Grishin, the managing director of the Go Federation Mikhail Emelyanov, the executive secretary of the Go Federation Dmitry Malutin, the interpreter of the Go Federation Andrei Stepanov and Ilya Kirsanov attended this meeting.
Mr. Sugahara-san expressed his hopes that the activity of the Go Federation will contribute to the development of Russian-Japanese cultural contacts.
Mr. Sugahara-san (in the center), Igor Grishin (in the center left)
Igor Grishin, the President of the Go Federation visited some regions of Russia. During the trip Igor Grishin, Dmitry Donskov, the Vice-president of the Go Federation, and Alexander Proskuryakov, the chief of the Strategy and Development office of the Go Federation, visited Kazan and Samara and established there 2 new Go Clubs. Igor Grishin and Dmity Donskov took part in the Go-seminar at the All-Russian Internet and IT Conference.
Igor Grishin (right) the President of the Go Federation, Alexandre Dinerchtein (center) 1-dan pro, and Dmitry Shogin at Kazan Go Amateurs meeting, July 15, 2005.
Igor Grishin, the President of the Go Federation and Dmitry Donskov, the Vice-president of The Go Federation conducted the Go seminar at the All-Russian Internet and IT Conference, July 16, 2005
Igor Grishin, the President of the Go Federation, and Maximian Yatskar are opening a new Go Club in Samara, July, 17 2005.
More photos at the Go game news
The 1st All-Russian Go Clubs Festival “The Point of Rise” has finished. It started on the 28th of June and continued up to the 30th of June. It gathered more than 60 participants, most of them were children. There were a lot of tournaments and a parties. All the strongest players of Russia took part in these tournaments.
Takechi Harumi, the girls from Go-club “Voskhojdenie”, Volodya Spiridonov
Artem Maksimov
The Tournament
Igor Grishin, the President of the Go Federation (left) vs Alexandre Dinerchtein 1p (right)
More photos here:
The Book by Miura-sensei
There are the crossroads where the turn of the World history is possible. The effort to make this turn may be nothing at the moment when it is done, but it may lead to significant consequences in succeeding years.
Sometimes I think that if the book “Go: An Asian Paradigm for Business Strategy” had been written in 1932, the world history would have gone in a different way.
Many people know that Soviet Union had constructed the World intellectual empire of Chess and grasped the leadership in this field.
That leadership was not damaged by the following USSR’s collapse and reorganization of post-Soviet republics. It was a hand-made miracle – a victory of the country and society!
Just imagine – what if, using the game of Go as the basis of such system instead, our country had constructed the similar Go empire – the one that would have been leading in the World? The empire that can produce strategically thinking people in army, politics, economics, state and social system?
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About the author: Miura Yasuyuki is a special person, from the galaxy of special people. One of those who created Japanese “Miracle”. These people are still among us – and usual standards are not applicable to them.
So, who is Miura-sensei? A Master of Go? A Master of business? A Master of strategy? A Master of Life? During his career, he had invested millions of dollars in USA and Japan economies, built hotels, developed new horizons – and had been constantly developing himself.
Combining his business experience and Go philosophy, Miura-sensei concluded that Go can be used as the foundation of a new approach to modern business and political strategy.
This book is a look at modern business using centuries-old wisdom of Eastern sages. Step by step the author accompanies the reader in his trip to the beautiful territory of Go, explains difficult rules concepts, transforms uncertain associations into practical recommendations, and constructs the bridge between the game of Go and the world of real business .
Business is not a war, as it is believed in Japan. The true nature of any business is a harmonious coexistence.
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On behalf of all Russian readers, we would like to thank mister Miura Yasuyuki, one of the greatest Japanese thinkers of the present time, for his wonderful gift to all Russian readers – the free-of-charge right to translate and print 5000 copies of his book in Russian. We are also very proud of the foreword that mister Miura has written especially for this first Russian edition.
Mikhail Emelyanov, the Vice-president of the Go Federation, 2004. Translated by Victor Kryukov.
Children Go tournament (under 18 years old) took place in March, 27-28. More than 25 children took part in it, more than five players had above 2 k rate. The 1-st place was taken by Andrey Kashaev (1 dan), a pupil of Igor Grishin. The 2-nd place was taken by Anton Rumyantsev (1 dan), also a Grishin’s pupil. Alexey Morozov took the 3rd place. Many beginners played there. For many children it was their first tournament. The president of the Go Federation Igor Grishin thanks everyone who helped with the organization of this important competition. The tournament brought a lot of pleasure to our children.
Some photos:
All participants
Anton Rumyantsev
Andrey Kashaev
Begginers
A young player
A young player
Girls play Go too
The review
Volodya Spiridonov
