Go Game, Weiqi, Baduk in Russia

16 pupils of Moscow children Go clubs and of Russian Go & Strategy School took part in the Yearly Chin qualification.

Chin Certification of Go was carried out by the vice-president of The Go Federation Mikhail Emelyanov (1 San).

In the beginning of 80′s there were no printed Go books in Russia, but
even nowadays handwritten books still go around, including
the collections of game records of top Japanese masters. These manuscripts included
Fujisawa Hideyuki’s matches and his writings, translated from Japanese
and English. Many times, only a few copies of each book appeared, but
they are very valuable and several generations of Go players in Russia
have studied Go by reading these manuscripts.

Our Go lovers enjoy the Fujisawa’s games for many reasons, but his
unique fuseki ideas are outstanding. Even now, many of our players
still use the High Chinese Fuseki and remember many ideas
they have learned from Fujisawa Hideyuki, Kato Masao and Hane Yasumasa
long time ago. Although they know that some of these ideas may seem
“outdated”, they continue to enjoy using them in their games.

In his days, Fujisawa Hideyuki did not only bring a lot of new ideas to
Go theory, but he also became the professional to be followed. Here in
Russia, chess game is very popular, but it is impossible to remember a case
when master player was able to win a big tournament at the age of 67 as
Fujisawa did in Go. When I teach Go to older players, I often tell
them about Fujisawa and demonstrate that one can enjoy the game at any
age and even show excellent results in tournaments. As Fujisawa often
said, the most important things are searching for new ideas and
playing without fear.

Fujisawa’s death is a great loss for Go lovers around the world. From
the bottoms of our hearts, we would like to thank Fujisawa-sensei for
his games, his books and the knowledge that he has passed on to his
students in Japan and Korea. They have become top players now and they
continue to show us the way of their outstanding Go master!

Igor Grishin, the president of the Go Federation, on behalf of all
Russian Go fans

On the 6-th of May 2008 Mikhail Emelyanov (the vice-president of The Go Federation) passed the first San-qualification by Go and Strategy school. He obtained the First San diploma.

The Go Federation and The Russian Go and Strategy School presents a big Go game exhibition. There are 4 subject matters here: Go Game in Japan, Weiqi (Go Game) in China, Go Game in the USSR and Go Game in Russia.

Weiqi in China

The ancient Weiqi table with traditional chinese gaming “Qi” (stones). To the right there is an ancient Weiqi book (about XVIII century).

A Go bowl from Gugun. Beijing.

Ancient Weiqi stones, Ming or Song dynasty. From the collection of the Russian Go and Strategy School.

Go Game in Japan

An ancient goban with stones and bowls. In front of it there is a pupil’s notebook from Honinbo House, (about XVIII century).

Traditional Japanese Go game stones: shell and slate.

Rare Japanese Go books.

Go Game in USSR

A handmade Go game book.

A small handmade Go game book

Go Game In Russia

The books and a diploma of the Russian Go and Strategy School.

You can visit the exhibition from 14 to 19 of April at Japan Festival “Sakura”, Moscow, Sokolniki park, pav. 7a.

The Go Federation is glad to invite foreign Go players to the open classes held in a new Go Center in Moscow.

Schedule:

Monday and Friday: 19.00 – 21.00 classes for beginners.
Tuesday: 20.00 – 22.00 classes for stronger players.
Cost: 500 rub per person.

To get more information phone +7-915-107-00-07 or follow this blog news.

This film was shot in 2005. Here you can see how this festival was held in Moscow. There were many small and big tournaments during the festival. Many Russian strong players took part in this festival, including Alexander Dinerchtein. (The film is in Russian, without translation; the first part is about tournament. 2nd, 3rd and 4th parts are about the opening ceremony).

The Russian Go and Strategy school invites low chin players and players without rank for an open class on March, 30.

Topic: Studying Go with the system of the Russian Go and Strategy School
Level: 18 – 10 chin.
Goal: learn how to play.
Teacher: M. Emelyanov, 1 San of the Russian Go and Strategy school, 3 dan of the Chinese Weiqi Association, the author of the first Russian Go teaching book.
Time: 19.00 – 21.00.
Price: 500 rub.
Place: Voskhojdenie, Timiryasevskiy forest cottage.