For Thanksgiving weekend, the Milwaukee Go Club will not meet on Saturday at 7. However, there will still be a meeting Sunday afternoon 2pm-5pm near UWM. Anyone interested in attending should contact milwaukeego@gmail.com for the exact address.
A reminder that there is a tournament in Arlington Heights, IL, on December 11.
Happy Thanksgiving!
We will meet this Saturday at Bayshore near the Rotunda. Check in at the Board Game Barrister if you can't find the go table. We'll start at 7pm and go till about 9. Don't worry if you're late; if you're here we'll make sure you get a game!
Check out the latest issue of the Milwaukee Chinese Times for a report of Lisa Scott's visit last month.
If you want a rating, we are going to take a shot at submitting club games for ratings.
If you want to participate in a tournament, there's one in northern Illinois on Dec. 11.
E-mail to milwaukeego@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Per Lisa Scott's suggestion, we're meeting on 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. This is a change to the schedule, which used to be every other week. See you next Saturday (second Saturday of November) starting at 7pm! We'll be playing somewhere in the vicinity of Board Game Barrister. If for some reason we're not visible, come into the store and they should be able to direct you. Also -- we ran into a problem with this last time -- the mall is still stopping people under 18 (without an adult) at the door on weekends, despite the fact that they took down the big signs. The security guards said later that it would be okay to ask them to take a message to whoever is already at the table and have them come out to fetch you. Or make sure a parent can walk you in.
Dear Milwaukee Go community,
You may have heard the terrible news already: Kay Ishizuka, who was a prime mover in the Milwaukee GO scene, and the originator of this blog, was hit by a car and killed last week. The first time I met her, she introduced me to the go club. The last time I saw her, she had traveled up from Florida to defend her PhD dissertation -- but had, from half a continent away, organized a go tournament here for that same weekend, complete with beautiful flyers. She was so helpful and energetic with the tournament that I had no idea her "other" activity of the weekend was such a momentous and important one. If people are interested, we can create some kind of memorial -- perhaps an event in her honor.
Now for some more positive news. This Saturday night at 7pm, we have the honor of hosting Lisa Scott, newly elected Central Region Director of the American Go Association. This will be a great chance to connect with the wider go world: regional, national, and international. Lots of great opportunities!
Please come and meet Ms. Scott. She will be at Bayshore's Board Game Barrister 7pm on Saturday 10/9; she will also be at LaLumiere Hall Rm 262 on the Marquette University campus, 4pm on Sunday 10/10.
For more info, contact events@boardgamebarrister.com.
The go club will meet Friday night 5/21 and then 6/4. In the fall, due to schedule conflicts with "Friday Night Magic-the-Gathering," GO night will likely be moved to a different day (or, less likely, a different place). Please contact milwaukeegoclub@gmail.com if you have ideas about this.
Also, we are thinking of having a GO festival at the end of August, similar to the tournament but more for fun and introducing people to the game, and less an actual competition. Anybody willing to help with that, please also be in touch.
Joyce
See you Friday night at the Go night.
By the way, in honor of the 150th anniversary of public transportation in Milwaukee, the Route 15 bus (the one that comes to Bayshore) will be free all day. Hope you'll be a happy new rider!
Welcome to Go night, 6:30 as usual at Board Game Barrister.
欢迎来下围棋，3／26 晚上 6：30。
歡迎大家來下圍其，６：３０ 開始.
We welcome the members and friends of UWM's Chinese, Japanese, and Korean programs on Friday 3/12. We'll have a warm welcome and some extra boards out in the Rotunda at Bayshore. It's a peaceful non-political place to come together intergenerationally and enjoy a cultural treasure.
Two weeks have passed and we're playing go again. We've got some new players, hooray. If you're new, you won't be alone. If you've played in the past but haven't played lately, we hope you'll come back. If you're a regular, we're so glad to be with you each time.
Did you catch the kudos to our own Art O'Leary in the American Go Association newsletter?
See you in front of the Board Game Barrister at Bayshore Town Center mall, 6:30 pm Friday.
Joyce
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