The Massachusetts Go Association sponsors four regular tournaments per year. Following tournament dates are currently scheduled for 2010:

• Sunday January 10th, 2010
• Sunday April 11th, 2010
• Sunday July 11th, 2010
• Sunday October 17th, 2010

The tournaments are held at the MGA club (see Location & Contact page). They are AGA-rated, one-day. Membership in the AGA is required and available during registration or ahead of time at the AGA website: http://www.usgo.org. Membership in a foreign Go association is an acceptable substitute.

PRIZES: $100 in prizes for the first 3 placements.

ENTRY FEE: The entry fee is $20 for Massachusetts Go Association members and $25 for non-members. There is, however, a $5 discount for pre-registering. One preregisters simply by emailing or phoning the Tournament Director or the Tournament Coordinator that you intend to play in the tournament. The proceeds benefit the MGA. The Tournament Coordinator is Eva Casey. If she herself is not directing the tournament she will forward your information to the TD.

REGISTRATION: Registration begins at 9:45 AM. Play begins at 10:30 AM. Come in early, register and catch up with friends or get in a warm-up game. Pre-registration is rewarded with a $5 discount. You may pre-register by contacting Eva Casey ( eva theworld.com or 617-666-8934) stating your intention to play in the tournament. Your name is the only essential piece of information, but, the rank you want to play at in the tournament, if different from your AGA rating, would be helpful as well--otherwise the TD will pencil you in at your AGA rating (truncated, not rounded), and you'll have to remember when you show up at the tournament, to ask the TD to change it to whatever stronger rank you actually want to play at. Pre-registration will help us get off to a smooth start, but you should still arrive by 10:00 AM to pay and confirm your presence. Those who pre-registered who have not shown up by the time the pairings are about to be done will simply be deleted from the participants list, a momentary process. It takes time for the TD, given a name, to look up the associated AGA ID, expiration date, and rating. Time is at a premium on the morning of the tournament. That's why we encourage pre-registration.

RULES: There are four rounds. Games are handicapped according to the AGA rank. Playing by the Japanese rules. Each player gets 45 minutes main time plus unlimited 5/25 byo-yomi periods after the main time (5 minutes for 25 moves).

If you are weaker than a 20 kyu player or have any questions, please contact the tournament coordinator: Eva Casey ( eva theworld.com or 617-666-8934) .

If you have a suitable clock, please bring it to the tournament. Thank you.

Following is the list of past tournament winners:

Tournament	First Place	Second Place	Third Place
2010 Winter	Haijiang Peng, 2d	Doug Franz, 12k	Eric Reid, 4k
Special Event Dec 6th, 2009	Eva Casey, 4k	Brian Lee and Graham Higgins
2009 Fall	John Chamberlain, 1d	David Saxner, 1d	Pete Schumer, 2k
2009 Summer	La Li, 3d	David Kahn, 9k	David Spitz, 4k
2009 Spring	Eric Osman, 2d	Ben Timms, 7k	Tuny Nguyen, 11k
2009 Winter	Jack Cary, 6k	David Kahn, 9k	Wanda Metcalf, 4k
2008 Fall	Philip Nutzman, 7k	Marty Spector, 1d	Victor Liang, 8k Pete Schumer, 2k Yuanliang Chu, 4d
2008 Summer	Joseph Chen, 16k	Yuanliang Chu, 2d	Eric Reid, 4k
2008 Spring	Gus Heck, 3k	Tu Nguyen, 10k	Adam Luter, 3k
2008 Winter	David Spitz, 6k	Sam Huang, 15k	Gus Heck, 3k
2007 Fall	Mark Irgang, 8k	Sam Huang, 16k	Doug Frantz, 12k
2007 Summer	Eric Reid, 4k	Robert Huxtable, 6k	Pete Martin, 8k
2007 Spring	Alvin Sanchez, 12k	Wanda Metcalf, 4k	Jing Wei Ling, 4d
2007 Winter	David Gurevich, 1d Alex Borland, 7k		Edward Faulkner, 16k
2006 Fall	John Aspinall, 4k	David Kahn, 11k	Alex Henzel, 5k
2006 Summer	David Gurevich, 3k	Chuck Robbins, 4d Deren Dohoda, 5k	Ed Gillis, 2d Pete Martin, 12k
2006 Spring	Lim Jing, 3d	David Kahn, 12k	Tim Button, 16k
2006 Winter	Marty Spector, 2k	Deren Dohoda, 9k	Andrew Hall, 1k
2005 Fall	Gus Heck, 8k	Jie Liang, 7d	Andrew Hall, 1k
2005 Summer	Matt Mallory, 2k	Thomas Lui, 6k	Thomas Tanayo, 3k
2005 Spring	Wai Cheung Man, 8k	Gang Tang, 3k	Mike Tobias, 10k
2005 Winter	Jinsung Yoo, 5d	Chuck Robbins	Chris Garlock
2004 Fall Upper Band	Shuhua Wu, 2k	Guizhong Yao, 4d	Becci Torrey, 2k
2004 Fall Lower Band	Siming Lui, 5k	Wai Cheung Man, 12k	Jennifer Wu, 9k
2004 Summer	Yu Zhong, 4d Doug Frantz, 13k		Sal Gionfriddo, 2k
2004 Spring Upper Band	David Lin, 3d	Ke Lu, 4d	Chris Papazian, 1d
2004 Spring Lower Band	Shuhua Wu, 4k	Alexander Schwartz, 15k	Roland Crowl, 5k Robert Thau, 4k
2004 Winter	Walther Chen, 2k	Gus Heck, 8k	Jinsung Yoo, 5d Evan Morse, 10k
2003 Fall	Bob Hearn, 1k	Won Kim, 5d	Eric Reid, 3k
2003 Summer 7k-7d section	Mike Van Wie, 2k	Greg Lefler, 1d	Roland Crowl, 6k
2003 Summer 25k-8k section	Gus Heck, 8k William Baretsky, 15k		Jeremiah Parry-Hill, 16k
2003 Spring	Jinsung You, 1k	Jeffrey Miller, 8k John Kraemer, 13k
2003 Winter 5k-5d section	Gregory Lefler, 3k	John Chamberlain, 4k	Won Kim, 5d
2003 Winter 22k-6k section	Susan Scott, 21k	Leif Gerjuoy, 13k Gregory Rosenblatt, 16k
2002 Fall	Jin Chen, 5d	Gregory Lefler, 4k	Julien Duquesnay, 16k
2002 Summer	Jie Liang, 7d	Matt Greenberg, 9k	Chris Papazian, 6k
2002 Spring	Ben Shisler,3d	Gus Heck, 8k	Won Kim, 5d Alex Henzel, 4k
2002 Winter	Douglas Zhang,6d Daniel Dvinov, 10k		John Aspinall, 5k
2001 Fall	Nathan Curtis, 17k	Bob Hearn, 2k	Won Kim, 5d
2001 Summer	Ding Liang, 4d	David Kahn, 15k	Mark Ma, 3d
2001 Spring	Jean-Philippe Estradier, 8k	Won Kim, 5d	Eric Nelson, 14k
2001 Winter	Rich Chalmers, 1d Alex Hezel, 6k		David Khan, 16k
2000 Fall	Michael Vaughn, 4k	Dave Mallon, 4d	Won Kim, 5d
2000 Summer	Sang Lee, 6d	Scott Armstrong, 11k	Rick Hubbell, 6d
2000 Spring	Eric Osman, 2d	Gus Heck, 12k	David Mallon, 4d
2000 Winter	Rich Chalmers, 1k Roland Crowl, 6k		Bob Hearn, 3k
1999 Fall	Kirby Huget, 9k	Ben Shisler, 3d	Eva Casey, 3k
1999 Summer	Eric Reid, 3k	Shinichiro Tomioka, 6d	David Kahn, 20k
1999 Spring	Doug Frantz, 12k	Grace Gao, 3d	Michael Vaughn, 4k
1999 Winter	Rich Chalmers, 2k	Dan Hewins, 4d Bill Arrand, 2k Bill Witthoft, 5k
1998 Fall	David Morell, 3k	Jim Bonvouloir, 4k	Jean-Philippe Estradier, 8k
1998 Summer	Gabriel Ostriker, 12k	Don Wiener, 6d	Eric Osman, 2d
1998 Spring	Jean-Philippe Estradier, 12k	Ben Shisler, 3d	Peter Schumer, 3k
1998 Winter	Dave Herman, 3d Bill Witthoft, 6k		Won Kim, 5d
1997 Fall	Michael Vaughn, 4k	Lukas Biewald, 1k	David Mallon, 4d David Morell, 5k
1997 Summer	Xu Limin, 2d Alex Henzel, 5k		Won Kim, 5d
1997 Spring	Keith Crews, 3d	David Morell, 8k	Bill Holden, 5k
1997 Winter	Eva Casey, 3k	Kim Dae Yol, 6d	Andreu Cabré, 3d
1996 Fall	Don Wiener, 6d	John Small, 9k	Bruce Swift, 1k Wanda Metcalf, 3k
1996 Summer	Geoff Hopcraft, 10k	Dave Herman, 2d	Hugh Albright, 3k
1996 Spring	David Lin, 3d	Robert Ursiny, 7k Roland Crowl, 8k
1996 Winter	Keith Crews, 3d	J.T. Hwang, 5k	John Small, 14k
1995 Fall	Robert Ursiny, 13k	Don Wiener, 6d	Dave Herman, 2d Bill Holden, 4k
1995 Summer	Andreu Cabré, 2d Paul Mitchell, 5k		Robert Ursiny, 14k
1995 Spring Upper Band	Cesar Sanchez, 4d	Bob Barber, 1k	Bruce Swift, 2k
Lower Band	Tom Deckert, 4k	Robert Ursiny, 15k	John Small, 18k
1995 Winter Upper Band	Yinghong Cheng, 2d	Steve Parrott, 4d	Eric Reid, 2k
Lower Band	Bill Merriam, 8k	Robert Ursiny, 16k	Art McGrath, 4k
1994 Fall	David Mallon, 3d Tom Deckert, 5k		David Carlton, 4k
1994 Summer	Ben Shisler, 2d David Carlton, 5k		Eric Osman, 2d
1994 Spring	Bogdan Dobrescu, 3d Bill Holden, 6k		Dae Yol Kim, 6d Ben Shisler, 1d
1994 Winter	Pierre Colmez, 6d	Bill Merriam, 10k	Mitchell Mondino, 4k Mark Cassidy, 12k
1993 Fall	Pierre Colmez, 6d	Bill Merriam, 11k	Rick Rush, 5k
1993 Summer	Keith Crews, 2d	David Carlton, 6k	David Mallon, 3d
1993 Spring	Bill Merriam, 12k	Bogdan Dobrescu, 2d	Wanda Metcalf, 4k
1993 Winter	Shinya Higashi, 2d	John Ray, 4k	Wei-Jia Su, 2d
1992 Fall	Bill Saltman, 1k	Art McGrath, 6k	John Ray, 4k
1992 Summer	Franklin Pierce, 1k	Ben Shisler, 1k	Edward Frelhich, 5d
1992 Spring	Bob Kamsler, 3d	Cliff Harrison, 4k	Tony Flanders, 2k
1992 Winter	Dan Hewins, 1d	Dennis Klockow, 6k	David Mallon, 3d
1991 Fall	Yutaka Aiyama, 6d	Rick Rush, 10k	Wei-Jia Su, 2d Alex Henzel, 10k
1991 Summer	Bob Kamsler, 3d Ben Shisler, 5k		Eric Osman, 2d Ron Maartmann-Moe, 9k
1991 Spring	Che-Fn Yu, 4d	Roger Hjulstrom, 4k	Keith Crews, 2d Graham Higgins, 7k
1991 Winter	Keith Crews, 2d Bill Holden, 8k		David Mallon, 3d
1990 Fall Upper Band	Che-Fn Yu, 2d	Wei-Jia Su, 1d	Zhuo-Ru Ding, 5d
Lower Band	Michael Hutchings, 7k	Graham Higgins, 8k	Ben Shisler, 8k
1990 Summer	David Herman, 1d	Mitchell Mondino, 5k	Mac Emshwiller, 8k Jeff Loomis, 13k
1990 Spring Upper Band	David Herman, 1d	Bob Myers, 3d	Bill Saltman, 1k
Lower Band	Peter Richterich, 7k	Dennis Klockow, 8k	Roger Hjulstrom, 5k
1990 Winter	Bruce Wilcox, 5d	Zhuo-Ru Ding, 5d Bill Saltman, 2k Mitchell Mondino, 5k
1989 Fall Upper Band	Fred Hahn, 4d	Anthony Ku, 2k	Hwa-Pyng Tseng, 5d Bob Kamsler, 3d
Lower Band	Wanda Metcalf, 5k	Paul Howard, 11k	Craig Cleaveland, 5k
1989 Summer Upper Band	Dan Hewins, 1k	Sam Shinn, 2d	Skip Ascheim, 3d Brad Jones, 1d
Lower Band	Roger Hjulstrom, 6k	Ara Charder, 11k	Peter Norman, 8k
1989 Spring	Jun Shimazaki, 6d Michael Cavallo, 15k		Steve Parrott, 3d
1989 Winter	Riki Tomoyoshi, 5d Steven Miller, 7k		Bill Holden, 9k
1988 Fall	Duncan Brown, 14k	Don Wiener, 6d	Shmuel Halevi, 6k
1988 Summer	Minoru Amadera, 1d	David Osgood, 5k	Phil Peterson, 2k
1988 Spring	Phil Peterson, 3k	Norm Pederson, 5k	Steve Parrott, 3d
1988 Winter	Tony Flanders, 3k Peter Norman, 11k		Bruce Wilcox, 5d
1987 Fall	Bruce Swift, 5k	Zhuo-Ru Ding, 4d	Skip Ascheim, 3d
1987 Summer	Pim Van Dijken, 1d	Laurent Zibaut, 8k	Don Wiener, 5d
1987 Spring	Don Wiener, 5d	Bevin Brett, 14k	Wanda Metcalf, 7k
1987 Winter	Don Wiener, 5d	Phil Straus, 2k	Eric Osman, 1k Dave Brown, 8k
1986 Fall	Don Wiener, 5d	Kiri Naiman, 2k	Eva Casey, 4k
1986 Summer	Don Wiener, 5d	Skip Ascheim, 3d	Phil Peterson, 3k
1986 Spring	Don Wiener, 5d Paul Howard, 13k		Henry Leung, 1d
1985 Fall	Keith Crews, 1k	Phil Peterson, 3k	Ed Wallner, 5k
1985 Spring	Jonathan Buss, 11k	Keith Crews, 1k	Wanda Metcalf, 9k
1984 Fall	Dan Weise, 6k	Eva Casey, 4k	Masa Kageyama, 1k
1984 Spring	Laura Yedwab, 3k	Henry Leung, 1k	Don Wiener, 5d Skip Ascheim, 3d Wanda Metcalf, 9k
1983 Fall	Micah Feldman, 2d	Steve Cahill, 10k	Roy Zito-Wolf, 5k
1983 Spring	Skip Ascheim, 3d Micah Feldman, 2d		Don Wiener, 5d
1982 Fall	Keith Crews, 3k	Bob Kamsler, 3d	Steve Cahill, 15k
1982 Spring	Don Wiener, 5d	Roger Tucker, 6k	Keith Crews, 3k
1981 Spring	Bruce Wilcox, 5d	Rone Hubbard, 4k	Skip Ascheim, 3d Preston Bush, 2k

SPECIAL EVENT: On February 24, 2008 MGA participated in a team tournament between the club members, MIT students and Stuyvesant students. The tournament was hosted at the MGA club. The final results were:

• 1st place: Stuyvesant with 9 wins
• 2nd place: Massachusetts Go Association with 5 wins
• 3rd place: Massachusetts Institute of Technology with 4 wins

Click here to view more detailed results.

Everybody is more than welcome to assume the Trounament Director role for one or more tournament events. If you are interesting being a TD, please contact Eva Casey (evatheworld.com or 617-666-8934). For information on what the TD role entails, please visit the TD resource page or contact Eva. Thanks!

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