International Go Symposium 2012

 


The International Go Symposium was broadcast live on August 4th and 5th, 2012.
Below are links to Youtube video recordings of the event.



 

International Go Symposium Session 1

Symposium Open, Peter Shotwell, & Session 1, Chen Zuyuan: The Evolution of Japanese Territory and Chinese Area Scoring Since the Tang Dynasty. Translation by Wei Zhang
International Go Symposium Session 2

Session 2, Jacques Basaldua: Advances in M-eval: A Multivariate Evaluation
International Go Symposium Session 3

Session 3, Peter Schumer: Design of a College Go Course
International Go Symposium Session 4

Session 4, Israel Rodriquez Nava: Cultural Considerations in the Spread of Go in Western Countries
International Go Symposium Session 5

Session 5, Bill Spight: Go Thermography - 4/21/98 Jiang-Rui Endgame and How to Estimate Territory: Research into the influence of Immortal, Partially Immortal, and Dead Stones and Estimation of Territory on the 3x3 board
International Go Symposium Session 6

Session 6, Francois van Niekerk: New work on MCTS Parallelisation and The State of the Art of Supercomputer Go and Its Future
International Go Symposium Session 7

Session 7, Peter Shotwell: Reading of the short version of "Historial Hypotheses and Facts About the Game of Go in Vietnam" by Konstantine Bayraktarov of Bulgaria
International Go Symposium Session 8

Session 8, Peter Shotwell: Some Notes on the Possible Origins in Ancient Greece and Rome (via Bactria) of the Tibetan Custodian Capture Game Mig Mang That Uses Go Stones and Boards
International Go Symposium Session 9

Session 9, Kim Dalsoo: A Study of Flower (Star) Points in Go and Other Games
International Go Symposium Session 10

Session 10, Kyle Blocher: The Value of Moves: Sente, Gote, and Combinatorial Game Theory
International Go Symposium Session 11

Session 11, Ichiro Tanioka: The Origin of the 19x19 line Go Board: When, Where, Why (& How) the 19x19 Go Board Spread
International Go Symposium Session 12

Session 12, Dae-won Suh: Greetings from Korea
2012 Congress Opening Ceremony

Congress Opening, Skit & Welcome
International Go Symposium Session 13

Session 13, Nolan Bushnell: Moving Go From the Cultural Background to Center Stage
International Go Symposium Session 14

Session 14, Thomas Wolf: Basic Seki in Go
International Go Symposium Session 15

Session 15, Chen Zu-yan: The Art of Black and White: Weiqi in Chinese Poetry
International Go Symposium Session 16

Session 16, Roxanna Duntley-Matos: "Playing Under and Pushing Through the Stones": Privileging Transnational Go Network Formation and Minority Leadership from Lower to Higher Education
International Go Symposium Session 17

Session 17, Peter Shotwell: The Origins of Go Strategy in Classical Chinese Grammar
International Go Symposium Session 18

Session 18, Marc Moscowitz: The Challenges of Categorization for an Increasingly Globalized Game
International Go Symposium Session 19

Session 19, Stephanie Mingming Yin: Experiences in Growing Up in the Profession and Observations on the Chinese Methods of Education
International Go Symposium Session 20

Session 20, Joshua A. Guarino: Cross-cultural memoirs
International Go Symposium Session 21

Session 21, Peter Shotwell: Chinese Go in 1985
International Go Symposium Session 22

Session 22, Hotta Yumi on Hikaru no Go: Interviewed by Paul Barchilon, Interpreter Akane Negishi
International Go Symposium Session 23

Session 23, Terry Benson: Spreading Go - How Rules and Attitudes Make That Hard
International Go Symposium Sessions 24-28

Intro to Promotion Panel and Session 24, Roy Laird: Play Go and Grow! Why every school and library should have a go program
International Go Symposium Session 25

Session 25, Peter Freedman: Teaching Children to Become Go Players
International Go Symposium Session 26

Session 26, Paul Barchilon: Developing Youth Programs
International Go Symposium Session 27

Session 27, Siddhartha Avila: Go in Mexican Schools
International Go Symposium Session 28

Session 28, Laura Martinez: International Children's Go Art Contest; Peter Shotwell: Closing Remarks and Credits
International Go Symposium Session 29

Peter Shotwell: Closing Remarks and Credits