Life In 19x19

If you are talking about getting many sets of stones (such as for a club), 6 Brothers in Korea is the way to do it. It helps if you have somebody who can write them in Hangul (Korean). They can do surface shipping, which takes a while, but keeps the cost down. In the past they wanted payment by ...

The Seattle Go Center has reopened at its temporary location at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, in a renovated school building from 1917. It will be open on Tuesdays 3-9 p.m., and Saturdays, 1-6 p.m. They have 18 table boards set up, plus an office, bathroom, and room for storage. They had a soft ...

I'm writing as a member of the Seattle Go Center, not as leadership. This is my own perspective. The Seattle Go Center property was owned by the Nihon Ki-in, but the Go Center worked hard to make the sale possible. (A change in local zoning to high density with tall buildings caused our property ...

I infer that he plays. Note that he has several boards in use at the Seattle Center, only one of which, quite thick at 6-7cm, was pictured.

Steve Pell is a beginner - we have been giving him lessons at the Seattle Go Center. His boards vary from 4cm to 8cm. In response to previous comments, I ...

Steve is using CNC equipment, so once he gets a design he likes, he should be able to do an edition of boards, and get some economies of scale.

Steve Pell in Bellingham WA is experimenting with different board designs, often using yellow cedar. He has about 5 different boards on loan to the Seattle Go Center for testing. Here is an older post with a photo:
https://www.seattlego.org/2018/05/17/we ... -go-board/

Kiseido and Yutopian are still shipping books, but not equipment.

The Seattle Go Center will have their 6th annual Gala Pair Go Tournament on Dec. 8 at the Go Center. Hajin Lee 4P will be visiting from California! Registration 5:00 - 5:30 PM; and the event will end sometime around 10 PM. The "mixed doubles" of Go! We'll have Pair Go, cake, prizes, and fun! Formal ...

OK, I think I got the link working now
http://www.seattlego.org/2017/03/02/goban-tables-at-seattle-go-center-2015/

Here is the Seattle Go Center setup.

http://www.seattlego.org/2017/03/02/goban-tables-at-seattle-go-center-2015/

hyperpape wrote:Forgive me if this is too obvious, but have you read the IRS guidelines on the value of donated books?

Good point! I reread them. A while back we had to value a goban, and I was very grateful that the value was well under $5000, so we did not need a professional appraisal to determine its value.

Thanks for your advice, guys. In general, I am now thinking of assigning values for common books in good condition closer to their list price than I was before. I may come back later for help with the uncommon books.
Regards, Brian Allen

In the past, we have seen some very strange pricing from Amazon partners. They will sometimes list a used Go book as being far more expensive than a new one would cost from Kiseido, etc. That's why I'm asking you guys!

The Seattle Go Center has recently received several large donations of used Go books. This is good. We will put most of them in our lending library, while adding the rare ones to our reference library. Books that are common, but in very good condition, may be kept for prizes.

We need to provide an ...

With all the discussion of AlphaGo, I got to thinking about the Go playing program from North Korea, which was first known as KCC Igo, and later distributed in Japan as Silver Igo and Ginsei igo. Is that still being updated? I understand that at one point, it was one of the best programs out there ...