This is great. I would only change one thing. Drop the "intricate'. We know it is true - but you do not want to intimidate a new person - emphasize FUN! not HARD! .

I second Bruce's point about meeting times. Either pick a time and place, which has the downside that you might just be stuck there replaying games, or say "contact hailthorn for meeting times and places". People react much better to something concrete--if they're by the library one afternoon, they might just show up even though they wouldn't send an email to set up times.

Assoication is a typo.

@chew terr- Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the AGA website had a lot of links that would point beginners in the right direction. Maybe it was a bad idea to assume people would look through the website, but I thought that posting the AGA website would have two benefits: 1. The links, as I mentioned. 2. It would give the site more views, and thus more exposure. Perhaps if I add that the AGA website has links for beginners that it would be the best of both worlds?

Eh, I just figured the priority was the absolute best chance of retaining interested potential players. I figure, the more clicking one has to do to find out how to play, the more likely they are to give up. Just a thought.

- I agree with Horibe about dropping "intricate." But I have the opposite reaction.
Emphasize "Extremely Difficult". I want to attract people who like a big challenge,
very difficult stuff. This is not Monopoly or other party games.

- Drop the 4,000 years. When complete strangers ask me about Go
and its origin, I mention its antiquity. But I never saw the value/attraction of
highlighting "the oldest game" on a flyer or business card.
To me that's a trivia, not a feature or selling point.
Rocks and the universe are also ancient --
and interesting to geologists and astro-physicists.

Anyway, I think it is important that the advertisement gives a hint at what makes go special instead of just saying "Come and play a fun game at my place" as might be the result of combining some of the advice given in this thread.

rtf is strange format for a poster/flyer. It opens as 2 pages on my computer. Better to use presentation software such as powerpoint or open office equivalent, then you can control the layout better. You can convert to pdf or html before distributing.

Will you print this? That goban picture may look quite bad on paper, due to the dark green background and too many stones. A finished game is also the wrong message imo, when inviting new comers.

I personally prefer wordpad.

Notepad! vi!

emacs

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Anyone care to give me a map?