American Go Association
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The American Go Association (AGA), founded in August 1934 and incorporated in 1994, is the principal organizing body for Go in the USA. The AGA:
- promotes the game
- sanctions tournaments (More than 100 per year)
- maintains United States national ratings
- organizes the US Go Congress
- selects representatives to international tournaments.
Since its founding the AGA has published several books and pamphlets, which include:
- The Rationalization of Go? in 1941
- The Structure of Go? in 1946
- the American Go Journal beginning in 1949 - 1955, 1957 - 1961, 1974 - 2002, (replaced by the American Go E-Journal which began publication in 2000)
- The Game of Go by Lester and Elizabeth Morris
- The Way to Go by Karl Baker, 1986
- The American Go Association 1995 Historical Book? by Craig Hutchinson
- Go - A Bulletin Devoted to the Game of Go?, a single issue published in 1936
Currently (December 2007), the AGA publishes a bi-weekly electronic newsletter, the American Go E-Journal, and an annual yearbook.
See Also:
- American Go Foundation
- AGA Go Database
- AGA Handicaps
- AGA Rating System
- AGA Rating Histogram
- AGA Rules
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AGA Wiki - For staff and volunteers
- US-Canada Team Tournament
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AGA Board of Directors Approved Minutes
- The AustralianGoAssociation which also has the initials AGA.
AGA forum at Life in 19 x 19
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A brief history of Go in America pdf on AGA website
- AGA YouTube channel
- North American Go Federation