American Go Association

The American Go Association (AGA), was founded in August 1934, was incorporated in 1994, and is the principal organizing body for Go in the USA. As a volunteer run organization, the AGA works to build a sustainable community of Go players in the United States.

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
• US-Canada Team Tournament
• AGA Board of Directors Approved Minutes
• The AustralianGoAssociation which also has the initials AGA.
• American Go Association Forum at Life in 19x19
• The History and Culture webpage at AGA's website
• AGA YouTube channel
• North American Go Federation