Cornell Go Club

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The Cornell Go Club is an official student organization at [ext] Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, USA.

Regular meetings for the spring semester of 2009 are over. During the summer, members who live in Ithaca all year are often available to play. Contact us if you need help finding a game this summer.

During the school year, the club usually meets in [ext] Willard Straight Hall, in the cafe on the top floor, between the browsing library and the balcony. To play at any other time, you can borrow our boards from the browsing library with an ID.

Contact Us

Jared Beck
607-216-5373
jared at jaredbeck dot com

Go Books at Cornell

The Kroch Asia Library has quite a good collection of go books. The easiest and most effective way of browsing for books on Chinese Chess and Go in the Cornell libraries is to go to the online catalog, select "search by call number" and put GV1458. A list of the books in the catalog starting with that call number will appear. You will see several books in Japanese and Mandarin, too.

AGA Chapter Status

According to Sam Zimmerman, AGA Database adminstrator, the Cornell Club was last a chapter of the AGA in 1997.

History

2009: Regained official status with Cornell Student Activities Office. Thanks to Richard Liang for organizing this.

2006-present: Jared has been organizing. In 2007, a lack of undergraduate interest (officers) led to the club losing it's status as a formal university club.

2004-2006: The club was called "Cornell Go and Chinese Chess Club" and was organized by Justin, Yu Jye, and John, who have since graduated.

2002-2005: The IthacaNYGoClub met at Poney's house.

1992-2002: ???

1988-1991: Trevor Morris re-started the Go Club while an undergraduate at Cornell. It met regularly, and stored its sets at the Math Library. Guangjiong Chen was the strongest member at that time. His AGA Rating as of spring 2009 is 8.7 dan.

Pre-history: Many great go players have studied at Cornell. Our advisor, Prof. Connelly, has been playing Go in Ithaca for almost 40 years.

See Also

Go Places in the USA


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