Go Moon

  Difficulty: Introductory   Keywords: Culture & History

Amateur go magazine, published for several years in the Netherlands.

The 0-issue appeared two days after the 1st game of the Honinbo Match in Paris, with the moves from this game on the first two pages, during the Amsterdam tournament in May 1988. Go Moon wanted to be the younger brother of Go World. It contained mainly pro games from Japan, and later also lots of games from Korea. An unique feature of Go Moon was an early focus on sanrensei openings in a special section, inspired mainly by Takemiya Masaki 9P. So, soon this section developed into yonrensei specials, especially when other top players like Shuko, Kato, Cho also started to employ this opening. Also soon after the start, the editor of Go Moon - Peter Dijkema from Amsterdam - became member of the team, which produced the European Fujitsu Grand Prix Newsletters. Hence he included those as well in Go Moon, as part of "European News". Editing Go Moon was mainly a one-man job, but without the help of Jan Wielemaker, who type-set it in LateX, it never would have been possible. Go Moon became possible, because the Dutch magazine "GO" received copies of "Go Weekly", "Kido Monthly", "Igo Club" for free and also because Jan van der Steen (author of gobase.org and of 321go.org) wrote "Liberty" for entering games on Atari ST.

As the name indicates, the magazine was intended to be almost a monthly. However, never 13 issues a year came out. A standard issue would contain 48 pages on A5. It had about 50 subscribers world wide, most of them in Europe. Production was mostly several hundreds of copies. The last two issues, numbers 37 and 38, appeared in January 1994. The magazine stopped, because it lost production facilities at The European Go and Cultural Centre in Amstelveen. The author had been writing before - in Dutch for "GO" and in English he contributed to several Ranka Yearbooks. Since early Summer 2007, he regularly contributes as European Correspondent to the American Go Association eJournal. In between, he has been several times editor of the "Bulletins" at European Go Congresses: Maastricht (NL, 1994), Tuchola (Poland, 1995 and 2004), Prague (Cz, 2005), Villach (Austria, 2007) and Leksand (Sweden, 2008).


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