Maeda Sensei Pro Workshop -- 15-16 MAR

[Bill Chiles]

We are hosting a Maeda Sensei workshop, 15-16 MAR.  His workshop was quite popular last year.  Admission is $30 per day for non-voting members (or $50 for both days) and $20 per day voting members (lifetime or annual).  Saturday, 15 MAR, SGC is closed to people not taking the class.

QUESTION: If you considered attending the Lee Dong-hoon workshop, but you didn't attend, is there a specific reason?  If you didn't consider attending at all, and there's a reason that would be good feedback to us, please let us know.  We had very low turnout compared to the pro visits in 2024, so we want to see if there's something to learn here.  We spend quite a bit of money to have pros visit, and while we don't nearly make up for it with workshop fees, we do want people to attend to benefit from pro interactions and teaching.

ROUGH SCHEDULE:

 * Saturday, 15 MAR 1:00pm start -- doors open for registration and playing Go at noon.

    The start time is a little soft since we will be coming directly from the airport.

 * Saturday — probably lecture, game review, and possibly simuls

 * Saturday 6pm-ish -- class ends for the day

 * Sunday  10am -- class resumes with mixture of lecture, game reviews, simuls

 * Sunday 12pm -- lunch break (usual $15 for 4 slices of pizza option)

 * Sunday 1:00-5pm-ish -- final workshop session

MAEDA SENSEI BACKGROUND

Maeda Sensei is a 6p from the Kansai Ki-in Japanese professional organization.  He is very popular at the Go Congresses for many fun and entertaining lectures.  He has attended the Go Congress almost every year for the past 20+ years.  He usually stops in Seattle on his way to or from the Congress.

Maeda Sensei created and runs the Osaka Go Summer Camp that is very popular.  It runs every JUL/AUG for 3 weeks, ending in the Japanese Go Congress that Maeda created in the image of our Go Congress.  He also runs the Osaka International Online School — weekly serious games with ~30 min reviews and 2x/mo private teaching game with a pro.

Cheers,

Bill