30th Anniversary Party -- Mark Your Calendars!!

[Bill Chiles]

Hey Go Community!!!  This year is Seattle Go Center's 30th birthday.  Seattle was very lucky to be anointed with one of Iwamoto Sensei's Go Centers.  It was a close decision with other cities being considered.  We've been grateful to him and the Nihon Ki-in for supporting Go in the Seattle area, both at SGC and the remote meetups we're able to help out.  

I moved to Seattle in NOV 1995, saw the iconic billboard signage that has drawn so many to SGC, and immediately stopped what I was doing to go there and see what up.  I came from Pittsburgh where barely five people played Go seriously.  Crazy to think the synchronicity that I moved here just one month after SGC opened.  Fri nights were the big gathering then, with upwards of 8-10 people attending 😊.

We will have a party 04 OCT, Sat, at 6pm and a two-day workshop with a pro from the Nihon Ki-in.  There won't be a ratings tournament that weekend due to the Nihon Ki-in sending someone for our anniversary (we'll have the Anniversary Tournament later in OCT).  We'll cater some food, have a nice birthday cake, Chris may make Japanese shokupan milk bread for us, and we'll have nihonshu (you can bring your own beverages too).

More details to follow on the pro that will visit and the Anniversary Tournament this year.

Cheers!!

Bill