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Wanek Wins Las Vegas Mind Sports Festival Go Tournament

Although last weekend's Vegas event was thinly attended, AGA President Andy Okun reports that “it was fun and we taught a dozen or so people to play.” The winner of the dan section of the tournament was Michael Wanek 4d of Las Vegas, with Brandon Zhou 2d as runner up. The kyu section was a three-way tie between James Schaefer, Joe Nemeth and Sootiat Boonchuen. “In the teaching, I noted with pleasure how much easier it is to teach chess players to play go,” Okun tells the E-Journal. “They read automatically, since that's what you do in a game.” Click here for Okun's commentary on a live-streamed broadcast of Wanek's game with Roy Kanamaru.