June, 2004 The Pacific GO Observer page 2
Curtis Tang
Round Robin
Future Go Servers
Redmond Cup / Ing-Redmond T, and youth
Cheldelin Workshops
Teaching Go in Salem
Corvallis Outreach
Corvallis Tournament
Adventures In Learning: Go!
Yang 7p NJ Workshop
Strength & Weakness
Tier Winners
Summary Listing
Youth Profile on: CURTIS TANG by None Redmond
Curtis Tang is from Southern California. He is now 11 years old and has been playing in the Redmond Cup tournament since he was 7 when he had been learning to play Go for 2 years. As the winner of the junior league Redmond Cup he has been chosen to play for the United States in the World Youth Goe Championship. His IGS rating is 6 Dan.
Curtis works hard to learn go practicing for about 3 hours a day. Initially taught by his father, he also visits the ancestral home in China where he has two major teachers in Shanghai. One is Fang, Jie who is a 7 Dan professional and the other is Li, Jia-Qing, an amateur 6 Dan. There he jogs daily before breakfast and then during the morning he works at understanding life and death problems and re-playing high Dan games. During the afternoon he learns some josekis, fusekis and studies middle and end game problems. Then in the evening his teacher analyses games he had played. This is the pattern of his life in China staying with his grandfather.
This year Curtis is still playing in the Junior league of the Redmond Cup and will be one of the finalists to go to Congress for the final three games there. Next year he will graduate to the Senior league and play against some stronger players. At the moment he is unsure whether he wishes to be a professional player or not. But whatever Curtis does our best wishes go with him for his future. He is bound to be one of America’s luminary go players and we shall doubtless hear more of him as time goes on.June, 2004