2025 INAF Lifetime Achievement Award Nomination Call
The Iwamoto North American Foundation for Go (INAF) invites nominations for our 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. This award recognizes individuals who have dedicated their lives to enriching the Go community in North America through exceptional contributions to its culture and sport. The deadline for submitting a nomination is March 31. CLICK [...]
Sam Zimmerman Receives the 2024 INAF Lifetime Achievement Award
The Iwamoto North America Foundation for Go enthusiastically awards its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Sam Zimmerman. Successful voluntary organizations often rely on exceptionally dedicated members who quietly do the work needed to make good things happen. For many years, Sam played this role for the American Go Association, serving as Ratings Coordinator and Membership [...]
Nominations Open for INAF Lifetime Achievement Award
The Iwamoto North American Go Foundation (INAF) is seeking nominations for the “INAF Lifetime Achievement Award” to honor individuals who, over their lifetime, have made significant contributions to the advancement of the culture and sport of Go in North America. It is expected that up to one award will be made [...]
Terry Benson Receives the 2023 INAF Lifetime Achievement Award
The Iwamoto North America Foundation for Go has created an annual award to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development and promotion of Go in North America. On behalf of the Foundation, I am honored to present the inaugural award to Terry Benson. Terry learned to play Go [...]
INAF Announces Research Grant for Review of the Relationship Between Mind Sports and Cognitive Functions
On April 5, 2023, Director David Weimer announced awarding a research grant for Professor Xiuwen Wu of the National Louis University for a project that will involve and undergraduate research assistant in surveying reports in the scientific journals that link the development and maintenance of human cognition with mind sports. Professor [...]
INAF Announces the Presentation of Three Videos Produced in Cooperation with Nihon Kiin
The first is a lecture by Takemiya Masaki 9p on his choice of the “best selection of cosmic-style game”. He gives detailed commentary of the game between himself and Cho Chikun to decide the 1988 Kisei challenger. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-mC7AKWXA8. The second video introduces several modern “AI style Josekis” in a lecture [...]