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THREE POINTS OF HAPPENING FACT ON THE GLOBAL GRID & A POSSIBLE
DEDUCTION?

	First: On the second Saturday of the coming New Year, the San
Francisco Go Club will be participating in what is traditionally the
biggest tournament in the annual calendar of the game in northern
California. (Details given below in Note #1.)

	From about 1935 until the early 1990's,when former Club officer Mark
Okada of Berkeley,  invented the Internet Go Server, the SFGC was the
oldest, largest and most famous home of the game in the barbarian*
world,
being my word for all the regions of the Planet outside of the three
home countries of China, Korea and Japan.

	Since then IGS and its numerous on-line imitators have transformed
the nature of daily play, marrying humanity's most ancient, elegant &
powerful board game with the emerging new forms of cyberspace.
Attracted by the game's dynamic & severe intellectual beauty,
barbarian mathematicians, programmers & other professionals have
gathered in the beginners' levels of the various on-line venues.

Second: The current amateur champion of Japan = Hirata Hironori
[family name given first, in the oriental style]. Mr.Hirata was born
in 1926; he is 84 years old. My own teacher, who currently gives me a
handicap of 4 stones in our weekly matches and who is himself 83 years
old, showed me Hirata-san's picture (#2) and the accompanying article
in Go Weekly [Japanese language] a couple of months ago.

Third: China = the biggest developing national business market on our
Planet. High-end consumer products are one of the sectors showing the
strongest growth: “In 2009 Chinese bought more than 8,000 Porsches,
which started in price at $125,000; 90 percent of the cars, which were
mostly Cayenne SUVs, were paid for in cash. So far this year, Chinese
are on track to buy 15,000 Porsches....In 2010 the Chinese will buy
500,000 cars in the luxury bracket, up from 100,000 five years ago.”


So much for some simple facts at the cusp.

Now for the Ad Man's imaginative leap: Suppose you have the account
for a top-end beverage suitable for making toasts at banquets –say
Krug or Dom Perignon champagnes, for example. Now cut to the end of
the tournament on Saturday evening:
Arrange a big-screen, crisp video presentation to explain to the
audience of players who is Hirata-san. Beforehand 'twould be very
savvy to lead in with some pics of the famous Chinese champion Jiang
Jujo 9-dan*,

*  http://tinyurl.com/24ev6jb
after whom the tournament is named and his even more famous wife Rei
Naiwei 9-dan*
http://tinyurl.com/2bfap5j

who is the first woman in world history to reach the top professional
rank. Jujo's older brother, Jiang Mingjiu 7-dan professional*
* http://tinyurl.com/2gy4x9n

who actually resides with his family at their home in Mountain View
will be present at the event. I further reckon that our photogenic MC
Ernest Brown PhD*
* http://tinyurl.com/25poloz
 will be happy to share the stage with northern California's other
resident professional, the even more photogenic Janice Kim*
* http://tinyurl.com/23yte33
 3-dan, the only American-born woman professional. All 5 of these
prominent figures are well-beloved of the regional community of
players.

Before  being employed as a teacher by the SFGC around 1992, Jujo had
his own national television program in China. Now the're some name-
recognition stats for you.

So there you have your commercial footage for Chinese TV, winding up
with the authentically enthusiastic mixed-breed SF audience of players
on their feet lifting their glasses and shouting, “Hirata-san, kan
pai!” With the sponsor's label prominently displayed, of course. Now
that's sophistication with some punch, capice?

Now does the ad genius with his hands way high out front who grabs
this Hail Mary and crosses the goal line with it but pay my Club dues
for two years + a very modest fee for any additional consultation (and
well worth it) then we will all be MOLB. Get it, Pancho?

	The more serious film angle of this event jumps out at us from
Champion Hirata and my own Old Teacher both being in their ninth
decades of life and at that venerably late stage of life still
demonstrably way stronger-minded than many, many of their far younger
rivals, including yours truly.

WIKI: “In developed countries, Alzheimer's Disease is one of the most
costly diseases to society.” So we are talking here a market of $
billions.

This game of surrounding, by whatever name we may call it, serves the
enlightened as the gymnasium of the mind. For millennia in Asian
culture it has been associated with wisdom and a happy old age. This
theme worth a reel or two right? Or does one nowadays say “stick” ?


#1.) http://tinyurl.com/8voa9u

2011 Jujo Jiang Goe Tournament

Sponsored By:

Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

and Guo Zhiqiang

January 8, 2011

Hilton Hotel

750 Kearny St. @ Washington St.

San Francico, CA

3rd Floor Ballroom

…............................................

Players:  $35 for all ages.  $25 for current AGA members.

Observers: free.

This tournament is AGA rated.


8:30 am    Registration

9:30 am    Round 1

11:30 am   Round 2

1:30 pm    Lunch

2:30 pm    Round 3

4:30 pm    Round 4

7:00 pm    Awards
….......................................

This is a one day, four round tournament

Timing: 45 minutes plus three 30 sec overtime periods

Prizes in 5 divisions: Open, High Dan, Expert, Intermediate, Novice
…...........................................
Contact: American Ing Goe (indagoe@yahoo.com; 415.606.7641)

#2.) Mr.Hirata stands second from the left in this picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2c9wz4a

There's a better pic in the centerfold of the hard copy edition of
2010/10/11 but we failed to find a link for it.

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3.) “Take the Back Seat: On Chinese Consumerism” by Richard McGregor

A review of:

As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything [2010]
By Karl Gerth.
THE NATION magazine December 27, 2010.