Smart Go Academy

04/08/2021

⚠️Special arrangement during COVID-19 pandemic😷

Due to the current situation and government policy, we give face-to-face and online lessons simultaneously. Students are free to choose which one to attend. 🧑‍🏫💻✅
Either way, our system allows all students to participate actively in class, and online students can play with face-to-face students through our system. 🌐

30/07/2021

🇹🇭Rewarding experience in the 2019 Mama Cup GO International Championship🎖

2019 Mama Cup GO International Championship was held in Bangkok, Thailand. This year’s participants were from places all around the world, including the US, Australia, New Zealand, Romania, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan.

🥈Our students being younger than other participants on average, were on par with the others. They managed to win a group first-runner up in the division of 13x13 board.

🥉Fung Yet, 7 years old, finished his individual tournament as the second-runner up with a result of 5 wins and 1 loss. Four of our students returned home with medals, certificates and cash awards. Such a fruitful trip!

30/07/2021

Victorious in The 7th Asia Peace Child Game-of-Go Convention🏆

The 7th Asia Peace Child Game-of-Go Convention was held in ShanTou Haojiang, China from 20 to 22 August 2018. Over 100 young players coming from China, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong etc. competed in different divisions according to their rankings.

🥇Our student Matthew Song finished in the high kyu division as Champion ✨

27/07/2021

👩‍🏫🧑‍🏫How do we achieve our teaching objectives?🗯

🎯We design our own teaching materials, which are tailor-made to increase students’ interest in learning Go and improve their strength.

🎯We put a great emphasis on logical thinking, lateral thinking and deductive reasoning, so as to effectively train our students' minds.

🎯We often take our students to participate in local and international tournaments, enhancing their ability in handling emotions and overcoming adversity.

23/07/2021

⚫️⚪️Learning Go at Smart Go Academy🎓

💡We believe that developing an appropriate attitude towards learning and thinking is far more important than gaining the knowledge itself. And that should start from the beginning of the journey of Go learning. Therefore, we insist that beginner classes are taught by the most experienced teachers.

💡We encourage students to participate in lessons actively because we believe that the thinking process is the key to learning. Students are constantly being given exercises and challenges in class, so as to enhance their learning through trial and error.

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21/07/2021

⚫⚪Why do you want to play Go❓🤔

💭Want to challenge yourself?🔥
Go is easy to learn, but hard to master (most likely impossible for humans)🤖. The game is so challenging that for a long time, even computer programmes were no match for a human Pro player, until Google Deepmind developed AlphaGo with the techniques of deep learning and Monte Carlo tree search. AlphaGo shook the world of Go players by winning 5:0 against European Champion Fan Hui and 4:1 against world top player Sedol Lee in 2015 and 2016. Ever since, countries developed their own AI, which turned out to be great for training.

💭Go is good for your brain!🧠🆙

▪️ Playing Go involves memorisation, logical reasoning, pattern recognition and imagination, which significantly activate your right brain. 🧩

▪️ Research suggests that playing Go can to some extent alleviate mental decline and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. 🤓

💭Playing go as recreational activity⏳
Go is a very good time killer. The time it takes to finish a game is highly flexible. You can adjust the time limit to seconds per move, finish the game in minutes, or you can take your time to finish it in days. ⚡️❓😴❓

💭Go as a lifetime interest and companion💯
The 19x19 board gives you countless combinations and possibilities. You will never encounter the same game twice. 🖤🤍

https://deepmind.com/research/case-studies/alphago-the-story-so-far

#圍棋 #囲碁

Source:
1. Chen; et al. (2003), "A functional MRI study of high-level cognition II. The game of GO", Cognitive Brain Research, 16 (1): 32–7, doi:10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00206-9, PMID 12589886

2. Masunaga, H; Horn, J. (2001), "Expertise and age-related changes in components of intelligence", Psychology and Aging, 16 (2): 293–311, doi:10.1037/0882-7974.16.2.293, PMID 11405317

3. Verghese; et al. (2003), "Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly", New England Journal of Medicine, 348 (25): 2508–16, doi:10.1056/NEJMoa022252, PMID 12815136

AlphaGo is the first computer program to defeat a professional human Go player, a landmark achievement that experts believe was a decade ahead of its time.

20/07/2021

Why is the name "Go"? ⚫⚪☯

👉 Go is the romanised Japanese name 碁, (and "igo" for 囲碁 as a “full name”). That Go is the most commonly known name is probably because the Japan Go Association played a major part in promoting Go outside East Asia, even though the game was actually invented thousands years ago in ancient China.

👉 Go is also known as Baduk in Korea (바둑), Weiqi (traditional: 圍棋 /simplified: 围棋) in Mandarin. In Cantonese it is pronounced as Wai Kei(圍棋).

#바둑 #囲碁 #圍棋 #围棋

🖊P.S. As you can imagine, most of the technical terms for Go in English are the romanisation of the Japanese terms. So you are also learning some Japanese alongside learning Go. :P

16/07/2021

What exactly do children learn at Smart Go Academy?🤔
What is "Go"?
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Go is a strategy board game for two players where they will in turn use black and white “Go stones” to compete against each other for more “territory” on the Go board.⚔️
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Sounds confusing?👀🧠
Stay tuned to learn more about Go!

14/07/2021

Welcome to the page of Smart Go Academy! ⚫️⚪️💻
Smart Go Academy is a Go School and Coding School founded in 2004 in Hong Kong.
📍🗺 Currently we are located at Shop 260, Kings Wing Plaza 1, 3 On Kwan Street, Sha Tin, a minute away from Shek Mun MTR Station!