User:ElJay Arem/sandbox/ASR - Advanced Study Room

The ASR - Advanced Study Room is a non-profit global community for the Chinese board game Go. The games are being played online via Internet Go Servers.

ASR Logos

 * black letter fonts, white background (size: 360 x 270 px)
 * white letter fonts, black background (size: 468 x 117 px)

History
The roots of Advanced Study Room go back to ~2002-2006. The ASR project is owned since end of June 2016 soley by Guillaume Douron (Bourg-de-Péage / France, Hangzhou / China). It has its own, monthly league system. The ASR league runs with five league divisions online.

ASR League


The ASR league fills a niche in the amateur Go playing community of Western World. It is essentially part of the ASR = Advanced Study Room. Over the years (since 2002) some enthusiastically Go players from around the globe have created a highly competitive system.

The league is accessible to all levels of abilities (e.g. beginners, advanced).

The ASR league is a monthly tournament for players of all levels who want to play serious games and improve in their Go studies. The league provides a pyramid structure of so called "league divisions" from alpha at the top to delta at the bottom. The placement league division is the entry point.

The four plus one league divisions (from top) are:


 * alpha
 * beta
 * gamma
 * delta
 * placement (basic = entry)

New players who registrate first time on the official website with their KGS user name (of Online Go server goKGS) are being pooled unranked in the placement division. At least four (4) games must be played per month to get a fixed rank within one of the leagues.

Online Go servers
The ASR community runs its own (chat & gaming) room on the Westener GO server goKGS (USA). It also has a group channel on North American Go server OGS (Online Go server).

Special events (Extract)
ASR's web archive shows different forms of teachings, e.g. text or video based topics. The access is free for the league members and visitors.

Go Lectures

 * 28th Sept 2014 / 06:00 pm GMT... lecture with In-Seong Hwang (8d): "Let's make Go easier !"
 * 7th May 2016 / 01:00 pm CET... lecture with Antii Törmänen (1p Dan): "How to handle thickness ?"
 * 15th May 2016 / 03:00 pm CET... lecture with Li Ang (3p Dan): "Is Alphago coming or is Go Seigen back ?"

ASR teaching games

 * 18th March 2016 ... teaching game (+ review) with Go Juan (5p Dan): philosophy in Go & teaching, playing good directions, tesujis & classic patterns.
 * 13th May 2016 ... teaching game (+ review) with Go Juan (5p Dan): Concepts about fighting and how to play when groups get cut.
 * 10th June 2016 ... teaching game (+ review) with Go Juan (5p Dan): tactis to build or reduce big moyo and how to use thickness.
 * 18th August 2016 ... teaching game (+ review) with Go Juan (5p Dan)
 * 15th September 2016 ... teaching game (+ review) with Go Juan (5p Dan)
 * 12th December 2016 ... teaching game (+ review) with Go Juan (5p Dan)
 * 23rd January 2017 ... teaching game (+ review) with Go Juan (5p Dan): How to improve direction of play, thickness & shapes.
 * 13th February 2017 ... teaching game (+ review) with Go Juan (5p Dan): Territory vs. influence style. - How to use walls efficiently ?

ASR game commentaries

 * 7th August 2014 / 09:00 pm GMT... Younggil An (8p Dan)
 * 24th April 2016 / 07:00 pm GMT... Markó Péter (7 Dan)
 * 18th May 2017 / 01:00 pm GMT... Guillaume Douron (4 Dan)

ASR Teachers
Different Go teachers and experts from around the globe gave Go commentaries (live), offered Go lectures (live via audio/video) and gave online reviews (e.g. text based chat on KGS Go server):


 * Kim Seung-jun (9 Pro Dan, South Korea)
 * Youngil An (8 Pro Dan, South Korea / Australia)
 * Guo Juan (5 Pro Dan, Netherlands / China)
 * In-seong Hwang (8 Dan, South Korea / France)
 * Li Ang (3 Pro Dan, China / USA)
 * Antti Törmänen (1 Pro Dan, Finland / Japan)
 * Nikola Mitic (Insei of Nihon Ki-in, Serbia / Japan)
 * Markó Péter (7 Dan, Hungary)
 * Su Yang (6 Dan, China / Europe)
 * Planche (6 Dan, France)
 * Juri Kuronen (6 Dan, Finland)
 * Cornel G. Burzo (6 Dan, Romania)
 * Giullaume Douron (4 Dan, France / China)
 * Savannah Biribak (4 Dan, USA / Canada)
 * Shawn Ray (4 Dan, USA / South Korea)
 * Mathieu Delli-Zotti (4 Dan, France)

Official Websites

 * Home page
 * ASR Forum
 * ASR Information & Support Center
 * ASR League @ Twitter
 * ASR's Facebook page
 * ASR's Facebook group
 * ASR's Youtube Channel
 * ASR @ Twitch.TV
 * ASR SubReddit
 * Google Plus

Owner of domains:
 * *.net, *.com, *.eu, *.nl