Інтерв'ю з Алі Джабарін в журналі ГОАМА:
European Youth Go Championship results:
http://www.gobl.org/18g.txt
http://www.gobl.org/12g.txt
Some photos:
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/ValeryShik ... 64727/?p=0
1. Congratulations, Ali! I heard it's the first European Youth Go Championship you played.
Why you did never took part before?
Actually I took part last two years too, 2007 Zandvoort EYGC was my first tournament ever, I was registered as 1 kyu and won 4 out of 5 (I was late and missed the first game), the next EYGC in mikulov I didnt do so well and messed up a few games ending up with a 3-3, it was the only tournament so far that my record isn't positive in.
2. Who was the hardest opponent for you?
Difficult question, I feel my games with Nikola, Thomas and Artem were all extremely hard, against Nikola the game was very chaotic in the beginning and using too much time we both had to play yose with only a few seconds of time, finally I ran out of time first.
against Thomas I tried a trick play in the beginning, ended up tricking myself and playing really aggressive in the middle and end game to finally win by one point...but Thomas had a 4 points penalty for overtime, so maybe I was a little lucky(I take comfort thinking if I had 20 more minutes maybe i could play a 3 points better yose). Against Artem game was also extremely hard, he played very solid and I felt like I was behind after the opening however in the life of death of one of his groups he made a mistake and couldnt recover from it.
3. I heard, you became 5-dan just in 2 years. Is that true? If so, do
you know any European players, who were improving faster than you?
I started playing just a little less then 3 years ago in June 2006, mostly since then I just played on kgs,
I have read some books and I watch some pro games sometimes but playing was always best for me.
about other European players, I think here in Israel we have quite a few new players who are pretty strong, Eran Ben-Artzi has been playing around the same time as me and he got 9th this year, we also have a player who's been to Korea for 6 month (Jerry) and he is quite strong today too. As for players from other countries I am not sure how long they’ve been playing so I cant really say.
4. Will you try to defend your title next year? You were born in 1993,
so you can still take part in under 18 tournament in 2010.
Actually I am born 25th November, so I can still play in 2011 as well, maybe if I am lucky
I can be champion three years in a row =)
5. I remember your game with Yamada Kimio, 9p during the World Mind
Sport Games. Did you enjoy that event and learn a lot?
Yes the WMSG was a lot of fun, it is always nice to meet friends and play go a lot, always after a tournament
I feel more passionate about go and I want to play more, the saddest moments for me are when a tournament ends and I have to go back home.
WMSG was also a very big tournament so I got to meet a lot of new people and make more friends there and overall I did ok in the tournament tying for 3rd place after the professionals. my game with Yamada 9p I felt I did pretty good, after a deep invasion of his I had to go for the kill, when that didn't work my points weren't enough and I had to resign.
6. You were 13th in WAGC-2008. Was it the best achievement of a Go
player from Israel? Will you try to get a higher place in 2009?
I think it probably was the best achievement for Israel, before it our record for both KPMC and WAGC was around 35th.
In that tournament the games I lost could go either way (except against Hong-Kong in which I got really crushed)so maybe next time I can be in the top 10.
The association doesn't allow me to participate in 2009's tournaments, we have a rule in Israel which doesn't allow a player to attend more then one tournament in 3 years period(so no 2010 either).However I spoke with our management and we will try to come up with a new system, because I really enjoyed this tournament last year =).
7. What are your plans for the future? Would you like to try and be a
professional?
I have thought about it several times, but I always ruled it out because of school, I think if I do ever try to become a professional it will be after I am finished with school, however maybe I will spend the next summer in Korea(if I have enough money) , before going to the world youth go championships, and see what happens there.
8. Can you tell us more about Go in Israel. Do Jews and Palestinians
play go together? It would be nice if Go was stronger then those barriers.
Unfortunately there are only 3 Arab players in Israel, and the other two never participate in tournaments or come to our club.
However all the Jewish players have always been nice to me and some of us are really good friends today.
9. We can often see Amir Fragman from Israel on European Go
Congresses. Do you plan to take part in future?
The biggest problem with going to tournaments in Europe for me is that Israel isn't actually in Europe, I have to take flights to get anywhere, and that costs a lot of money, my family is not poor, but we cannot afford spending hundreds of dollars each time there is a tournament, also our association gives us 0 financial support (whilst in other countries players receive support when traveling to participate in tournaments abroad that covers almost all their expenses)but it seems noone in israel is trying to do something about this also most tournaments don't give support like the EYGC does.
If I could get past the financial barrier I would go to many more tournaments, this year I will try to use the money I received
from EYGC to go to Shusaku's cup in Romania, or the Paris go tournament...or both =)
if I will have money to go to the European congress this year I will definitely go, I started teaching on kgs on my account loveher[6d] to save up so I can go to more tournaments, but its not enough with only 2 students =).
Thank you for the interview, I am sorry if my answers were too long =).
By the way, Ali agreed to join experts group of GoSensations.com. We will see his posts soon!
