Alejo's Tenuki

This week I’ve decided to start playing go, again. After some teaching during the weekend, I needed to play some serious games over the net. As a result I ended up badly beaten by a 11k in KGS, due to some huge careless reading – assuming that not reading at all could be considered careless [...]

Day: April 18, 2010. Hour: 15:00 GMT, 11 AM Eastern, 8 AM Pacific Place: KGS server What happens?? North America versus Europe. Rules: ING rules, with time controls of 30 minutes main time + 10 moves/5 minutes Canadian-style overtime. By now you should have already filled that day on your calendar with a “do not [...]

Sometimes, while watching a game on KGS, you find a game filled with the traditional tsumegos you’ve repeated once and again in Goproblems.com. Here is one of these samples, where you’ll find some problems for double-digit kyus, some that I didn’t manage to solve in real time and some I wouldn’t have solved with a [...]

This post is based on a real game I was watching on KGS. The game was actually a blitz game, so players didn’t have much time to think about deep strategies, nor did the audience. And that is referring to myself, I wasn’t able to follow some of the moves in real time, I needed [...]

This weekend was held the 2010 Barcelona Go Tournament, organised by “La Pedra” club. Finally, a total amount of 146 players showed up for the competition; with over 40 EGF dan players and around 30 double digit kyus, it seems like the tournament level was, on average, quite high. Taking into account the absence of [...]

Over 110 people will be playing go during the 20th and 21rst of February while taking part in this year’s Barcelona Tournament.  It seems like we’re going to beat the previous attendance record, stated at 118 players, and be placed among the most popular Go tournaments in Europe. Here you have a list of the [...]