Alejo's Tenuki

During the last few months, I’ve been teaching go to a couple of newbies. Actually, one of them is improving quite fast, so I might not be able to call him newbie in a few months… However, observing his development and its similarities with mine I realised there is some sort of pattern when it [...]

During the last months I’ve been involved in creating a go club and teaching beginners. After a few weeks, we managed to get into a local event involving oriental culture. We managed to show our game and teach some unaware attendants. So our club grew… slightly. One of the toughest tasks as the club teacher [...]

During the last weeks, I’ve been involved in creating a Go club in my city. There’s two of us who already knew how to play and were ranked around 10k. The rest of the club members are newcomers into the Go world, varying from zero knowledge to 28 kyu. When they asked for training I [...]

Since I moved from home, changed job and modified my lifestyle, I’ve started playing go more often. In fact, I’ve been checking my stats on KGS and needed to fall back to the first half of 2008 to find a month with this playing rate. Actually, it’s only been 12 games on KGS plus a [...]

Three weeks ago I moved to Pamplona (Navarra), worldwide famous for its bull races in San Fermin, and it seems that the city remains unaware of the existence of Go. Till this weekend. Due to some unexpected facts, I was asked to teach Go during Saturday. So, with just around 10 days, a friend of [...]

Finally, after three years struggling to get the job done with Serendipity , I decided to follow the mainstream and join the wordpress community, but on my own server. Though I managed to get a similar theme and style, the code behind the page is completely different and much, much better. WordPress has lots of [...]