Alejo's Tenuki

Lately I’ve decided to start playing go again through the net. Unfortunately, I still haven’t beat my online go anxiety syndrome, so I’m left with watching games on KGS or IGS. During my last night shift I could watch a blitz game played by one 6d and one 3d in KGS. I’m not telling their [...]

Last week I was wandering around Go problems when I came across this one. It’s this specific kind of tsumegos I fail to solve – the ones that require for illogical reasoning. After reading some useless sequences I usually end up giving it up, assuming there is no way to overcome that position. Go problems [...]

For some reason, games played during the last months have proved me right: my fuseki is awful. The worst I’m at fuseki, the more I have to fight during middle game. The last 20 games have been all-in tsumegos, with the result of the game as a price. Though I’m able to remember the basic [...]

While yose moves are usually small and mainly consist on winning a few points while keeping sente, sometimes we happen to find big moves during the latest phase of the game. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s because of a shortenning of liberties or due to the presence of some aji-loaded stones. In this case we’ll [...]

During the last month I’ve started working on a full 24-hours shift but, as I’m only necessary from time to time, this situation leaves me with some lonely long hours. While studying takes most of my time, studying go seems to be more enjoyable. Unfortunatellyl, I cannot connect to KGS from my job, so I [...]

For some reason I’m missing, I only happen to see what I want to see or, more specifically, what I think I should see. During a game, if I think I don’t have any possible escape or way to survive, I’ll miss it and give up reading. And viceversa, were I to think there is [...]