Alejo's Tenuki

Watching a game recently on KGS I was reminded of the relevance of counting all sorts of liberties during capturing races. Everyone knows the three types: the external, the shared liberties and the eye liberties. We all know that external liberties should be filled first with the exception of vital points in eyes (which would count also [...]

I just watched a game between 7 dan players in KGS. A blitz game, I must say. Certainly, the speed of the game forced the players to ignore this easy tsumego which features two traditional and basic tesujis for tsumego. After a nice fighting game with several weak groups floating around the board and some [...]

Lately, games against my pupil are becoming more difficult for me to handle. Sometimes I make awful blunders, so that he gets used to spotting them and exploiting his opponents’ weakness. Though this happens usually by the end of the game, at the beginning I tend to play more seriously and force the apparition of several tsumegos [...]

This is a tsumego which appeared during a 9-handicap game of mine. Black plays and lives. What level would you rate it for?

Last week I watched a couple of games among DDK players which involved some interesting tsumegos. Today, I’ve loaded a couple of them on my brain computer and tried solving them. The first one of them was quite hard, since I failed to realise the vital point at first glance and one weakness was hammering my [...]

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 [...]