Alejo's Tenuki

While updating my collection and my ranks at Boardgamegeek (BGG), I realised that I still place Go at the top of my rankings, giving it 10 out of 10 points. Though you may consider, as I do, that the perfect game doesn’t exist, you may agree with me in the awesomeness of this game. Go [...]

During the last weeks I’ve been searching for online Go shops and, honestly, the situation is very disappointing. Since the amount of go players is rather limited all over the occidental world and physical Go shops are scarce, one would imagine Go shops offer good services; but it strikes me that, in spite of making [...]

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 [...]