Alejo's Tenuki

While preparing for my last journey I decided I’d bring one of my long forgotten Go books. Though some readers will certainly think I’m talking about the book Tesuji -which I forgot at a train a month ago-, I’m actually talking about my other Go book: “Five Hundred and One Opening Problems“. Assuming I’d spend [...]

A few days ago I came across this site while checking Lifein19x19. The purpose of this site is to help Go players to find each other on real life rather than on virtual servers. Though registering only takes one minute, I’d say it’s usefulness relies on the amount of players on your area. In my case, since [...]

This blog is already a few years old, it all started 3 years ago, January from 2007. Back then I was around 11k in KGS and, currently being 7k, I can’t say I’ve improved much during these years. This blog was started due to a Go hype I endured for the first couple of years, [...]

It’s been a couple of years since I first started looking for ways to monetizing this blog. The main ad system on the internet, as you may already have noticed, is Google Adsense. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t realise what this site is about, so you may find strange ads: a post about sacrificing stones happened to [...]

According to the American Go Association, and confirmed by some Senior KGS admins, today Tartrate will play against Gentlerain. Here you have the published text just in case you don’t know them: THIS JUST IN (3/4/2008): “LEGENDARY” TARTRATE TO PLAY JANG BI ON KGS WEDNESDAY: Tartrate will return to online go this Wednesday when he [...]

If you keep track of the Full of Surprises blog, you’ll have already realised the decline in Korea’s Go scene. The first post related to this topic which amused me was the one called my two teachers, where she talks about how she learnt go and some possible reasons on why children don’t learn it [...]