Alejo's Tenuki

Yesterday I updated the section about blogs in Sensei’s Library. It hadn’t been updated since October 2010, so I presumed it would endure some modifications. Some… I expected… “some will be inactive”. In the end, after 30 minutes of checking blogs and sites, 36 blogs were removed from the active section and placed in the [...]

During the last few months I’ve been unaware of international news of go. Certainly, I don’t have much time to invest browsing for news on the net, but this one happened to bump in my facebook wall. This is a trailer about a possible film on go, which features an incredible piece of news I [...]

One would believe that computer strength was years below pro level. This week we’ve been proved otherwise. Zen19 managed to beat a top pro, Takemiya Masaki (9 dan pro), with 4 and 5 handicap stones. Since pro players can’t really give that much handicap to other pro players, some may argue there is still a [...]

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, [...]