Alejo's Tenuki

Last week I was told about a Go magazine published in Spanish which I wasn’t aware of. It’s called BuenJueGO and it’s focused on South-American go players, mainly from Chile. On the same week, I happened to write to VincentV from Godiscussions, who is the publisher of the magazine Suji (in English). But, on the [...]

Finally, it seems like the “monthly” EGF update has come to reality. Though the new database is still not updated, the traditional one already shows the modifications in your rank as well as the new incorporations. One of the newest incorporations it’s me. At a level of 10k. Yes, I know it’s quite depressing to [...]

On Monday evening I happened to watch a couple of nice capture races which ended up with the same result, the loser was one liberty short. We all have suffered this sensation where you start reading a capture race and realise that you are one liberty short but play it just in case your opponent [...]

A few days ago, I happened to play a game called “Through the Desert”, designed by Reiner Knizia. Certainly, you may wonder why I’m talking about this game on a Go blog: I’m talking about this concrete boardgame because it has some Go reminiscence within. The purpose of the game is to surround as much [...]

As usual on the games between high dans, there weren’t too big differences on the scores during the whole game and, obviously, it wasn’t different at the end of the game. In fact, the game was so closed that AFTER the game there was the biggest chat I’ve ever seen in KGS. Both players appeared [...]

The more videoreviews I make the more I realise how important they are. Now, due to the change in the hosting service, I’m able to host the files at full resolution. Some of you may not know it, but youtube is starting to test with the perfomance of high definition videos. Meanwhile, the only way [...]