Alejo's Tenuki

On the last post I introduced the EuroGoTV to you. Today I decided to watch a few more of the videos this user has uploaded and discovered this wonderful workshop which took place at the European Go Congress 2007, with the collaboration of Yoon Young-sun (5p). It was a great surprise to discover these series [...]

EuroGoTV is a website which periodically publishes new videos of some European Go World. There you can see Guo Juan (5p) commenting on some games played recently, you can also see how Alexander Dinerchtein commenting daily on the last European Go Congress, the interviews to the programmers of the last computer olympiad… down to double [...]

This is a situation from a game I played last week. As you can see, black has a huge territory on the bottom of the board. The two stones at C4 have been sacrificed during the game… or not? Is there anyway you could profit from their presence? Yes, it is possible to invade the [...]

There has been a major problem on the server, that is the reason for the downtime of this site. On the meantime, I managed to discover lots of new things which I didn’t know, and which remain unknow for most users and I’ll be publishing during the next days. Last weekend I decided to buy [...]

There is a proverb which says: "five may live, but the sixth dies". It means that five groups of a single colour on a board may live (only may) but six groups are too much, and one of them will die. I realised how true it is a few days ago. On Friday I was [...]

This week hasn’t been a boom of a activity on go blogs… in mine neither, I’ve been teaching students on my spare time so I forgot to play it by myself. These are the articles I recommend this week: Common Small Groups with Two Eyes – tchan001 at GoDiscussions.com Counting the score during the game [...]