Archive for November, 2007

Embedded SGF viewers

Written by alejo on November 30th, 2007
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Update: this post is outdated. Currently EidoGo is the major SGF viewer for bloggers and such. With the boom of the Go Blogs, there is an increasing need for tools which can replay SGF files. We all know the traditional ZGo (where the owner of 361points.com shows us the games from title tournaments) and FlashGoban [...]

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What are those dans playing?

Written by alejo on November 30th, 2007
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The more dan-level games I watch, the less Go I know. That is the conclusion I’ve reached after a few weeks of contemplation. I guess most DDK and SDK think about this occasionally. One may even start to think that these dan players are crazy and it’s not a proper way to play. But the [...]

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Added search engine

Written by alejo on November 24th, 2007
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In order to make it easier to surf through this site, a search engine has been added to this blog. You can access it through the bar at the top of the site and there you’ll find the possibility use Google on all the internet, only Alejo’s Tenuki, only Sensei’s Library or only GoDiscussions.com

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Commiting suicide

Written by alejo on November 15th, 2007
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On the last game I played (i.e. a couple of weeks ago) against Mr. Mk, I was pressing from all sides one of his floating groups till he made it live. As you may have noticed, when you press from all sides, you usually create a few weak connections or stones or even groups. Another [...]

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Most difficult tsumego ever

Written by alejo on November 3rd, 2007
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Though it all started as a joke, there is a topic in Godiscussions.com about the “ultimate tsumego”. You might think that an empty board with the clue “black to win” is a joke. I do too… if it wasn’t, Go would have been solved. Amazingly enough, there are a couple of tsumegos with an astonishing [...]

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Stonebase 4.0 released

Written by alejo on November 1st, 2007
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30th October 2007, this was the day when Stonebase 4.0 was released. Most of the interested people have already seen the beta version on a video made by a German Go player, where it showed some good features which were to come. This is the list of the improvements in this version: New: Board Skin, [...]

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