Alejo's Tenuki

On monday I played the second game of the TIG 2008 tournament, against a 1k, the highest rank in my group; therefore this is the toughest opponent I’m to face during this tournament. Before the game, my opponent told me he had seen this blog. Once warned, I decided not to make the Kobayashi openning, [...]

Last week I was forced to play against the Kobayashi fuseki, which is some sort of the mini chinese openning. Here you have the traditional sequence: In fact, I liked the way the game developed for my opponent after Kobayashi’s, so I decided to give it a try on my next game. Today I played [...]

The 10th Ibero-american Tournament starts this week. I expected there to be just a few dozens of players, but the final list of participants consist of 138 players, whose strengths range from Fernando Aguilar to low double-digit kyus. The tournament will be held in KGS and IGS and the inscription is already closed, in fact, [...]

For some reason, and without realising it, my level has increased a little bit. On one game this weekend I lost by 0.5 points against a 6k, though I could have won if I had realised I was winning before yose. Improving my “counting ability” is one of the few things I really need 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 [...]

After receiving some comments on the last post comming from Stonebase developers, I’ve realised I made some mistakes on my pre-review. In order to understand my mistakes here you need to find a way to make objective reviews of programs: a list of features a program must have. If I fail to find it, I [...]