Archive for 2009

Beta Go gadget for google wave

Written by alejo on November 30th, 2009
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A new Go Gadget is being developed by Bartmate and Szabo M. Peter, here you have the link to the homepage of the gadget: Game of Go. This information was brought to us by Andrew Smirnoff and Matias Sörlin was the first one to make it load publicly in Google wave. Here you have a [...]

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Go in Google Wave

Written by alejo on November 16th, 2009
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Google wave is the new social network released by (guess who?) Google. It’s still quite premature and there are very few invitations sent, so the amount of users of this network is very limited. Google wave has a big potential for many purposes, but we are here to talk about go. In this picture you’ll see [...]

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Pro’s shining moves

Written by alejo on November 11th, 2009
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Today this thread has been started at GoDiscussions by a user called nchh. I’m unaware of predecessors, but it might be very interesting. The first shining move they talk about are played in this awesome game: Black: Kong Jie White: Park YungHoon Match: 14th LG cup semifinal The game has a few commentaries on the [...]

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My first serious turn-based game

Written by alejo on April 30th, 2009
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Since the network configuration at my job place is somewhat restrictive, all real-time servers such as KGS don’t work. The solution I came up with is playing through turn-based servers like Dragon Go Server. Unfortunately, my account was created in 2006, as a 30k. And still has the same ranking. So I’m rapidly climbing in [...]

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qgo2: Multiserver client in pre-beta phase

Written by alejo on April 21st, 2009
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Though most people running on Windows won’t know anything about qgo, some of you may already know about it: it comes within Ubuntu’s default package. The next version of this program is already under development and it looks like a good tool for online playing. General interface: The general interface is very clean. There are [...]

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Uncommon behaviour: being polite

Written by alejo on April 7th, 2009
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Last week I happened to lose a game, I was totally beaten. Even I could count the points I had on the board… In order to practise yose a little bit, I asked my opponent if he would mind playing the game till the end, though assuming I had lost. After a short while, he [...]

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