Alejo's Tenuki

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is a real situation which came up in one of my games: As you can see, white threatens to make an eye around O4 and around T5. Actually we both thought that white was going to die and so it did during the real game. W1 tries to move the vital point,  B2 plays [...]

I can’t do anything but congratulate Heretix for writing the subs of this game between Lee Chang Ho and Cho Hun Hyun, played in 2002 on the 6th LG Semi-final match, commented by Hua Yi Gang 8-dan. There are a few interesting variations on the fuseki and the explanation of some unexpected moves by both [...]