Alejo's Tenuki

Watching a game recently on KGS I was reminded of the relevance of counting all sorts of liberties during capturing races. Everyone knows the three types: the external, the shared liberties and the eye liberties. We all know that external liberties should be filled first with the exception of vital points in eyes (which would count also [...]

I just watched a game between 7 dan players in KGS. A blitz game, I must say. Certainly, the speed of the game forced the players to ignore this easy tsumego which features two traditional and basic tesujis for tsumego. After a nice fighting game with several weak groups floating around the board and some [...]

Lately, games against my pupil are becoming more difficult for me to handle. Sometimes I make awful blunders, so that he gets used to spotting them and exploiting his opponents’ weakness. Though this happens usually by the end of the game, at the beginning I tend to play more seriously and force the apparition of several tsumegos [...]

It’s been a long time since the KGS android app was released and, ever since then, I’ve been interested in making a videoreview of it. Though I’m not really a regular user, I wanted to contribute in keeping up the KGS server, so I decided to buy it. Nonetheless, the KGS app costs 12,12 euros on [...]

This is a tsumego which appeared during a 9-handicap game of mine. Black plays and lives. What level would you rate it for?

Yesterday I updated the section about blogs in Sensei’s Library. It hadn’t been updated since October 2010, so I presumed it would endure some modifications. Some… I expected… “some will be inactive”. In the end, after 30 minutes of checking blogs and sites, 36 blogs were removed from the active section and placed in the [...]