Alejo's Tenuki

During the last few months, I’ve been teaching go to a couple of newbies. Actually, one of them is improving quite fast, so I might not be able to call him newbie in a few months… However, observing his development and its similarities with mine I realised there is some sort of pattern when it [...]

A few days ago I made a new research for Go apps on the android market. One of the few new apps I found is this one: “Go Scoring Camera”. There’s a free trial version which works for 7 days available at the Android Market. The full app costs 3.40 €, which is around 4.5 $ [...]

It’s been a couple of months since I retook boardgame playing and, most important, logging it. Though the process of logging all my plays had been a laborious task till recently, I found “BGG Mobile” for Android phones made it ridiculously easy. At first glance, it shows 40 plays from 24 different games, 10 of [...]

Since I moved from home, changed job and modified my lifestyle, I’ve started playing go more often. In fact, I’ve been checking my stats on KGS and needed to fall back to the first half of 2008 to find a month with this playing rate. Actually, it’s only been 12 games on KGS plus a [...]

Three weeks ago I moved to Pamplona (Navarra), worldwide famous for its bull races in San Fermin, and it seems that the city remains unaware of the existence of Go. Till this weekend. Due to some unexpected facts, I was asked to teach Go during Saturday. So, with just around 10 days, a friend of [...]

There was a long topic recurrently appearing in Godiscussions: it would be great to save sgf files directly to the hard disk. Some users had tried it combining several tools, which made it a quite complex procedure for anyone but tech-savvy players. Unless you’ve been living in another world, you’ll already have noticed the users [...]