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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]