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 [...]

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 weeks, I’ve been involved in creating a Go club in my city. There’s two of us who already knew how to play and were ranked around 10k. The rest of the club members are newcomers into the Go world, varying from zero knowledge to 28 kyu. When they asked for training I [...]

While yose moves are usually small and mainly consist on winning a few points while keeping sente, sometimes we happen to find big moves during the latest phase of the game. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s because of a shortenning of liberties or due to the presence of some aji-loaded stones. In this case we’ll [...]

Last week I decided to buy the KGS android client or, at least, give it a try. This fabulous idea was the result of the previous 4 long hours on the train which separates me from Barcelona. Now, I was on my way back home and I’d already seen the film twice, when I decided [...]