Alejo's Tenuki

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 [...]

During the last month I’ve started working on a full 24-hours shift but, as I’m only necessary from time to time, this situation leaves me with some lonely long hours. While studying takes most of my time, studying go seems to be more enjoyable. Unfortunatellyl, I cannot connect to KGS from my job, so I [...]

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 [...]

Day: April 18, 2010. Hour: 15:00 GMT, 11 AM Eastern, 8 AM Pacific Place: KGS server What happens?? North America versus Europe. Rules: ING rules, with time controls of 30 minutes main time + 10 moves/5 minutes Canadian-style overtime. By now you should have already filled that day on your calendar with a “do not [...]