Alejo's Tenuki

Apple’s new device, Ipad, has already started to generate news involved with the go world. There are several users interested in buying this tablet, so I guess it would be interesting to do reviews of these pieces of software. Unfortunately, I’m not going to buy one, so guess we’ll have to get information from other [...]

Sometimes, while watching a game on KGS, you find a game filled with the traditional tsumegos you’ve repeated once and again in Goproblems.com. Here is one of these samples, where you’ll find some problems for double-digit kyus, some that I didn’t manage to solve in real time and some I wouldn’t have solved with a [...]

This post is based on a real game I was watching on KGS. The game was actually a blitz game, so players didn’t have much time to think about deep strategies, nor did the audience. And that is referring to myself, I wasn’t able to follow some of the moves in real time, I needed [...]

Last Sunday was held the final game to decide who would go to the World Mind Sports Games representing the USA in Beijing in October. The game confronted Joey Hung 8d vs Jie Li 9d and it was very interesting and very didactic as a sample of how to count ko threats and how to [...]

We all know KGS, you may like it, you may dislike it. But we must all agree in how crazy his rating is. Last September, KGS decided to modify its internal rating. Now, it is supposed to be more difficult to reach high levels while the lower levels are narrower; so lots of players concentrate [...]

We all have heard something like: “try doing double purpose moves”. And, sometimes, we wonder how to do it. Dual purpose moves are made in such a way that they achieve 2 purposes (obviously), the most obvious one is to make territory or strengthen yourself while attacking a weak group from the opponent. Yesterday I [...]