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GTL gold and silver reviews

alejo — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:45:54 +0000

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 had to look somewhere else if I wanted to learn Go -playing was discarded after checking the firewall-. Then I remember a site I used to visit when I was double-digit kyu.: The Go Teaching Ladder.

In fact, I found a couple of details I’d missed before, but I’ll only mention the Gold-and-silver awards given to certain reviews. Certainly, gold reviews are an extraordinaily good source of Go knowledge, even if the game is high above my understanding of the game.

In this case, I’d like to share one specific review with you but due to copyright infringements, I’m only allowed to share the link so that you can download it from their site: LINK

6723

Hourousha

7 dan

StefanW

SebastianH

6.0

B+R

2008-05-24

Enjoy

Game Reviews

Many Faces of Go – review

alejo — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:44:00 +0000

As some of you already know, I’m planning to do a comparison between three comercial products: The Many faces of Go, SmartGo and Moyo Go Studio. This comparison won’t be made on a video, but each program will be reviewed separatedly. As you can imagine, this programs offer a great amount of features, so I just focus on a few of them.

In this case, I start with "The many faces of Go" in its 11th version, available at www.smart-games.com.

I’ve improved the quality and the compression of the videos to be at a 1024*700 resolution on the full version, which is available at my own server.

Here you have the first part of the videoreview:

And here’s the second part of it:

Kombilo’s Review

alejo — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:00:44 +0000

According to the result of the last poll: "Which program you’d like to be reviewed?", I’ve made the videoreview of Kombilo. As some of you already know, Kombilo is a pattern search engine, i.e. you enter a specific position on a board, and the program looks for this specific position in its game database.

There are still a few things hanging in my mind, so I think I’ll make another videoreview about this program, but about a specific section: how to make custom menus.

Here you have the video for direct download, with a much better resolution and quality: Kombilo’s.

This review has been made with a sample collection of 998 games, so as to offer some proper results without overloading the computer.

One thing I’ll say once again: the quality of this program is directly proportional with the quality of your game collection. If you have very little amount of professional games, you’ll get very little results. If you have a huge collection based on low-level amateur players, the results won’t be of good quality. Now, it’s up to you to decide which games you include and which ones you don’t.

I hope you enjoy it, and let me know your opinion!!

Game Reviews

alejo — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:27:54 +0000

I’ve opened a new section on the forum, it’s called "Game Reviews" and you can upload there your own games if you want them to be reviewed or just to share them with the comunity.

There is a poll going on at the sidebar of this site, as you can see the "top voted" right now is Moyo Go Studio; since my computer is unable to run it I’ll review the next most voted result. I’ll make the Moyo Go Studio review as soon as I get a newer computer, but, for now, I’ll erase the option from the poll.

Game review from Spanish Tournament

alejo — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:23:00 +0000

Last weekend took place the Sixth Spanish Tournament on KGS. This game is extracted from the first round and is confronts a Gotomah 12k with Buitenland 13k without handicap.

Personally, I think it is an interesting game for everyone, it has some techniques we already have practised on this blog, a kosumi-tsuke could have been played and more groups coud have been killed. The whole game is available at the "continue reading".

On the following situation, after black has played the crossed stone, where would you play? Look from something else than M15 or N15, and forget about trying to kill the lower black group, it is possible, but it is not what I want you to see.

I hope you already found what to do with the black floating group, if you are not sure about it, check the whole game at the "continue reading"

Winning a lost game

Winning a lost game

alejo — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:18:00 +0000

Yesterday I found myself on a bad situation after having played very bad moves on the opening and the middle game. Luckily for me I could find a path which would lead black to the defeat.

Where is it?

Did you find it?

You can watch the full game without commentaries on the “continue reading” with the zGo applet. You’ll find lots of mistakes from both sides.

The situation shown above is movement 201, black at K4. But I’d like to call your attention to the move 70 by White, the incredibly bad sequences played by white on the smaller groups and the uncomfortable obstination of black on the left side.

[Embedded SGF File]