Life In 19x19

There's an unusual correspondence tournament starting soon (beginning August 3 ) on OGS, and you're invited! We'll be playing Sunjang Baduk, a traditional Korean go variant. Players of any ability are welcome.


And now, a bucket of links...

Read about Sunjang Baduk here: m

Look in the subpages ...

Boidhre wrote:Nope, I'm afraid Belfast is an expensive trip for me from Cork. The Cork tournament's next, failing that I may meet you at the Congress in the Spring.

Fair enough. I'll be missing out on Cork for the same reason. See you in Dublin, I hope--still have to persuade my wife....

Boidhre wrote:Side note: I assume you've joined both the IGA and BGA?

Yup! Joined both just in time for the Belfast Open a couple weekends ago. Were you there, by any chance?

Thanks! I'll give those a try. What kind of security risks does KGS carry with it? It's not that I don't care about risks, it's more that I'm ignorant.

Have you checked IGS, Tygem and WBaduk?


No, for two reasons:

(1) I'm partly looking for specific real-time games: I've joined the Irish Go ...

Not much to do about it directly.

Argh! But thanks.

I suppose you could try a web-based server, either correspondence or real-time, like nova or DGS.

Thanks, yeah, I'm on Nova & DGS already. I love Nova plenty, but it really still seems like more of a correspondence server, & I'm looking for ...

I'm having trouble connecting to KGS, and I can't figure out why. At home, I have no problem connecting, but I take the very same laptop to work (work = Queen's University Belfast, in case anyone happens to know anything specific to this place), and I keep getting "goserver.gokgs.com is refusing ...

When I was living in Hawai'i a friend who was a relative newcomer asked me how to pronounce the name of a famous surfing spot, which he spelled for me. I -- of course!-- pronounced it PEE-PEH LEE-NEH. It is spelled Pipeline .

There's a sushi place here called "One More". I know exactly enough ...

... Spent my first year-ish playing correspondence games almost exclusively, ... Everyone says these are not the best ways to learn, ...

Dude, you went from beginner to 3kyu in 2 years!? That's better than most in longer time periods. I don't think anyone can tell you what the best ways to learn ...

Well. The bad news is that I've failed to make much time for go over the last 2.5 weeks or so. The good news is it's been because of job interviews overseas, and one of them has turned into a job. So I'll be moving to Belfast in August! Was able to play a game at the Belfast Go Club while I was ...

I've never imposed a restriction like this on myself. But perhaps you could resolve to play asymmetric moves in the corners? I'm assuming that is you are unfamiliar with komoku, you are even less sure of the 3-5 and 4-5 points.(And I guess the 6-3 and 6-4 points if you're really want to get out ...

New resolution: play komoku in every corner.

I'm too comfortable with 4-4, and too uncomfortable with komoku. Plus, asymmetric moves will force me to think more carefully about direction in the opening.

Signed up for the ASR League for June. Maybe that'll get me playing more. On the other hand ...

I'd like to join, please.

Tournament result: 3 wins, 2 losses in the 4k-9k division. If I'd won my last game, would have come first in the division, but there's a reason that guy won all his games. Finished just out of the medals. Lots of fun, wish I'd played better, but proud of what I did manage. 1 loss was from a colossal ...

A rambling and disjointed update.

1. I'm really excited about this: going to a tournament on Sunday! The 2013 Canada West Haihua Cup Go Tournament, at the Taiwanese Cultural Centre here in Vancouver. I've been to (exactly) one of these tournaments before, and it was a lot of fun. Teaches humility ...