Life In 19x19

Thanks Uberdude. I read some Chinese, so should be fine with black and white...

Is there somewhere I can watch the final live (bonus points for commentary and webcam coverage)?

Yunguseng is still going strong.

Thanks tapir - looks interesting.

I've just started following the Go world again, and am disappointed to see that this interesting idea seems to have died. Can anyone tell me why it ended up not working, and whether there is anything similar which is still going?

http://http://roadtograndmaster.com/?p=11
I propose to do this ... without dropping my other hobbies (guitar, Go , ...
That sentence was wishful thinking really. I haven't played Go since the Durham tournament in June 2011, though I may be going to China in September and if that happens will be ...

Three satisfied customers so far. Here's what remains:

Basic Techniques of Go - probably not the best choice for a first book, as the title might suggest, but has interesting material on handicap games.
Graded Go Problems for Beginners, volume 1 - good problems for newish players, or useful ...

I'm selling most of my go books. Here's the list:

Basic Techniques of Go - Haruyama & Nagahara
Attack & Defense - Ishida & Davies SOLD
Mastering the Basics series:
.Vol. 1: 501 Opening Problems - Bozulich with van Zeijst SOLD
.Vol. 3: Making Good Shape - van Zeijst & Bozulich SOLD
.Vol. 5: The ...

I remember an article about 'hardwiring' go problems (i.e. doing them many times, looking at them upside-down, sideways etc. to learn them so well that solving them is completely automatic), probably on Sensei's Library, and IIRC written by DrStraw, but I can't find it any more. Could somebody ...

kokomi wrote:Do they have a web page?

Turns out they do have one (Chinese only): http://www.qisedu.com/pxdw/index.asp?p_id=434

You can see more details of my visit, and other go-related experiences (I played against two old men in a park yesterday), at my blog: http://shanghaiwill.wordpress.com for the homepage or http://shanghaiwill.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/li-tianzhu/ for the specific post about ...

I'm in Shanghai now, and have just been to the class of school kids which Li Tianzhu (echoli) teaches. It was a fantastic experience, and I'd recommend it to anyone else going to Shanghai. The kids were all about 2-4 dan, but I think that's considerably weaker than European 2-4 dan. I'm 6 kyu on the ...

This is a normal double elimination format, which is used in numerous sport and game tournaments around the world. There is always the slight unfairness that the winner of the winner's bracket may not lose once they get to the final, this particularly short format merely highlights this. The format ...

Count me in! WatariWill on KGS, 6 kyu BGA (and around that on KGS).

Thanks nami, Dante31 and tj86430. I can't really extend my trip for more than a week at either end, which may mean I don't have long enough to visit a go school. The Wuhan school doesn't have any places left this summer and I've inquired about Experience Go in China.