at a tournament this weekend I played an self-atari when we were filling dame at the end of the game...

I also had a real triple ko, but that was in a casual game at the end of the first tournament day

overall a fun tournament, but I wish I would have had one more win (I did create good positions on the board, but did not turn it into victories very often)

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Laurens
Go school: freegame's Teaching School
Author of: The Next Move a book for 15-3kyu players.

After tournaments my head hurts(sometimes) and am extremenly tired, but also feel a great deal of satisfaction. Thats why I go there.

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No Go players were I live so no Go tournaments. Maybe one day I will get to play in a Go tournament. I wonder if a Go tournament is as frieghtning, exhausting, and insane as The chess torunaments I have played in.

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“I’m here to play go and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of gum”- misquoted duke nukem

It depends on the tournament.

In January I played in the Dutch Championship and I was absolutely exhausted after the second weekend. These are 1h30m plus 1x30s byoyomi games in a very serious atmosphere, with a lot at stake (Being one of the weaker players there, I was mainly playing to get a 50% score (4/8), which allows you to play again the next year).

Last weekend I played the Korean Ambassador's Cup, the qualifier for the KPMC, with 7 rounds of 30m plus 1x30s byoyomi, and it wasn't nearly as exhausting, especially after I had lost my second game and was out of the running for victory.