In a vaguely particular order
1. One of my very first games (not even sure if we finished it) when I still struggled to see ataris. My school friend Richard saw the game in the film A Beautiful Mind and got an introductory book by Matthew Macfadyen. Was in his conservatory on the way home from school, played another good friend Andy. Richard actually recently got back into Go and I'm playing him on OGS now.
2. Losing on 9 stones against Matt Scott 1 dan in the first Oxford vs Cambrige varsity go match I played in. I recall being impressed that there were
student dan players (and Niall was 2 dan!) as at Cambridge all the dan players I had met were adults (Charles Matthews 3d and Steijn (sp?) a dutch 4d).
3. Beating Matt on even the next year
4. Losing in bar low after dame blunder against Simon Mader
5. Losing to Andrew Kay on time in the final of the bar low tournament in a leading position, the start of a tradition... (That's my EGD picture).
6. First time I beat a (nominal) dan player, Tony, at the Cambridge Thursday club.
7. Dying against teacher Will Zhang (chinese 6d, KGS 9d) when he hit the vital point of my big bulge group trying to live in the centre.
8. Group game with Andrew Kay and Will Brooks on KGS during China trip.
9. Playing great wall fuseki on the great wall.
10. Playing racoon dog belly tesuji against Nick Krempel but losing anyway.
11. Playing racoon dog belly tesuji against Junnan Jiang in British Challengers a few years later and messing up later and losing anyway.
12. Outreading Des Cann 5d when I was just a 1d or so in the Candidates (but still lost game).
13. Another Candidates game where I worked really hard to extricate a cutting group in trouble, killed Michael Charles' ponnuki in the centre, then wondered why he didn't answer my obvious sente endgame move and he waited for me to lose on time because I forgot to press my clock. Said some rude words.
14. Rengo game at London open with Andrew Kay and Klaudia against Mateusz Surma and someone else where all 3 of us (and presumably Mateusz too) found and read and under the stones tesuji to save the day.
15. Beating Boris Mitrovich 1d when all my moves had to be knight moves from existing stones on the board at London open party.
16. Decent game against Seongjin Kim 8d at London open few years later (until overtime)
17. 13x13 game in the Sonoyama tournament giving a kid 13 stones, he made a wall down the middle, I lived both sides and won. Andrew Kay then played him and went one better and won by killing the wall.
18. First win against TheCaptain on KGS.
19. Jan Ruuten Budhe (sp?) memorable opponent at Tampere EGC, he had cycled overland from Germany!
20. Playing Antti Tormanen 6d as my reward for winning a lot as a 2d at Tampere. He made corner territory, I made side territories with bad aji like out of Kim Sung Rae after joseki book. He used the aji. I lost.
21. Losing my last game at Tampere to Mikko Nevala. He played some move inside my territory in dame stage of endgame and shouted "Woo hoo!", I thought his move worked and stormed off in a huff and let my time run out. Upon reviewing I found I had a spare liberty we had presumably both overlooked so his move didn't really work.
22. Simul game against Zhong Wenjing 9p at Tampere, the strongest player I'd played til then, was impressive.
23. Played Michael Redmond 9p in a simul at Bordeaux EGC, don't remember my games much, though I do recall a little Tanguy le Calve ~4d beating up Alex Rix next to me.
24. First game at Poland EGC against Natalia Kovaleva 5d, had a good game, her pair Go partner Dmitry Surin was watching and looked worried, but I messed up in overtime pressure.
25. Losing to Koichiru Habu at that EGC in a really long game where I got hungry and played rubbish throwing away a good game, I was rude but he forgave me.
26. Losing by half a point to Denis Karadaban in another really long game where I took a lunch break and we delayed the start of the afternoon tournament in our room.
27. Playing MaAtt crosby outside because it was nice weather at Belfast tournament, he opened at tengen to counter my opening knowledge.
28. First win against Matthew Macfadyen 6d, that legendary player from my first go book. In BGA online league I played a solid game, he overplayed, we had some fight, I read well and took the lead, and then held on against his attempts to complicate in 1 byo-yomi, and then my Dad was banging on my window because I was late to leave for the airport.
29. Tough OGS game against Prodigious that I wrote out on a piece of paper and analysed the yose during train/coaches journeys through the Balkans, came back, applied the analysis and won.
30. My hard-fought win against breakfast 3p on OGS.
31. OGS game against vitality where we copied a pro game, but I was the losing pro so had to find the pro's mistakes and diverge, which I did and took the lead.
32. Another OGS game against vitality where I played mirror go after studying some of Fujisawa Hosai's games.
33. OGS game against Magicwand where I crushed his overplays and that made me join this forum because someone suggested to do it again as a Malkovitch.
34. OGS game against zelaot that was a half pointer and turned into a cool problem
https://www.lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5099.
35. Still remember quite a lot of my OGS games against davos, Elin, gomad361 and others,
36. PGETC win against Victor Chow 7d by half a point after a very sweaty yose.
37. PGETC game against some portuguese player where I did Go Seigen's ladder making attachment against the 4-4 pincer take corner and wall joseki and then tricked him with another ladder.
38. Win against Lluis Oh Korean 6d at Brussels, kinda disappointing that so many years later I think this is still my highest rated real life tournament win.
39. Losing to Pavol Lisy 6d next game in a fighting Chinese.
40. Few years later was beating Pavol 1p for about 100 moves in PGETC but couldn't bring home the win.
41. Playing illegal suicide move as ko threat against Koen Pomstra 5d, BGA rules mean it becomes a pass, he kindly agreed to pass too and we continued (and I won and he didn't complain).
42. Playing an old Korean dude with a tricky style at temple stay during time at BIBA.
43. Taking unnecessary risks against Sai at BIBA to make the games more fun. We're married now so I supposed that worked
44. Losing to little kid who looked like Lee Sedol in Korean go school.
44. 2nd game of 2013 British championship against Andrew Kay, was a better game than the first (which I only didn't resign because we'd paid Dinerstein to comment it all day) with a big ladder trade, but then lost on time from a bad timesuji as trying to read out a cool kill.
45. A game I didn't play with David Ward 4d before he died from cancer; he'd invited me round to prepare for the 2013 match against Andrew Kay but I never took him up on it, still regret to this day.
46. David's last tournament game earlier in the year against me, as always a tough fight.
47. 1st game of 2015 British championship against Andrew Kay, got a big lead in first fight, game got complicated, lots of kos, much excitement for viewers but very disappointing loss in the end.
48. Won the next 2 games (2nd involved a funny empty triangle) to take my first and (still) only title.
49. Losing a load more British championship games against Andrew, Sam and Daniel
50. Beating Daniel easily at Cambridge club when he was still 1k, but losing on 3h.
51. Beat Kyongnang Kang 7d in even game simul by half a point at a Cambridge teaching day.
52. Losing London pair go with Sai by half a point giving 9 stones to Gerry and Gudrun because
black got half point komi and I made an unnecessary teire.
53. Final WAGC game against Emil 5d from Mexico, got lucky when he answered my bluff with lots of people watching as last game to finish, got me a decent place 5/8 finish with terrible SOS.
54. Forfeiting WAGC game because noisy frogs meant I didn't sleep til 4am.
55. Losing last game of KPMC against Radek 5d, if I'd won I'd have 5 wins and a top 10 finish.
56. 2h game against Oh Yujin 6p, almost killed her...
57. 4h game against Shi Yue 9p, lost with yose blunder.
58. Losing by half point against a Taiwanese 6d at the Gold cup in China after a comedy of errors. Lost another by 1.5 I think after bad yose, fate felt against me.
59. Beating LeelaZero with a ladder (retired with 100% record).
60. First real life tournament win against Matthew Macfadyen at Wessex last year, he's a bit rusty now and when he started blitzing to keep time pressure on me in overtime I actually fought better.