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Xaos · Post by **Xaos** » Mon May 14, 2012 5:26 am

hello to all.. signed up over the weekend but i only had time to introduce myself today.. i live (and work) in brazil as an english/ spanish teacher (yeah, forgive the lack of correct punctuation here).. although i played "atari-go" as a child with my parents i dropped go at a young age.. the way i "came back" to go was this: i like to supplement the classes with audio/ video.. one student asked if she could bring in a dvd for us to watch in class and she brought the english dub of hikaru.. she lent me the series and i brought back great memories of my childhood.. so with that i started playing, this time "for real"..

tchan001 · Post by **tchan001** » Mon May 14, 2012 7:02 am

Great to see you at L19 and hope you have a great time here meeting new friends and learning more about the game of go together with all of us here.

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Mon May 14, 2012 7:56 am

Welcome.

Xaos · Post by **Xaos** » Mon May 14, 2012 8:05 am

thanks for the welcome!

Boidhre · Post by **Boidhre** » Mon May 14, 2012 10:49 am

Welcome.

Twitchy Go · Post by **Twitchy Go** » Mon May 14, 2012 12:27 pm

May your groups live and your attacks be sharp!
Welcome :salute:

Redbeard · Post by **Redbeard** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:21 pm

Welcome to L19!

Do you ever go to the São Paulo Go Center? I am very curious to hear how the club is doing, but no one I speak to has any news.

Xaos · Post by **Xaos** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:36 pm

Redbeard wrote:Welcome to L19!

Do you ever go to the São Paulo Go Center? I am very curious to hear how the club is doing, but no one I speak to has any news.

Redbeard: I have not visited. While I live in the state of São Paulo, I live in Campinas, a smaller city, about an hour or so away.

Boidhre · Post by **Boidhre** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:16 pm

Do you want a bunch of unranked 9x9 or 13x13 games on OGS for practice? I can't teach you really but I can help you get a lot more games in which is one of the key ways of getting better.

Redbeard · Post by **Redbeard** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:32 pm

Xaos wrote:Redbeard: I have not visited. While I live in the state of São Paulo, I live in Campinas, a smaller city, about an hour or so away.

Ah, I see. Well, if you ever get the chance to visit let us know what it's like.

Xaos · Post by **Xaos** » Mon May 14, 2012 3:41 pm

Boidhre wrote:Do you want a bunch of unranked 9x9 or 13x13 games on OGS for practice? I can't teach you really but I can help you get a lot more games in which is one of the key ways of getting better.

sure, i'd go for that..

Xaos · Post by **Xaos** » Mon May 14, 2012 3:42 pm

Redbeard wrote:
Xaos wrote:Redbeard: I have not visited. While I live in the state of São Paulo, I live in Campinas, a smaller city, about an hour or so away.

Ah, I see. Well, if you ever get the chance to visit let us know what it's like.

will do!! i am going to check out the japanese cultural center here in a few weeks, hoping they have players there.. i will report back..

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Tue May 15, 2012 3:33 pm

Hello, and welcome,

I simply added you to my KGS buddy list, maybe we meet each other there :-)

Hailing from Germany,
Tom

Boidhre · Post by **Boidhre** » Thu May 17, 2012 10:13 pm

I promised you a review. Probably one of the stronger players can give you a better one but this explains why I won:

Apologies for any mistakes or errors. None of my ideas should be taken as the way to play. For instance I don't mention it but d3 or f3 would be fine opening responses to a tengen opening on 9x9.

The shapes I talked about:

Bent four in the corner: http://senseis.xmp.net/?BentFourInTheCorner
Rectangualar six in the corner: http://senseis.xmp.net/?RectangularSixInTheCorner
Straight three: http://senseis.xmp.net/?path=LifeAndDea ... eEyeshapes (part of this list. Get to know these, it's very helpful!)

EdLee · Post by **EdLee** » Thu May 17, 2012 10:31 pm

Boidhre,

Life In 19x19

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