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Hello from Iowa
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:21 pm
by Lighten
I've been lurking for a while. Been playing for just about six months now; I'm unfortunately an online-only player, because there are three people I know who play Go, and none play it seriously. I've just managed to get to 9k KGS, so I'm proud of my new SDK status (yes, you can all laugh
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I've mostly been playing, with occasional reading and problem solving thrown in. Just got volumes 2&3 of graded go problems for beginners as a gift, and got to immediately use some of the shapes I ran into in a game, so I probably need to do more tsumego.
Re: Hello from Iowa
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:33 pm
by jts
Welcome! Hitting 9k was pretty exciting for all of us
Re: Hello from Iowa
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:44 pm
by xed_over
jts wrote:Welcome! Hitting 9k was pretty exciting for all of us
yeah, I think it took me 6 years, instead of 6 months
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:15 pm
by EdLee
Welcome!
Re: Hello from Iowa
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:56 am
by Mef
Welcome! Depending on where in Iowa you are, there may be more go players than you think. A club in Ames just recently organized a tournament, and the AGA also lists a club in the Quad Cities area. I was thinking there was a group in Iowa City, but I could be getting them confused with the Ames club.
Congrats on hitting 9k, best of luck with your improvement in go!
Re: Hello from Iowa
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:35 am
by Lighten
I'm in Cedar Rapids... which apparently had a Go club at one time, but it doesn't seem to exist any more. That leaves me 1.5-2 hours from the other Go clubs in the state.
Not very practical for any sort of ongoing play (most of my time to play Go is in evenings after wife/kids are asleep anyway), but I didn't realize they were doing tournaments. Maybe I can keep an eye on the Ames site and see if they run another, just to get some games in on a real board.
Thanks!
Re: Hello from Iowa
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:41 pm
by Asmodae
Hey, I'm in cedar rapids as well, just started playing though, so I couldn't offer much of a challenge at the moment, but I'd definitely like to learn... maybe even get a Go club going in Cedar Rapids again.