Life In 19x19

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"..

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.

Welcome.

thanks for the welcome!

Welcome.

May your groups live and your attacks be sharp!
Welcome

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 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.

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.

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.

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..

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..

Hello, and welcome,

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

Hailing from Germany,
Tom

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!)

Boidhre,