Life In 19x19

Greetings and Salutations to all! (Especially all the other recent new members)

I am a GO player in Washington state, no I do not live in Seattle. I am about 5 hours away. We have a small club in town of which I am one of the founders and funders.

I am interested in many aspects of GO history, culture, relationship to life,growing a club and spreading GO and maybe even getting better.

I look forward to meeting you here and over the Goban.

お願いします!

Anthony

Welcome! Are you near Portland, too ?

EdLee wrote:Welcome! Are you near Portland, too ?

Yes I am only 4 hours from Portland! (Only in the NW is 4 hours close). I do not make it to Portland very often. But they have a GO Club there and it is larger and stronger than ours. I believe they do a demo occasionally at the Chinese Cultural Center.

Incidentally I first learned to play GO when I lived in Ventura County at the Simi valley club.

Santa Barbara is a beautiful city hope your enjoying it.

And thank you for the welcome!

goTony wrote:Incidentally I first learned to play GO when I lived in Ventura County at the Simi valley club.

Oh! When were you at the Simi valley club, and who else was there?

Oh it has been a while... We were living in Ventura county and I went 2-3 times to the club that met at Borders. I learned the rules there then moved.... So it must have been about 2007. I do not remember the names. But I appreciate the fact I learned there even if I did not play for some time after. Now I am introducing people to GO.

I miss CA.........

How is the SB doing? I know you had some strong players there.

Yes, I also visited the Ventura Go club at Borders a few times over the years. Possibly in 2007, too.
Maybe you met David Whiteside and Ted Drange.
That Borders is still there, but both Borders in SB folded, ~2011. SB is raining tonight.
Unfortunately, the really good players are probably all hiding, and too busy, in grad school at UCSB.

Welcome!

EdLee wrote:Yes, I also visited the Ventura Go club at Borders a few times over the years. Possibly in 2007, too.
Maybe you met David Whiteside and Ted Drange.
That Borders is still there, but both Borders in SB folded, ~2011. SB is raining tonight.
Unfortunately, the really good players are probably all hiding, and too busy, in grad school at UCSB.

I think it may have been David. One of the old computers with all that contact info died and could not be resurrected.

But I hope I have repaid my dues and my borrowed and not returned GO CD.... Since I have taught about 20 people and introduced the game to at least 30 or so...

I miss the beach at SB, though one of my favorites is El Capitan a little north. If your ever up in WA give me a holler.

EdLee wrote:Yes, I also visited the Ventura Go club at Borders a few times over the years. Possibly in 2007, too.
Maybe you met David Whiteside and Ted Drange.
That Borders is still there, but both Borders in SB folded, ~2011. SB is raining tonight.
Unfortunately, the really good players are probably all hiding, and too busy, in grad school at UCSB.

I forgot to ask what do you do are you a student?

goTony wrote:I miss the beach at SB, though one of my favorites is El Capitan a little north. If your ever up in WA give me a holler.

Yes, El Capitan is a bit up north. I was in fact in Tacoma, WA in August
for US Go Congress; were you there, too? My background is software engineering.

I made it to the first two days of the congress only. It was quite a treat, to meet so many strong players. I had an untarnished record there, truly amazing. Not one victory to mar my string of defeats.

I was playing very poorly. I had learned just enough to know about concepts- thickness, tenuki etc... but not enough to apply it. So I played confused and hesitantly. I lost my initial daring innocence. Plus the stronger players know proper Joseki.....

But hey I got a mug and a tee shirt what more could I want?

( I too miss some of those bookstores. They have closed down all over)

Anthony

goTony wrote:I made it to the first two days of the congress only.

Oh, so for Sunday and Monday mornings, we were both in the same hall.

Yes but most definitely not at the same board! I was near the end of the line.....

If I was half as good at playing as getting the word out I would be at least 5kyu....

You need to come visit the Seattle GO center and then come over to Wine country and play with our club!

Tony, my friend and I dropped by the SGC on new year's day 2003.
It was raining. Jon Boley was playing simuls for fund-raising.