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Go humour
I haven’t been checking out Almost Sente in a while. Of the new strips, number 50 was hilariously funny! I think I have a dry sense of humour sometimes.
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Go and Gang of Three, part 2
Yet another session with Go and Gang of Four. This time I moved on 19×19 board with Juho. Where I used to play one game of 19×19 with Ilari in, say, 90 minutes, we played six games with Juho. And it still didn’t feel too fast; I had plenty of time to make up my…
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Go and Gang of Three
As typical, we played Go. I played ten games, mostly pretty fast 13×13 which is the greatest fun in those surroundings. I won quite a few of them, too. As our these days mandatory card game, we played Gang of Four. We played a six-round game with three players, and it was quite fun. Despite…
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Go + Flaschenteufel
We had another Go session yesterday. I did play few games of Go, certainly, but the main theme was Flaschenteufel. We played a rather pleasant four-player game. Flaschenteufel is fast becoming my favourite trick-taking game. The theme works well — I felt certain anxiety when I realised that I was never going to get rid…
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Go + Bob’s Hat
I had a pleasant afternoon playing Go and Where’s Bob’s Hat? at the University. I played Go against Juho, I think he’s rather pleasant opponent. We played fast 13×13 games, 11 of them. I won six. We started with a handicap of three stones (I gave handicap and played white all the time) and ended…
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Games played today: Attika and Go
I played some more Attika today on BSW. This time it was a three-player game, which I managed to win by building my 30 buildings first. It was a much longer game than the two before — 70 minutes as compared to the 20 minutes games I played earlier. One of my opponents played for…
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Café Go
I played some Go both yesterday and today. Yesterday it was another game against Ilari, today I played against Olli who is ranked 8 kyu. We had a large crowd, five people! While I played my game, first Ilari and Juho played a 13×13 game and then Juho and Ari played some 9×9 (Ari was…
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Bringing my rank down
Played some Go today. I’m trying to bring my KGS rank down a bit. I’m just not 15 kyu. Today I lost a game (a bit over forty points — I lost 24 stones as captures!) to a 12 kyu, which dropped me down to 17 kyu. I guess I should sooner or later hit…
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Interesting Go resources
Here are some interesting Go resources: Kifu generator creates nice diagrams from SGF files. If you want to study your games off-line, this one’s for you. Mind Sports Zine has an interesting Go section which hasn’t been updated in a while, but still has lots of useful information. Go Learn, a series by Charles Matthews…
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Go equipment
I got a packet from Gaimport today. In it I found two fake leather Go boards (19 by 19 and 13 by 13), two plastic containers for stones and a cardboard box containing two bags of stones. Exactly what I ordered. I checked the stones, wiping them clean of some kind of oil they had.…