RBerenguel (version 107)

Table of contents About me About my relationship with Go Where do I play? My KGS rank graph Oddities

About me

Maths PhD student at the University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), so I used to play at GoMUB. Here are my homepage at the university (no Go content, some maths, but not really much) and my blog, mostlymaths.net (almost no Go content, some casual maths, some recipes, some odd things).

About my relationship with Go

First attempt to play after viewing 'A Beautiful Mind' but gave up soon after learning the rules. Re-started in 11th july 2003, registering at KGS (as RBerenguel). After one year and a week, I was 12k on KGS (after being always "XX?k"). Then, almost one year and a half without playing, when due to KGS rank shift and maybe a little improving I got to 11k before the shift, 6k after. Then, another year passed without playing and now I'm here again (it seems that fall gets me to play more go?). In my next try, I got to "8k?" in KGS.

Here again another time, again in the fall. Don't know why, but this is the time of the year that moves me to play Go. At the same time I got a renewed interest (which burst when I saw "The Direction of Play" sitting in my bookshelf), I joined the Reddit Go Club, where I'm currently playing a tournament as 14k. I assumed that after more than 2 years since my last time playing my rank would have shifted again, or KGS would have changed its ratings again. I hope I don't end up as a sandbagger in this tournament.

Where do I play?

I play in both KGS, LittleGolem, DGS and (extremely rarely) at wBaduk and Tygem as rberenguel. Feel free to ask for a game anytime (but I may refuse :P ).

My KGS rank graph

Oddities

My tartrate number is 3:

Tartrate .vs. TheCaptain .vs. Lhureley .vs. Me

My Erdös number is 4:

Berenguel - Fagella - Llibre - Grünbaum - Erdös