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Pekka Karjalainen
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As of 31st July, 2001, I will stop contributing to Sensei's Library for quite a while. I might be back later. If you think this page becomes severely out of date, you can delete it. -- Pekka Hello! I am Pekka Karjalainen, which is a fairly common Finnish name. Please don't confuse me with the other people who have the same name. There are a few, some of them also with an Internet presence. I started playing Go in 1997. I have since then improved to 2 kyu European and 1774 EGF rating, though I play sometimes at a little higher level at a certain Go server. Maybe I will make Finnish shodan eventually, when I manage to study the game properly. Currently I am concentrating on finishing my education and so I play little serious Go. I am considered to be quite a strong player in the very small go circles of my home city of Oulu. I've never known a local player who could give me a handicap and still make me sweat. It is most vexing, as I would like to learn from someone stronger than myself. I am male, in case you think Pekka sounds feminine. It is always a boys' name in Finland. It is related to Peter. My name is pronounced a little like the following English sounds: PECK-cah CARR-yah-lie-nen In Finnish the first syllable of a word always has the stress, which is why I have capitalized them. Try to pronounce the r even if you would not do so in English. NB. Should remove the link to VowelsInLanguages as I am no longer making any outrageous claims about Finnish vowels. This is a copy of the living page "Pekka Karjalainen" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |