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Charles Matthews
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I'm a BGA 3 dan in Cambridge UK. I write extensively on go for magazines, and on the Web (most of those articles are now on the Gobase site [ext] http://gobase.org). I also write books, one of which is published.

I probably should be writing my stuff for Jan van der Steen instead of contributing to SL - current series of articles is about ko. But now I'm a librarian here I'm probably trapped eternally.


I have quite qwikily become a SL addict. One of my themes is the expansion of the use of English terms. Some of the older books perpetuate the use of Japanese terms, when there are English equivalents that have come into common use.


My online articles are at [ext] http://gobase.org/articles/matthews/ . I have also started to contribute to NRich, which is a mathematics teaching enrichment site. The pieces at

and

may be of interest to anyone coming to go with a strongly mathematical background. Most 'rules' discussion in go has (in my opinion) little to do with effective teaching of the game. Those articles are the beginnings of a bridge.


I have added quite a large number of short pages with very brief biographies of pro players. My reference for this has been John Fairbairn's comprehensive Names Dictionary. We live in a very interesting time for the internationalisation of go.


Copy-editing is hardly "radical, anarchic" stuff. But there seems to be enough interesting discussion here on SL that house-styling some of the technical matter would be worthwhile, and increase its legibility. I've been: making Black and White the nouns and black, white the adjectives; making references to lettered points a, b and so on; expanding abbreviations. See also JoinCapitalizedWords.


Preview of my book Shape Up!, written with Seong-june Kim, now at [ext] http://gobase.org/articles/matthews/shape_up - links to PDF file downloads for the Introduction and the first three chapters.

Stefan: Looks interesting. When will the book publish? JG: I would also like to buy it.

Charles: I'll let you know when I know. It isn't so easy to get published.


I intend to post old articles from seven years of the Cambridge tournament booklet at Trigantius Archives.


Someone else added that I'm author of "Teach Yourself Go"; which I can't deny.

nuance: Why would you want to? It was the first book that actually managed to get me to understand the first thing about go beyond the utter basics.

Charles Opinions on my books seem divided. I don't do bland, so perhaps it's not surprising. My reticence is mostly because SL isn't the place for commercial promotion.


Hosokawa Senjin Yamamoto Samutsu Ikegami Kiyoshi Akiyama Tamigoro Higuchi Tetsuzo



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