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Karl Knechtel
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Hi, I'm Karl Knechtel, Zahlman on NNGS (and just about everywhere else on the net for that matter, except where it seems more appropriate to use my real name). I appear to be about 14k now, though my games still occasionally display "amateur instability". When I started playing Go it was probably about 2 or 3 years ago (I am writing this as of June 2002); in a month or so I managed to work my way up to a somewhat depressing 26k. I stopped playing until a couple months ago, and almost immediately I was playing 8 stones stronger than that. I'm not really sure how that sort of thing happens; I think I just got older and wiser. Or something. ;) I'd say it's fair to attribute most of the rest of the 4-stone improvement to SL; I feel like my fuseki and sense of EyeShape have much improved. (I didn't used to have any concept of a "base" and very little idea how to defend corners; and I thought it was magical how GnuGo would play these bizarre looking moves and end up killing my big groups by destroying the EyeShape... of course, it still happens now and then :) ) I'm still not confident about fuseki though. You may have noticed I've made a couple of contributions to the GoHumour. I also had an idea, inspired by WaveFrontAnalysis, for an "AdjustedLengthAnalysis" for deciding where to tenuki. It's a rough concept though, not yet nearly well enough defined for a computer algorithm - well, see for yourself ;) I enjoy tsumego problems, ideas for variants, rambling about computer algorithms, coining terms, and killing big dragons. :) Some proverbs/concepts/wonderings by me:
"Oh, for heavens' seki!" This is a copy of the living page "Karl Knechtel" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |