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A completely new but extremely interested Gophiliac (gopher? sweet lord, save us from bad nicknames)

I am Portuguese, but living in Switzerland for a year and a half now. A programmer, I will start going to the Zurich Go Club as soon as I finish building this damned software :)

I became interested in Go because of a card game I played called Legend of the Five Rings, which had a pseudo-Japanese setting. There I learned about the Art of War, and about the correlation between Go and Battle skills. A fan of strategic wargaming, I kept Go on the back of my head until a few months ago, when I found Kiseido, played [ext] http://playgo.to/interactive/index.html and then logged into Yahoo to play one game.

More recently, I found out about this site, started reading a bit more, installed cgoban2, and played a teaching game in kgs which increased my interest for the game tenfold.

Oh, and then I found Hikaru No Go... :)

I hope I will be able to keep my attention span focused in the game long enough for it to become a constant in my life. For now, it looks promising.


Hi Amc, where are you from in Portugal ? I've been living and playing Go in Lisboa for a year. --Dieter

Hi there. I'm from Povoa de Varzim, a small town near Porto. It is a cultural Null Zone, and I had not found online Go resources when I was there, so I only "started" a couple of months ago, firmly planted 20kms from Zurich :) --amc


Amc's Go Journal

(note: I'm planning on putting my thoughts and experiences on learning Go here. If this somehow goes against the purpose and design of this site, please let me know. Also, if you wish to comment or answer some question I may ask, please do NOT insert a horizontal rule (--- -), since those separate entries. Thanks)


6-2-2003

Yesterday was my first visit to the Go club in Zurich. The location was utterly fantastic, the place itself (a restaurant) was quite nice (good beer - good or bad for learning Go? ;)) and the people themselves were very warm.

I went with my wife, Carla, who is also a programmer. She has some interest in Go, mainly stemming from the difficulties it poses to AI programs (she is doing a Master's in that field). Still, I dunno if she will become a player or not.

A very nice man called Jon taught her the rules while I watched, and I managed to ask him some questions which I had. He then played Carla 9x9, giving her 5 stones. He lost, by about 3 or 4 moku. Still, it was a good game and Carla seemed happy she had won.

After that it was my turn to play Carla. I gave her 2 stones, to account for the fact that I read this site and she doesn't. I am sad to say this was a mistake, since she managed to also win that one, and by about 5 moku. Still, it was great to actually play someone face to face, and I learned a lot from playing an "even" game (meaning, not shidougo)

I also bought my first goban and set of glass stones, as well as The Second Book Of Go, which taught me quite a lot already, just in the first pages.

If I manage to keep this level of interest for some time, until I can play at a level of 15-20 kyu, I guess I will play this game for a loooooooooooong time.



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