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A warning in advance, this is a very boring page. Please leave now, before it is too late.


A few fact about me.

My name is Araldo van de Kraats, age 24 years.

I'm from the Netherlands, Enschede. Student from the University of Twente, faculty Electrical Engineering. Almost each Wednesday you can find me in the "Theater cafe" with my club "Drienerlose Go Vereniging".

Playing seriously since august 2002, first on IGS, but now mainly on KGS. At the moment, I've got a rating of 12 kyu. Also I play games on Little Golem.

I took part in three real-life tournaments until now.

  • Arnhem, 17-18 November 2002, 14 kyu (weakest), last place (1 out of 6 wins)
  • Amstelveen, 1-2 Februari 2003, 12 kyu (weakest again), last place (4 out of 5 wins)
  • Nijmegen, 15-16 March 2003, 10 kyu, 61th place out of 71, (2 out of 5 wins)
  • Apeldoorn, 18 May 2003, 10 kyu, 28th place out of 38 (4 out of 5 wins)
  • Utrecht, 28-29 June 2003, 8 kyu, ??????
  • Amersfoort, 10 August 2003, ??????

Rank development:

End of each month (Europe rating estimated)

  • Jul 2002: 30k IGS
  • Aug 2002: 27k IGS
  • Sep 2002: 27k IGS
  • Okt 2002: 20k IGS
  • Nov 2002: 18k IGS, 15k KGS, 14k Europe
  • Dec 2002: 15k KGS, 13k Europe
  • Jan 2003: 13k KGS, 12k Europe, 14k Little Golem
  • Feb 2003: 12k KGS, 11k Europe, 12k Little Golem
  • Mar 2003: 11k KGS, 10k Europe, 11k Little Golem
  • Apr 2003: 11k KGS, 10k Europe, 10k Little Golem
  • May 2003: 9k KGS, 9k Europe, 10k Little Golem
  • Jun 2003: 9k KGS, 8k Europe, 9k Little Golem

Books I have (read):

I don't remember the title of my first book anymore. Explained the rules, eye and other basic stuff. Borrowed it from the library 7 years ago.

Tesuji, James Davies: Really good, finished it in just a few days.

Kage's Secret Chronicles Of Handicap Go, Toshiro Kageyama: I won this one in my first tournament, because I finished last:). It contains 9 games with 2 to 5 stones handicap. Lots of funny dialogs and humour in this book.

Dictionary of Basic Joseki (I, II and III), Yoshio Ishida: A few hundred joseki with variations, mistakes you should avoid and a way to punish those mistakes. Will take a lot of time to read all this, another year probably

The Endgame, Tomoko Ogawa and James Davies: I've read only the first part about the theory, and was somewhat usefull for me. Maybe a little boring.

The Art of Go, Volume 1: Connecting Stones: Problems which deals with connecting your stones. However, I don't really like a book with problems only. Did a few chapters but is a little boring. Problems are not very easy though.

Attack and Defense, Akira Ishida: This is a good book. But difficult to implement all those ideas in a real game. A summary would be nice.

Keshi and Uchikomi, Reduction and Invasion in Go, Iwamoto Kaoru: I won this one because I won 4 games in my second tournament. Has some standard paterns in it and ways to reduce or invade those paterns. Contains almost only patterns with 3-4 opening. A little too advanced for me at the moment, I will start with this one if I'm 5 kyu or so.

Life and Death, James Davies. I have won this in the Apeldoorn 2003 tournament. Will start reading it soon.


email: a.vandekraats@student.utwente.nl


Still here? I cannot believe it.


Jan: Hi Araldo! I probably sat next to you in Nijmegen (I was the guy that was twenty minutes late on Sunday ;-)

Congratulations on your result :-)

Araldo: I probably was concentrating really hard on my game, because I honestly cannot remember you anymore. But I will remember your name, maybe we play each other in a future tournament...




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