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Dieter Verhofstadt
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Born: 1971, Gent, Belgium
Rank: EGF 1d, Belgium 2d, KGS 2d
I started playing in 1995, founding the
Go club in Gent, together with my dearest friend Stefan Verstraeten. After we reached a peak of 20 members last year, our club unfortunately goes through a slump right now. Stefan has taken a sabbatical, students finish their degree and new blood has been scarce.
The year 2003 was more or less planned to be a sabbatical one for me too. Then I beat two 4 dans in the Belgian Ch'ips, finishing third, without much preparation. Hence my earlier hopes to once become a 5 dan were revived. It will be a long way. I plan to do the following:
- Play through a pro game almost every day, in order to improve my overall skills, positional judgment and technique.
- Try to play one game a day at KGS and analyse it afterwards, in order to filter my mistakes and get a clear picture of my reasoning process or lack thereof.
- Work on one tsumego a day (the Kanazawa Tesuji Series) in order to improve my reading skills.
More casually,
- I spend (too) much time at sensei's library. I think this is a wonderful place with a for the internet exceptional friendly atmosphere. It seems, though, that my own comments often (about once a week) lack that friendliness and that they are of a rudeness that can hurt feelings. If you are victimized by this behaviour, please drop me an email message, because by no means do I intend to offend nor do I want to spoil the precious mutual understanding that governs SL. However, if you are an ardent deshi, I may assume you can deal with irony or a comradelike elbow in the stomach, just like I expect from my friends.
- I play at KGS as knotwilg.
- I have been commenting games on the
Go Teaching Ladder as Dieter or Populier.
- My bathroom is stuffed with
Go books.
- My Shusaku number is 5: Dieter - Miyazawa Goro - Kitani Minoru - Honinbo Shusai - Iwasaki Kenzo - Honinbo Shusaku
Life besides Go reads:
- Soccer: defensive midfielder in a purely for fun playing team called De Wanhoop (despair)
- Music: singer-songwriter in a music group called Stanza. Although we play for fun, I must admit that I have higher hopes. My favourite bands include Captain Beefheart, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Smashing Pumpkins, Prince, Robert Wyatt, Orchestra Baobab, Sonic Youth and more recently Badly drawn boy.
e-mail me. If you are beginner to 6 kyu, you can send me a game to comment.
Pictures
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A recent picture
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Here, Jan Bogaerts 4D (left) tries to make shape after giving me a peculiar 38 stone handicap.
- Which one will be the first to obtain Olympic status: Go or
Coffee Soccer ?
- Finally, my
role in the Belgian Go weekend massacre is still under investigation.
Articles
This is a copy of the living page
"Dieter Verhofstadt" at
Sensei's Library.
2003 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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