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Araldo
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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 4 kyu on KGS. Also I play games on Little Golem. I took part in the following real-life tournaments until now.
Rank development: End of each month (Europe rating estimated)
Books I have (read): I don't remember the title of my first book anymore. Explained the rules, eyes 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 learn 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. 501 Openings problems?, Richard Bozulich. This is really an excelent book. Each problem comes with a hint, what the purpose of the move is (i.e. make/prevent moyo, attack/defend weak group etc). First you can try to solve the openings problem without the hint, then check if it is what you thought, maybe try again and finally look at the answer. After doing 100 problems I really got the hang of openings strategies (that is, positions after about 10-20 moves). Note this book is not about joseki or fuseki. Lessons in the fundamentals of go, Kageyama. Nice to read, but I don't think it will improve my go skill more than a fraction of a stone. I agree with the criticism on Lessons in the fundamentals discussion. 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... This is a copy of the living page "Araldo" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |