[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]

StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About


Aliases (info)
Tristan

Paths
TheTenGoldenRules...

Referenced by
Oteai
Karui
RecGamesGo
CallingOutAtari
CoffeeMachine
CompareGoToChess
JosekiAndTenuki
Dashn
TeachingGame
DeadweightValueOf...
GoServerDiscussion
GoodEmptyTriangle
SpeculativeInvasion
HomeMadeFloorBoard
KGSTutors
PotentialValueOfT...
HumourAlmostProverbs
KeshiIsWorthAsMuc...
FalseThickness
TristanSCharts

Homepages
DieterVerhofstadt
Icepick

 

Tristan Jones
PageType: HomePage    

ト リ ス タ ン ヅ ヨ ー ン ズ

http://www.btinternet.com/~xenafan/buddhas.jpg

Hi, I'm a musician, musicologist and composer living in Chester, UK. I'm 1k BGA, 1k* on dashn, 2k* on IGS. Like most people here, I'm addicted to Hikaru no Go. You are welcome to send e-mail to me at xenafan<AT>btinternet.com. I love talking about go and I am always ready to try new ideas.

The picture above shows me and my mate Big Buddha, posing together at Kamakura in August 2003. He said that I had quite some work to do to match his record for sitting in the meditation position (800 years or so).

As many of you will know, I have a predilection for coining new terms. My first and finest minting is Wiki Vandal.

If you are interested in taking and giving go lessons online, then please join Go Lessons Online (GoLo), which Al Nixon and I have created to make go tuition available free of charge to everyone.

You can now visit my WWW page at [ext] http://www.btinternet.com/~xenafan It's a bit basic at the moment as I'm still trying to remember how to write html, but at least you can find out what I look like!

Music and Me

Primarily, I am a musicologist. That means that I take a professional interest in the history, theory and aesthetics of music. My specialist interests within musicology are the works of Heinrich Schuetz (1585-1672), often nicknamed "The Father of German Music", and his German contemporaries, and problems of generic (and other) terminology. My doctoral thesis, written under the supervision of Professor Colin Timms of the University of Birmingham was entitled "Passions in Perspective: An Analytical Discussion of the Three Passion Settings of Heinrich Schuetz against their Historical and Stylistic Backgrounds". I am currently finishing an article on terminology, but goodness knows when I will get it published.

I also take an interest in Japanese and Indian musics (btw, that is the correct plural for different kinds of music).

I currently make my living by singing counter-tenor (alto) in the choir of Chester Cathedral. I live in a flat in a run-down, but rather beautiful 250-year old building facing the Dean's Field in Chester. Five days a week during term time I take my place in the Quire, with its fantastic 700-year old wooden carvings, and sing beautiful music in one of the country's finest buildings.

To my great pleasure and satisfaction, we sometimes sing music of my own composition: my Evening Canticles in D Major are popular here and you can hear the Magnificat on our latest CD, "The Water of Life".

All in all, I can recommend being a musician. It's not the most financially rewarding profession beneath the top levels, but it scores heavily in job satisfaction.


I seem to have started a language war - sorry, "lively debate on English".

I am very interested in the Learning Process. I'm also heavily into studying Study Techniques. I am particularly interested to find out which of these have been most effective for the strongest players.

I am a big admirer of the go of the new Oza, O Meien.

I am prone to Losing Streaks. :-(

I am slowly developing my own ideas on go theory. Among these are Deadweight Value of Thickness and the YinYang Principle.

I am currently experimenting with a learning strategy I call "Force Feeding".

Luck And Aji



This is a copy of the living page "Tristan Jones" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2003 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.