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Just a few chronologial notes on my experiences with go and SL.

April 2003

I find it terribly hard to prioritize. My first stab at contributing is a Priority page. My second the addition of losing (yes one 'o') - thx Charles) habits to Bad Habits. They are mistakes (AntiPatterns?) I recognized I had to lose.

Go go Igo deserved a page.

Then I put up a page I would like to have seen a few months ago. It is a Moves compendium. Charles renamed it elementary moves. Very appropriate, I should have thought of that. And he made it look better.

To a beginner it isn't obvious what up and down refer to.

It seems that people here are so busy with advanced concepts that the basics need a lot of patching up.

May 2003

Both priority and elementary moves are growing into something I like, but there is little feedback. I hoped that people who see what is missing/wrong would add their insights. They do, it does happen, but not by quite as many people as I would like. Neither do many people ask questions about the content. I would like to see more invasion joseki? at SL but I can't write it.

Answers by Charles, Dieter, Fhayashi, Unkx80, Andre Engels to a question (and a rant about style) of mine about 3-3 point shoulder hit, now at BQM87 led to

At Opening systematic classification there was a spinn-off talk about Links in diagrams.

There was a discussion on keywords?. Arno decided to change the list. I gave a list of pages the appropriate (to me - it isn't allways clear) keywords from the new list.

Click! I played on a real board with real stones at de Amsterdamse Go Club, and with real shell stones at the [ext] EGCC.

June 2003

Doing minor edits (adding keywords, relevant links, clearing up) becomes a habit.

At Messages I made this remark: "Liberty states that there are two meanings to the word liberty. It continues to describe what I have seen referred to as primary liberty (Dame) and secondary liberty (necessary approach move in semeai). So - I think - this is not a two different meanings issue at all. If a strong go player could confirm, I could edit accordingly." It lead to a long but very interesting discussion on liberty (at secondary liberties discussion and liberty discussion), a re-edit of the liberty page by Bill and Charles made a introductory page. Even Richard Hunter contributed.

Another semiotic thingy: Moved some of sagari and all of "tsuke-tobi joseki" to a newly created page, Japlish.

Arno created the possibillity of Links in diagrams. I hope this feature will be used wisely.

Started playing style with a compilation of style related remarks. I hope it will grow. I simply can't make that happen myself.

Wrote Board geography. Started rearranging 3-4, 4-4 and enclosure-josekis to get a somewhat more balanced tree. I don't know yet wether the links I put in some diagrams really help to navigate.

July 2003

Floris: Oh yes Danny, congrats on your daughter winning the youth tournament in Utrecht on the 29th (of June). I didn't really get a good look at the prize and the certificate since I was playing a game.

mAsterdam: Heh. Thank you, Floris. You did very well, too.

Wrote First moves and Named points.

August 2003

Yep. I have become a RecentChangesJunkie. Started Storyboard.



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