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MGoetze
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Hello! My name is Michael, and I'm a real Go addict, so I spend most of my time hanging out on SL, KGS, rec.games.go and various places here in Hamburg. I'm 20 years old and studying Mathematics at the University of Hamburg.

I'm often bored so feel free to contact me anytime for a chat, via ICQ (244252752), IRC (irc.freenode.net, #go), KGS (mgoetze) or [email] email.

I currently consider myself about 5k by German standards. My sensei is Jens Gillwald 4d.

My tartrate number is 3: tartrate - TheCaptain - birdie - mgoetze.

My Shusaku number seems to be 6: Honinbo Shusaku - Iwasaki Kenzo - Honinbo Shusai - Kitani Minoru - Kobayashi Chizu - Benjamin Teuber - Michael Goetze

My non-go hobbies, in no particular order:

  • Classical Music. I play some clarinet and piano and dabble in composing. Favourite composers (in roughly chronological order): Corelli, Bach, Haydn, Hummel, Schubert, Dvorák, Bruckner, Mahler, Martinu, Prokofjew and Britten.
  • Playing around with all flavours of UNIX. My collection includes: Debian GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, IRIX, HP-UX, Slowlartus and NetBSD.
  • English literature (not really into German literature, funnily enough). Favourite authors: Huxley, Orwell, Lodge, Austen, Tolkien.
  • Role-playing games, especially Birthright-type settings. My favourite system by far is the new D&D, it's very easy but flexible.
  • Diplomacy, the ultimate multiplayer boardgame. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at it. I currently [ext] rank 314th in the world with not much hope of rising into the top 100 anytime soon because I'm attending more Go tournaments than Diplomacy tournaments nowadays. ;)
  • The 18xx series of train games. Not quite as exciting as Diplomacy but good fun for about 4-7 saturdays per year...
  • Doppelkopf, the best card game. Well, to be fair, I haven't actually played Bridge...
  • And last but not least, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Accept no substitute.

I host a game collection called [ext] Best of KGS and would greatly appreciate any contributions! It seems that by virtue of this collection I have become the official editor of the BGA title match game records... good thing that Matthew Macfadyen did his usual 3-0 sweep, and even better that Alexandre Dinerchtein only commented one of the games...


My favourite player is the early Kitani Minoru (I'm not so enamoured of his later style). Just look at this wonderful fuseki from 1935 (Kitani is white, black is Segoe Kensaku):

[Diagram]
Moves 1-10

Bold, creative, open to new ideas. And the go world gained a lot by Kitani's allowing all his pupils to develop their own styles. Just imagine if Otake Hideo, Ishida Yoshio, Kato Masao, Takemiya Masaki, Cho Chikun and Kobayashi Koichi had all played the same style - wouldn't that have been a bit boring? ;)

The only thing Kitani demanded of his pupils was absolute dedication to go - a standard I cannot quite live up to, I'm afraid.


[Diagram]
Moves 11-20

The game ended with Kitani winning by 2 points (no komi back then, of course).

Of course, when I tried to apply the 2-4-12 of this game in one of my games, it didn't gain me a nice moyo like Kitani's, but an embarrassing defeat...



Jubango Record

24 July 2003 Martin Senk

9x9, 6 komi, played on KGS.

My games as white: W+Res, B+8, W+Res, B+3, B+Res

My games as black: B+6, W+Res, B+7, W+2, B+7

Final result: 5-5


Tournament Record

Coming soon: Rahlstedter Tengen, Berliner Kranich, Braunschweiger Nikolausturnier.

  • 6-7 September 2003, Kiel Tournament. Entered as 6k, played 2-3. EGF Rating thereafter: 1446.
  • 1 September 2003, Lightning Handicap Tournament, 6k, 2-1 and 1 jigo... unfortunately tournament rules specify that White wins jigo, and I was Black...
  • 11 August 2003, Lightning Handicap Tournament, 7k, 2-2.
  • 7-9 June 2003, Affensprung Hamburg. Entered as 12k, played 4-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 980
  • 26-27 April 2003, Messeturnier Hannover. Entered as 14k, played 2-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 712
  • 8-9 March 2003, Mausefalle Hamburg-Harburg. Entered as 17k, played 3-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 471


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