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Information:Name: Johan Meijerink Age: 20 Gender: Male Occupation: College Student 2nd year, Psychology & Linguistics Country: The Netherlands Place: Harderwijk Go Experience: 1 year, 2 months. KGS handles: Adante & Kuroiinu Current Go strength: 1d-2d KGS - 1d IGS - 2k EGF - Go Goal: To play Go someday when I'm not tired..
Here you can find most of my games:
My Go History12 September 2002:The day my friend Tom (KGS nickname = hidden) showed me the game of Go, and the anime Hikaru no Go. I was sold right away. 14 September 2002:The first day that I played on an online Go server, called IGS, using Panda Egg as my client. Started with 28k and ended with 22k that day. Big step going into the right direction. 23 September 2002:Although this was a long time ago, I can remember that I had some difficulty reaching the 18k on IGS. So I stopped playing for like 1 month, and kept watching high "dan" games during that month on IGS. 21 October 2002:Started to play intensively again, after reading hikaru no go a couple of times. And because Tom persuaded me to continue to play Go. I'm not a board game freak at all. But somehow it manages to pull me closer and closer to the virtual goban. Watching and feeling the intense battles online. While it was snowing outside, and I was drinking hot chocolate milk. hee hee. 24 October 2002:I finally reached the 18k level on IGS, and my o my, I was so thrilled about it. Like getting a cute, lil, puppy for my birthday, that kind of joy. And to my suprise, Tom was also around 16-17k. From friends we changed into fearsome rivals. 2 November 2002:My birthday ! I became 19 years old that day. And I was still 17k-ish on IGS. 9 November 2002:A day to never forget, I went with Tom to Amsterdam, to visit the best Go-Shop in Europe, called 't Paard. I bought my very first goban there + magical stones of glass, white/black colored. Today I came to realise that Go is far more fun than I first thought. The Go spirit within me grew twice as large, and again I started to play quite intense. Becoming 16k on this day too. 20 November 2002:The legendary date, I registed on KGS this day, and became 15k right away. So I liked KGS right from the start, not knowing that KGS was a little weaker than IGS that time. But ok. 1-31 December 2002:In this month.. I went from 15k to 11k, I was excited that I went into the year 2003 as a solid, powerful, magnificent 11k, with as goal, to become a single digit kyu soon. January-February 2003:I started good this new, refreshing year. Raised my rank to 7k, and succeeded my mission to become a single digit kyu. So I had to find a new challenge, becoming 5k ! But yet, this was troublesome to do, it seemed that there was an invisible wall for me to get from 7k to 6k. March-April-May 2003:Still 7k.. there was no end to this wall that I was climbing for so long. Then one moment I surfed to www.gobond.nl and checked the Tournament Scheduler. And so I planned to go to a Tournament in a place called Apeldoorn. I had nothing to lose.. and wanted to see how it's like to play in "real life". 18 May 2003:The day of the Apeldoornse Tournament 2003, I went there together again with Tom (hidden on KGS). we signed up as a 5k, while we were around 7k on KGS that time. The games were: 20 minutes absolute time for each person, so no byoyomi. Really fast games. Well, the tournament went great for me, as well as for Tom. I won 5 out of 5 games, beating a 5k, 4k and three 3k's. And Tom won 3 out of 5, and that was enough to become Youth Champion of Apeldoorn (17 years old). He received a certificate of being the Champion and I was awarded with a Go book, called "The Direction of Play, by Takeo Kajiwara". 2 June 2003:After I proved myself worthy as 5k on the tournament in Apeldoorn, I established on KGS a solid 6k, 5k and 4k rank soon after. I guess it gave me quite some confidence about my own ability. 21 August 2003:This was the day that I left Holland, and took off to Japan with the airplane. Excited and thrilled that I was, I arrived the 22nd in Japan on Tokyo Narita Airport. I planned to stay in Japan for 1 month. 22 August - 22 September 2003:A whole month, living among Japanese people, exploring the cities, villages and dark underground world *cough*. I met quite a lot of people and ate many noodles. Some of the people I met, are people that play Go on KGS as well. Very friendly and nice, like Hirakawade, hama88, gamizo and umaaaa <-- KGS nicknames. I've been to some Go Salons in Japan, but my favorite one is in Musashi-Koganei. They serve tea like madmen there, you'll never get thirsty while playing Go. So, of course, I've been playing many games there, and was granted the rank of 2d. (Japanese rating) I also bought the whole manga collection of Hikaru no Go there, making myself the first Dutch human being that owns such a collection. I had a great time over there, and in 2004 I'll repeat it. October 2003:Birthday coming up again, 2nd of November, but this time I'll be celebrating 20 years of my glorious life. Also I've planned to participate in another "real life" Go Event. Namely the Martini Cup in a place called Groningen here in Holland on 8-9 November. However, this time I'll be entering as a 2k. Safety first, clobbering later! Ah, and my rank on KGS seems to be around 1d-2d now (see my other account called Kuroiinu).. quite scary if I say so myself. 16 October 2003:From 4k to 5k. Deep sigh..Ever felt so extremely tired, that you didn't sleep one night, but you still have the urge to play Go ? one word of advice: DON'T ! Just go to bed, and recover ! This is also a reminder to myself. 22 October 2003:I managed to get back to 4k with my Adante account on KGS. And my other account Kuroiinu is a solid 1d rank now, because I lost to another 1d, which was a very very bad game on my side. I tried a new opening in that game, first it worked out good, but then later I screwed it up, leaving 2 weak groups behind. The story of my life. I wonder how long I will be able to keep that 1d rank. 2 November 2003:My 20th birthday, getting old, but not feeling old yet. I still have 10 years to become a Go Pro.... HA! always look on the bright side of life, right? 8-9 November 2003:2 days, the entire weekend, Playing and thinking about Go. However, I made the usual mistake: STAYING UP ALL NIGHT before the tournament starts! sigh sigh.. I was too excited to sleep I guess. Anyways, I went to Groningen with the train, Arriving there quite in time. You could buy snacks and drinks there, nothing is for free these days. A total of 30+ people were there. A nice show up for the 30th Martini Cup, making it the oldest European Go Tournament ever. I had to play 2 games on the first day, and lost both. I was so tired that I don't even remember the games. So that was not a good start. Starting on the second day, I had 6 hours of sleep. And I had to play the remaining 3 games. The first two games I won. The third game I lost because of a seki that I missed out on. Making my total score 2 out of 5. Not good at all, but the most important thing of all, I had A LOT of fun! It was really great. The people are very nice. And I learned a lot from this wonderful experience. I hope that many more tournaments will follow after this one. Ah, we also went to a lovely Chinese restaurant with 25 people. It was funny, because the restaurant was not really made for 25 people to sit next to eachother. But it was a nice evening, with delicious food. mmmmm Floris: I remember your first game ^_^ Update Go Books Collection:These are the books I have sofar; "In the Beginning - The opening in the game of Go, by Ikuro Ishigure" "Get strong at Tesuji, by Richard Bozulich" "The Direction of Play - Takeo Kajiwara" "Making Good Shape, by Rob van Zeijst & Richard Bozulich" "Go - Step by Step, by Frank Janssen (Dutch version)" Add your comments, questions etc below please -YuuichiKun? - Watched a fantastic game of Adante's today on KGS for an event. Demonstrated high skill as he put the hurting on a 4K KGS. Now if only he'll mention his STAR Student! *Cough* This is a copy of the living page "Adante" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |