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I play as taiji 2k on the Kiseido Go Server. I have played over 2,000 games on IGS(accounts xinjia and kungfu), however I don't play there anymore out of preference for KGS.

o My Alexander Dinerschtein(1p) number is 1. o My Solaris number is 1. o My tartrate number is 2 (through solaris/breakfast). o My Cho Hun-Hyun number is 2 (through Kim Jung-Jin). o My shuusaku number is 5. Shusaku-Shuei-Shusai-Iwamoto-DrStraw(KGS)-Me(5)

My games have been described by my opponents as 'interesting', I believe I have a truly unique style, constantly changing.

Top influences (I like to study their games when I can)

Go Seigen - I have his complete pro game collection. He is my "go hero".

Takagawa Shukaku - The concepts in "Power of the Star Point" were a major factor in my success as a kyu player.

Nie Weiping - The story of a boy who became a pro.

I have over 10,000 pro and very strong amateur games in my kombilo collection. Please contact me to arrange trades.

I enjoy practising Taijiquan, a chinese martial art. You may know it better as Tai Chi. I believe that Taijiquan has helped me become a better go player. I am completely in love with Go and Martial Arts :)

More about me:

I'm a Christian go player from Toronto. I am married, and I have traveled to England and Taiwan. One of the noticeable impressions I had from both countries is that no matter how hard I searched, no one I found played go. A lot of chess and xiangqi players, though.

Finally, I have a goal in the go world: to become 1 dan professional. It's a long, hard road; I suspect I will need to become around 6d on IGS/KGS before it would be possible to think about really becoming pro. So getting to 5d/6d is the first step: 9 more stones.

Also it would seem that 8d and 9d KGS is equivalent to 1p and above. Why? Although pro ranks are not ratings, there is a requisite strength; This appears to be somewhere between 8d and 9d KGS.

Here is my plan:

1. Memorize Ishida's joseki dictionary.

2. Memorize Cho Chikun's Life and Death. Do many go problems. Many.

3. Memorize professional games. A lot of them if possible.

4. Take lessons from a very strong amateur dan, or pro player.

5. Promote the game of go and teach go.

-Kungfu


Richard Hunter: I heard that when Michael Redmond came to Japan, one of the first things he was told was to forget everything he had read in Ishida's joseki dictionary.

Charles A page on Ishida's clay feet? would be good, to pin down why ...

BobMcGuigan: What I heard was a little different. As I recall Redmond said that he "had to relearn all his joseki ..." This meant, I thought, not joseki as in the Ishida dictionary but rather his understanding of what correct play was. Japanese pros sometimes use joseki to mean orthodox or proper play anywhere on the board. But maybe someone could ask Redmond what he meant.

Charles It's easy to see why an insei might be told to play nothing by rote. There is a fair amount of disinformation in the books; and more in typical magazine articles.



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