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PageType: HomePage     Keywords: Clubs & Places, Software

(This page is temporarily linked from the Hasselt Go club link (the original link pointed into DGS) - as soon as a better web site is available, feel free to update the link in GoPlacesInEurope)


Hi, I'm Alexander Duytschaever.
(*Gent, 23 Feb 1967) http://users.pandora.be/dual/go/alex_KGS.jpg

I learned about Go somewhere around 1985 in Gent (Belgium) by stumbling on a book written by Leon Mie (if I remember well). The black and white patterns fascinated me, and still do. My second book was GoForBeginners, and I still try to learn from it. I remember I tried to introduce Go in a Shogi club that met in a cafe (forgot the name) not far from the Botermarkt or Belfortstraat, without much success however. A few years later I had the occasion to start playing Go with a former colleague, Christophe Fichefet, but for a while only, until we found each other again on [ext] DGS.
I discovered DragonGoServer in June 2003, and this refuelled my addiction for this so fascinating game. You can always invite me, my user ID is [ext] axd. I have no real life rating (yet); based on my DGS history, my rating might be around 19 kyu (Jan. 2004).
I like the ease to compose pages here, so I include this graphic, although I don't attach that much importance to it: the DGS rating is too fluctuating. my current Go rating at Dragon Go Server

I'm living in Hasselt (Belgium) and would like to create a Go club here to group players living in the Limburg region; if you are interested, I can be reached via axd pandora be, or leave a message on DGS ([ext] axd) or KGS (less often there).
Feel free to browse my Go page at [ext] http://users.pandora.be/dual/go


About Senseis: I'm a bit bothered by all the discussions that flow along a lot of Sensei's pages - it's difficult as a beginner to learn via Sensei's because discussions keep on going across pages, leaving the impression no-one really knows: at any moment somebody can pop up and say "Hey, but this and that doesn't work because..." and then next person then finds yet another exception, ad infinitum. Random example: UnderTheStonesExample1 As if Sensei's is some kind of luxury newsgroup, rather than a reference. Maybe Beginner's pages should not contain discussions, or the discussions should be put on separate pages. Just to avoid readers reading a text, then find out at the bottom of the page that what they read is not the whole truth, but maybe only the top of the iceberg... I guess this is the price paid for this free access, but I never said I didn't like the idea!


I'll start with a personal DGSWishlist? - soon I hope to make it a separate page if there's enough reactions.

  1. highlight user name in running games to indicate the opponent is on vacation
  2. option to automatically jump to the first active game when asking Status
  3. search N days ago (not only multiples of 30) - replace the drop-down by a input, defaulted to 30
  4. highlight the N last moves; as a workaround, display the last N moves just below the board (the moves pane is far too deep, I need to scroll there to see the moves)
  5. option for mandatory use of standard hoshi when inviting/waiting room (and server automatically assigns the moves)
  6. in the move list, highlight moves that have a comment
  7. present comments in chat form (now they are linked to a move), each comment as a hyperlink to the move that was associated with it.
  8. when sorting by rating, discard the fractional part: this allows to group ratings, and use another criterion for a further sorting. (doesn't make sense to group on floating point values).
  9. during a game, possibility to generate a variation submitted as a new game invitation
  10. button to turn coordinates on/off
  11. attach private notes to a game
  12. notification when a new reply is posted in a forum; observe messages
  13. sort by score: (example) highest wins -> win by time -> win by resign -> jigo -> loss by resign -> lose by time -> worst losses
  14. option to deselect move confirmation: clicking a move automatically submits the move
  15. possibility to reject a win: what's the point of winning games due to opponent time outs if it is obvious the opponent is not accessing the server any more?
  16. undo
  17. remaining time column
  18. pages containing the country flag should also have the timezone, also to allow sorting on time zone
  19. show who's next in the running games pages; highlight an Opponent's last access time if it is later than the last move
  20. statistics page: server stats, user stats, ratings frequency, opponent rating frequencies (a "good" player should play with players above and below his rank)
  21. ko indication
  22. a handicap and komi indication is shown when browsing a user
  23. stones on the goban hyperlink to the corresponding game position (similar to the move list)
  24. tiptext show coordinates, and move number if occupied
  25. add a free text field in the user info to give opponents an indication of availability (e.g. asleep, away, be right back...) the field should be a column in the running games and visible in the user info related pages. it's quite related to vacation, actually.
  26. make the display of my user Status on the Status page optional. this to make the running games window as small as possible.
  27. in a running games list, I would like to see some indication for those games that I am also also observing ("observed?" column)
  28. Wiki-like hyperlink substitution of references to DGS objects (users, games, moves, maybe messages), to avoid having to type the complete HTML syntax (error-prone and used often)
  29. Profile-settable number of lines per screen lists
  30. games can be assigned a priority: an integer value that can be used to group games according to user-defined categories. default value (0) if not used.


This is a copy of the living page "Axd" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.