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Ian Rapley, Central London Go Club;

haniwa on igs (alas now 5k*) 2003 stats:

  • IRL: 42 wins, 42 losses (that I have records for, so approx) at 2 kyu, UK. European rating 1780 or so
  • IGS: 42 wins, 52 losses at 4k* (with the occasional dalliance at 5k*)

A (non-exhaustive) selection of players on IGS with whom I've had very enjoyable games -

  1. boHjort
  2. Czark
  3. Hagar
  4. wonHo36

I have spent four years studying go; two as a student in Japan, two back in England. Go now absorbs enough of my time that I wonder exactly what I did before I took it up.

I was fortunate enough to have a number of strong players teach me in Japan; one day I hope to be both strong and dedicated enough to pass at least some of this on.


I have recently started playing on IGS under the name haniwa at a grade of 4k. Haniwa is a term for small clay figures found covering the burial mounds of ancient japan. Anthony Gormley has recently created several art works consisting of upward of 40,000 similar clay figures about 6 inches high. [ext] http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh/ART14127.html I saw the one in the British museum; I believe he was creating another in Xian in China, the site of the terracotta army.

It is an amazing feeling to see thousands of small faces all arranged to stare at you. I chose the name when i discovered that thousands of years ago, people were creating similar fields of small staring figures.


Kokiri is a (probably bad) romanisation of the korean for elephant.

Alex Weldon: It's almost correct, actually, except the second K is a doubled gyeok, so should be written as "gg" or "kk," so Kokkiri, or Koggiri (though the actual pronunciation is somewhere in between, like Kokgiri).

Which pro do you most play like?

tewari example 3

Why I hate Komi


wop

岡目八目; 傍目八目 【おかめはちもく】

this is my current favourite proverb. Oka Me Hachi Moku it means, roughly, that when you are deeply involved in something, you may not see things that that are obvious to onlookers. The go application of this is that kibitzers may see things that the players themselves don't. I don't particularly agree with this in practice but:

  • 傍目, okame means onlooker, but 岡, oka, means hill, so okame could be somebody on a hill.
  • 八目 Hachimoku is literally 8 eyes, but (I believe) 8 is often used to mean all directions much as we say things are scattered to the four winds. On the other hand 八目 also means eight points in go terms.
  • therefore it could be translated as from a hill, you can see in all directions or, with a little leeway, kibitzers' komi is 8 points


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