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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)
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 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 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.
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 ( axd) or KGS (less often there).
Feel free to browse my Go page at 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.
- highlight user name in running games to indicate the opponent is on vacation
- option to automatically jump to the first active game when asking Status
- search N days ago (not only multiples of 30) - replace the drop-down by a input, defaulted to 30
- 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)
- option for mandatory use of standard hoshi when inviting/waiting room (and server automatically assigns the moves)
- in the move list, highlight moves that have a comment
- 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.
- 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).
- during a game, possibility to generate a variation submitted as a new game invitation
- button to turn coordinates on/off
- attach private notes to a game
- notification when a new reply is posted in a forum; observe messages
- sort by score: (example) highest wins -> win by time -> win by resign -> jigo -> loss by resign -> lose by time -> worst losses
- option to deselect move confirmation: clicking a move automatically submits the move
- 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?
- undo
- remaining time column
- pages containing the country flag should also have the timezone, also to allow sorting on time zone
- show who's next in the running games pages; highlight an Opponent's last access time if it is later than the last move
- statistics page: server stats, user stats, ratings frequency, opponent rating frequencies (a "good" player should play with players above and below his rank)
- ko indication
- a handicap and komi indication is shown when browsing a user
- stones on the goban hyperlink to the corresponding game position (similar to the move list)
- tiptext show coordinates, and move number if occupied
- 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.
- make the display of my user Status on the Status page optional. this to make the running games window as small as possible.
- in a running games list, I would like to see some indication for those games that I am also also observing ("observed?" column)
- 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)
- Profile-settable number of lines per screen lists
- 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.
2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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