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El Draco
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I'm just a beginning go player, probably around 20 kyuu. Hope to make upper kyuu within a year.

My real name is Emile Wester and I'm a dutch 26 yo male. You can find me sometimes playing on KGS with nickname ElDraco. I sometimes use Ryuu (dragon) or its kanji (if possible) as a nickname, but it's mostly 'El Draco'.

Like HermanHiddema, I was motivated by HikaruNoGo to have another go at this game, since it was already two years ago that I followed a beginner's course at the Groningen Go Club and hadn't played since then.


Currently I'm following a course in Japanese language because of my interest in Japanese anime. I'm doing this together with HermanHiddema and as you can see on his page, we're often trying to find the translations of go terms. Because of many different readings, this is often cause for debate, since there seems to be some misunderstanding of them by a lot of people.


Have progressed a little over the past weeks. Have really begun playing go now and am around 10th kyuu perhaps. It's really beginning to be a fun game for me! Hope I'll make 1-5 kyu before the end of this year which shouldn't be too high a goal I think.
Also, I've completed the 4th japanese course, going onwards to the 5th. I think Japanese is a very 'omoshiroi' (interesting) language. Learning Japanese also makes it lot easier to understand go terms (and juujutsu terms which I'm also doing lately), especially since so many people seem to misunderstand the meanings (and I don't have to depend on them anymore :) ).


Made my first wiki page JapaneseGoPronunciations. I hope people that were wondering about Japanese pronunciation will find it useful.


I'm around 6th kyuu now.



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