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Helcio Alexandre
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Greetings from Brazil!!! I'm a low kyu player (4 kyu IGS, 1 dan KGS and 5 kyu Dashn) trying hard to improve to make it to Shodan. Any help with this is welcome! This week (November 12, 2003) I was promoted to 4 kyu at IGS. In 26 games, I won 17 and lost 9 against mostly 3 and 4 kyu players. Pretty hard to get up! I hope to hold or even improve on it in the next weeks. My aproach to the game is to understand the ideas behind the moves and became a stronger player. I live in São Paulo, a city with many strong go players. Unfortunately, most of them don't teach :(. I'm Ka on IGS, WayaBr? on KGS and Helcio on Dashn. Go games in my head: 1) GoSeigen (white) vs. FujisawaHosai 2) KobayashiKoichi (white) vs TakemiyaMasaki 3) GoSeigen (white) - KitaniMinoru 9p (B), 1957 1st Japan’s Strongest 4) Yi Ch'ang-Ho (white) - Cho Hun-hyeon (black), 2003 - 34th Myungin title, 3rd game match. Pages I created: 1) GoWikiWiki My Go Web Log: 19 January 2004: I created a new account on KGS to play speed go. I've been having a lot of fun playing so many fast games. I even played many handicap games, something that is unusual for me. It also exposed some flaws in my games that I need to patch up :). The account is WayaBr2? (1 kyu now) and anyone is invited for a speed go match. 13 January 2004: I'm feeling stronger these days. I was able to break my losing streak. I'm playing better at fuseki, choosing the moves more carefully, trying to feel the flow of the stones. Yet, an KGS 3 dan is too strong to play without handicap. I am reading "Opening Theory Made Easy"by Hideo Otake, 9 dan. The book seems simple, but it's ideas are very deep. I like chapter 2 because it talks about mistakes that I see on dan games, like "family feud". I'm trying to avoid this mistakes :) Also, I feel better at contact fight as I am reading them better, counting stones liberty. 3 January 2004: The hard life of a KGS 1 dan. I´ve bem losing many more games on KGS as a 1 dan than o IGS as 4 kyu ( I´m probably underrated at IGS...). The fuseki goes all wrong and I´m falling behind very often. I am missing something, but I still don´t know what. Playing with white is also very hard. I lose most of my games. I´m looking know at the way Lee ChangHo? plays with white to get some idea :) 22 December 2003: Well, I'm turning 28 today :) Am I too old to be a Go Professional? Yeah, perhaps... But I'll keep trying to improve as far as I can go. I got a stable 1 dan account on KGS and my IGS account is aproaching 3k* I hope to get sometime to play on IGS on these holidays. 19 December 2003: My account at KGS is now 1d? (a not stablished Shodan). I hope to have time to make it a stablished account again soon. On IGS I keep playing but not as many games since I need another notebook to play (the one I had only God now where it is now...). Yet, I keep my winning streak there (easy when you don't play ...). 9 December 2003: I started to memorize games again. I picked up Kato Masao vs Shuko, 1979 that can be found well comented by many pros in GoWinds volume 7 issue 3. It's a nice comeback from Kato. 8 December 2003: I've been playing a lot on IGS recently. I'm starting to get upset because there are so many escapers! I played 2 in only one week. On the other hand, I played a nice guy there in a very close game. The scoring system was giving a 0.5 point win for him at the end, when it should be 0.5 point win for me. He agreed to adjust the score. Very nice! After losing yesterday once more against my rival I decided to push my playing level. I'm going to work harder and harder. I hope to be able to beat him again :)
KGS Graph: This is a copy of the living page "Helcio Alexandre" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |