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Leonid Raitsev: If a victory is in your pocket, check to make sure that your pocket has no holes!

Howdy! I am James Raitsev (11k on KGS), AGA: 12346.
Thanks for looking here!

Here is some info about me:

  • ) I am 25
  • ) I started playing to on Sep 12, 2002
  • ) Born, raised and educated in St. Petersburg, Russia i now permanently live in Chicago, IL, USA
  • ) Stan Liberman Lirm showed me this wonderful game, for which I am eternally grateful
  • ) I would like to start approaching 1D by Sep 2005. The more i play, the more realistic i get :)

B1) Longest game i played and won (by 50.5) lasted for 325 moves + 21 captures on my part. See: [ext] http://kgs.kiseido.com/games/2003/12/5/jraitsev2-Angelo.sgf

W2) Longest game i played and lost (by 1.5) lasted for 348 moves + 45 captures on my part. See [ext] http://kgs.kiseido.com/games/2003/12/11/jraitsev2-Brian85.sgf


My Games against Dans:

B1) My game sgainst MyTeacher 7D [ext] http://kgs.kiseido.com/games/2003/10/18/MyTeacher-jraitsev2.sgf
W2) My game against LeftSock 6D [ext] http://kgs.kiseido.com/games/2003/7/3/LeftSock-jraitsev.sgf
B3) My game against GreyX 3D [ext] http://kgs.kiseido.com/games/2003/12/24/greyx-jraitsev2.sgf
W4) My game against guxxan 7D [ext] http://kgs.kiseido.com/games/2004/1/1/guxxan-jraitsev2.sgf


My tartrate number is 3 tartrate --> TheCaptain --> LeftSock --> James Raitsev

My Shusaku number is 5 Honinbo Shusaku --> Iwasaki Kenzo --> Tamura Yasuhisa --> Iwamoto Kaoru --> Steve Fawthrop --> James Raitsev


Here is how I play:

  • ) I prefer slow games, Japanese Byoyomi, 5 min total + 2-3 min per stone
  • ) I enjoy teaching and will often teach 16-20k in Straw Hut. (While i am teaching and you are watching, please do not talk! This distracts me very much and takes away from student-teacher experience). I usually will check "quiet" box, but if i forget, see above.
  • ) Most enjoyable games i played were with Cheyenne, Lirm, zytta, cht, saswiz, quietman , brian85, angelo and many many others.

Clever and funny quotes about the game:

braincrash [2k?]: If you feel you have to invade, it means you did something wrong earlier.
JohnSmith?:взаимныe уступки - залог доверительных отнoшений в дальнейшем...
JohnSmith?: не время решать задачи на жизнь смерть


My quest to Shodan (last updated: 01/23/04)

Year 1 progress: 30k to 13k
Year 2 progress: 13k to ?k

Total Rated Games: ~~~~~~~~~~~527
Total Games won as W: ~~~~~~~~92
Total Games won as B: ~~~~~~~~137
Total Games Won : ~~~~~~~~~~~229
Total Games Lost: ~~~~~~~~~~~~298


Last but not least is my progress Graph

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