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MGoetze
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Hello! My name is Michael, and I'm a real Go addict, so I spend most of my time hanging out on SL, KGS, rec.games.go and various places here in Hamburg. I'm 20 years old and studying Mathematics at the University of Hamburg.
I'm often bored so feel free to contact me anytime for a chat, via ICQ (244252752), IRC (Freenode #go, IRCNet #go.fi), KGS (mgoetze) or email.
I currently consider myself about 3k by German standards. My sensei is Jens Gillwald 4d. My Finnish rank is 6k.
My tartrate number is 3: tartrate - TheCaptain - birdie - mgoetze.
My Shusaku number seems to be 6: Honinbo Shusaku - Iwasaki Kenzo - Honinbo Shusai - Kitani Minoru - Kobayashi Chizu - Benjamin Teuber - Michael Goetze
My non-go hobbies, in no particular order:
- Classical Music. I play some clarinet and piano and dabble in composing. Favourite composers (in roughly chronological order): Corelli, Bach, Haydn, Hummel, Schubert, Dvorák, Bruckner, Mahler, Martinu, Prokofjew and Britten.
- Playing around with all flavours of UNIX. My collection includes: Debian GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, IRIX, HP-UX, Slowlartus and NetBSD.
- English literature (not really into German literature, funnily enough). Favourite authors: Huxley, Orwell, Lodge, Austen, Tolkien.
- Role-playing games, especially Birthright-type settings. My favourite system by far is the new D&D, it's very easy but flexible.
- Diplomacy, the ultimate multiplayer boardgame. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at it. I currently
rank 314th in the world with not much hope of rising into the top 100 anytime soon because I'm attending more Go tournaments than Diplomacy tournaments nowadays. ;)
- The 18xx series of train games. Not quite as exciting as Diplomacy but good fun for about 4-7 saturdays per year...
- Doppelkopf, the best card game.
- And last but not least, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Accept no substitute.
I host a game collection called Best of KGS, but have lost enthusiasm for it because there are so few good commentaries on KGS. (Update: I did find some new ones recently and I might do some work on this just to play with Mason.)
NEW: Michael's SGF Repository - top European games, professional Pair Go, and more! (Well, not yet, but soon hopefully.) Check back often for new additions. ;)
My favourite player is the early Kitani Minoru (I'm not so enamoured of his later style). Just look at this wonderful fuseki from 1935 (Kitani is white, black is Segoe Kensaku):
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/49/b48e7c07236150b78a276243a613d407.png) | Moves 1-10 |
Bold, creative, open to new ideas. And the go world gained a lot by Kitani's allowing all his pupils to develop their own styles. Just imagine if Otake Hideo, Ishida Yoshio, Kato Masao, Takemiya Masaki, Cho Chikun and Kobayashi Koichi had all played the same style - wouldn't that have been a bit boring? ;)
The only thing Kitani demanded of his pupils was absolute dedication to go - a standard I cannot quite live up to, I'm afraid.
![[Diagram]](../../diagrams/44/fdc6f735a87dbe4a8b4529ee8c7cd2c0.png) | Moves 11-20 |
The game ended with Kitani winning by 2 points (no komi back then, of course).
Of course, when I tried to apply the 2-4-12 of this game in one of my games, it didn't gain me a nice moyo like Kitani's, but an embarrassing defeat...
24 July 2003 Martin Senk
9x9, 6 komi, played on KGS.
My games as white: W+Res, B+8, W+Res, B+3, B+Res
My games as black: B+6, W+Res, B+7, W+2, B+7
Final result: 5-5
16 December 2003 - ??? nugatory
19x19, uchikomi, played at various places on KGS. 20 minutes main time plus 10 stones in 5 minutes. Starting on tagai-sen.
- Game 1 in English Room: nugatory took Black and won by 7 points.
- Game 2 in Deutsche Ecke: I was Black and won by Resignation.
- Game 3 in "Chez Hu": I was White, it was a very exciting game, up to the point where nugatory played some ko threats that didn't threaten anything. Win by Resignation for me!
Tournament Record
Coming soon: Takapotku Open, Harburger Mausefalle.
- 28-31 December 2003, 30th LOGC. Entered as 3k. I hadn't quite warmed up in the first round, so I lost to a 2k, but after that I won against all but the two shodans at the end. Result: 5-3. EGF rating thereafter: 1757.
- 29-30 November 2003, Berliner Kranich. Entered as 3k, had a horrible first day, and played 2-3. Ugh. EGF rating thereafter: 1657.
- 15-16 November 2003, Rahlstedter Tengen. Entered as 4k, played 4-1. (Unfortunately my result from the first round was not entered into the pairing program correctly, so my opponents were not as strong as they should have been.) EGF rating thereafter: 1718.
- 6-7 September 2003, Kiel Tournament. Entered as 6k, played 2-3. EGF Rating thereafter: 1446.
- 1 September 2003, Lightning Handicap Tournament, 6k, 2-1 and 1 jigo... unfortunately tournament rules specify that White wins jigo, and I was Black...
- 11 August 2003, Lightning Handicap Tournament, 7k, 2-2.
- 7-9 June 2003, Affensprung Hamburg. Entered as 12k, played 4-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 980
- 26-27 April 2003, Messeturnier Hannover. Entered as 14k, played 2-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 712
- 8-9 March 2003, Mausefalle Hamburg-Harburg. Entered as 17k, played 3-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 471
Obsolete KGS Profile Quotes
(This section may be safely ignored.)
Badduck [7d]: DU hast nerven
mgoetze [10k]: lol
Badduck [7d]: Pokerst Du?
mgoetze [10k]: nee, nur doko
kolben [2d]: der hat doch keine kohle:-)
Badduck [7d]: ah ha
Badduck [7d]: so wie er Go spielt
Badduck [7d]: braucht er beim poker keine kohle
Badduck [7d]: nur n koffer
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2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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