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Alex Weldon
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November 9, 2003: I need suggestions for Alex Weldon's Christmas List!
I play mostly on KGS these days, where I hovering JUST under 3k as of December 2003. I'm sort of underrated, though, because I fall into the category of "Mr. Inconsistent." Most of the time I win games against 4ks easily, but sometimes I'm in a bad mood and lose a few games on giant blunders.
I give teaching games on KGS frequently, usually late at night, when I'm drunk. My username is Xopods. Watch for me around midnight EST.
I'm back in Canada now and playing at the Toronto Go club, where I hold my own as a 1 dan.
My strengths, as I see them:
- Whole board thinking
- Defensive tesuji/shinogi
- Sabaki
- Shape
- Leaving and exploiting aji
- Determination and finding clever moves to catch up when behind
My weaknesses:
- Killing unreasonable invasions or weak groups that probably should die.
- Lack of attention, esp. when I'm far ahead (tendancy to blunder)
- Too confident in my ability to rescue groups in danger. Sometimes tenuki too early and let something die.
- The strange properties of the corner mess me up.
My style:
- Invade, invade, invade. When did I stray from the path of enlightenment and become a Greedy Go player?
- Almost never try to kill anything outright
- Getting more and more territorial as I progress, starting to play in the Korean style a bit. (December 2003: Now ridiculously territorial... had a game the other day where I had 6 groups to my opponent's one, but won by 31 points, against all conventional wisdom)
- Also getting less hesitant to engage in a complicated fight
- Tend to play one hoshi and one komoku in fuseki (e.g. Kobayashi Mk II? or Orthodox fuseki)
- Very quick to tenuki, try to be fleet-footed and take sente
- Often try to confuse my opponent with unorthodox moves
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