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hi

I'm Bastian from Ahrensburg in Germany playing as 1 Kyu in the Rahlstedter Go-Club in Hamburg. I have started playing around march 2003 inspired by Hikaru no Go as so many others and and have proceeded at a rather changing pace, with sometimes staying at a rank for a month just to make suddenly 7 ranks in 2 weeks.

I could also say that I have learned virtually everything from the internet (mostly from Sensei's and goproblems.com) until I was IGS 5K. Actually that was when I touched a real go stone for the very first time...

My playing style has by now changed to a rather territorial one. When I began to play I used komoku as opening but can't really retell where I got that move from. At my time in the 1x Kyus I switched to playing 2 hoshi as I felt that reflected my style of play more. Then I went on to a rather balanced style with a hoshi and facing komoku.

Finally when I was 5 Kyu I switched back to playing to komoku. This was mostly because I noticed that I was seemingly the only player on IGS of that strength willing to invade san-san when pincered from a hoshi. It's true. I had the impression really everyone else would refuse to do so by all means. So my thought was just that when I'm already territorial with my choice of joseki I could as well chose territorial opening-moves. Of course Go is not that simple but hey it works...

It is also quite remarkeble that everytime I changed my opening I seemed to improve by at least 1 or 2 stones quickly.

What I don't like is playing the chinese opening. I think of it as the very most overestimated opening of all. Back then when I played hoshi and facing komoku almost half of my opponents would approach the komoku instead of occupiing the last corner. Why is that? Personally I have played against it 3 times since I was 10 Kyu and won each of those games using the opening from the 3rd diagram from Plays against low Chinese opening. I had sometimes the feeling those people who would be frightened of chinese could barely explain what was good about it when asked but of course I don't really know. I never asked...

However you can also find me as Basti on IGS and gtl (wainting for the 2. chance to review a game...) and sometimes on kgs using the guestaccount Inuyasha2 in the german or go.epic club room.

May 9th 2004: hm What to say (nobody's gonna read this anyway ^_^ but if this is wrong leave a message so I'll know when I get here next time...)? I've become german 1d/IGS 2k. I'm not playing much online but reading the go seigen book-ebook and studying joseki dictionary so maybe I'm rather of IGS 1k-strength now. I've also become a little more center orientated if necessary. This was very much caused by bad results by 2 games I lost at the "Hamburg Mausefalle"-Tournament this year because of too much care for territory. I entered there as 1 Kyu. After I lost the first game I won the next two but sadly lost both games on the second day and didn't get out with a positive score so I'm looking forward to the next tournament this month. Hey I've never written a diary but this comes pretty close...



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