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Ian Davis
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Welcome to another exciting homepage on Senseis Library.
I mostly play Go on KGS now. Occaisonally I try and teach a few chess players the game, but I'm not making too much progress with this right now. Ulster is basically the only province in Ireland without a stable Go club. The online place holder is Career Areas
Tournaments
I'm aiming to enter the Scottish Open and the MSO-Cambridge Bar Low Teaching The ability to impart useful knowledge to beginners is what I love about Go. One thing that strikes me about Chess is the general lack of tuition that seems to be out there. When somebody crushes you, usually you won't learn much from the experience. In Go, especially with handicaps, that just isn't the case. Through KGS especially I can pass on what I have learnt to others, and that really raises Go above Chess for me. It is my view that You cannot play Go if you do not teach. I also made some software for Wings to aid relay of commented games see www.wingsgoclub.org? or WingsSGFPlayer for this. I have some ideas for further developing this using jython extensions. I was mentoring Dakre on kgs as part of the SL scheme, but he improved too quickly and I had to stop. So just back to random teaching games for me. In an actual real attempt to improve my Go I have just embarked on some lessons with TicTacToe?. Misc I am currently trying to devise the rules to a GoVariants called Wurple. Wurple is an amusing game that coincidentally rhymes with purple.
BGA KGS Tournament
I am running the BGA's first online tournament. This is a copy of the living page "Ian Davis" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |