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Alex Weldon
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Canadian 2d amateur. I live in Montreal and play at the McGill? go club Tuesday nights. I also play on KGS as Xopods and Spodox, and give lots of lessons. March 28, 2004: Spodox has slipped back to 1d KGS (even dropped back to kyu-land after a losing streak, but recovered). However, I just played as a 1d in the Concordia Go Tournament, and got 2nd place. The high point of the tournament, for me, was beating James Sedgewick (6d) with 4 stones in the last round. He was otherwise undefeated. I then lost to him in a rematch to decide 1st. Still, given my performance there, and on KGS recently, I have decided to tentatively claim a rank of 2d CGA. I've been 1d since October, so it's about time I moved up a rank. April 17, 2004: I'm being premature here, as I still have three games to play tomorrow, but I am too giddily happy not to let the world know of my success. I entered the Toronto Open as a 2d as an experiment. The result from the first day: three games, three 3d opponents (even games with komi), three wins. And here I was thinking I was a weak 2d. April 18, 2004: Yes, definitely premature. On the second day of the tournament, my first game was vs. a 4d, and I almost beat him, but blundered a large group in yose. That rattled me enough that my play disintegrated and I lost both my remaining games as well. Fortunately, the people I needed to lose lost, and my three wins the first day were enough to carry me through to a 3rd place finish, so all is well. My strengths, as I see them:
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Floris: You say your one of your qualities is whole board thinking however you also claim to be a greedy player. How can you possibly have good whole board thinking if you invade, invade, invade??? Alex Weldon: Good point. I guess it's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I have good whole board thinking. I have greedy, invasion-prone urges. On a good day, against a worthy adversary, I'm a thoughtful, strategic player, who simply has a stylistic tendency towards territorial play. If I'm in a bad mood, or overconfident against a weaker player, I give into my primal urges and invade impulsively. I'll change that line of my style-description, since it was written during a period when I was in a perpetual bad mood, and playing like that almost every game. Cloud122: thanks for the reply im usually on when ever mostly early evening to late evening eastern US time maybe we can setup a specific time we can play This is a copy of the living page "Alex Weldon" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |