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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 http://uk.geocities.com/ian.davis29@btinternet.com/igo.html
and yes I know it needs a makeover.
I miss scrunching stones
Career Areas
- Durham This is where I learnt to play Go, mainly through Paul Callaghan's efforts. I was also introduced to Newcastle Go and Alan Neural Network Scarf
- Yahoo Wilderness years saw the odd game played here
- Cambridge With people like CharlesMatthews and David Ward available for teaching my game just leapt forward
- KGS In combination with Cambridge this helped my game improve dramatically. There are more people on this server who have helped me than I can mention. My favourite player here is Deft ;-)
I refuse to play people without pictures on KGS
Tournaments
- Furze Platt 2002 . entered at 14kyu, 1/3
- Trigantius 2003 . entered at 12kyu, 3/3
- Cambridge Bar Low 2003 . entered at 10kyu, 3/5 (played with 1 hours sleep the night before - aren't parties great)
- Milton Keynes 2003 . entered at 7kyu, 1/3
- Dublin Open 2004 . entered at 5kyu, 3/5
- Cambridge Bar Low 2004 . entered at 5kyu , 1/5 (worse than last time hehe)
- MSO 2004 (Northern) . entered at 4kyu , 4/6
- Irish Top 8 2004. entered at 3kyu . just qualified today
- Wanstead 2004. entered at 3kyu . next weekend
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 am now working on EvilDuck? - which will have nicer graphics and edit capability.
Current Teacher :: Tictactoe, who's really helped me out on fuseki and tactics
Mentored :: Dakre, Reptar :: check out KGSMentoringScheme
Misc
I am currently trying to devise the rules to a GoVariants called Wurple. Wurple is an amusing game that coincidentally rhymes with purple.
also check out KGS Admin Of The Year
BGA KGS Tournament
I ran the first online tournament for the BGA look here. Should run again next year but format will change.
Ireland Room
The Ireland Room also exists on KGS - I am trying to organise challenge matches between other rooms for the players. Find out more at IrishInvadeKGS
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