47 (now 48) is way too old to get any good at go. But I'll learn and enjoy it anyway. I did not play 19x19 until february 2003. I hope to grow 9 stones in an instant and be a DDK no more.
Senseis is an important source to me. Sometimes when there is something I do not understand I get angry. Unlike with books (which I also like), here at senseis, thanks to Tim Berners-Lee this anger can transform into sensible texts for me and other novices because of (just to name a few) Charles, Bill, unkx80, Andre Engels, Hu, Floris?, Blake, John F., Arno and Dieter. You really help me understand. Thank you.
On SL, DGS, KGS, IGS, Yahoo and some non-go related thingies, my nick/ID/handle/whatever is mAsterdam. After discovering the sound of a real stone on a real goban, however, I tend to play IRL mostly and a little bit on DGS.
I keep a little journal on my go and SL experiences.
Here you can leave messages to me and can expect answers - I'll delete all of it when there is closure, or when I move it somewhere else if it is relevant to others.
Hey Danny! This is Stephen Markacs (talen) from Dragon Go Server. I'm going to be in Amsterdam the weekend of Dec 4/5. Are you around? You can contact me on Dragon if so...
手 te - move .
tiger?
Pushing in /through: De and Degiri, Atekomi, WariKomi
Pioneering isn't done by perfectionists. [Japlish]
Oo = 大 ba = 場 kyu= 急
kyu (rank) = 级 and dan = 段.
See http://igs.joyjoy.net/English/learning_go/go_terms.html and
http://www7.wind.ne.jp/smallbear/igodict/igodict.htm.
Somehow the mostly found hexcodes don't work, so &x30C8; has to be written as & # 12488; to get ト
DougRidgway: would it be possible to allow through hex character references as well as decimal? So that 断 works as well as 断? Seems like hex is popular for character references.
SAS: There are browsers which understand numeric character references only if they are in decimal. So this is not a good idea unless the wiki software itself converts the hexadecimal to decimal, so that browsers never see it.
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