Chris Hayashida

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I live in Los Angeles, California. I'm a member of the [ext] Santa Monica Go Club, where I help teach beginners to play Go. I started playing Go in June 2001. I am rated shodan by the AGA. I play on KGS and IGS as chayashida.

Pages you can blame on me:

  • BQM116 - followup to the wedge?
  • BQM152 - which direction to play?
  • BQM158 - middlegame question
  • BQM181 - Get Strong at Attacking problem 11
  • BQM185 - Avalanche in the Chinese Opening
  • BQM187 - Corner invasion after "honte" connection
  • JBQM - Big Question Mark for the Japanese language
  • 24 - Games that were in the background on the TV show 24.

My Proverbs

  • The most inefficient stones are in the lid of your opponent's bowl.
  • Tesuji is Japanese for "Damn, why didn't I think of that?!?"
  • The Chinese Fuseki is more than three moves.
  • Just because your opponent is nodding doesn't mean you made a good move.

If you've read something out but it contradicts a proverb, do it anyway. It probably means one of three things:

  1. You probably don't understand the proverb.
  2. It doesn't apply in this case.
  3. You made a mistake earlier on.

At any rate, you'll learn something.


Go Blog

17 June 2005

The ratings are finally in from the 2005 Cotsen Go Tournament. I helped run the tournament, but I also entered as a shodan and went 3-2. It was enough to push my rating to shodan. I think I would play better if I didn't have to worry about running the tournament.

Making shodan was one of my goals when I started, but now that I have, it doesn't feel like I'm strong. I still have problems reading, and I still am mystified by pro play. I also feel like I'm not spending enough time studying to really become strong.

Jon Boley mentioned to me that getting stronger was a matter of priorities. Do you really want to get stronger? Then you need to push yourself, and commit more time to Go. He was trying to convince me to go to the US Go Congress this year. I won't be able to make it, though, because a friend's getting married.

I'm looking for a new goal, now, to help me focus my effort. I want to play in the US Open, or at the open level of one of the tournaments. This means that I would need to reach 6 dan. There are a lot of strong players in the Los Angeles area, so even trying to be the best in my city would be really hard. It'd be easier to make it to the Open.

In the interim, I think I'm going to concentrate on consistency. I'm going to give up on blitz games, and raise my KGS (7k) and IGS (5k*) ratings to something respectable. I think I'm underrated, and I don't play online much. My last game on IGS was in November 2004.

Koreangrl8: Congratulations on making shodan.!! ^-^

Chris Hayashida: Thanks. Now I'll just have to get my other ratings up. :)


My KGS rating graph:

chayashida KGS rank graph


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