Nanny Ogg
About me
A long time ago, in a tiny toy store in the Netherlands, I found my very first go set. Very cheap, very sucky, but still, it was a go board. Card board, plastic stones, but it did get me hooked :-) I bought it, and taught myself how to play. Since there was a definite lack of go players in my community, I taught go to all my friends and family members, none of whom were really interested in the game. I could beat them all easily, so I thought I was pretty darned good at go.
Until I went to college. And met a real go player. Suddenly it dawned on me that there was a lot more to this game than I had thought. And just playing my first game with him showed me very clearly that I had no clue what I was doing.
Spent a few years playing on and off, but never very fanatically. There were so many other things going on in my life. Life got even busier and go fell by the wayside. Got married, had a bunch of kids, and played once a year if that often. Till I discovered, totally by accident, the on line go servers.
A whole new world opened for me. I was extremely happy to find out that there are people there to play go at any time of the day or night. Amazing! Wonderful! I set up my first KGS account in Dec. 2004, and started playing seriously in January 2005. I think I was around 19k or so back then, if that strong. I made my first dragon account in January. I have enjoyed playing on both of those servers.
After playing and studying a lot, I now am playing around 8k AGA strength, so there has been some improvement. Not enough yet though, my current goal is to reach shodan as soon as possible. And then the real fun will start :-)
Check out the Upper Valley Go Club.