Ian Davis
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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 learnt to play at Durham University, gave up for a few years then took up the game on arriving in Cambridge where I actually improved pretty dramatically. I'm sort of stuck again around 3kyu though. it was 23kyu before though.
Tournaments Attending tournaments is quite expensive for me nowadays. Therefore I prefer whole weekend tournaments. I have started to think about being more european in my attendance.
history viewable here
I am planning at the minute to attend kani6, london, dublin.
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 http://www.wingsgoclub.org or WingsSGFPlayer for this. Current Aspiration is to become more involved in GTL.
Current Sensei :: Solaris
Ex Sensei Tictactoe, who's really helped me out on fuseki and tactics
Mentored :: Dakre, Reptar :: check out KGSMentoringScheme
BGA KGS Tournament I ran the first online tournament for the BGA in 2004 and 2005. I do not plan to organise the Tournament again next year due to philosophical reasons on how organisation should occur, but I'm hoping somebody else will take over.
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 Similiarly I am making a 9x9 knockout tournament at IK2005
KGSClans Not really sure about this phenomenon, but I joined KiGakiGoClan anyway :)
Alex: Okay, I'm about ready to start sending copies of the first draft of my book to people for proofreading. Email me at "alex at omniheurist dot net" if you're still interested.