Ewout Stam

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I'm a beginner (I don't even have a rating), I mainly play it with my friends. I ask them if they know what it is and then it turns out everybody's already playing it o_o.

I need to add more here.

I play on KGS under the name of "teraiten". Currently I have no ranking because I mainly play my (unranked) friends on 13x13 boards. I can't stand time limits so I mostly avoid playing rated games. I tend to perform really poor when under a time limit.

How I got into contact with Go

I'd recently switched to using linux and in a moment of boredom I started looking for games. I'd seen this GnuGo game, and it looked like an interesting puzzle/strategy games. I'm a fan of that genre, so I went to investigate. I also vaguely remembered it was a board game too.

I learned that it was thanks to the internet, and I learned how to play not much later. My first game ever was played on 3 June a few minutes before midnight and progressed into the next day. I won ^^ I tend to play a lot past midnight. Dunno why that is. But I find myself winning more at that time. I also found SL. And I love wiki's (I have a few myself for ordering my thoughts) and Go, so this place is pure bliss for me.

I asked my friends about it. One of them had read HikaruNoGo and kindly shared it with me. She learned the rules and we played some games online. We asked even more friends and right now it seems about everyone we talk to online plays this game, and has read the HikaruNoGo manga.

I don't even play GnuGo. It's too strong for me :p

In the beginning we all played on Yahoo, I'd then record some games by having Jago open in another window. But now we're slowly moving to KGS although people seem to have difficulties getting it to work on their computers. But I absolutely love their demonstration functionality. I often discuss a game I've played and we talk about the good and bad moves and how something might have been done differently.

I have also bought a magnetic goban on which I play a friend. And I use it to introduce go to other people. I even got my mum interested, she vaguely remembers something called "Gobang".

I love this game. I can read some stuff or play a game and learn a new technique, and then use that in a game. And the amount of useful techniques I can learn is pretty much endless.

My play

Mainly my mistakes seem to consist of placing stones somewhere where they can easily be put into atari by just one more move. On the edge of the board it's often an auto-atari. I should focus on avoiding those :p I wasn't like this before. I think I konw too many tricks and moves which I love to use and all, but I forget to look for simple things like ataris.

Rating

I have no rating but a friend who is of about equal level has been estimated at 20kyu KGS. I think I'm somewhere below that, more like 23-22kyu.

I played on KGS and now my rating is a tentative 28kyu. But yeah, that's after playing one game. 19x19 is so large -_-


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