LukeNine45

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Real name: Daniel Smith.

3/6/05: Entered the quarterly AGA Handicap tournament at UIC as an AGA 12 kyu. Perhaps the two ranks of self promotion wasn't quite enough, as I won 5 out of 6 games. (enough for a prize, yay!) 8 hours of go is exhausting... A couple of those games were pretty intense...

1/23/05: Woohoo! Continued my winning streak (three games in a row and 6 out of the last 8). KGS bumped me up to 10 kyu! I'm one stone away from SDK status! (of course, without all the changes to the ranking system this would've been like 8 kyu probably. But I'm not bitter or anything... <grin>) Not a very satisfying win, though, as my opponant made very weird moves early on and I played carelessly as a result. I won by 40 something points but didn't really feel like I deserved it... :(

I have been at 11 kyu on KGS for over six months. I think that means I am two or three stones stronger than I was six months ago. I attribute the improvement to doing go problems as several contributers here have suggested... I have been winning more than losing lately. My opening sucks, but it seems that one dead opponant's group can make up for that... I think my current round of improvement will top out at about 10 kyu, unless 10 kyus are as careless with their groups as the people I've played lately...

You can play with me in person at the Schaumburg Go Club! Go is much more fun in person!

June 5th, Chicago Tournament result: Entered as a 14kyu, had 3 wins and 3 loses. Yay!

KGS rating:

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Messages:

Quacki: Hm, it seems to me you have no reason to be sad because of your rating. Another matter: It feels strange to see you are a member of the Schaumburg Go Club. Schaumburg is a county in northern germany (near where I live). Has it any connection to Chicago, or to a part of this city, then? But, when I think more deeply, I believe to have heard in Chicago there are many people of german ancestry. Anyway: Greetings from Niedersachsen!

LukeNine45: People do read these! I'm not really sad any more. :) When I wrote that, I had been stuck at 18 kyu for what seemed like forever... :)

Schaumburg is a suburb of Chicago (North-west). I wouldn't be surprised at all if Germans orginially settled there, Chicago is pretty multi-cultural. You could take a walk downtown and hear people speaking 15 different languages...

Thanks for stopping by, and greetings from Chicagoland! :)


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Black to get a ko

LukeNine45: Graded Go Problems for Beginners, vol 3 (I don't remember what problem # this was (200 something)). Their answer seemed lacking to me.

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Given Solution

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What about?

White still has to fight a ko, but this time she gets to take first, and black has to win twice (Does that make in a two step ko or something?). Did I miss something here? Can Black kill if White plays this way?


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Now there's not even a ko where B takes first.

Malweth: In your solution White is in ko. This isn't normally the case, however:

LukeNine45: Ah, yes now that you show this line I remember having found it last night, but I forgot all about it today... :) Thanks!


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