Dieter Verhofstadt
Born in 1971, I work for a company in digital mapping after short careers as a math teacher and an ICT consultant. I learned to play Go in 1995, together with Stefan Verstraeten. Around the end of 2003, I quit playing to devote my spare time to music. You could find me as Knotwilg on KGS. I am 2 dan in Europe but I do not care about rank so much as when I started playing.
Articles
- /Teaching experiences
- Dieter's advice to beginners
- Dieter's ideas on improvement
- Dieter's fuseki experiments
- Dieter's list of trustworthy proverbs, leading to
- Dieter's ideas on Go Theory
- A static treatise on shape
Noteworthy techniques
- Race to capture in the corner
- Keima side connection
- Sealing in by striking at the waist
- Two-stone edge squeeze
- Connect instead of hane
- Three three point sequence with surprise clamp
- Mixed four space extension, invasion
You can send me a message at dieter tod verhofstadt at gmail tod com.
Interesting pages at SL
Stuff not related to Go
One could have the impression these days, that all good writers, musicians, poets, and all other artists who (partly) express their art in the form of language, come from an English speaking country. It is rather cumbersome for the world of art that the level to which an artist is admired, is more likely to be influenced by the economic and military power of the country he belongs to, than by the intrinsic quality of his work, although I admit that one cannot entirely dissociate an artist from his environment. Still, I'd like to present some artists, who in my opinion belong to the greatest in the world, yet are largely unknown, due to the fact that they belong to a cultural minority.
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Louis Couperus - Dutch writer
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Carlos Paredes - Portuguese guitarist