MGoetze

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Hello! My name is Michael, and I'm a real Go addict, so I spend most of my time hanging out on SL, KGS, rec.games.go and various places here in Hamburg. I'm 20 years old and studying Mathematics at the University of Hamburg.

I'm often bored so feel free to contact me anytime for a chat, via ICQ (244252752), KGS (mgoetze) or [email] email.

I currently consider myself about 2k by German standards. My [ext] Finnish rank is 3k.

My tartrate number is 2: tartrate - TheCaptain - mgoetze.

My Shusaku number seems to be 6: Honinbo Shusaku - Iwasaki Kenzo - Honinbo Shusai - Kitani Minoru - Kobayashi Chizu - Benjamin Teuber - Michael Goetze


My non-go hobbies, in no particular order:

  • Classical Music. I play some clarinet and piano and dabble in composing. Favourite composers (in roughly chronological order): Corelli, Bach, Haydn, Hummel, Schubert, Dvorák, Bruckner, Mahler, Martinu, Prokofjew and Britten.
  • Playing around with all flavours of UNIX. My collection includes: Debian GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, IRIX, HP-UX, Slowlartus and NetBSD.
  • English literature (not really into German literature, funnily enough). Favourite authors: Huxley, Orwell, Lodge, Austen, Tolkien.
  • Role-playing games, especially Birthright-type settings. My favourite system by far is the new D&D, it's very easy but flexible.
  • Diplomacy, the ultimate multiplayer boardgame. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at it. I currently [ext] rank 295th in the world with not much hope of rising into the top 100 anytime soon because I'm attending more Go tournaments than Diplomacy tournaments nowadays. ;)
  • The 18xx series of train games. Not quite as exciting as Diplomacy but good fun for about 4-7 saturdays per year...
  • Doppelkopf, the best card game. I placed 22nd at the North German Regional Championship this year, and am thus qualified for the German Championship. Yay!
  • And last but not least, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Accept no substitute.

Visit [ext] Michael's SGF Repository - top European games, professional Pair Go, and more! (Well, not yet, but soon hopefully.) Check back often for new additions. ;)


Tournament Record

Coming soon: Freiburg, Hamburger Affensprung, Darmstädter Go-Tage, German Pair Go Championship, Frankfurt (maybe), Lithuanian Summer Go Camp, European Go Congress.

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  • 17-18 April 2004, 44th Messeturnier Hannover. Played 2-3 as 2k, new EGF Rating: 1722.
  • 6-7 March 2004, 3rd Harburger Mausefalle. Entered as 3k, played 4 games at 2k level and one at 20k level for a net result of 3-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 1710.
  • 28-29 February 2004, 2nd Takapotku Open. Entered as 3k, lost four games, skipped the fifth. My mind was really on other things this weekend... EGF Rating thereafter: 1685.
  • 28-31 December 2003, 30th LOGC. Entered as 3k. I hadn't quite warmed up in the first round, so I lost to a 2k, but after that I won against all but the two shodans at the end. Result: 5-3. EGF rating thereafter: 1757.
  • 29-30 November 2003, Berliner Kranich. Entered as 3k, had a horrible first day, and played 2-3. Ugh. EGF rating thereafter: 1657.
  • 15-16 November 2003, Rahlstedter Tengen. Entered as 4k, played 4-1. (Unfortunately my result from the first round was not entered into the pairing program correctly, so my opponents were not as strong as they should have been.) EGF rating thereafter: 1718.
  • 6-7 September 2003, Kiel Tournament. Entered as 6k, played 2-3. EGF Rating thereafter: 1446.
  • 1 September 2003, Lightning Handicap Tournament, 6k, 2-1 and 1 jigo... unfortunately tournament rules specify that White wins jigo, and I was Black...
  • 11 August 2003, Lightning Handicap Tournament, 7k, 2-2.
  • 7-9 June 2003, Affensprung Hamburg. Entered as 12k, played 4-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 980
  • 26-27 April 2003, Messeturnier Hannover. Entered as 14k, played 2-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 712
  • 8-9 March 2003, Mausefalle Hamburg-Harburg. Entered as 17k, played 3-2. EGF Rating thereafter: 471

Jubango Record

24 July 2003 Martin Senk

9x9, 6 komi, played on KGS.

My games as white: W+Res, B+8, W+Res, B+3, B+Res

My games as black: B+6, W+Res, B+7, W+2, B+7

Final result: 5-5

16 December 2003 - ??? nugatory

19x19, uchikomi, played at various places on KGS. 20 minutes main time plus 10 stones in 5 minutes. Starting on tagai-sen.

  • Game 1 in English Room: nugatory took Black and won by 7 points.
  • Game 2 in Deutsche Ecke: I was Black and won by Resignation.
  • Game 3 in "Chez Hu": I was White, it was a very exciting game, up to the point where nugatory played some ko threats that didn't threaten anything. Win by Resignation for me!

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