Jared Beck
Hello Go players of the world!
I am a computer scientist, and go enthusiast. I live in central New York State. I have been playing go for three years (my go history). I play online on KGS, where I like to teach and study.
Thanks for reading, and please sign my guestbook!
Quotes
- In Go, and in Life, we search for the best move. The beauty in Go and Life are the same.
- Less Talk, More Go
- If you just take off that dress, you'll be Shodan in no time.
- Your opponants are like "Your moves are bullshit!" and you're like "Bwaaaaah. I'll make them work anyway!"
The ideal Go wiki
Basically, most words relate to Go somehow. Words you might not expect, like "hat" (boshi) and "mud clog" (geta). Monks were often great go players, and it is speculated that Go boards were used for divination; so even the word religion relates to Go.
If these admittedly peripheral wiki entries amuse, or educate a single user, then they have served their purpose.
How I try to play Go
Working on some guidelines.
- Tactics
- Breaths (Liberties) are the life of stones
- Life and Death
- Capturing races are a fundamental skill
- In races with few liberties remaining, especially those along the side, consider all of your opponants replies which take those liberties.
- Capturing races are a fundamental skill
Other
- My Shusaku Number is 5
- (Shusaku - Iwasaki Kenzo - Honinbo Shusai - Iwamoto Kaoru - Georg Fotzler - me)
- A few funny matchups, seen on KGS:
- 2005
- safe1 vs. smash (July 5)
- skill vs. control (August 18)
- gnome vs. minataur (August 18)
- tornado1 vs. scream (August 18)
- orangutan vs. wildgrass (Sep. 13)
- 2005
- SL Pages I've created or worked on
Go Project
May 30 2005 I want to study the Development of Go. I hope to better understand modern pro games by studying their precursors. Perhaps a careful look at the past millenium could turn up 100 great games, or some other nice round number; providing a clear course of study.
August 18 2005 I've side-lined this project. While the history is facinating, these games are very difficult to learn from.