Thaddeus Olczyk

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I'm Thaddeus Olczyk.

I first learned GO from Edward Lasker's book in 1977. For about five years I had no one to play with. I didn't even have a legitimate goban. Instead I used some Bingo markers for stones, and a grid drawn on cardboard.

While in college I met some people who formed the UIC GO club. I was a member from 1982 till about 1989, where I became a (relatively) strong player. As my graduate work heated up I had to drop it as a regular activity. I did had a few occasions to play since and have taken every one.

Now I return to GO to sharpen my mind. My play is erratic due to the long time off, but shows minor spots of brilliance and major stupidity, in a sea of averageness. Hopefully soon the rust will be all gone.


Sayings

I don't want to kill everything. I just want my opponent to struggle making everything live.


November 24, 2004

Am no longer a ko virgin.

A boring game but interesting pattern


November 28, 2004 A better teaching game


Dec 12, 2004 Creating a new page. Thad's games to learn from


Dec 29, 2004 Had a problem with a steady network connection. So I must go back and clean up some things. In particular my first game.

Then I want to form the Dead Kishi Society. A room on KGS. I would like the room ( symboplically ) to start up at 8pm Chicago time ( 3am GMT ).

I would also like to recommend to people Clox2000?.


Dec 30, 2004 Encoutered new player moon4d on KGS.


Jan 13, 2005 Am working on a SGF Parser.


Jan 22, 2005 Someone showed me the KGS statistics web site. I discovered that I have played 25+ emore games at Black. That leaves me at around 33% hovering near ~. I have decided that I want to be about 50%-50%. So this starts me on a long journey of 25+ games as White.

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Wow. First game with double ko. He invaded san-san and lived. I then invaded san-san and started a ko. As a part of a ko threat I threatened his invasion. He started a third ko (played very shortly) in another corner. Making this my first game with a triple ko. I killed the invasion, he killed my invasion. I kept the third corner. It was a quite interesting game.

Opponent was SabiSan?.


Jan 25, 2005

Just discovered that B2Bomber page has been listed as orphaned. Hopefully this will save it.

Have 15 games left to play in my quest to even up. Though I accidentally played Black once. They say that the best way to learn is to play people two or three stones stronger. I am beginning to believe that it helps to occasionally go through a period where you play games against slightly weaker players, in order to consolidate your new knowledge.


July 17, 2005

About to create a positional judgement questions page.


Sept 5, 2005

Haven't had much of a chance to update this page. I began the HouseOfShusakuClan and am now thinking of transforming it ( since I do not feel clans are good any longer ).


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