GRDavies
I'm a player from the Netherlands (also known as Holland) and my name is Gertjan Davies.
Currently I play Go on a regular basis after an absence of a year and an half. I used to play on IGS and Yahoo, but now I play on KGS. My KGS rank is 4k at the moment, I can't tell you my RL rank, since I was a Dutch 3k before the break, but I haven't played on a tournament since. If I'm going to play on tournaments, my first will be probably "Het scheve ogen toernooi" (same weekend as the Dutch championships), since I started on that tournament in 2000.
Once in a while I get this impulse to write down my Go thoughts for a couple of reasons:
- Better understanding of Go itself, because if you write something down you have to think about it.
- Since my ideas would probably be a reflection of common Go theories, I hope this would be good reading material for beginning Go players. Probably not as good as the books written by professional players, maybe even one or two wrong ideas from my part, but merely intended to push beginners in the right direction.
But I never finish the document and the quantity of the contents is too little to justify calling it a draft. Up till now I have three such "drafts", but no more. SL is the ideal solution, easier to get an audience (up till now nobody has ever seen or read one of those drafts) and easier to work with, especially the diagrams and making references (why invent the wheel if somebody already did?).
My Gography
In the beginning
Learned to play Go at beginners course from the local Go club in 1999. Won the tournament at the end of the course and thereby winning my first Go book: Lessons in the fundamentals of Go