Ceiter

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My real name is Matthew Hershberger. I'm 21 years old, and I live in New York.

I use these names in the Go world, in order of most-used to least-used:

  • KGS: Ceiter 3k (my primary account)
  • KGS: Mikuro 2k
  • IGS: Mikuro 1k*
  • IGS: Ceiter (I forget the rank; never use it anymore)

I usually hang out on KGS in the English Game Room and the KGS Teaching Ladder. Feel free to ask me for a teaching game. I'm happy to teach anyone around 8-15k. I'll also review a game of yours if you like.


You can find my (terribly outdated) web site at [ext] http://homepage.mac.com/hershberger/lfp/. I have some Macintosh software I've written there, along with some other Mac-related things.

I've also written a program called KGS Accountant that runs on both Mac OS X and Windows. It downloads a user's KGS records, formats them in a neat list, and generates a bunch of statistics on them. You can download it at [ext] http://homepage.mac.com/hershberger/m/kgsa/.


I started playing Go in the summer of '02. I've been a big fan of strategy games since before I could read, so I'd been interested in Go for years before actually playing it. Unfortunately, Go just isn't very accessible here in America, so it was only when I realized that Yahoo had online Go that I finally learned how to play.

In May of 2003, I discovered KGS, where I now spend roughly 90% of my free time. Before KGS, I only played 9x9 games on Yahoo, so I consider May 2003 to be when I really started playing. My fuseki still lags behind my fighting because of all that time spent on 9x9. My advice to beginners: Play on 19x19! 9x9 games are good, too, but you should mix it up a bit, or you'll lose sight of the "big picture".

Some of my non-Go-related hobbies are anime/manga and programming. My favorite manga is Hikaru no Go, and right now I'm trying to write a Go AI that can beat me. Okay, so maybe those hobbies aren't really "non-Go-related". Sue me. :)


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