Dieter Verhofstadt
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Introduction
Born in 1971, I work for a company in digital mapping after short careers as a math teacher and an ICT consultant. I learned to play Go in 1995, together with Stefan Verstraeten. We immediately decided that having a club would be the best way to improve. The club is still there. Since Sensei's Library has started back in 2000, I have been a regular contributor. I've seen SL weathering many storms and growing in interest, thanks to the Go community but also thanks to the spirit of the administrators, who allowed it being steered by the community and not by a few grumpy territory-oriented contributors such as myself. Sometimes I try to do some library work here.
I play on and off at KGS as Artevelde. My Shusaku number is 5: Dieter - Miyazawa Goro - Kitani Minoru - Honinbo Shusai - Iwasaki Kenzo - Honinbo Shusaku.
You can send me a message at first name dot last name at gmail.
Articles as sub-pages
- /Ideas on Go Theory
- /Teaching experiences and the distilled /Recommended introduction
- /Advice To Beginners
- /Ideas on improvement
- /The philosophy of mistakes
- /Basic laws of gamesmanship
- /History of approaches to the game
- /Thoughts on computer go
- /Studying with Minue
- /Studying Games of Otake
- /Eindspelanalyse (Dutch)
- /Ko
If you want to read anything on Sensei's Library, read this
- Benjamin Teuber / Guide to become strong
- Haeng-ma tutorial for beginners by Minue
- dnerra's ideas on improvement
- L'ame du Go
Noteworthy techniques
- Two Stone Corner Squeeze
- Keima side connection
- Sealing in by cutting across
- Two-stone edge squeeze
- Connect instead of hane
- Three three point sequence with surprise clamp
- Mixed four space extension, invasion
- 4-4 point, double low approach, outside diagonal
- Playing against san ren sei
- Lose a ko to win the game
- Double crosscut to connect
- Small gaps
- RTG Problem 47
- Sacrifice five to kill
Other pages I fancy at SL
- In a Korean Baduk school
- Stone Counting Teaching Method
- Generate diagram from SGF
- Recognizing an eye
- Compass
- Japanese book reviews