Tokee
My true name is Stefan, I come from Witten (Germany, NRW). As a kid, I played go with my brother. We only knew the rules and had much fun with it. It *always* began at tengen, and after that, two widly fighting, spiraling groups would fight each other. After the match we stood back to watch the beautiful picture.
Isnt that true go? To not bother about consequences too much, but have just fun?
Later, we stopped playing go.
I only begun again, because a friend of mine, will wanted to learn the rules, after I told him about the game. Or did I want him learn the rules? ☺ Forgot. After a few, if not a dozen frustrating 19x19 games for both(he never took handicap) he suddenly got "the enlightment" how to play and from that on beat me all the time :( ☺. Thanks will, for creating enthusiasm also in me.
I am now on the brink to 3kyu at KGS. I don't know about my real rank. Last tournament I played 2:2 as a 5kyu.
I used to be in the ASR-League, and learn from Guo Juans audiogolessons.
I also wrote a few haikus here, related to go.
A few dates:
2003 11.1. 1st tournament in Essen 3:2 29.3. 2nd tournament in Castrop-Rauxel 2:3 24.5. 3rd tournament in Köln 3:2 11.10.4th tournament in Bochum 2:3 22.11.5th tournament in Paderborn 2:3
2004 10.7. 6th tournament in Köln 4:1 9.10. 7th tournament in Bochum 1:4 6.11. 8th tournament in Hannover 2:1
2005 8.10. 9th tournament in Bochum 1:0
2006 28.1. 10th tournament in Bonn 4:2 25.3. 11th tournament in Castrop-Rauxel 2:3
2007 15.1. 1st win vs 6kyu 26.1. 900th game 19.2. 1st win vs 5kyu 06.3. 1st doubleko 09.3. 1st game with 2 seki 05.3. 1000th game 02.5. 1200th game 21.5. 1st win vs 3kyu (by mistake; even was a internet tournament game) 26.5. 12th tournament in Hamburg 3:4 27.5. 1st win vs 4kyu during internet tournament 12.6. 1300th game 16.6. 13th tournament in Köln 2:3 24.7. place 46 of 93 in my category (iwamoto tournament)
2008 18.4. 2nd game with 2 seki 21.4. 1400th game 30.5. 1500th game 11.7. 1600th game 04.12.1700th game 31.12.1800th game
2009 9.1. 1st win against 1dan (he tried mirror go) 10.1.-11.1. 14th tournament in Essen 1:4 - 9 consecutive wins 28.1. won with 120.5 points 27.1. op resigned after move 28 25.1. 1900th game 4.2. 3rd game with 2nd seki 11.2. my best moves so far? Game against Nekros, moves 250+252 26.2. my first bathtube game 28.2. 2000th game 6.3. first game where I got a single group... at least with 5 tones handicap 12.6. won with 186.5 points... although the opponent left during counting ^^ 10.10.-11.10. 15th tournament in Bochum 2:3 14.10. 2100th game 26.-30.12. 16th tournament in Overasselt
2010 30.3. 2200th game in Mexico (+10 for rest of march) 15.5. 2300th game
2011 15.-16.1. 17th tournament in Essen 2:2 24.1. 2400th game (+33 for january) 4.2. Shortest game: W+R after 128 seconds (51 moves) 12.2. tournament in Bochum 4:4 (1st blitz) 15.2. 2500th game 26.-17.2. 18th tournament in Bonn 2:2
18 tournaments 85 games (+1 internet tournament - 8 games, +1 blitz tournament - 8 games)
Old Rating:
Rating 1587 Eur #2603 Ger #619
New Rating: 1416
Although I don't know why. I should be 5kyu.
I feel like I became stronger.
My tournaments: http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Player_Card.php?&key=12901790
"Your style is passive =) You play Go like a mouse on our banner (lol) Try to attack more! If you want to change your passive playing style, study game records of Yoo Changhyuk, Takemiya, Cho Hunhyun or Miyazawa Goro. You may also try “Kill-all Go”: Take 17 handicap stones (free placement) and try to kill every group of your opponent. If you cannot kill them all – make the handicap bigger."
New links:
Test your own style too (20kyu or better)
Tsumego
Useful/interesting links:
Study Joseki Life and Death Problems and ExercisesGo in extreme places
Current Pro Rating Ladder (link broken =()
Who is who in Go
Korea:
- Lee Sedol 9p, *'83 // style: aggressive, risk taking
- Lee Changho 9p, *'75 // style: superior calculating ability, peaceful, defensive, emotionless
- Cho Hun-hyeon 9p, *'53 // style: muttering to himself; graceful, lightful; with own defects: ultra aggressive & complicated
- Yoo Changhyuk 9p, *'66 // style: playing for influence, thickness & attacking, converting attacking positions to advantage in endgame
- Pak Yeong-hun 9p, *'85
- Rui Naiwei, 9p, *'63, origin: china
Japan:
- Kobayashi Koichi 9p, *'52
- Yamashita Keigo 9p, *'78
- Hane Naoki 9p, *'76 // style: thick and slow
- Yoda Norimoto 9p, *'66 // style: slams go stones onto the board, breaking them into pieces to unnerve opponent, hates being attacked, doesn't flee (lives/sacrifices)
- Ishida Yoshio 9p, *'48 // style: known as the computer, for the accuracy of his endgame play and counting skills
- Takemiya Masaki 9p, *'51 // style: became famous for his 'cosmic style' of play - focusing on the construction of large moyos and taking territory in the centre
- Otake Hideo 9p, honorary Gosei, *'42
- Rin Kaiho 9p, honorary Tengen, origin: china, *'42
- O Rissei 9p, origin: taiwan, *'58
- O Meien 9p, origin: taiwan, *'61 // style: interesting style based on quick development in fuseki and on use of influence; very determined fighter, with plenty of kiai
- Cho U 9p, origin: taiwan, *'80 // style: territory-oriented, weak groups 'charmed': they don't die; extremely deep reading; specialty: creating very difficult tsumego
- Cho Chikun 9p, honorary 25th Honinbo, origin: korea, *'56 // When asked by Dutch television why he liked go so much, Cho Chikun replied: "I hate go."
- Yuki Satoshi 9p, *'72
- Takao Shinji 9p, *'76 // thick style
- Kobayashi Satoru 9p, *'59
- Yukari Umezawa 5p, *'73 // credited for technical advice for Hikaru no Go
- Honinbo Shusaku +1862 // known for being undefeated in all of his nineteen castle games, and for the Shusaku fuseki, which still remains popular
- Honinbo Shusai +1940
- Kitani Minoru 9p, +1975 // innovator of fuseki and joseki, creator of numerous joseki
- Kato Masao 9p, +2004 // style: attacking play
- Sakata Eio 9p, +2010
China:
- Ma Xiaochun 9p, *'64
- Gu Li 9p, *'82 // style: aggressive and combative, where he immediately goes for the kill but is also known for great invading skills
- Nie Weiping 9p, *'52
- Jiang Mingjiu 7p, *'57 mingjiu
- Go Seigen, *'14 // considered one of the strongest players of the Twentieth Century and, by many, one of the strongest players of all time
- Xie He 7p, *'84
- Luo Xihe 9p, *'77
A few prominent western players:
- Fan Hui FR, 2p // 2810 fanhui
- Catalin Taranu RO, 5p // 2738 TaranuC
- Ilja Shikshin RU, 7d // 2733 roln111
- Guo Juan NL, 7d, former pro (5p), origin: china // 2733 guojuan
- Alexandr Dinerstein RU, 3p // 2723 breakfast
- Cristian Pop RO, 7d // 2694 solaris
- Diana Koszegi HU, 1P // 2665 zsi
- Mero Csaba HU, 6d // 2631
- Rob van Zeijst NL, 7d // 2627
- Dragos Bajenaru RO, 7d // 2624 toxxicu
- Zhao Pei DE, 6d // 2608
- Cornel Burzo RO, 6d // 2600 Cornel
- Christoph Gerlach DE, 6d // 2588 Gerlach
- Ondrej Silt CZ, 6d // 2586
- Ion Florescu RO, 6d // 2585 Tsurukame
- Franz-Josef Dickhut DE, 6d // 2574 fj
- Benjamin Teuber DE, 6d // 2549 Ahamay
- Radek Nechanicky CZ, 5d // 2501 HipHop?
- Yun Yeong-seon DE, 5p, honorary 8p YSYoon
- Michael Redmond USA, 9p
- Svetlana Shikshina RU, 3p redrose
- Janice Kim USA, 3p
- James Kerwin USA, pro farmboy
- Fernando Aguilar AR, 6d aguilar
- Hans Pietsch DE, 6p +2003
- Manfred Wimmer A, 2p, +1995
Big Titles
Korea:
Japan:
China:
International:
Kgs quote:
PaperTiger?: Neat, 3 wild turkeys walking down the road and gobbling wr: which road? RoundTuit?: ...and what were they gobbling? PaperTiger?: The road I live on. Sorry about the second question, I don't speak Turkish RoundTuit?: ?
Tokee (5k): The Cornel seems younger now areal (3k): small version of Cornel ^^ Muttley (2k): it's Minime Tyro82 (2k?): It's his daughter. gaarg (1k): already looks at least 2d Muttley (2k): She is thinking about a tesuji ..... eejanaika (6k): nice blue eyes Mystical (1d): as expected of cornel's daughter Muttley (2k): apparently she is very good at making placements in her nappies, like most babies Muttley (2k): so she has a great future in go fab (-): I was telling me that this game lacked stpuid kyu comments ^^
Other Asian stuff:
Geckos:
commented games (for my study; top is newest):
- shygost-Tokee
Download (reviewed by shygost 6d) 2010
- shygost-Tokee
Download (reviewed by shygost 6d) 2009
- Florian-Tokee (3handi)
Download (reviewed by Florian 1k) 2007
- Hikarujr-Tokee
Download (reviewed by Starstreak 1k) 2007
funny or interesting games:
- Tokee-shifty803
download (making a horrible game more horrible, connecting dead groups, winning by 0.5) 2011
- Tokee-Nekros
download (moves 250+252) 2009
- fj-Tokee
download (15k back then) 2002
Go-songs
wake me up, before you go-go Killing me softly It cuts like a knife Don´t go jump
Fantasy Go-quotes
It's not how one dies, its how one lives that truly matters. - Artemis Entreri Power is always a relative concept. - Yharaskrik There are reasons for things that a casual observer might not understand. - Jarlaxle If so powerful you are… why leave? - Yoda to foe (you see, his opponent was an escaper) It's the sensible, logical thing to do, of course, which is why we don't do it. - Tanis Halfelven
"Quotes" of past teachers: (a la Muttley) (no, they were not my teachers, its kind of a joke)
Umezawa Yukari: Your style reminds me of Hikaru no Go. Me: Wow, Hikaru no Go. Thats some statement! Umezawa Yukari: To be more precise: you know of that girl, Akari Fujisaka that lost so badly against Hikaru with 24 handicap stones? Kobayashi Koichi: Your game reminds me of Lee Sedol. In one aspect, at least: you are taking too many risks. Takemiya Masaki: One might call your play also "cosmic": look, all ya groups are like dozens of stars, all with a single eye, and remind me of black holes. Cho Chikun: If you keep playing like this, I'll never play you again! Me: You can't, I already paid our next 20 lessons! Cho Chikun: That's why I hate Go!*
*Cho Chikun once stated he hates Go (despite his skill)
Haiku
mouseclick on goban achieving an art of shape a second seki
Waya eats mango, his opponent played dango; dangerous tango. I said to Sango: Thus play not with that dan go, play with that mango.
sip my drink at night watching go, someone plays cap - aji on the rocks
pachi* *clack* *pachi* stones they put, some took, stern look, - definately baduk!
wei qi with homie, will win with my six komi - oh shit, byoyomi!
overconcentrate a crane steps past the window sensei yells: focus!!
the politicians: people that try to cap us to gain influence.
and now, a 1-3-1:
Go win by one point