DanielTom

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I am Portuguese, born on October 21st, 1993.

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Daniel Tomé (right), Lisbon Open, July 2009

I am currently studying Economics at the University of Porto.

In my free time I like to watch pro (Go) games, practice magic tricks, go out with friends, listen to music, play the piano or chat online. I also enjoy playing video games and reading.

I am the current Portuguese Go Champion, and I am going to represent Portugal in the next World Amateur Go Championship (2012).

New moves in Go and unusual trick plays are fascinating to me. They remind me of chess traps. I am (or was) pretty strong at chess (maybe Elo 2400), but I haven't played chess seriously in a long time. I got tired of having to memorize so many opening lines! As Fischer said, "now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative."

For the record, I am vegan. "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends." (George Bernard Shaw)

Remember what Confucius said: "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

I am currently an expert on [ext] http://gosensations.com/ (meaning I write articles there). The last player I interviewed for GoSensations was the KGS-star "smartrobot" 9d ([ext] http://gosensations.com/index.php?id=2&server_id=1&new_id=1270).

I am also quite active on KGS. If you want a teaching game or a game review, please ask me, I am always glad to help.

You can see two of my best games below. I played them almost a year ago, in the Korean-style Insei League, against the teachers in Simul (which means they were playing with me and other people at the same time). Enjoy!

[ext] http://insei-league.com/goban.php?sgf=DanielTom_breakfast_1306490429.sgf

[ext] http://insei-league.com/goban.php?sgf=DanielTom_solaris_1305061910.sgf

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I tried a new move against Cristian Pop :)

Phelan: Welcome to Sensei's Library, DanielTom.


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