Richard Hunter

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Richard Hunter
British player living in the UK. Currently playing as 3 dan. Received 4 dan certificate in 1991.
Playing regularly at [ext] Bristol go club and rarely at [ext] Bath go club.
Lived on the Isle of Man 2008-2009.
Lived in Tokyo, Japan 1980-2008.
Regular contributor to the British Go Journal from 1991 to 2006.

Email contact: (<first name> <underscore character> <last name> at mac dot com)

Books

Author of four go books, all published by [ext] Slate and Shell. All these books contain the full contents of the BGJ articles plus additional material and problems.

Three of them have been released as interactive e-books in the [ext] SmartGo Books format for Apple iOS devices.

Printed books

Cross-cut Workshop: 1st Ed: July 2001; 2nd Ed: March 2008
Monkey Jump Workshop: May 2002
Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races: April 2003
Key Concepts in Life and Death -- Inside Moves and Under the Stones Techniques: July 2007

e-Books

Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races: July 2013
Key Concepts in Life and Death -- Inside Moves and Under the Stones Techniques: November 2013
Cross-cut Workshop: December 2013


Go Interests

When I was in Japan, I used to watch Go programs on Japanese TV and I have a collection of DVD recordings. I used to browse through Second-hand bookshops in Tokyo? and have a large collection of second-hand Japanese go books.

I'm interested in encouraging people to read Japanese go books. Here's a page to help people who know no Japanese get started: Basic Japanese for Reading Go Books.

I used to play on KGS under the name nakade. However, I removed Java from my computer and have taken an indefinite break from KGS. I have begun playing occassionally on IGS via my ipad.

I have the GoGoD CD. I use a Macintosh computer. Most of my old journal articles and books were written using Smart Go Board for Mac OS9 (a long time ago). For a time I used SmartGo for Windows on an old Windows secondhand laptop PC at home because I had to use a Window PC for work. Since leaving Japan and becoming self-employed, I have been working on my own iMac. Eagerly waiting for [ext] SmartGo for Macintosh to come out.

In November 2003, I bought a digital video recorder (DVR), which incorporated a hard disk drive and a DVD burner. As a result, I copied the stack of videotapes on my shelf onto DVD. In the process, I watched many of the NHK Lectures again.

With the passage of time, it has become easy to enter Japanese here at SL using my default browser Safari. I shall be contributing some information about Japanese go. See EnteringJapaneseText. I found that the ipad can easily type macrons. Touch and hold down a letter such as o or u, but typing is much easier on a desktop keyboard. Macrons can also be input on a desktop Mac via the Character Viewer.

The ipad is a wonderful accessory for go players. I'm on my second now. Ipad 4 with retina display (after an ipad 2). I use it for studying go and Japanese, as well as for other purposes.

ipad software that I have:

Main programs that I use

[ext] Smartgo Kifu
[ext] SmartGo Books
[ext] EasyGo

Other programs that I use

Panda Tetsuki
4by4GoPuzzle (by Cho U)

[ext] StickyStudy Japanese
[ext] ShinKanji

Installed to check out
I have installed various other apps (mostly free ones) to try out, but I'm too busy to use them much.


Some links for my benefit

TextFormattingRulesIntroduction
HowDiagramsWork
EnteringJapaneseText
MacintoshGo
JapaneseGoColumnURLs
HowForumsWork
QuickQuestions


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