Ian Davis

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Although I play a lot of Go on KGS, I also play at my [ext] local club sometimes.

I learnt to play at Durham University, gave up for a few years then took up the game on arriving in Cambridge, where I actually improved pretty dramatically. [ext] history viewable here.

  • American Sandan (3.38446) after US Open 2009
  • Represented Ireland in Japan (WAGC) 2008.
  • Shodan after British Open 2007.
  • Nidan after 2nd World Mind Sports Games, 2012.
  • Represented Ireland in Korea (KPMC) in 2006 and 2010 (25th place).
  • Irish Champion in [ext] 2007, [ext] 2009 and [ext] 2010.

Teaching

For a while I used to offer [ext] lessons but I got too busy for that. However, I am interested in exchange games - go knowledge for french language.

I also made some software for Wings but it's not used anymore :) see WingsSGFPlayer for this.

Current Sensei :: Guojuan, JennieShen
Ex Sensei Solaris Tictactoe RIP AllanScarff who first delivered some strategy to me

Online Go

I ran the first online tournament for the BGA in 2004 and 2005.

For the IGA, I was responsible for a Texas - Ireland match, I also organised some 9x9 events on DGS and two Irish Online Championships in 2007 and 2008. In 2009 I created an Irish Interprovincial Team Competition, which ran for 3 years. I admin quite a lot on some KGS server.

Top Blogs

All other go blogs are a complete waste of time, apart from the exceptions.

Irish Go

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3364/3231421131_70f89fb77b_o_d.gif?alignright.jpg

In 2007 I organised the first real tournament in Belfast with Catalin Taranu as guest pro. The tournament was repeated in 2008, 2009, 2010, and in 2011. I have also been on the IGA committee for 6 years, including a reign as President of the IGA for 3 years. Now I am an emigre, but I still help out on the website. :)

EGF Histograms

Another reasonably useful tool I wrote allows me to examine rating distribution across active populations in EGF member countries. It's very improvable, if you want the java source just ask. A really basic plot from its output can be seen below. Normally I compare individual countries, you can see the [ext] album on flickr.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4290630654_e44f3aa43e_o.png


Various regional data for active players from Jan to Nov 2009

magic tool

[ext] Characters-to-Unicode


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