Dieter Verhofstadt
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Introduction
Born in 1971, I have been working for Tom Tom 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 messages at first name dot last name at gmail.
Articles about learning and improving
- /Teaching experiences
- and the distilled /Recommended introduction
- /Advice To Beginners
- /Ideas on improvement
- /Basic laws of gamesmanship
- /Time management
- /FullTrainingProgram
- /Solving problems
- /The philosophy of mistakes
- /Stubborn vs Agile
- /Years of GTL reviews
- /Books
Articles about my own path
- /Deliberate practice
- /History of approaches to the game
- /Studying with Minue
- /Studying Games of Otake
Other articles
- /Ideas on Go Theory
- /Thoughts on computer go
- /Endgame Heuristics
- /Ko
- /Why fundamentals matter
- /Sense and nonsense of joseki
- How to read
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
- Basic Instinct
- One two three
- Two Stone Corner Squeeze
- Keima side connection
- Sealing in by cutting across
- Two-stone edge squeeze
- Connect instead of hane
- 3-3 point shoulder hit, turn, hane and clamp
- Mixed four space extension, invasion
- 4-4 point, double low approach, outside diagonal
- Lose a ko to win the game
- Double crosscut to connect
- Small gaps
- Farmer's hat half eye
- 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
- Japanese book reviews