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. These days I pretty much just stagnate.[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.

People I have learnt from :: Guojuan, JennieShen, Solaris , Tictactoe RIP AllanScarff who first delivered some strategy to me

Books I have translated [ext] GO-ul in Competitii

Online Go

  • Ran the first online tournament for the BGA in 2004 and 2005.
  • Responsible for a Texas - Ireland match
  • Organised Irish 9x9 Championship events on DGS (in 2006?)
  • Two Irish Online Championships in 2007 and 2008.
  • In 2009 I created an Irish Interprovincial Team Competition, which ran for 3 years.
  • In 2014 I started an Irish Correspondence Go Championship.
  • Admin for quite a long time on the KGS server until 2015.

Top Blogs

There are not many that I have found worthy of regular attention, but I regularly check the following

Irish Go

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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 was on the IGA committee for about 8 years, including a reign as President of the IGA for 3 years. Now, as an emigre, I don't do much at all apart from the Correspondence Championship and the Newsletter. Recently I created an [ext] unblog which I plan to use to document Irish Go a little more. It has reached the stage where it is reasonably complete enough to be worth reading.

EGF Histograms

For a while I was interested in EGF rating distributions. I created some charts to show the evolution of various countries, you can see the [ext] album on flickr.

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Various regional data for active players from Jan to Nov 2009

magic tools

[ext] Characters-to-Unicode
GenerateDiagramFromSGF
Old crufty software I made at WingsSGFPlayer.
GoWrite simply the best program to make diagrams with


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