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.
I play on and off at KGS as Artevelde, OGS as Knotwilg and Foxy? as Fumay. 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.
My life as a Sensei's Librarian
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. I have also witnessed its decline, probably due to a lack of sgf-integration and the resulting shift of the (small) active community to L19. Occasionally I still do some library work here.
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
- /ThePlayingProcess
Articles about my own path
- /Deliberate practice
- /History of approaches to the game
- /Studying with Minue
- /Studying Games of Otake
- /Applying Dwyrin's basics
- /2021 ABC of mistakes
Other articles
- /Ideas on Go Theory
- /Thickness does not exist
- /Ko
- /Why fundamentals matter
- /Sense and nonsense of joseki
- /Examples of reading
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