halo5

Table of contents Introductions Building Goban(s) Tournament Results Books

Introductions

A friend of mine introduced me to Go in July of 2003 and I've been hooked ever since. I can be found on KGS and Dragon Go Server as halo5. My blog/sandbox can be found at http://www.revgum.com .

My Shusaku number is 5, through a simul I played (and won) against Takemiya Masaki: Shusaku - Iwasaki Kenzo - Shusai - Takagawa Kaku - Takemiya Masaki

My rating graph on KGS

http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=halo5

My rating graph on DGS

Building Goban(s)

I just finished building my first goban, you can find the details at /Gobans.

Tournament Results

I thought I'd like to have a space to collect the results of tournaments that I've entered.

• US Open @ US Go Congress 2008 ( Portland, OR, August 2-9 2008 )

  Registered as 4kyu, 3 wins/3 losses

• Hardcore Tournament @ US Go Congress 2008 ( Portland, OR, August 6 2008 )

  Registered as 4kyu, 1 wins/3 losses

• Oregon Fall Go Tournament ( Portland, OR, October, 2007 )

  Registered as 4kyu, 2 wins/1 loss.

• Oregon Spring Go Tournament ( Corvallis, OR, May, 2007 )

  Registered as 4kyu, 1 win/1 loss.

• Oregon Fall Go Tournament ( Portland, OR, October 21, 2006 )

  Registered as 8kyu, 2 wins/1 loss.

• Oregon Spring Go Tournament ( Corvallis, OR, May 27, 2006 )

  Registered as 9kyu, 1 win/1 loss.

• Oregon Fall Go Tournament ( Portland, OR, October 22, 2005 )

  Registered as 10kyu, 2 wins/1 loss.

• Oregon Spring Go Tournament ( Corvallis, OR, May 21, 2005 )

  Registered as 10kyu, 1 win/1 loss, ranking stays at 10kyu.

• Salem Go Tournament ( Salem, OR, January 9, 2005 )

  Registered as 12kyu, 2 wins/1 loss, ranking bumped to 11kyu. Tied for first in my division, won a cash prize.

• Oregon Fall Go Tournament ( Portland, OR, October 30, 2004 )

  Registered as 12kyu, 2 wins/1 loss, ranking improved to a solid 12kyu.

• Oregon Spring Go Tournament ( Corvallis, OR, May 2004 )

  My first tournament, 2 wins/1 loss, established a ranking of 14 kyu AGA. I won a book, 'Star Point Joseki'.

Books

2005-1-23: I just bought and finished reading Otake Hideo's, 'Opening Theory Made Easy'. This is a great book, it gave me some insight as to how I might make use of my stones better in fuseki. I'm experimenting with some of the new ideas and will likely be reading this again soon!

I'm adding a list of books in my collection, I've read almost all of these and continue to learn new things everytime I read them. Considering the wealth of information in these books and my mid-kyu strength, I've probably got enough material to study and improve my strength for many years to come.

1. "This is Go the Natural Way!", Takemiya Masaki (signed!)
2. "Fundamentals of Go", Yilun Yang
3. "Nie Weiping on Go", Nie Weiping
4. "Opening Theory Made Easy", Otake Hideo
5. "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go", Toshiro Kageyama
6. "Graded Go Problems for Beginners, Vol 2", Kano Yoshinori
7. "Learn to Play Go, Volume IV : Battle Strategies", signed by Janice Kim
8. "Rescue and Capture", Yilun Yang
9. "Get Strong at Tesuji", Richard Bozulich
10. "In the Beginning", Ikuro Ishigure
11. "38 Basic Joseki", Kiyoshi Kosugi and James Davies
12. "Tesuji", James Davies
13. "Life and Death", James Davies
14. "Attack and Defense", Akira Ishida and James Davies
15. "Proverbs", Nihon Kiin
16. "Get Strong at Joseki 3", Richard Bozulich and Furuyama Kazunari
17. "Star Point Joseki", Nihon Kiin
18. "100 Challenging Go Problems for 100 Days of Study", Nihon Kiin
19. "Go A complete introduction to the game", Cho Chikun
20. "The theory and practice of Go", Oscar Korschelt