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Jan de Wit
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March 22nd 2002: I recently started visiting the Go Club in Utrecht again, and it seems that I'm now around 15 kyu. Also, I did better than I expected in (the first half of) a lightning Go tournament (15 mins per person), scoring 2 out of 4. I lost two games on time, but would've won if played just a little bit faster. Monday will see the last four games... January 7th: Uh oh, I'm turning into a full RecentChangesJunkie! One day I'll be a full RecentChangesJunkiesNightmare :-) Too bad I spent (part of) Christmas reading the entire library without being on the lookout for minor mistakes. Oh well, I'll just go through it again. (November 23rd) : GoZer? has been superseded by HaGo. I'm a Master of Computer Science (with honors, yay!)[1] . I picked up Go about a year ago (16th feb 2001 if I'm not mistaken). I went through a Go for Beginners course at the local (Utrecht, the Netherlands) club - so I figure I'm still 25-30 kyu or something. (IgoWin tells me I'm 10 kyu, if that's anything to go by). Update (9th April): Yesterday, I won my first 'serious' game at the Go Club Utrecht. Some better players placed me at 'klasse 60' (roughly 20 kyu, I believe) from what they'd seen from my game :-) As an added bonus, an expert player went through the first 80 moves of the game (also videotaped), because there were two students of psychology who wanted to study the interaction between players of different levels. Quite good to learn from... Update (November 23rd): I never became a fully paid up member of the Utrecht Go Club, but I managed to beat my sensei with 9 stones handicap. Since then I have started the BitonGoClub?, a Go club at my 'studentenvereniging' (fraternity/students association) - we've already got 18 members :-). Amazing how people can pick up the rules by just watching a game!! Most people are now busy improving their basic skills by playing IgoWin, in anticipation of the next club playing night on January 8th (when we hope to have got approval for buying a real GoBan, in place of the crappy paper and plastic ones we've got now). Writing an update and a computer program has rekindled my interest in Go and in CombinatorialGameTheory. If anybody happens to know a free Ph.D. position on CGT... Bill: Why not get in touch with Prof. Berlekamp or Martin Mueller? There is a computers and games conference coming up this summer at the University of Alberta. Martin is one of the sponsors. :-)
Find out a bit more about me and my M.Sc. thesis, which is about providing genericity to the functional programming language
Wiki-ing around here also made me feel comfortable enough to add some comments to the In my free time, I've started programming GoZer?, a Go playing thingie in Java. It's currently in a 'playable-with' (as opposed to 'playable-against') state, but I'm going to tack on a random number generator next. And it's in Dutch. (November 23rd) : GoZer? has been superseded by HaGo. Still in Dutch, no longer in Java, reads ladders etcetera. Source code is still in Dutch, though :-)
If you're interested in mailing me, I can be reached at
If all you want to do is beat or teach me, look for the nickname 'yatima2975' on KGS. I seem to have become 20k there all of a sudden, due to a friendly game I played and lost against a friend. It was a game late at night; we both should have gone to bed hours ago. But still, I think I'm going to get the game reviewed by the Go Teaching Ladder or by Dieter (seeing his comment on his homepage :-) (The nickname comes from the great sci-fi novel 'Diaspora' by Greg Egan.) In the hope that it gets noticed (I don't know where to put it!) and as an experiment, I've started a page on BeginnersQuestionAboutInvasion. Hey Jan, thanks for the tip about putting links in my UserPreferences. -RussellKhan This is a copy of the living page "Jan de Wit" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |