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The material here has been cut and pasted un-edited from the Messages to People Currently Present in the Library.

26 June 2002

I'm going home for the night, SAS. Feel free to transplant our NamesInGo discussion to an appropriate discussion page. If most SL denizens feel as you do, then we'll redo the N.I.G. page. I'm going to think about it some more; my main desire is clarity and consistency, so the page will be most useful. --TakeNGive

22 June 2002

Hey SAS, tell us about yourself on your Homepage --Dieter

May I extend the same invitation to Splice? --unkx80

12 June 2002

JoeSeki: I'm in a major slump here, and can't seem to make any real progress at go anymore. I'm a weak 2-kyu player and I need help breaking into the Dan level. Is anyone interested in doing a teaching game with me to talk about direction of play, proper attack and defense methods, timing. A good general discussion of the why's and how's would be very welcomed during the game. More than likely I'd kibitz a lot with my reasoning for play, and hope for a discussion from anyone willing to contribute as to the validity of the thought process. What I'm looking for is a way to guide my thinking during play. In general I need to reset the way I'm thinking about this game.

AvatarDJFlux: I feel about the same. I'm supposed to be a strong European 3k (I've been such for many years...), but more often than not I play at a much lower level... It's all in my head, I suppose.
These days I was thinking exactly the same thing, to ask a stronger player here to give me a TeachingGame!
So now there's my proposal to you, Joe: we could play together, and a strong player (if any available) could comment on our moves on the run... maybe this way it is less demanding on the stronger player?

JoeSeki And excellent idea, come on over to Teaching Game 67. Feel free to spruce it up as needed

1 June 2002

HolIgor: On the eve of the amateur world championship I would like to wish good luck to SL residents playing there.

28 May 2002

ChessWhiz: Hi... I'm 12k* on IGS, and I'd like to play a teaching game with someone here, preferably 4-9 stones stronger than I am. Is anyone interested? I visit this site almost every day... This is a GREAT SITE!!!!!

Dieter 1d: I'm available today Wednesday. Go to my page and send me a message.

ChessWhiz: Anyone else? I'd like to get a few games going.

dnerra: I will play one. Let's call it TeachingGame361.

24 May 2002

Scartol: Hey everyone -- Sorry about the messiness with the long page name I just completed.. (Playing through lunch...). It didn't save my first attempt, so I tried to fix it, but I'm afeared that I may have just made things worse. I guess it just isn't my day..

PS. Congrats, Gorobei!

Arno: Your first attempt succeeded in creating a page (with an even longer name). See FullRecentChanges. I let the page sit there for some days, so that you have the ability to move the text from there. I'll remove the page which is not linked from BadHabits afterwards.

The problem was (is) that the database only stores pages with at most 100 characters as pagename. Well, your first page had 103 letters in the name. In the database it got cut down to 100 letters, and thus on BadHabits the anchor (103) didn't match the pagename (100) and thus no link was shown. I shall add an error message when trying to create pagennames longer than 100 chars.

17 May 2002

Gorobei: I'm happy to announce the birth of Sasha, my daughter. 6 pounds, 11oz. Mother and child are doing well. Go lessons will begin shortly :)

Arno: Congratulations! All the best wishes to you and your family :o)

Stefan: Congratulations, Gorobei! As far as I can tell, this makes you the proud father of the first library baby. We'll follow her progress with interest. :-)

TakeNGive: Congratulations, indeed! We'll look for her at the tournaments.

5 May 2002

AvatarDJFlux: Does anyone know where I can find statistics about the diffusion of Go around the world? Something like so many players in Japan, N. America or in Oceania, so many pro in Japan or in Korea etc.
I've only found some info about Europe on the EGF site, but nothing on IGF or Nihon Ki In ones.
Thx

TakeNGive: Someone quoted John Fairbairn in rec.games.go ([courtesy of Google | [ext] http://groups.google.com/groups?q=woemn+group%3Arec.games.go&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&lr=]) talking about a Japanese go census which estimated 27 million players in the world, with estimates for some countries. (2002-05-25)

3 May 2002

Regyt: StartingPoints is gone, along with just about everything else touched by 24.168.56.24 ... what's going on? Did some random person show up and start deleting things?

unkx80: I suspect yes... unfortunately, such things happens every once in a while, given the very open nature of SL.

MortenPahle: It does look like 24.168.56.24 has basically tried (or is trying) to create havoc. On the one hand, it goes to show how weak a wiki is (no pun intended), on the other hand, it goes to show how strong the SL community is - the correction was done almost before the damage occurred.
Thanks to everyone who revived the pages.
Just for the record: we can of course quite easily find out who 24.168.56.24 is. We have at the moment no easy way to block access to a specific IP number. We will look at making this easier in the future.

unkx80: I suspect that 24.168.56.24 might have made some small changes to certain pages. This is hilarious, but 24.168.56.24 actually deleted the following line from WikiEtiquette (I have restored it):

  • Don't delete other people's contributions (unless you know what you are doing)

Arno: thanks to all who restored pages. Those of you who have librarian access: click on the page title and revive previous versions. Those of you who have set their level to deshi: click on "revive previously archived version" in the edit page, if you are the first one to edit a page after a child played outside the SandBox. To all children: please use the SandBox. It's safe to play there.

p.s. 24.168.56.24 is blocked for 3 days. (I checked the database: 6 pages were "edited", all 6 are restored.)

pp.s. I do not intend to raise the barrier to edits. I believe that occassional acts of vandialism don't outweigh the easiness with which people can start contributing. And don't worry: we have an archive. And if things get rough, we just start handing out more librarian accounts. Talk about strength in numbers :o)

Note: FullRecentChanges is locked for edits now. So even if someone wipes out RecentChanges you can find changes there.

3 May 2002

HolIgor:

I have restored some pages. If you find something else missing let me know.

3 May 2002

Regyt: Whoa, what happened? I showed up and RecentChanges looks all wonky..

28 April 2002

Dieter: I have downloadded Cgoban2 and the supporting java stuff. When I try logging on to KGS, I get the message "the server is probably down". Has it been for the last two days ? Or is there something wrong with my setup (which is basically self-installment).

StormCrow: I can connect just fine from here. KGS seems to be more difficult to connect to through a firewall than most servers. I can get JaGo to connect to IGS and NNGS from work, but KGS always presents a problem.

Dieter: I'm trying from home. There is some kind of private firewall installed. I disabled it. I still get this message. The system "kgs.kiseido.com" is refusing connections. The server is probably down right now. Please try again later. Thanks for your answer, I know now I have to solve it up here.

Few seconds later ... Now I know ! This (my dad's) computer is connected from home to the net through a company firewall, which enables only http. You can tell I have been a network engineer.

26 April 2002

I would like to invite people to contribute more to the knowledge base of the library. We have so little on joseki, shape, yose, positional jusgement, tesuji. It seems to me that the library should have more study and reference material. Every one of us knows something or discovers something each day and that knowledge can be put here and discussed. You will win by getting response of stronger players to your little discoveries.

HolIgor

18 April 2002

I believe they are closer to the Chinese ranks, which are quite strong. But go in Singapore is not professional. There are Chinese pros that work with kids in schools but no big money tournaments etc.

unkx80: Just to add on, the Chinese pros are the coaches in the Singapore Weiqi Association. The SWA conducts courses in its clubhouses as well as in Primary and Secondary schools in Singapore. As the SWA is a non-profit organization, and sponsors are hard to come by, no big money tournaments is to be expected.

Bill: Thanks. :-)

17 April 2002 HolIgor, how do Singapore ranks compare to Japan or US ranks? Thanks. :-) -- Bill

11 April 2002 Professor Elwyn Berlekamp's public lecture "Quantitative go and some other games". Saturday, April, 20, 10 am, LT31.

11 April 2002

Bill, it seems that with Nonny, we have lost a valuable librarian. Would he have been upset altogether ? --Dieter

I'm still lurking, Dieter and Bill. I very much appreciate your kind comments. I'm just soaking up all of the information and knowledge I can get. I always did learn more by listening rather than talking. Sometimes I forget that, though :) --Nonny

7 April, 2002

The URL of AGI (Associazione Goistica Italiana) web site has been changed without notice and without automatic re-addressing by Lycos, which has taken over Tripod. The new URL is therefore [ext] http://utenti.lycos.it/agi/
Please change your bookmarks (if any....)! ;-)

5 April, 2002

Naomi Fine . . . JONATHAN, I would like to contact you. Please email me. - naomi@premofine.com.

27 March, 2002

Bill, I am going to restore it anyway. If Nonny does not want his signature under the diagram then I am ready to appropriate it. I postponed the discussion on the issue because it might be played yet. I understand the if we were to annouce our analysis of the moves before playing them, our rengo would be clean and beautiful like Shusaku's games ;). But at the same time I am playing white and I want to win.

HolIgor

26 March, 2002

Nonny, if you are still around, I noticed that you deleted your question about the ko from one of the discussion pages about Ongoing Game 2. You made a good point. :-)

I know that there are several dan players contributing, but that does not lessen the value of what anybody else has to say. I, for one have appreciated your contributions. :-)

Bill Spight

Fully agree. (I wouldn't disagree with a 5 Dan, would I ? #:-7) --Dieter

I hope you do, but I am glad you agree about this. :-) -- Bill

16 March, 2002

Arno, I don't know if it was my whining that caused LevelsOfAccess, but thanks! That is a really nice improvement.

Arno: it was your whining :o)

12 March, 2002

uXs: I know that, at some thinking games exposition some years ago, there was a game played by a pro (I think it was Janice Kim) against a top computer go program of that time, at a handicap of 25 stones. Janice won the game. I've been trying to find that game, but haven't succeeded yet. Anybody here know where to get it ? Tia.

11 March, 2002

Adamzero: Dear Sensei,
I wonder if there is some knowledgeable Sensei who could make a page about attacking/reducing shimari. There is some information on the YosuMiru page, but more would be great. In my games, shimari have a tendency to to grow all too quickly, and there doesn't seem to be much I can do about it.

7 March, 2002

Arno: Removed entries before Jan 1, 2002. Previous version of this page with more comments: version 175

4 March, 2002 - 11:54 AM GMT+1

--Stefan: Congratulations to Gorobei for creating the 1500th page at SL. The lucky entry is called The Code So Far. Did anybody keep count of how long it took us to create the last 500, what the average new page count evolution is, and all kinds of similar interesting and useless statistics? Oh wait a minute, that's what we have Arno and Morten for... :-)

I feel so honored! - Gorobei

Here you are: SL Statistics --Arno

--Stefan: Unbelievable! You make something up and these guys go ahead and actually do it. Amazing! Thanks Arno! And what is that poor page not updated since October 2000? MortenPahle?

Arno: :o) no, it's not Morten. I give you a hint: look at old RecentChanges versions. SL deshis should be able to figure it out within 5 minutes.

Dieter: This deshi first thought Senseis Library but then took up Arno's five minute walk to arrive at the Go Teaching Ladder.

11 Feb 2002

Happy Chinese New Year greetings to all. 8) --unkx80

5 Feb. 2002

Congratulations to Jan for graduating with honors!
Medetai, medetai! :-)

BillSpight

Thanks! Are you calling me a simple soul? Or are you happy? :-) Jan

It means "congratulations". :-) --Bill

That's what you get from using online dictionaries...

Try looking up the formal variant, "omedetou". -- Bill

31 Jan. 2002

Sorry all, I thought I hit the "minor edit" checkbox. Sigh.

25 Jan 2002

Hi:

I am new to editing and I think I have not created correctly an alias. What am I doing wrong? I intend to create "LordOfTheYose" as an allias of "BillSpight" (don't you think he deserves it? ;-) When I click on the first one I am not taken directly to the second one. Is it because I am the editor or because I did something wrong? Please Bill, if you don't like it just delete it or tell me to delete it.

--Jesusin

Hi Jesusin,

That is bacause you have not set the PageType to Alias. I have fixed this.

--unkx80

Oh, thank you. --Jesusin

Dear Jesusin,

I appreciate the humor. ;-) I'll try not to take myself too seriously. :-)

Thanks,

-- BillSpight

19 Jan 2002

Dear everybody,

A while back I came across a discussion about the concept of futile invasions against a winning opponent in order to force her to play extra stones, thereby reducing her own terrirory. Now I can't find it, despire numerous searches and browsing. Can anyone help me out? Feel free to post here or email me at [email] mailto:eric@etan.org. Thanks. -- Scartol

That ought to be on a page called Semedori. But it seems there isn't one!

--Stefan: What Scartol talks about has always been explained to me as shibori, a page that has a right to exist. Running this term through the search-engine produces two hits, of which Race To Capture In The Corner contains the most information. Is that the one you're looking for?

--Stefan: (the next morning) Mmmm,... The dictionary at Jan van der Steen's site confirms Matthew's semedori reference, and the shibori description there is very close to squeeze. We'll need a hand from the Sensei well versed in Japanese, I guess. Bill?

6 Jan. 2002

Dear everybody,

How about starting a page on How to take care of Go Equipment?? It should be easier then dipping katana's in ink! I don't know anything about this as I only have 'El Cheapo' GoBan :-(

4 Jan. 2002

Dear Stefan and unkx80,

Thanks for the further info about QARTS and the URLs in Positional Judgment. :-)

Bill

You are welcome. :-) --unkx80

3 Jan. 2002

Dear StefanVerstraeten,

Thank you for moving my Pi comments to the appropriate spot. I thought I'd checked for a page on it, but apparently I didn't look hard enough.

Scartol

You are most welcome! By the way, Scartol, you run somewhat of a risk to get a nomination for the RecentChangesJunkiesNightmare award...

Jan. 1, 2002

Dear unkx80,

Thank you for the beautiful job you did with ThankYouMove! :-)

Happy New Year!

BillSpight

Thank you, and welcome. Take this as my New Year present to all. :-)

unkx80



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