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MGoetze
PageType: HomePage
Keywords: Culture & History
Hello! My name is Michael, and I'm a real Go addict, so I spend most of my time hanging out on SL, KGS, rec.games.go and various places here in Hamburg. I've recently turned 20 and am about to start studying mathematics at the University of Hamburg.
I'm often bored so feel free to contact me anytime for a chat, via ICQ (244252752), IRC (irc.freenode.net, #go), KGS (mgoetze) or I currently consider myself about 7k by German standards, though my KGS account is still at 11k... I suppose it would go up if I played a few more rated games. My sensei is Jens Gillwald 4d. My tartrate number is 3: tartrate - TheCaptain - birdie - mgoetze. My Shusaku number seems to be 6: Honinbo Shusaku - Iwasaki Kenzo - Honinbo Shusai - Kitani Minoru - Kobayashi Chizu - Benjamin Teuber - Michael Goetze My non-go hobbies, in no particular order:
I host Michael's Cafe for various on- and offtopic rants and other friendly discussion. Check it out. :)
I just started a new game collection called My favourite player is the early Kitani Minoru (I'm not so enamoured of his later style). Just look at this wonderful fuseki from 1935 (Kitani is white, black is Segoe Kensaku):
Bold, creative, open to new ideas. And the go world gained a lot by Kitani's allowing all his pupils to develop their own styles. Just imagine if Otake Hideo, Ishida Yoshio, Kato Masao, Takemiya Masaki, Cho Chikun and Kobayashi Koichi had all played the same style - wouldn't that have been a bit boring? ;) The only thing Kitani demanded of his pupils was absolute dedication to go - a standard I cannot quite live up to, I'm afraid.
The game ended with Kitani winning by 2 points (no komi back then, of course). Of course, when I tried to apply the 2-4-12 of this game in one of my games, it didn't gain me a nice moyo like Kitani's, but an embarrassing defeat... Jubango Record24 July 2003 Martin Senk 9x9, 6 komi, played on KGS. My games as white: W+Res, B+8, W+Res, B+3, B+Res My games as black: B+6, W+Res, B+7, W+2, B+7 Final result: 5-5 Tournament Record
This is a copy of the living page "MGoetze" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |