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Tartuffe
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Tartuffe shi shei? I am an American teacher from Minnesota living in Shenyang, China. I sometimes play Go with my students, but if I'm up for punishment I play against the Korean students or a 5d teacher who lives near me. If you see me on KGS or Yahoo, feel free to ask for a game! KGS: tartuffe (7k as of November 9, 2003). If anyone else around here is in China and would like to meet up for a live game I'd be up for making time to travel (preferably to a location near Shenyang/Beijing, but I'm very flexible during Spring Festival). I'm a laid back guy, and I speak some Chinese. :) This is printed everywhere, but I might as well say it: The Elementary Go Series is a FANTASTIC set of books and helped me drop from 20k to 12k during my first reading of 'Life & Death' and 'Tesuji' (though playing stronger players also helped). The book on tesuji is difficult the first time around, but stick with it. Around 20k? Try Bozulich's 2nd Book of Go. I am convinced that mid-kyu (20k-10k) players get stronger in two main areas: life and death and mid-game fighting. Mid-game fighting seems to be the most important factor in mid-kyu games. Thus the most rewarding study for mid-kyu players is life and death and tesuji. Only after you have a decent grasp of these two areas is a study of joseki or endgame theory worthwhile. 'In the Beginning' should be sufficient study for the opening (rather than 38 Basic Joseki) until you are stronger than ~15k. If you can read a little Chinese, the Weiqi Sihuo Daquan (ISBN: 7-80548-526-7) contains an enormous number of l&d side/corner problems and goes through several popular corner invasions. I bought mine in Beijing for 32 kuai (about US$4). I am determined to make steady progress to 1-dan. If any dans have advice for single-digit kyus, I would love to hear it. email: pfhansmeier@yahoo.com Overdrive MUD: telnet://overdrive.concentric.net:5195 --As a dan level player and also an ex-MUD/MMORPG player, I have a friendly advice for you! Stop playing that MUD if you want to become 1-dan soon!! :-) This is a copy of the living page "Tartuffe" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |