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Ian Davis
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Welcome to another exciting homepage on Senseis Library.

I mostly play Go on KGS now. Occaisonally I try and teach a few chess players the game, but I'm not making too much progress with this right now. Ulster is basically the only province in Ireland without a stable Go club. The online place holder is [ext] http://uk.geocities.com/ian.davis29@btinternet.com/igo.html and yes I know it needs a makeover. I miss scrunching stones

Career Areas

  • Durham This is where I learnt to play Go, mainly through Paul Callaghan's efforts. I was also introduced to Newcastle Go and Alan Neural Network Scarf
  • Yahoo Wilderness years saw the odd game played here
  • Cambridge With people like CharlesMatthews and David Ward available for teaching my game just leapt forward
  • KGS In combination with Cambridge this helped my game improve dramatically. There are more people on this server who have helped me than I can mention. My favourite player here is Deft ;-)

Tournaments

  • Furze Platt 2002 . entered at 14kyu, 1/3
  • Trigantius 2003 . entered at 12kyu, 3/3
  • Cambridge Bar Low 2003 . entered at 10kyu, 3/5 (played with 1 hours sleep the night before - aren't parties great)
  • Milton Keynes 2003 . entered at 7kyu, 1/3
  • Dublin Open 2004 . entered at 5kyu, 3/5

I'm aiming to enter the Scottish Open and the MSO-Cambridge Bar Low

Teaching

The ability to impart useful knowledge to beginners is what I love about Go. One thing that strikes me about Chess is the general lack of tuition that seems to be out there. When somebody crushes you, usually you won't learn much from the experience. In Go, especially with handicaps, that just isn't the case. Through KGS especially I can pass on what I have learnt to others, and that really raises Go above Chess for me. It is my view that You cannot play Go if you do not teach.

I also made some software for Wings to aid relay of commented games see www.wingsgoclub.org? or WingsSGFPlayer for this. I have some ideas for further developing this using jython extensions.

I was mentoring Dakre on kgs as part of the SL scheme, but he improved too quickly and I had to stop. So just back to random teaching games for me. In an actual real attempt to improve my Go I have just embarked on some lessons with TicTacToe?.

Misc I am currently trying to devise the rules to a GoVariants called Wurple. Wurple is an amusing game that coincidentally rhymes with purple.

BGA KGS Tournament I am running the BGA's first online tournament. [ext] Registration is now open and play will being in July. 8 games must be completed to qualify for a prize (although entry is free, so prizes are rather minimal). The side event is Roshambo Nigiri
20 entrants so far...



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