[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]

StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About


Homepages
BramGo

 

Bram Vandenbon
PageType: HomePage    

Bram Vandenbon

  • Born: 19 oct 1984
  • Learned Go: very young, about 7 years old I think.
  • Started taking it serious: march 2003
  • Current Strength : 15/04/2004 : 5k
  • Local Club : [ext] Go Gezelschap van Brugge

KGS handles: BramGo and wuqingyuan. My Graphs :

my current Go rating at for KGS (BramGo account)

my current Go rating at KGS (WuQingYuan account)


__ How I met Go

I started mind games when I was very young. I live in Belgium so on of the first games I learned was Chess ofcourse. When I was about 7 years old I learned how to play Go. I have 2 brothers. My older brother played Go with me now and then when we took out the old gamebox.

It was a Ravensburger gameset with a foiled paper board and white and blue plastic stones. I also had that very famous book of Iwamoto (translated to dutch). Back then I could hardly read. So I never took a look at it. In fact when I asked what the book was for, they told me it contained nice pictures of animals you could reproduce using the stones.

I didn't play the game for ages after that. I did play a lot of chess and I was quit good at it too. I played a lot of chess at school, and against several chess programs.

Then last year when I was 18 years old, I restarted playing the game. My brother had restarted playing the game about a year before me. And I was determined to catch up with him.

I learned to know a lot of other go players on KGS. There's a Belgian room there "BelgianFridayNightClub?".

We decided to start a new go club at bruges... The first person I played over there was somebody claiming to be 21kyu. He played a very strange game with me. I was used to play corners and sides first. But he had no interest in those at all. But he did win by 20 points by closing of the center. At that time I played about 7 games a week. The other club members about 2 games/month

So I catched up really fast. It took me about half a year to equal my brother's strength (12k).

I have also learned a lot using TurboGo and Many Faces of Go. Many faces helped me to get to 11kyu really fast. Also GoBase was very helpfull

At the moment I'm about 5kyu. But I'm having a very poor go-period. I have a lot of work at school.


Greetings



This is a copy of the living page "Bram Vandenbon" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.