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Migeru
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Just who is this guy?

My name is Miguel Carrion Alvarez, and I am a graduate student in math and passionate go player. When my work and study schedule allows, I can be found on KGS, occasionally but decreasingly on NNGS and rarely on IGS. I just recently became a single-digit-kyu, at least on KGS.

Once upon a time I had a Japanese friend who had spent an extended period of time in Italy and spoke Italian with a Tuscany accent. I was slightly disappointed that he was not a better go player (I have since learnt that go is not as popular among young people in Japan as I thought), but that's not the point.

The point is that he had a cousin (or something) who was married to a Spaniard and their child was called Migeru. I have come to adopt that name for all purposes Japanese.


Go style

I find myself playing for influence rather than territory, and large moyos, even when I set out not to. I think this has to do with my choice of josekis and my instinctive replies to probes. I think I need to start studying Takemiya's games.

I think for my rank I am good at building thickness and exploiting it. I am proud of my ability to chase weak groups and my use of the eye-stealing tesuji. I have gained several stones mostly through improvements in fuseki and yose, so my life-and-death is not on a par with my opponents'. I also don't know a lot of joseki, I try to play by intuition and general principles.

Areas for improvement:

  • making and dealing with invasions (I think my reductions are ok)
  • tactics
  • joseki
  • getting and keeping sente

[ext] My KGS games.


Rating information So you know how seriously to take my contributions to SL.

Right now I am 16k* on IGS, 11k on NNGS and 9k on KGS. My AGA rank is 11k.

[ext] My NNGS rating graph

[ext] My KGS rating graph

  • 5th Iberoamerican Internet Go Tournament: Entered as 14k, ended up 3-5.
  • 2003 Cotsen Open: Entered as AGA 9k, ended up 1-4.
  • 2003 San Francisco Spring Tournament: Entered as a AGA 10k, ended up 2-3.
  • 2nd Spanish Internet Go Tournament: Entered as KGS 16k, ended up 5-1
  • 1996 Spanish Go Championship: Entered as 9k, ended up 3-3.

Go books I have read:

  1. El Juego de Go by Pierre Aroutcheff.
  2. Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go by Kageyama.
  3. Nihon Kiin Handbook of Proverbs.

Now reading:

On my shopping list:

I've been told this is too advanced for my level:


Migeru's Question 1
Migeru's Question 2
Migeru's Question 3


10sai - I thought I remember seeing this name somewhere online. I played you the last round in the SF tournament, glad to see you on sensei's as well :)


Alex Weldon: Responding to your message on my page re: playing a game on Sensei's. You say your IGS rating is not reliable. How strong do you feel? I'm 6k* right now, so our ratings would suggest 6 stone handicap. I'm not great at playing against a handicap, though (or with a handicap, for that matter). Anyway, I don't know what handicap will make the game as even as possible either, so you're free to choose whatever you feel comfortable with, balancing your chances of winning with the pride you'll feel if you do. :) Once you've made up your mind, set up a game page and we'll start.



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