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Dan Argent
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Approximate rank: 27 kyu

IP (if you see it on the Recent Changes its me): 4.64.188.129

Email: silverdan@toughguy.net

I'm Dan Argent. I'm rather new to go. I've been playing since the start of 2004. not very long as of yet. I have been playing on KGS a good bit and my rank there is 29k? In real life though I play in my Go club at school where my rank is one or two stones higher. Oh well, the bottom line is that I am the biggest of newbies.

I live on the eastern coast of the United States. Right around the capital, Washington DC. I am a Junior in High school. Which means I have about a year and a half before I go to college (or university). I hope to create a wiki page for my go club at school soon. right now there are a ton of new players learning to play go where I live.


Yea! I just beat my friend in a casual game at my house. I had a 25 point lead (Japanese system) This makes me happey because He is around 19 to 20k. It was also an even game with no handicap. I atribute my succes to the SL Beginner Study Section. Any one is welcome to comment (and correct my horrible spelling) on what I say. I will most likely use this page to place my rambelings when I have nothing better to do.

Stefan: Good to have you around, Dan, and very pleased to hear the BSS is useful.


Sigh, the snow falls outside. Here in washington we were just hit with a little snow storm. I guess this means more time for go and surfing SL. Should be studying for midterms.


I'm suprised about the lack of political discusion here on SL. In other international and intelectual communities that I have participatied in, like chess or diplomacy groups, there has been a constent debate in many corners of general disscusion about current events. I rather like the nonpartisan atmosphere of SL, Quite a breather from the litany of offensive and/or uneducated statements.

If you see me posting quite a lot in the next few days it is because of the bad weather here.

Mark Wirdnam: Hello! It's fascinating to hear there are Western schools that have a Go-club, so if you know and feel like telling, could you tell of the circumstances that lead to there being a club at your school?

Dan Argent: Yeah, it hasn't realy taken off yet. But I will try to sumerize it's history so far. Most of it started with three different 'nerds' (I count my self as a nerd myself so I do not mean this in a derogatory sense) learning and being interested in Go entirely seperate from one another.

Kevin Zao is either chinese or from singapore, not sure wich. He grew up with go and learned to play as a kid. He got a free computer game to play against but didn't know there were any players in the US to play against. He is by far the Best player in our Chess club.

Gareth lived in Malasia as a kid and his mother is chinese. I'm not sure exactly how he learned of the game but he started playing on KGS after watching Hikaru no go He plays as Sai on KGS. He was a freind of mine and he got Alex and myself into it. We played on graph paper in physics for a while.

Bjorn (aka bjogo) is another student who got interested in go as an alternative to chess. He is the one that introduced me to SL.

None of these three new that there was anyone else who played untill the robotics season started. We are all on our schools national 'First' robotics team. Gareth and I started playing Go and Bjorn and Kevin both saw us so it took off from there. We are now trying to get more people into it and get a club meeting weekly. It is unlikely that we will realy get going until the robotics season ends because most of the players are on that.

That is our story and given the popularity that it has inspired and the circumstances I think that it is not unlikely that other clubs will spring up in schools around us.


I'm exited, I just got my first Go board. Its pretty hard to find quality boards in the US, or at least where I live. I maneged to get a wood fold up set so that I can take it to school. It's pretty cool.

After getting it I taught my brother how to play. now he completely addicted. we stayed up till 1 in the morning last night playing. He still hasn't gotten over a nine stone handicap against me though.




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