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Holigor
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Holigor used to be IGS 4k* prior to the rank shift. I am from Ukraine. 44 year old. Currently I reside in Singapore. I play online only. On the New 2002 Year eve I've been the only relatively sober player on IGS and won 3 games in a row which put me in 4k* class. The people continued to be drunk for several days after the New Year and I had 11/2 win/loss ratio as a new 4k* against assumingly stronger opposition. After that I played less with about 50/50 success ratio. So, after 2 month I reconciled myself with an idea that I am 4k* after all. After the change of the rating system this became 1k*.
I've got a very simple The part of the game I like most is the late middle game. I am strongly attracted to flashy moves, tesujies and furikawari, everything that drastically changes the course of the game. My tsume-go is not great but I kill more often than die. The part of the game I find most difficult is the opening. I can't see implications of the fuseki moves I make. But from time to time I hear a great advice, application of which makes things easier. I am very weak at yose. I can't calculate the value of the moves. What is even worse is the fact that I don't know the value of any standard move except, of course, the values of 1 point moves (they are 0.5 miai counting, aren't they?) and a capture, value of which is the number of captured stones in miai counting. There is a rumour also that a monkey jump is 8 points. Recently (as of June, 2003) my style changes a lot. I am no longer a territorial player. I play thick and slow. I have to play komoku as one of the first corner moves to have some territory at all. After that my games become almost constant fights for the center. I do experiment sometimes. For example, it was interesting for me to know how much I'd lose if I took all 4 corners at the start of the game playing against an opponent of the same strength. I tried twice and the result was about a 30 point loss each time. Here is HoligorsRantOnYose. Holigor's pondering on sacrifice. Holigor's research in computer go For fun I made a rating of the leading go players Some ideas about SL.
Klaus: The game you are posting is cool. Good stuff, ceep going! HolIgor: Thank you. I liked the responce I've got for the fuseki part. The middle game is much more difficult. One has to read and count. Reading and counting in itself is not a problem, but the concern about the accuracy undermines the confidence. This is a copy of the living page "Holigor" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |