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Hi! I'm an 18 year old Engineering student from Melbourne, Australia. I'm often on KGS playing with the username "sigh". I used to play with the username "adantz", but the rank on that account was taking waaaay too long to rise, hence the change. I'm also an avid reader of Sensei's Library, although I haven't contributed much (that may or may not change in the future[1] ;). Apparently I'm already shodan in AGA (Australian Go Assosiation) ranking, but I'm 2k on KGS ... hopefully shodan sometime soon ^_^

Recently, at a tournement, I met 4 people. These 4 people were the last people I would expect to have learnt something from, because they each showed different shades of ignorance, arrogance, norrow mindedness, rudeness, incompetance, and a strong desire to win by any means. I realised that i never wanted to become like them, not even close. I started playing Go for fun, I want it to stay that way. I want to get stronger, winning games is irrelevent. And again, I want to have fun, I don't want to force myself to study something i don't want to, or play Go when i don't feel like it. I think this is the most important lesson I've learnt in the time I've been playing Go. For this I thank those 4 people, so I only wish for them to spend half of eterity in the firey pits of hell.


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Things I like:

I suppose the three points above revolve around one thing... I love to play in positions where deep reading is very hard, and intuition counts for everything. Also, in these positions most mistakes are common, even unavoidable (at least at my level)... but most importantly non-lethal, there's usually plenty of chance to recover.

Things I don't like:


[1] Mostly due to the fact that when I think up something to say, I realise 2 seconds later that it was completely stupid. So then I'm reluctant to post anything. This happens when I kibitz in games too, except I realise my stupidity after pressing enter. I give you a typical conversation:

sigh: p16 kills
sigh: hmmm... no
sigh: wait... yes
sigh: ignore me, i'm stupid

This may or may not be interrupted by other people :S

[2] Me and eat (another user on KGS) coined the term Hindenburger, due to the fact that your rank goes up high, and you get destroyed (in games) ^_^ Although, it might be more akin to the Titanic, setting off all high and mighty with a shiny new dan rank, but getting pummeled down to the depths by the seeminly invincible iceberg that are the collective powers of these strong players.

[3] Funny thing is that, even in normal games, I tend to play fast. Even with the extra time, I don't really know how to use it. Maybe it's a bad habit, but it's just the way I play.

[4] This was a game I played recently... it was very fun, these games are the reason I play Go, both of us playing creative moves, yet still trying our best to win:

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Soclatotle v sigh

In this game I was black... I played tengen first move in the hope of playing mirror go for a while. White's 2nd move was an attachment onto my tengen stone... there goes my mirror go strategy :)
The game proceeded to become one giant fight, with not much time at all to relax. Doubtless there were a million mistakes in this game, but that doesn't take away from the fun.
The here is a link to [ext] the full SGF file.



[5] Just because I have a higher rank doesn't nessisarilly mean I'm stronger. Even if I am stronger, I doubt this is the case for every aspect of the game, especially for people 1 or 2 ranks below me.

[6] Maybe if I tell other people about not being greedy, big points first and not creating bad shape enough times, it might eventually stick in my head :)


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