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Chinese 2 Dan

KGS 4d (I have more than 1 account)

I have noticed that there is a gwang account on KGS that is 4k. That is not me.

AGA 5.11033 Dan

History

Started playing Go around September 2005.I started at first playing a little at home at Yahoo! Which corrupted my Go for a while at first. Then I joined the Blacksburg Go Club in Blacksburg VA. From there on I started to learn, many thanks to Keith Leung and Alpha Chen for helping me at first.

I began playing on KGS due to suggestions from friends in October. I played my first tournament in VA Tech (forgot the exact date already) soon after that.

In the NOVA Pumpkin Classic tournament I met Robert Ferguson, who played a long game with Keith Leung and lost due to terrible yose.

From then on I've been playing on KGS a lot and my original goal was AGA 1d in a year, however now I've changed this to Chinese 1d in a year. Now this goal has been fulfilled.

I took classes the Anhui Qi Yuan (安徽棋院)The Upper Class, Group 2 for 1 1/2 months.

Alas! My latest tournament did not go as well as I had hoped. 3-1 as 4-dan at the Pumpkin Classic ended up as 3rd place for SOS scoring after I oddly had to play and lose to young Tianren Tam 1d at 3 stones.

Studying in China

My teacher in China is Pang Yan 4p.

I have finally received my diploma! I am now officially Chinese 2 Dan as of 8-10-2006 in China.

This is the results of my class's League Competition.

In Group 3:

   Wins: 5   Losses: 1

In Group 2:

   Wins: 3   Losses :1

I did not finish my League in Group 2, but when I left my ranking was 2nd in the group.

Dan Diploma:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/Inuyasha4life/George013.jpg

Pang Yan 4p (It was a really hot day):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/Inuyasha4life/d3fa60b8.jpg

To celebrate my rise to dan someone made me a fan:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/Inuyasha4life/George014.jpg

KGS

I am in the KGS Teaching Ladder a lot.

I offer teaching games to just about anyone who is interested, perferably those who are above 10k.

Also sometimes will do demo a pro game, this recently has been Fuseki Problems.

Ranks:

Started KGS as 23k by 10-8-05

20k by 10-16-05

17k by 10-22-05

14k by 11-19-05

13k by 12-4-05

12k by 12-20-05

11k by 12-31-05

10k by 1-12-06

9k by 1-24-06

8k by 2-6-06

7k by 3-27-06

6k by 5-5-06

5k by 5-18-06

4k by 5-27-06

3k by 6-13-06

2k by 8-21-06

Tournaments:

NOVA Pumpkin Classic Tournament (10-28-05) 3-1 (AGA 4d)

KGS+ April Tournament Open Division 3-1 Lasted a total of 4 rounds. (KGS 7k)

NOVA Cherry Blossom (3-25-06) 4-0 (AGA 6k)

NOVA Pumpkin Classic Tournament (10-29-05) 3-1 (AGA 16k)

VT(Blacksburg) Go Tournament (Date Unknown) 3-1 (AGA 17k)

Favorite Quotes:

"I hate Go" - Cho Chikun"

"Moyos are like women.....if your probe is untimely and too deep, you could get cut off." - TheCaptain

Favorite Fuseki:

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As Black:

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As White:

Notes on Gameplay:

Recently I have begun to like influence more and more. In fact I really like viewing Takemiya Masaki's cosmic style games nowadays over Cho Chikun's territorial-oriented games.

My fuseki has improved to satisfaction lately, in fact I once played an opening without mistake against breakfast. I find my midgame a little dissappointing still, so I plan to work on that...if I ever get back to studying go. My yose has also lagged down a bit, because I have not improved it, but it will serve for now.


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