Thaddeus Olczyk

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I'm Thaddeus Olczyk.

I first learned GO from Edward Lasker's book in 1977. For about five years I had no one to play with. I didn't even have a legitimate goban. Instead I used some Bingo markers for stones, and a grid drawn on cardboard.

Later in school I met up with some Korean students who told where I could get cheap but real gobans, Korean grocery stores. I think it is very important to let everyone know about these places ( even now with online playing ). Chess would not be as popular in the US if you could not go into any five and dime ( Ok I'm dating myself--dollar store ) and buy a cheap playable chess set. The kind with the plastic pieces and cardboard board. I feel that the sets in a Korean grocery are the equivalent of these chess sets.

For a long time I managed to only play a few games a year, and content myself with reading books. Till I met the people who formed the UIC GO club. I was a member from 1982 till about 1989, where I became a (relatively) strong player (relatively for someone in the US at that time). As my graduate work heated up I had to drop it as a regular activity. I did had a few occasions to play since here and there.

Now I have return to GO to keep my mind sharp. My play is erratic due to the long time off, but shows minor spots of brilliance and major stupidity, in a sea of averageness. Hopefully soon the rust will be all gone.


November 28, 2004 A better teaching game


Dec 12, 2004 Creating a new page. Thad's games to learn from


Dec 29, 2004 Had a problem with a steady network connection. So I must go back and clean up some things. In particular my first game.


Jan 22, 2005 Someone showed me the KGS statistics web site. I discovered that I have played 25+ emore games at Black. That leaves me at around 33% hovering near ~. I have decided that I want to be about 50%-50%. So this starts me on a long journey of 25+ games as White.

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Wow. First game with double ko. He invaded san-san and lived. I then invaded san-san and started a ko. As a part of a ko threat I threatened his invasion. He started a third ko (played very shortly) in another corner. Making this my first game with a triple ko. I killed the invasion, he killed my invasion. I kept the third corner. It was a quite interesting game.

Opponent was SabiSan?.


Jan 25, 2005

Just discovered that B2Bomber page has been listed as orphaned. Hopefully this will save it.

Have 15 games left to play in my quest to even up. Though I accidentally played Black once. They say that the best way to learn is to play people two or three stones stronger. I am beginning to believe that it helps to occasionally go through a period where you play games against slightly weaker players, in order to consolidate your new knowledge.


July 17, 2005

About to create a positional judgement questions page.


Sept 5, 2005

Haven't had much of a chance to update this page. I began the HouseOfShusakuClan and am now thinking of transforming it ( since I do not feel clans are good any longer ).


Sept 30,2005

A person came into the KGS Teaching Ladder asking for advice on fuseki. While the advice he got was good I felt that beginners would not understand because of a lack of understanding of The Basics of Fuseki. So I thought I would start such a plan.


Oct 27, 2006

Am begining to refactor this page.

Begining to clean up my collection of recordings of shygosts lessons. I have been trying to make my own list similar to shygosts. But I keep losing it, just when it seems to be coming inline. So I am starting a version here.


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