Torinouta
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Me
My name is Solomon. I'm just a casual 18-year-old Korean who likes to play Go.
- I am currently 1d on KGS (12/1/06) and have been playing since September 2004.
- I was a 2-month Go'n'Games China attendant for 2006. My teacher there was Liyanbo 2p, he was a cool guy.
- I live in Washington, where I like to go to the Seattle Go Center and go to the Tacoma Go Club.
- Other hobbies I have include bemani/music games, golf, Photoshopping, anime/manga, and studying the great debate between Intelligent Design and Evolution, Christianity and Atheism. I am too young to fully enjoy the great game of online poker =(.
- I enjoy listening to Speedcore, Happy Hardcore, Speed Metal, Rock, K-Pop, J-Pop, and starting to get into Jazz. My favorite artists include sharpnelsound, Dragonforce, Kyle Ward/Inspector K/Smiley/KaW, KOTOKO, and The Offspring.
My Go
I don't like to study Go, it just feels more natural to improve just by playing and just learning from your games, hence why it took 2 years to reach shodan on KGS rather than my hopeful 1 year ^^;.
- I played on my first real board when I was KGS2 8k at the 2005 US Go Congress in Tacoma (my hometown, sweet!).
- I have a noob opening and my fuseki + joseki knowledge is weak, but I don't care. This is my weakness in Go.
- I focus mostly on Chuban / middle game, and I like going over L&D and tesujis. This is my "strong" point in Go. I am comfortable with being behind by a stone or two in the early game, I like to overplay anyways and have the game rely heavily on raw reading and tesuji finesse, not joseki memorization and boring, artificial play.
- My style/play has been critiqued by stronger players as inconsistent and wild, aggressive and risk-taking.
- Roughly 70% of my Go has been handicap games (giving), so I am stronger at those games, where overplays are fruitful :).
- I plan to take lessons from a local AGA 8d in the Spring. I too have a goal...I hope to be AGA 7d by US Go Congress 2008 @ Portland, OR.