Herman Hiddema
Hi, this is my homepage at Sensei's Library. I'm a Dutch 3 dan playing at the Delft Go Club (Until recently at the Groningen Go Club, of which I am still a member)
I played my first game of go (9x9, 6 handicap) on august 18, 1995, against Andre Engels (then 1st kyu) at a promotional stand. This stand was part of the introductory activities when I went to study computer science at the university of Groningen. I then took a beginners course in september & october.
I stopped playing somewhere toward the end of 1999 when I lost interest. I started playing again after discovering Hikaru no Go in july 2002, which motivated me to pick up this great game once again. Since then I've gained 3 dan grades. My goal is to be 5 dan before the European Go Congress 2009, of which I am one of the organizers.
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Rank history
- start aug 1995
- 7k 1996
- 4k 1997
- 3k 1998
- 1k 1999
- -- Mostly stopped playing 2000-2002 --
- 1d 2003 (jan)
- 2d 2004 (sep)
- 3d 2005 (sep)
Best tournament results
- 4th at Delft 2006 (september) (field: 3x 5d, 2x 4d, 5x 3d)
- 6th at Groningen 2006 (november) (field: 4x 5d, 3x 4d, 5x 3d)
- 1st at Amstelveen 2007 (january) (field: 1x 4d, 2x 3d, 1x 2d)
- 7th at Delft 2007 (september) (field: 5x 6d, 3x 5d, 5x 4d, 5x 3d)
- 3rd at Arnhem 2007 (november) (field: 3x 5d, 3x 4d, 1x 3d, 2x 2d)
Congress results
- 2004 - 99th with 7 out of 10 as 1d: 1d+ 2d+ 3d+ 1d- 1d- 2d+ 2d+ 2d+ 4d- 2d+
- 2005 - 88th with 7 out of 10 as 2d: 2d+ 3d- 1d- 1k- 1k+ 1k+ 1k+ 3d+ 5d+ 4d+
- 2007 - 56th with 6 out of 10 as 3d: 3d+ 3d+ 5d- 3d+ 5d- 3d+ 5d- 3d+ 5d- 3d+
Shusaku numbers
My Shusaku number is 5:
Herman Hiddema (5) played Willem Koen Pomstra? (4) played Go Seigen (3) played Shusai (2)
played Iwasaki Kenzo (1) played Shusaku (0)
My Shusaku number counting only wins is 9:
Herman Hiddema (9) defeated Robert Rehm (8) defeated Emil Nijhuis (7) defeated Hans Pietsch (6) defeated Yoda Norimoto (5) defeated Go Seigen (4) defeated Karigane (3) defeated Shuei (2) defeated Shuho (1) defeated Shusaku (0)
- note: I once managed to beat Victor Bogdanov, who has beaten Hans Pietsch, but it was not a serious game.
Subpages
- /Talk - leave messages for me here
- /Sandbox - my scratchpad for trying things
- /What Grade Can I Achieve - don't take this too seriously, this is just me thinking out loud, no research was done for this.
- /Joseki Learning Order - work in progress, probably too much work
- /Difficult Problem - this shows how reading width can make a problem difficult
- /LearnToPlayGo.com - a new site I am working on
- List of Templates - area for keeping track of templates I've made.