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Yoyoma
I play on KGS as yoyoma, 1d as of November 19, 2007. I'm sure I'll go between 1d and 2d several times before holding 2d firmly (haha I had added this comment away from the KGS server, when I logged in I found my rating had drifted back from 2d to 1d).
I enjoy reviewing games, both my own and to help others.
Some links
Beginners
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http://playgo.to/interactive - An interactive introduction to Go
- KGS Rooms / Beginners' Room - Play other beginners and find stronger players that are willing to give you some pointers. (Rooms -> Room List -> lessons -> Beginners' Room)
- EssentialGoTerms, then GoTerms - To learn the jargon
Intermediate
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http://gobase.org/studying/joseki/basic - Learn some basic joseki, there is a lot of other good information on this site.
- KGSTeachingLadder - Receive free teaching, with the understanding that you will teach those weaker than you. (Rooms -> Room List -> lessons -> KGS Teaching Ladder)
- GTL - Look at amateur game reviews and get your own games reviewed.
- DonTAttachWhenAttacking - Important concept, I wish this page was a little better, maybe sometime I'll put some work into it.
- KikashiAndInfluence - This page is ok, but scroll to the bottom and read Charles Matthews "point of kikashi against weak/strong groups".
Pages I wrote or made major contributions to
[yoyoma/KgsTournyXtables
My go rating history
Gaps represent times I didn't play that much, except the 1996 gap I was playing sporadically, but I don't have records of my IGS games (I got these few data points I have from GTL games). It's too bad KGS wasn't around to preserve my history from 28k to 5k!
1995-04 - 28k IGS 1995-08 - 24k IGS 1995-09 - 23k IGS
1997-03 - 5k IGS
2002-10 - 10k KGS 2002-11 - 8k KGS 2002-12 - 7k KGS
2003-06 - 5k KGS 2003-08 - 4k KGS 2003-12 - 3k KGS 2004-03 - 2k KGS 2004-05 - 1k KGS 2004-09 - * rating algorithm change, later bottom out around 5k
2006-09 - * rating algorithm changes again for KGS3, later recover to around 1k 2006-11 - 1k KGS 2006-12 - 1d KGS 2007-09 - 2d KGS
I luckboxed my way to 2d!
Non-go Links
My KGS games and
rank graph
Leave me a message here!
ilan: Here is Kramer's interpretation (from the TV show Seinfeld): http://hcsyl.tripod.com/wavs/yoyoma.wav