Hylebos
Hello! My name is Joseph. I'm 17 years old and I live in Redmond, Washington. I'm more commonly known as Hylebos of KGS. I am 4 kyu KGS and 7.14991 Kyu AGA as of April 18, 2008.
I first heard about Go in August of 2006, after I saw an anime called Hikaru No Go. It got me interested in it, but I had no board to play on and nobody I knew had even heard of the game. I created a Go board in Microsoft Powerpoint, and by playing myself over the duration of four months, learned many basics and tricks of the game. It was like playing zengo, but with only one player. This allowed me to skip about 30-20k easily before I started playing against other players. When I found out in early December that it was possible to play Go online, I went to KGS, started an account called Hylebos and started playing.
For those of you who wonder where I got my name, I initially stole the name from a roadsign I saw a few years back that said "Hylebos Creek". I was in the market for a new screen name for various gaming and online accounts that I owned, and this one sounded obscure yet cool enough to work. After doing research about the name, it turns out that there is also a Hylebos Waterway, a Hylebos Park, and a Hylebos Watershed. All of these places were named after Father Peter Hylebos, a major settler and landowner in early Washington State History. Hylebos itself can be broken into two words, Hyle, the greek word for lumber or matter, and bos, which is derived from the latin / Germanic root Bosk or Bois, which means Forest. So Hylebos means wooden forest.
I am mostly self taught, and I like inventing crazy moves that don't work. Please forgive any sillyness that may occur in any game against me.
- I used to be the owner of The Hylebos Go Association on KGS, but then it got deleted. I have no current plans to remake it until I can bribe more people into coming into the room.
- I have three other major accounts on KGS. The first is hyIebos, which I use to play blitz games. The second is HK47, which I plan to use to play in clan games for the Tiger's Mouth Clan. The third is Tannuki,the account I use to explore drunken fuseki.
- On KGS I offer teaching games to anyone three or more stones weaker than me. I can also review games with anyone crazy enough to want my opinion on their game. Just ask politely and expect the lesson to be a dialogue, not a lecture, I cannot teach without the student giving me some feedback.
- I occasionally travel to the
Seattle Go Center for the monthly rated tournament.
- I am a member on AGF Tiger's Mouth, a website designed for kids and teens by the American Go Foundation to promote the creation of go clubs and teachings. I am also a member of the KGS Tiger's Mouth Room. See the website for details to get in.
- My favorite Fuseki involves 4-4 points and 5-4 points. I hate the 3-4 point because everyone uses it to pincers me with all of the time, even when they put themselves at a disadvantage by pincering.
- I am the inventor of the Blackhole Tesuji.
- My archrival would have to be Mu, as he seems to be able to always take advantage of whatever bad shape I have and crush me by a large ammount of points.
- My favorite player would have to be Dino Mario Cremonese.