Fwiffo
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About Me...
I've played go on and off (mostly off) for the past 5 years or so. I'm now getting steady improvement again after having been away from go for several years.
I play as fwiffo on KGS. I have a personal homepage where I have all kinds of junk. You may recognize the name
Fwiffo from
Star Control II.
(ColJac: Hi there. I certainly do remember Fwiffo from StarCon2. That was the most awesome game ever invented. Though you certainly chose a cowardly alter-ego, hunam.)
I'm a bit of a collector of hobbies, many computer related. My language of choice is Python. I used to collect tarantulas, but lack time for that lately. You can also take a look at my
KGS game archive or my
KGS rating graph. I have a
small collection of problems on goproblems.com.
Subpages
- I've bookmarked a few pages on Sensei's
- I keep a blog of my Go progress
- I used to run a robot, GnuGoCVS on KGS. I may resurrect a similar bot in the future.
My Game
Things to work on
- Understand some Joseki
- Play more, review more
- Be more consistent. Some games I have a strong opening, but then fall down tactically. Other games it's the opposite. Sometimes I jump out to a big lead just to give most of it away though sloppiness. Other times I fall behind only to fight my way back in.
- Get past the social anxiety aspect (my biggest hinderance to improvement right now)
- Play more solid. Greed leaves me with weaknesses that cost me.
- Get better control over the flow of the game. Right now it seems like the only time I get sente is when I decide the cost of a tenuki isn't horrific. I need to instead focus on making moves that are sente.
- Get the big points on the edge and in the corners in yose instead of poking around at tiny plays in the middle.
Milestones
- 17 kyu, 2003-12-11
- 16 kyu, 2003-12-14
- 15 kyu, 2003-12-20
- 14 kyu, 2004-01-28
- 13 kyu, 2004-03-03
- 12 kyu, 2004-03-15
- 11 kyu, 2004-03-28
- 10 kyu, 2004-04-08
- 9 kyu, 2004-04-20
- Regrettably, on Hiatus from 2004-05 through 2004-12-08
- Then again until 2009-03...
- 9 kyu, 2009-03-25
- 8 kyu, 2009-04-11
- 7 kyu, 2009-04-22
- 6 kyu, 2009-04-30
- 5 kyu, 2009-05-17
Go goals
- 4 kyu by 2009-07-01
- 3 kyu by 2009-08-15
- 1 kyu by 2009-12-31
Conway's game of life meets Go
I've put together some problems/positions based on Conway's game of Life.
Black is unable to make a living shape. If is played at
instead, then White plays the vital point at
.
at a also fails.