Hyperpapeterie
I used to live in Chapel Hill and play in the UNC-Chapel Hill Go Club and Triangle Go Club. I'm now in Pittsburgh, playing at the Pittsburgh Go Association. I first played a handful games online early in this century. I probably found it because I was into chess (which I was terrible at). When I got to college, I reunited with a childhood friend who played, so we played a few times a month. Our games inevitably started with a hoshi stone and an immediate cross-cut fight, and neither of us had heard to Crosscut then extend. After a few months I finally won a game, as I had vaguely heard of how to 'tenuki.'
For some reason, I became quite interested in playing at the beginning of July 2005, and played regularly for several months. In September, I played in a tournament and made 20k. In October 2007, I started this page and was 3 kyu on KGS and 5 kyu Aga.
Bleh! A year later and I'm 4 kyu on KGS and 5 kyu AGA (now back to 3k KGS--maybe one day I'll improve). The joys of spending time on school...
I would like to contribute to senseis, but need to learn a lot more about how things work around here. Perhaps it would also help to know something about Go. I've been updating the Go News page, though I don't necessarily manage to keep it current.
I'm a big fan of Cho U, but I secretly want Iyama Yuta to take a title from him. I think that Gu Li is the strongest player in the world, and I'm heartened that Chinese go is drawing even with Korean.
Putting the nihon kiin page here because I never remember the URL http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/index-e.htm