GeorgeW
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Ranks
Chinese 2 Dan (Yea, this is really outdated now)
KGS 5d (I have more than 1 account, now includes secret blitz account! I wonder if I should retire GW's rank.)
AGA 5.11033 Dan
History
Started playing Go around September 2005.I started at first playing a little at home at Yahoo! Which corrupted my Go for a while at first. Then I joined the Blacksburg Go Club in Blacksburg VA. From there on I started to learn, many thanks to Keith Leung and Alpha Chen for helping me at first.
I began playing on KGS due to suggestions from friends in October. I played my first tournament in VA Tech (forgot the exact date already) soon after that.
In the NOVA Pumpkin Classic tournament I met Robert Ferguson, who played a long game with Keith Leung and lost due to terrible yose.
From then on I've been playing on KGS a lot and my original goal was AGA 1d in a year, however now I've changed this to Chinese 1d in a year. Now this goal has been fulfilled.
I took classes the Anhui Qi Yuan (安徽棋院)The Upper Class, Group 2 for 1 1/2 months. My teacher in China was Pang Yan 4p. I officially becamee Chinese 2 Dan as of 8-10-2006. (First official ranking)
October 2007 - Alas! My latest tournament did not go as well as I had hoped. 3-1 as 4-dan at the Pumpkin Classic ended up as 3rd place for SOS scoring after I oddly had to play and lose to young Tianren Tam 1d at 3 stones.
December 2007 - With Junior year and a slightly more active social life, my Go playing and progress has drastically diminished.
January 2008 - Again, I performed miserably at the 2008 North American Oza, 3-3 record. It did motivate me to get much stronger, I hope I get the oppertunity to play more.
August 2008 - After a long hiatus again, I am hoping to rediscover my passion for Go. I took breakfast's test for strength after seeing the link on shenron's profile.
Thank you! Your score is 188 from 200.
You are about European 6-dan
http://play.baduk.org/go-test/start.php?
My answers were: C, D, D, B, C, B, B, A, D, A, A, D, A, E, B, D, D, C, E, C
Tournaments:
2008 North American Oza (1-19-08 through 1-20-08) 3-3 (AGA 5d)
NOVA Pumpkin Classic Tournament (10-28-05) 3-1 (AGA 4d)
KGS+ April Tournament Open Division 3-1 Lasted a total of 4 rounds. (KGS 7k)
NOVA Cherry Blossom (3-25-06) 4-0 (AGA 6k)
NOVA Pumpkin Classic Tournament (10-29-05) 3-1 (AGA 16k)
VT(Blacksburg) Go Tournament (Date Unknown) 3-1 (AGA 17k)
Favorite Quotes:
"I hate Go" - Cho Chikun"
"Moyos are like women.....if your probe is untimely and too deep, you could get cut off." - TheCaptain
Favorite Fuseki:
Notes on Gameplay:
It would seem that I cannot play territorially well anymore...
My game is very fuseki oriented now, with my middle game dropping in strength seemingly daily. I prefer calm play now rather than fighting and I prefer a yose-game. It would seem that I am morphing into a terribly weak Lee Changho.
I feel lately that my strength as Black is ebbing from a point where I once won around 3/4 of my games as Black to barely over half of my games. I do not understand why.
Guest Comments (Feel free to leave a message!)
I've been told that if your rank is correct, you should only win about half of your games. Maybe that will encourage you. ^^ Also, I have to say thank you for all the teaching I've been able to see from you! The lessons have been wonderful! ~Ricky1