Fwiffo

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Death of a Glider
Death of a Glider (2)
Spaceships


About Me...

http://www.phong.org/pix/kgs_norank-alignright.png 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 [ext] personal homepage where I have all kinds of junk. You may recognize the name [ext] Fwiffo from [ext] 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 [ext] tarantulas, but lack time for that lately. You can also take a look at my [ext] KGS game archive or my [ext] KGS rating graph. I have a [ext] small collection of problems on goproblems.com.


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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

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  • 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.

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Death of a Glider

White decides that the ko threat at B1 is big enough to respond to.

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Death of a Glider (2)

Black is unable to make a living shape. If B3 is played at W4 instead, then White plays the vital point at B3. B3 at a also fails.

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Spaceships


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