Ian Davis

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I suppose I still mostly play Go on KGS. However Northern Ireland does have a Go club now, website[ext] here. The Go Club is split between work and TableTopNorth? at Belfast Boat Club.
You can also find me on [ext] Dragon

I learnt to play at Durham University, gave up for a few years then took up the game on arriving in Cambridge where I actually improved pretty dramatically. Attending tournaments is quite expensive for me nowadays. Therefore I prefer whole weekend tournaments. I have started to think about being more European in my attendance. It has struck me that it is more culturally fulfiling to travel across Europe than to play Go against the same old crowd in the UK all the time.

[ext] history viewable here.

  • Shodan after British Open 2007.
  • Represented Ireland in Korea 2006.
  • Represented Ireland in Japan 2008.

Teaching

I love teaching people Go, it really makes the game for me. Unless you can exchange French for Go, sadly I don't think I will have time to teach you on KGS thjough. GTL is something I still use.

I also made some software for Wings to aid relay of commented games see [ext] here or WingsSGFPlayer for this.

Current Sensei :: Guojuan, JennieShen
Ex Sensei Solaris Tictactoe?

Online Go

I ran the first online tournament for the BGA in 2004 and 2005. I do not plan to organise the Tournament again next year due to philosophical reasons on how organisation should occur, but I'm hoping somebody else will take over it now. It is really the only online presence the BGA has and it would be a shame to lose it.

For the IGA, I was responsible for [ext] IrishInvadeKGS I also organised some 9x9 events on DGS and two Irish Online Championships in 2007 and 2008.

Irish Go

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In 2007 I organised the first real tournament in Belfast with Catalin Taranu as guest pro. The tournament was repeated in 2008. I have also been on the IGA committee for 2 years now and recently became President of the IGA.

Projects for the year 2009 are the following

  • Create a review archive for Belfast Go Club
  • Construct an Annual Review Newsletter for the IGA. This is going well, combining Scribus with GoWrite makes production of a little magazine in pdf format pretty easy.

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